Corrupção e incúria no Santo Ofício

ministros e oficiais sob suspeita e julgamento

O Tribunal do Santo Ofício em Portugal surgiu no ano de 1536. O medo que este Tribunal infligia e o lugar ocupado pelos seus ministros e oficiais propiciavam a predisposição destes indivíduos para abusos de poder como forma de coerção e vingança, além do sentimento ...

Galileo y el sistema solar en 90 minutos

Galileo pudo, pero no quiso, convertirse en el primer mártir científico, y fue el coloso que hizo de puente entre el Renacimiento de Leonardo y la era científica de Newton. Sin sus descubrimientos la humanidad habría permanecido ignorante de la verdadera naturaleza de nuestro sistema ...

The Enlightenment

a very short introduction

A foundational moment in the history of modern European thought, the Enlightenment continues to be a reference point for philosophers, scholars and opinion-formers. To many it remains the inspiration of our commitments to the betterment of the human condition. To others, it represents the elevation ...

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750

Volume I: Peoples and places

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied ...

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750

Volume II: Cultures and power

This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and scholarly publishing. More recently, however, the unity implied ...

Lo Stato del Rinascimento in Italia

1350-1520

Attraverso un’analisi comparativa delle varie e articolate realtà politiche che compongono il mondo italiano dal Trecento al primo Cinquecento, un gruppo internazionale di studiosi propone una rilettura innovativa della storia politica dell’Italia del Rinascimento, che rappresenta anche la più recente ricerca su questi ...

Montaigne

la splendeur de la liberté

La mode est à Montaigne -un certain Montaigne du moins, délicat- aux moeurs et aux lumières exquises, avec lequel il ferait bon passer l'été. Mais il en existe un autre, à qui il faut rendre sa violence, sa vivacité, son impatience, ses passions et ...

The American Revolution

a very short introduction

Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States-the American Revolution. Between 1760 and 1800, the American people cast off British rule to create a new nation and a radically new form of ...

II Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Historia Moderna

Líneas recientes de investigación en Historia Moderna

La Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, en colaboración con la Fundación Española de Historia Moderna y el Instituto Universitario la Corte en Europa de la UAM, organizó a comienzos del mes de julio de 2013 el II Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Historia Moderna bajo el ...

François Ier

les femmes, le pouvoir et la guerre

Le règne de François Ier évoque tout à la fois 1515 et la charge de Marignan, Léonard de Vinci et les fastes de Chambord, l'affrontement avec Charles Quint et l'alliance avec Soliman le Magnifique. Au-delà de ces images, qui fut vraiment François Ier ...

Le Roi absolu

Louis XIV et les Français (1661-1715)

Après avoir triomphé de ses ennemis intérieurs et extérieurs, Louis XIV prend seul en mains les rênes du pouvoir à la mort de Mazarin, en 1661. Dès lors, selon Voltaire, «il n'y avait plus en France qu'un maître et des sujets». Jamais, en ...

The Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the wars of the three kingdoms

After an evening spent drinking with Irish conspirators, an inebriated Owen Connelly confessed to the main colonial administrators in Ireland that a plot was afoot to root out and destroy Ireland's English and Protestant population. Within days English colonists in Ireland believed that a ...

Ideas of liberty in Early Modern Europe

from Machiavelli to Milton

Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious and unscrupulous princes, inquisitions and torture chambers, and religious differences of ever ...

Erasmus, Man of Letters

the construction of charisma in print

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion. Lisa Jardine, however, shows that Erasmus self-consciously created his own reputation as the central ...

Memòria personal

construcció i projecció en primera persona a l'època moderna

Ce livre, résultat d'une collaboration entre universités des deux versants des Pyrénées, voudrait être un lieu de dialogue entre chercheurs venus d'horizons géographiques et disciplinaires différents qu'ils soient historiens, philologues ou encore historiens du droit. C'est là une caractéristique principale de ...

Empires and encounters, 1350-1750

Between 1350 and 1750 a time of empires, exploration, and exposure to radically different lands and cultures the world reached a tipping point of global connectedness. In this volume of the acclaimed History of the World series, noted international scholars examine five critical geographical areas ...

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 ...

Medioevo e Risorgimento

l'invenzione dell'identità italiana nell'Ottocento

Non è facile arrivare a definire un’identità nazionale per un paese che, per secoli, ne ha avute fin troppe. Ma nell’Ottocento per storici, politici, scrittori, artisti, l’epoca nella quale tutta l’Italia può identificarsi è quella medievale. Alla costruzione dell’identità medievale ...

Representing imperial rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume moves from the broadest issues ...

Waterloo 1815

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Moderna, Nº 16, año 2015)

SUMARIO: · “Las estrategias de Waterloo” por Jeremy Black (University of Exeter). Las dinámicas e interacciones operacionales de la campaña de Waterloo y el desarrollo táctico de la batalla han sido estudiadas extensiva y exhaustivamente, al tiempo que se desatendía su dimensión estratégica. Este descuido responde ...