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wrintings on the Reformation

A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from its leading scholar and 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph) The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and transformative periods in their ...

El poder y sus manifestaciones = Il potere e le sue manisfestazioni

segundo encuentro Hispano-Italiano de Historia Moderna. Identidades Mediterráneas: España e Italia en perspectiva comparativa (siglos XVI-XVIII)

España e Italia en la Edad Moderna: el encuentro de dos historiografías, no solo es el título del libro que recogió en 2009 el resultado de una iniciativa científico-institucional, relevante y de trascendencia para las historiografías hispano-italiana y europea, sino que supuso y significó el ...

Otranto 1480

il sultano, la strage, la conquista

Nel 1480 l’impero ottomano era in prepotente espansione verso l’Europa e il Mediterraneo. Sulla sua traiettoria, l’Italia lacerata da congiure e lotte intestine fra le più splendide signorie rinascimentali. In questa storia c’è il sogno di un sultano affascinato dai fasti ...

Objects in motion in the Early Modern World

Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World presents a collection of 12 original essays that examine the circulation of objects across global regions and cultures from the 16th to 18th centuries. * Features essays that represents an extremely wide cultural, geographical, and material scope while ...

Shingen en guerra

La historia de Takeda Shingen, que había comenzado en “La Saga de los Samuráis: Takeda Shingen”, continua en “La Saga de los Samuráis: Shingen en guerra”. Los logros militares de uno de los más famosos líderes del clan Takeda comienzan en 1549 y se prolongan ...

Conquerors

how Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and forged the first global empire

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms ...

Companies and Company Law in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

This book collects the proceedings of a workshop on the late medieval and early modern history of companies and company law in Europe which was organized in 2012 by the Louvain research unit of Roman Law and Legal History. In total, seven original and innovative ...

The Medici

power, money, and ambition in the Italian Renaissance

A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning ...

Les armées du Roi

le grand chantier: XVIIe - XVIIIe siècle

Comment la France est-elle devenue une grande puissance militaire, la première sur terre et sur mer sous Louis XIV ? Trois siècles durant, un effort colossal a été exigé du royaume par les monarques Bourbon pour former, équiper et entretenir armées et flottes. De ce gigantesque ...

Batallas de la Guerra de los Treinta Años

de la Montaña Blanca a Nordlingen, 1618-1635

La obra que tiene en sus manos es el primer estudio completo y detallado de la vertiente militar del primer periodo de la Guerra de los Treina Años (1618 - 1635). Cada capítulo trata una batalla en particular, aunque Guthrie analiza también otras cuestiones más amplias ...

Las utopías renacentistas

esoterismo y símbolo

Utopía: género literario inaugurado por Tomás Moro cuya raíz etimológica (u-topos) significa ausencia de lugar, simbolizando la inexistencia de lo que está más allá del espacio, lo que carece de lugar y por lo mismo de tiempo. Imagen de la ciudad celeste es, pues, una ...

Ephemeral city

cheap print and urban culture in Renaissance Venice

Ephemeral city explores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance. It offers the first view of one of the city's most productive and creative industries from the bottom up and a new and unexpected vision ...

Agents of Empire

knights, corsairs, jesuits and spies in the Sixteenth-Century mediterranean world

In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also ...

A Duquesa de Mântua

a princesa italiana que foi vice-rainha de Portugal

No dia 1 de dezembro de 1640, por entre as armas dos fidalgos e a exaltação popular, a Duquesa de Mântua assoma corajosamente à varanda do Palácio Real, em Lisboa, tentando travar o golpe de Estado que estava em vias de pôr fim a seis ...

The Romanovs

1613-1918

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the ...

Reforma y renovación católicas

(siglos XVI y XVII)

Este libro analiza todas las facetas del catolicismo de los siglos modernos, aunque con especial incidencia en el XVI y XVII, desde el prisma de la reforma y la renovación católicas, por lo que atiende las disidencias, el catolicismo dentro y fuera de Europa, y ...

The Age of Genius

the Seventeenth Century and the birth of the modern mind

What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who ...

Braudel revisited

the mediterranean wolrd, 1600-1800

Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean ...

The Church in the Early Modern Age

The years 1450-1650 were a momentous period for the development of Christianity. They witnessed the age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation: perhaps the most important era for the shaping of the faith since its foundation. C Scott Dixon explores how the ideas that went into the ...

Peter the Great

Centuries after he ruled Russia from 1689 to 1725, Peter the Great remains one of the most revered and enigmatic leaders in world history. Now in a new edition, this penetrating study by noted Yale historian Paul Bushkovitch casts new light on Peter and his ...