Elizabethe's wars

war, gobernment and society in Tudor England, 1544-1604

The intellectual origins of the European Reformation

Firearms

a global hsitory to 1700

Catalina la Grande

emperatriz de Rusia

Luther's lives

two contemporary accounts of Martin Luther

Martin Luther

a life

War, religion and court patronage in Habsburg Austria

the social and cultural dimensions of political interaction, 1521-1622

This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. It shows how selective court patronage changed the cultural habits of ...

Essai sur le don dans la France du XVIe siècle

De la générosité royale à la charité envers le mendiant, des fêtes somptuaires aux humbles cadeaux des noces paysannes, que l'on donne ou reçoive un don, cet échange a toujours relevé d'une haute signifiance. C'est cette dernière que Natalie Zemon Davis a ...

Elizabethans

The age of Elizabeth I continues to exercise a fascination unmatched by other periods of English history. Yet while the leading figures may seem familiar, many Elizabethan figures, including the queen herself, remain enigmatic. In Elizabethans Patrick Collinson examines the religious beliefs both of Elizabeth ...

L'institution du prince au XVIIIe siècle

Actes du huitieme colloque franco-italien des societés française et italienne d'étude du XVIIIe siècle tenu à Grenoble en octobre 1999

Tratado sobre las contradicciones y diferencias de costumbres entre los europeos y japoneses

(1585)

Commerce, culture, and liberty

readings on capitalism before Adam Smith

Ed.Henry C.Clark. This collection of 37 readings (from 33 writers) brings together some of the most significant pre-Adam Smith writings on the political and cultural dimensions of capitalism. To modern readers, these 17th- and 18th-century discussions of commerce and economic life in general ...

Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I, who reigned over Shakespeare's England and defeated the Spanish Armada, is familiar both from her portraits and as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen. Yet the reality of her character and her personal attitudes are harder to detect behind the public mask. Elizabeth I ...

Savonarola y España

El presente libro intenta suplir la carencia de los estudios dedicados a la figura de Girolamo Savanarola con la aportación de las más recientes reflexiones de los estudiosos de su tiempo y de su figura.

La Guerra de los Treinta Años

Esta es una obra de vital importancia sobre la “guerra de los treinta años”, posiblemente, como se ha descrito en ocasiones, la “guerra civil europea”. Trata la misma desde distintos puntos de vista, hecho que podría parecer baladí, pero que en realidad encierra lo que ...

Patrons, clients, and empire

chieftaincy and over-rule in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific

This is a wide-ranging comparative study of relationships between the indigenous leadership of traditional states and colonizing Europeans from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. It challenges stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies and seeks to answer the fundamental question ...

The expansion of Elizabethan England

Elizabethan society is arguably the most successful in English history. The adventurers and merchants (as well as the poets and playwrights) of that age are legendary. The subject of this classic study by A.L. Rowse is that society's 'expansion'. Elizabethan society expanded both ...

Invectives

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 11)

Francesco Petrarca (1304–1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Just as Petrarch’s Latin epic Africa imitated Virgil and his compendium On Illustrious Men was inspired by ...

Commentaries. Volume 1: Books I-II

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 12)

The Renaissance popes were among the most enlightened and generous patrons of arts and letters in the Europe of their day. The diaries of Pius II (1405–1464) give us an intimate glimpse of the life and thought of one of the greatest of the ...

Later travels

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 10)

Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de’Pizzecolli, 1391–1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to study the physical remains of ...