Lutero

reforma y modernidad

Cinco siglos después de la Reforma, la revolución teológica que inicia Lutero sigue siendo imprescindible para comprender el presente. Este libro, coordinado José Luis Villacañas, Antonio Rivera y Juan Manuel Forte, se aproxima al gran reformador alemán con el objeto de que el lector aprecie ...

The Gift

How Objects of Prestige Shaped the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism

The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent ...

San Ignacio de Loyola

el hombre, el santo, el general

Una revisión de la Historia termina por arrojar siempre un puñado de nombres propios que han influido sobre su propio transcurso; el de san Ignacio de Loyola es, indudablemente, uno de ellos. A él se debe la fundación de la Compañía de Jesús, cuya misión ...

Thomas Jefferson

A Modern Prometheus

In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates from other interpretations by positioning himself within an older, 'Federalist ...

Artemisia Gentileschi and feminism in early modern Europe

An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century's most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the premodern era. Her art addressed issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's ...

Aldus Manutius

the invention of the publisher

Aldus Manutius is perhaps the greatest figure in the history of the printed book: in Venice, Europe's capital of printing, he invented the italic type and issued more first editions of the classics than anyone before or since, as well as Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, the ...

Beyond Orientalism

Ahmad Ibn Qasim Al-Hajari Between Europe and North Africa

The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters. Beyond Orientalism reformulates our understanding of the early modern Mediterranean through the remarkable life and career of Moroccan polymath Ahmad Ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (ca. 1570-1641). By showing ...

A defence of witchcraft belief

a sixteenth-century response to Reginald Scot's discoverie of witchcraft

This is the first published edition of a fascinating manuscript on witchcraft in the collection of the British Library, written by an unknown sixteenth-century scholar. Responding to a pre-publication draft of Reginald Scot's sceptical Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), the treatise represents the most detailed ...

Catherine the Great and the culture of celebrity in the eighteenth century

This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant ...

Convoys

the British struggle against Napoleonic Europe and America

The first account of Britain's convoys during the Napoleonic Wars-showing how the protection of trade played a decisive role in victory During the Napoleonic Wars thousands of merchant ships crisscrossed narrow seas and wide oceans, protected by Britain's warships. These were wars of ...

Sexuality in premodern Europe

a social and cultural history from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age

How did sexual relationships work before, in and outside of marriage in the pre-modern era? What problems did contraception and sexually transmitted diseases pose? How did people deal with prostitution and pornography back then? What were the possibilities for same-sex and queer desire and practice ...

The life of Louis XVI

A thought-provoking, authoritative biography of one of history's most maligned rulers: France's Louis XVI "The definitive contribution to our understanding of Louis XVI as a man and a monarch."-P. M. Jones, English Historical Review "Monumental. . . . Scholars probing the mysteries of the late ...

The fearless Benjamin Lay

the quaker dwarf who became the first revolutionary abolitionist

The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He performed public guerrilla theatre to shame ...

El poeta y el archivero

una nueva épica de la expansión Ibérica en pleno Renacimiento

Una nueva épica de la expansión ibérica en pleno renacimiento 30 de enero de 1574. El cuerpo sin vida del Archivero del Estado, Damião de Góis, fue hallado en las calles de Lisboa. Pronto su fallecimiento se rodeó de incógnitas: ¿cómo murió y qué secretos ...

Leonardo Da Vinci

vida, obra y legado del genio universal

DESCUBRE UN HOMBRE Y UNA ÉPOCA QUE NUNCA HAN DEJADO DE FASCINARNOS.Aunque es quizá el artista más polifacético y conocido del Renacimiento italiano, Leonardo da Vinci es un hombre rodeado de misterios: millones de estudiosos reflexionan sobre sus cuadernos de bocetos, inventos radicales y ...

Le Venezie di Marco Polo

Storia di un mercante e delle sue città

Marco Polo rispose: «Ogni volta che descrivo una città dico qualcosa di Venezia» Italo Calvino, Le città invisibili Sono trascorsi settecento anni dalla morte di Marco Polo. Su di lui esiste una letteratura ormai sterminata, quasi in ogni lingua, e le sue straordinarie vicende di ...

Relazione del primo viaggio attorno al mondo = Relación del primer viaje alrededor del mundo

La Relazione del primo viaggio attorno al mondo escrita por el vicentino Antonio Pigafetta, texto apógrafo conocido como Manuscrito Ambrosiano, se presenta en este volumen transcrito, editado y magistralmente analizado y comentado por Andrea Canova, junto a su versión española: Relación del primer viaje alrededor ...

De la idea del firmamento de Leonardo Turriano

El 20 de octubre de 1604, Leonardo Turriano, Ingeniero Mayor del reino de Portugal, encontrándose en Oeras (Oeiras), a tres leguas de Lisboa, vio una nueva estrella en el cielo, tan brillante como Venus. Una estrella “nova”, luego llamada SN 1604, que resultó ser la ...

Comment la confiance vient aux princes

Les rencontres princières en Europe 1494-1788

Fondé sur une enquête européenne inventoriant 3 440 rencontres au sommet, ce livre montre comment, à la Renaissance, les puissants se voient sans se recevoir car la méfiance règne : le terme "rencontre" a une signification militaire et baigne dans l'incertain et le risque. Le ...

Guerras plebeyas

Luchas políticas en la Germanía, 1519-1522

La Germanía de Valencia (1519-1522), el conflicto sociopolítico más relevante de la historia valenciana, es analizado desde el campo temático de las revueltas y revoluciones medievales y modernas centrando la mirada en un momento particular de esta: la dramática etapa originada a partir de su ...