L'Europe catholique au XVIIIe siècle

entre intégrisme et laïcisation

Dictionary of the Reformation

La Conspiración de la Pólvora

catolicismo y terror en la Europa de 1605

L'illuminismo di Dio

alle origini della mentalità liberale

Private lives in Renaissance Venice

art, architecture, and the family

Leonardo da Vinci

the flights of the mind

Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800

a source book

Le système du monde

Pierre Simon Laplace un itinéraire dans la science

A philosophical path for paracelsian medicine

the ideas, intelectual context, and influence of Petrus Severinus (1540/2-1602)

Will in the world

how Shakespeare became Shakespeare

The books of king Henry VIII and his wives

Taxation under the early Tudors 1485-1547

Based on original research, this book marks an important advance in our understanding not only of the fiscal resources available to the English crown but also of the broader political culture of early Tudor England. An original study of taxation under the early Tudors. Explains ...

Política y cultura, en la época moderna

(cambios dinásticos. Milenarismos, mesianismos y utopías)

La hora de Tomás Moro sólo frente al poder

Escritor, erudito, mecenas, abogado, relator del Consejo de Estado, juez, Canciller del Reino, Consejero de Enrique VIII, embajador... y condenado a muerte por el mismo rey al que sirvió con lealtad. Tomás Moro es "el hombre del siglo XVI" cuya obra, y su vida entera ...

The command of the ocean

a naval history of Britain 1649-1815

The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. Based on the author's own research in half ...

La Empresa de Inglaterra

(la "Armada Invencible": fabulación y realidad)

La Jornada o Empresa de Inglaterra, o Gran Armada de 1588, más conocida por la historiografía internacional y en la recepción vulgar bajo el inexacto, propagandístico e irónico apelativo, difundido por los enemigos de España, de Armada Invencible, constituye uno de esos grandes temas del ...

The safeguard of the sea

a naval history of Britain.Vol.1: 660-1649

Throughout Britain's history, one factor above all others has determined the fate of the nation: its navy. N. A. M. Rodger's definitive account reveals how the political and social progress of Britain has been inextricably intertwined with the strength - and weakness - of its ...

Exceptionalism and industrialisation

britain and its european rivals, 1688-1815

This book explores the question of British exceptionalism in the period from the Glorious Revolution to the Congress of Vienna. Leading historians examine why Great Britain emerged from years of sustained competition with its European rivals in a discernible position of hegemony in the domains ...

La guerra civile americana vista dall'Europa

con antologia di testi

La fine della guerra civile americana coincise con la presa di coscienza in Europa del tendenziale emergere degli Stati Uniti come grande potenza sul piano della politica mondiale. Il volume presenta il dibattito sorto in Europa in seguito allo scoppio della guerra civile americana. Introdotta ...

The life and death of Anne Boleyn

"the most happy"

Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England's queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. Henry's second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Yet what do ...