Giordano Bruno

Universo infinito, unión con Dios, perfección del hombre

The British atlantic world, 1500-1800

Parcelsian moments

science, medicine, & astrology in Early Modern Europe

La nascita delle scienza moderna in Europa

The dynastic state and the army under Louis XIV

royal service and private interest, 1661-1701

The 'personal rule' of Louis XIV witnessed a massive increase in the size of the French army and an apparent improvement in the quality of its officers, its men and the War Ministry. However, this is the first book to treat the French army under ...

Las tinieblas de la memoria: una reflexión sobre los imperios en la Edad Moderna

(Revista Debate y Perspectiva, Nº 2, año 2002)

Republicanism. A shared European heritage

V.I: Republicanism ans constitutionalism in early modern Europe

These volumes are the fruits of a major European Science Foundation project and offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally ...

Gouverner et nourrir

du pouvoir en Russie XVIe-XX siècles

Si le même signifiant confond nourrir et gouverner (kormit'), la table et le trône (stol), c'est que la langue tend à l'historien un indice: une représentation du pouvoir perce à travers les temps indépendamment du régime politique. Quelle culture la soutend? Quels effets ...

Republicanism. A shared European heritage

Vol. 2: The values of republicanism in early modern Europe

These 2002 volumes offer the first comprehensive study of republicanism as a shared European heritage. Whilst previous research has mainly focused on Atlantic traditions of republicanism, Professors Skinner and van Gelderen have assembled an internationally distinguished set of contributors whose studies highlight the richness and ...

The monstrous regiment of women

female rulers in early modern Europe

In The Monstrous Regiment of Women, Sharon Jansen explores the case for and against female rule by examining the arguments made by theorists from Sir John Fortescue (1461) through Bishop Bossuet (1680) interweaving their arguments with references to the most well-known early modern queens. The ...

Historia económica de la Europa preindustrial

Este libro nos ofrece, en poco más de 200 páginas, la mejor síntesis que se ha publicado hasta ahora sobre la evolución económica de Europa desde el siglo XVIII hasta hoy. Tras una brillante reflexión sobre el porqué del surgimiento de la Revolución industrial en ...

Historia e Ilustración

doce estudios

Doce estudios, reza el subtítulo, que señalan todos hacia la interacción de los dos términos del título: el acceso de la historicidad en el contexto de una Ilustración, la británica que no sigue los moldes, ritmos y maneras de la continental, especialmente la de matriz ...

Manifest perdition

shipwreck narrative and the disruption of empire

Acknowledgments On the Texts and Translations Prologue: Qui Navigant Mare 1 A Shipwreckful Ship 2 The Discourse of the Shipwreck 3 Manifest Perdition I: Maroonings 4 Manifest Perdition II: Going Under 5 An Illustrious School of Caution Epilogue: The Ministers of Memory Notes Bibliography Permissions ...

Las tinieblas de la memoria: una reflexión sobre los imperios en la Edad Moderna

(Revista Debate y Perspectiva, Nº 2, año 2002)

El patronazgo artístico en la italia del Renacimiento

de 1400 a principios del siglo XVI

Trad. Bernardo J. García García. En una época en que la obra de arte era expresión no sólo de sensibilidad estética por parte de quien la encargaba, sino también de riqueza, posición social y política, y creencias religiosas, la figura del patrono tenía que resultar ...

Platonic theology. Volume 2: Books V-VIII

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 4)

The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to reconciling Platonism ...

On discovery

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 6)

The Italian humanist Polydore Vergil (1470–1555) was born in Urbino but spent most of his life in early Tudor England. His most popular work, On Discovery (De inventoribus rerum, 1499), was the first comprehensive account of discoveries and inventions written since antiquity. Thirty Latin ...

Humanist educational treatises

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 5)

The cycle of disciplines now known as the humanities emerged in their modern form during the Italian Renaissance as the result of an educational movement begun by humanist teachers, writers, and scholars of the early Quattrocento. The movement argued for the usefulness of classical literature ...

Thomas Müntzer, teólogo de la revolución

Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) es una de las figuras fundamentales del pensamiento europeo del siglo xx. Sus dos grandes obras, Espíritu de la utopía (1918, 1923) y Principio esperanza (1954-1955), se han convertido en dos obras clásicas de la filosofía actual en las que se analizan ...

Paris in the age of absolutism

an essay

By the eighteenth century Paris was one of the great wonders of Europe, renowned for its magniÞcent royal monuments and as a center for science, literature, and the arts. More so than any other European city, Paris reßected the spirit of an age--an age that ...