The moral economy

poverty, credit, and trust in Early Modern Europe

The Moral Economy examines the nexus of poverty, credit, and trust in early modern Europe. It starts with an examination of poverty, the need for credit, and the lending practices of different social groups. It then reconstructs the battles between the Churches and the State ...

The Renaissance of empire in Early Modern Europe

This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early modern Europe. It examines the rise of a virulent form of Renaissance scholarship, art, and architecture that had as its aim ...

Utopía y reforma en la Ilustración

Como historiador ya consagrado por sus estudios acerca del iluminismo, Franco Venturi es invitado a dictar en Cambridge una serie de conferencias a partir de la célebre pregunta kantiana “¿Qué es la Ilustración?”. Venturi propone una brillante y documentada introducción a la “circulación de las ...

The dutch wars of independence

warfare and commerce in The Netherlands, 1570-1680

In The Dutch Wars of Independence, Marjolein 't Hart assesses the success of the Dutch in establishing their independence through their eighty years struggle with Spain - one of the most remarkable achievements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Other rebellions troubled mighty powers of this ...

Machiavelli

Machiavelli is history's most startling political commentator. Recent interpreters have minimised his originality, but this book restores his radicalism. Robert Black shows a clear development in Machiavelli's thought. In his most subversive works The Prince, the Discourses on Livy, The Ass and Mandragola ...

Nacimientos bajo control

el parto en las Edades Moderna y Contemporánea

Nacimientos bajo control trata de aproximarnos al momento del parto a lo largo de las edades Moderna y Contemporánea. Entendiendo el acto de dar a luz dentro de la más amplia construcción social y cultural de la maternidad, el libro reúne un total de diez ...

On the world and religious life

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 62)

n the World and Religious Life (c. 1381) is the first surviving treatise of Coluccio Salutati (1332–1406), chancellor of the Florentine Republic (1375–1406) and the leader of the humanist movement in Italy in the generation after Petrarch and Boccaccio. The work was written ...

On married love. Eridanus

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 63)

Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Kings of Aragon and southern Italy. The dominant literary figure of quattrocento Naples, Pontano produced ...

The Battle of Lepanto

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 61)

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical backgrounds who composed Latin poetry ...

The Oxford handbook of Modern Scottish History

Over the last three decades major advances in research and scholarship have transformed understanding of the Scottish past. In this landmark study some of the most eminent writers on the subject, together with emerging new talents, have combined to produce a large-scale volume which reconsiders ...

Un espejo lejano

el calamitoso siglo XIV

Un espejo lejano es, sin duda, la obra maestra de Barbara W. Tuchman quien nos ofrece aquí, con gran habilidad expositiva y un conocimiento sólido de la época, un retrato vívido de la Europa Occidental en el siglo XIV. La centuria de la Peste Negra ...

El espíritu de la Ilustración

Tras la muerte de Dios y el desmembramiento de las utopías, nuestra época parece arrojada a la incertidumbre. Muchos de los esfuerzos intelectuales están destinados en la actualidad a encontrar un marco común sobre el que fundamentar los actos y los discursos. Y la historia ...

I padroni dei libri

il controllo sulla stampa nella prima età moderna

Non esiste potere privo di una propria politica dell’informazione. La considerazione è tanto più vera da quando l’invenzione della stampa ha trasformato i sistemi di comunicazione in Europa. Tra XVI e XVII secolo, la diffusione del libro, la crescita della lettura e della ...

Caravaggio

exquisito y violento

«Este libro procede de una obsesión y una fascinación por la obra y la figura de Caravaggio, genio mayor de la pintura y hombre turbulento. El problema de la visceralidad o terribilidad del genio debe latir al fondo de estas páginas. También el problema radical ...

Voyaging in strange seas

the great revolution in science

In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed - Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the ancient Greeks and Romans. A new, empirical worldview had arrived ...

Principles of Equity

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was the complete 'Enlightenment man', concerned with the full spectrum of human knowledge and its social use. However, as a lawyer and, after 1752, as a judge on the Court of Session in Edinburgh, he made many of his most distinctive ...

'Merely for money'?

business culture in the British Atlantic, 1750-1815

In 1780 Richard Sheridan noted that merchants worked 'merely for money'. However, rather than being a criticism, this was recognition of the important commercial role that merchants played in the British empire at this time. Of course, merchants desired and often made profits, but they ...

British trade with Spanish America

1763-1808

In this erudite and comprehensive study Adrian Pearce offers a detailed survey of British trade with Spanish America in the latter half of the eighteenth century drawing together a variety of sources and looking at all aspects of commercial activity. The history and vicissitudes of ...

El ocaso de la Ilustración

la polémica del Spinozismo

Lo que comienza, en 1780, como un episodio trivialmente biográfico –la profesión de fe secreta y concienzudamente spinoziana que Lessing, el padre fundador de la Ilustración alemana, le confiesa a Jacobi, un funcionario de Federico II encandilado por las “libertades de los ingleses” pero refractario ...

Leibniz en 90 minutos

Leibniz fue el primero de los grandes filósofos alemanes en producir un sistema filosófico omnicomprensivo. Llegó a la notable conclusión de que el tiempo y el espacio no existen, de que son suposiciones supersticiosas. Sólo las cosas existen, y sólo Dios es capaz de verlas ...