Un sogno di libertà

Napoli nel declino di un impero 1585-1648

Il sessantennio di storia dell'Italia meridionale che va dal 1585 (rivolta popolare e uccisione dell'Eletto del popolo Giovanni Vincenzo Starace) al 1648 (breve esperienza repubblicana dopo la rivoluzione di Masaniello) costituisce la fase in cui non solo furono più intensi i contrasti interni ...

Sex and drugs Before Rock 'n' Roll

youth culture and masculinity during Holland's Golden Age

Sex and Drugs Before the Rock 'n' Roll is a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ways in which they ...

Escarapelas y coronas

las revoluciones continentales en América y Europa, 1776-1835

La temática revolucionaria ha llenado miles de páginas, su atractivo sigue siendo incuestionable, así como prolíficas sus vertientes de análisis. La frontera que separa a la historia de la ideología, la política o la identidad sigue siendo tenue, una delgada línea roja. Es por ello ...

Jesuitas e imperios de ultramar

siglos XVI-XX

Este libro es el resultado de las jornadas internacionales que se celebraron el pasado mes de marzo de 2011 en la Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) de Barcelona. El objetivo de este encuentro consistió en explorar las relaciones entre el proyecto universalista cristiano de la Compañía ...

Los Jesuitas

religión, política y educación (siglos XVI-XVIII)

Desde su fundación, la Compañía de Jesús ha sido objeto de interés y observación tanto por parte de las autoridades (eclesiásticas y temporales) como por la sociedad en general. No obstante, en las últimas décadas, los estudios sobre dicha Orden han crecido espectacularmente. Son muchas ...

A cultural history of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820

A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250-1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political ...

The contractor State and its implications, 1659-1815

Este libro pretende acercar el gasto público al debate sobre la construcción de los estados modernos. La obtención de fondos para apoyar Ejército y Armada fue el principal deseo del estado mercantilista preindustrial. Solo el estado contratista es lo suficientemente fuerte para cubrir la demanda ...

Courtly encounters

translating courtliness and violence in Early Modern Eurasia

Cross-cultural encounters in Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought the potential for bafflement, hostility, and admiration. The court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and were forced to make sense of one another. By looking at ...

Piratas

filibusterismo y piratería en El Caribe y en los Mares del Sur (1522-1725)

La historia de la piratería se divide en tres períodos diferenciados; la mayor parte de los libros publicados hasta la fecha hacen referencia principalmente a uno de ellos, el período del dominio pirata inglés en el Caribe, sin embargo, estos libros dejan de lado los ...

Bandoleros, piratas y hugonotes

Dedicado en cuerpo y alma al estudio de la sociedad en la Época Moderna, Joan Reglà siempre prestó atención a los sectores sociales más desfavorecidos. Fruto de ello es este librito, cimentado en muchos años de trabajo, y redactado para un público amplio no necesariamente ...

Cartain Cook

master of the seas

The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost among these explorers was navigator and cartographer Captain James Cook of the British Royal Navy. Recent writers have viewed Cook largely through ...

Tomás Moro

Este drama histórico, escrito alrededor de 1600, chocó con la censura estatal. En su interior se representa una comedia donde los aspectos históricos, críticos y filológicos son intrigantemente novelescos. La candente cuestión sobre la autoría de William Shakespeare la responde perspicazmente Joseph Pearce en el ...

The corporation that changed the world

how the East India Company shaped the modern multinational

The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with ...

Anna Amalia, Grand-Duchess

patron of Goethe and Schiller

In 1756, Anna Amalia, the nineteen-year-old princess of the House of Brunswick was married to Constantine, the young duke of the minor duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. She bore Constantine two sons, but only three years after their marriage he died, leaving the young and inexperienced girl ...

On the account

piracy and the Americas, 1766-1835

In addition to being commercialised and romanticised, piracy's history has also been distorted, with many works straying far from the facts recorded in the Age of Sail. In this book, author Joseph Gibbs goes back to many of the original materials about those who ...

La Capilla de Música de la Catedral de Ávila

(siglos XV al XVIII)

INDICE: 1. Del silencio al sonido: los inicios de la música en la catedral de Ávila en la Edad Media..2. "Para el servicio del coro y aumento del culto divino": organización y marco jurídico de la capilla de música en el siglo XVI..3 ...

Statuta de ludo

le leggi sul gioco nell'Italia di comune (secoli XIII-XVI) = The laws governing games and gaming in Italian communes (XIII-XVI centuries)

Statuta de ludo è una raccolta di leggi sul gioco dell’Italia di tradizione comunale (secoli XIII-XVI). Organizzata come strumento per orientare nella pratica ludica delle comunità cittadine e locali nei secoli indicati, è una necessaria premessa allo studio della storia della ludicità. La fitta ...

Empire and Modern political thought

This collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers' writings about conquest, colonization and empire. The creation of vast transcontinental empires and imperial trading networks played a key role in the development of modern European political thought. The rise ...

Galileo

Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope - of the craters of the moon, and the ...

Commentaries on Plato. Volume 2: Parmenides, Part 1

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus, was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. Ficino's commentaries on Plato remained the standard guide to the Greek philosopher's works for centuries. Vanhaelen's new translation of Ficino's vast commentary on the Parmenides makes ...