Ciencia y técnica en la enciclopedia

Diderot y D'Alembert

Printing and book culture in late Imperial China

El arte epistolar en el Renacimiento europeo 1400-1600

Coloquios familiares

Edición de Alonso Ruiz de Virués (siglo XVI)

Stampa e cultura in Europa tra XV e XVI secolo

Le trasformazioni del libro e della lettura come aspetti essenziali della nascita della cultura moderna.

Retrying Galileo

1633-1992

Stampa e cultura in Europa tra XV e XVI secolo

Le trasformazioni del libro e della lettura come aspetti essenziali della nascita della cultura moderna.

The scientific revolution and the foundations of modern science

Historire culturelle de la France

2: De la Renaissance à l'aube des Lumières

D. Pedro Imperador e Rei

experiências de um príncipe (1798-1834)

Frontiers of Ottoman studies

state, province and the west

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture over the past two decades. The first volume reflects the growing interest in the provinces, communities and cultures outside the imperial capital of Istanbul and covers four ...

Frontiers of Ottoman studies

state, province and the west

The second volume covers Ottoman-European International Relations; Ottoman manuscripts in Europe; Ottoman-European cultural exchange and Christian influence and the advent of the Europeans. The work makes a significant contribution to diplomatic history and international relations; Ottoman geographical knowledge; the nature of Ottoman artistic and cultural ...

Contesting empires

opposition, promotion and slavery

Based on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire and the question of slavery. Hart's discussion on slavery ...

Dressed to rule

royal and court costume from Louis XIV to Elizabeth II

Throughout history rulers have used clothes as a form of legitimization and propaganda. While palaces, pictures, and jewels might reflect the choice of a monarch’s predecessors or advisers, clothes reflected the preferences of the monarch himself. Being both personal and visible, the right costume ...

Autunno della stregoneria

maleficio e magia nell'Italia moderna

Chi erano le streghe in Italia? Attentavano alla salute e alla vita delle persone, ne distruggevano i beni, minavano la potenza sessuale degli amanti, causavano tempeste devastatrici? E dove attingevano tanto potere? Da un patto stretto con il demonio, omaggiato nel corso di sfrenati sabba ...

Forme di governo delle democrazie nascenti

1689-1799

Le forme di governo, in cui la democrazia fu colata, non nacquero parlamentari. Imperniate tutte sul sovrastante potere legislativo del parlamento, le prime costituzioni non presupponevano che, per la permanenza in carica, i ministri ne dipendessero. La monarchia costituzionale, imposta nel 1689 in Inghilterra dalla ...

Piratas, corsarios, bucaneros y filibusteros

Piratas, corsarios, bucaneros y filibusteros recoge una síntesis de las distintas modalidades piratas en América desde su nacimiento en 1521 hasta su extinción en 1722, resaltando esta gran modalidad aventurera en la que se hicieron acciones depredadoras heroicas y crueles para destruir el monopolio español ...

Correspondances de Marie-Antoinette (1770-1793)

Mai 1770. L'archiduchesse d'Autriche arrive en France pour épouser le dauphin, qui deviendra roi sous le nom de Louis XVI. Octobre 1793. Marie-Antoinette, veuve Capet, est conduite à la guillotine. Pendant vingt-trois ans, elle a correspondu avec sa mère, ses frères, ses amis ...

De la traite et de l'esclavage des noirs

Henri Grégoire (1750-1831), évêque et membre de la Convention, professeur, agronome, ethnographe, bâtisseur d'écoles et d'universités, passionnément révolutionnaire et sincèrement chrétien, demeure aujourd'hui encore une figure marquante de l'histoire de France. Son combat sans concession pour l'égalité de tous les ...

Seventeenth-Century Europe

State, conflict and the social order in Europe, 1598-1700

This is a fully-revised edition of a well-established synthesis of the period from the Thirty Years War to the consolidation of absolute monarchy and the landowning society of the ancien régime. Thematically organised, the book covers all of Europe, from Britain and Scandinavia to Spain ...