Tokugawa Ieyasu

leadership, strategy, conflict

Towards the end of the 16th century three outstanding commanders brought Japan's century of civil wars to an end, but it was Tokugawa Leyasu who was to ensure a lasting peace. In terms of his strategic and political achievements Leyasu ranks as Japan's ...

Reyes sodomitas

monarcas y favoritos en las cortes del Renacimiento y Barroco

Reyes sodomitas no es una mera sucesión de biografías de reyes. Miguel Cabañas Agrela, con este libro, trata de reflejar las vidas y las experiencias vitales de unos seres humanos que, desde lo más alto de la jerarquía social que les tocó vivir por nacimiento ...

The European Reformation

Since its first appearance in 1991, The European Reformation has offered a clear, integrated, and coherent analysis and explanation of how Christianity in Western and Central Europe from Iceland to Hungary, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees splintered into separate Protestant and Catholic identities and ...

A jesuit the forbidden city

Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610

A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time. A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he ...

Un regno che è Stato Grande

la storia negata dei Borboni di Napoli e Sicilia

L'inaugurazione della pionieristica Napoli-Portici, la prima linea ferroviaria italiana; la costruzione a Caserta della "Versailles italiana" e a Napoli del teatro San Carlo, tempio della musica di Rossini; l'istituzione della prima cattedra universitaria di economia e commercio; le opere di pensatori illuministi come ...

The Jacobins

an essay in the New History

The Jacobins were the most famous of the political clubs that fomented the French Revolution. Initially moderate, they are remembered mainly for instituting the Reign of Terror. Crane Brinton’s The Jacobins was written in the 1930s, itself a decade of the violent centralization of ...

The fuggers of Augsburg

pursuing wealth and honor in Renaissance Germany

As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famous merchant family of the period, the Medici of Florence, however, no English-language work on them has been available until now. The Fuggers ...

European weapons and armour

from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution

A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period to the Industrial Revolution will welcome this book. The author chooses as his starting-point the invasion of Italy by France in ...

Greece, the hidden centuries

turkish rule from the fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence

For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neglected by others. What was life really like for the Greeks under Ottoman ...

Lords of the sea

a history of the barbary corsairs

The modern increase of piracy in the waters east and south of Somalia has led some commentators to call the area the 'new Barbary'. But what of the 'old Barbary', where from around 1500 to 1800 Muslim corsairs sallied forth to capture Christian ships? For ...

Diálogo de las empresas militares y amorosas

Edición crítica, introducción y notas de Jesús Gómez. El "Dialogo dell'imprese militari e amorose" de Paolo Giovio, publicado por primera vez de manera póstuma en 1555 y traducido tres años después al español por Alonso de Ulloa con el título de "Diálogo de las ...

Scholarship, commerce, religion

the learned book in the Age of Confessions, 1560-1630

A decade ago in the "Times Literary Supplement", Roderick Conway Morris claimed that "almost everything that was going to happen in book publishing - from pocket books, instant books and pirated books, to the concept of author's copyright, company mergers, and remainders - occurred during the ...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

tradition and progress, 1715-1789

The three-quarters of a century between 1715 and 1789 are often seen as the last years of Europe's old order. But a dramatic rise in Europe's population, the agricultural and industrial revolutions in Britain and the unprecedented challenges of the Enlightenment began to ...

The Portuguese Empire in Asia

1500-1700

Featuring updates and revisions that reflect recent historiography, this new edition of The Portuguese Empire in Asia 1500-1700 presents a comprehensive overview of Portuguese imperial history that considers Asian and European perspectives.* Features an argument-driven history with a clear chronological structure* Considers the latest developments ...

Contesting the Reformation

Contesting the Reformation provides a comprehensive survey of the most influential works in the field of Reformation studies from a comparative, cross-national, interdisciplinary perspective. * Represents the only English-language single-authored synthetic study of Reformation historiography* Addresses both the English and the Continental debates on Reformation history ...

El Renacimiento italiano

Se trata de una recopilación sistemática, la primera de su género, de textos y documentos, algunos de ellos poco conocidos, que subrayan la impronta “humanista”: el relieve que se da a la actividad del hombre, a sus posibilidades, a su acción terrenal, en la vida ...

El discurso de los saberes en la Europa del Renacimiento y del Barroco

El tema que trata este libro persigue dos objetivos principales. Por una parte, estudiar los saberes en el Renacimiento y en el Barroco, acercándose, entre otros autores, a Werner Rolewinck, Alfonso de la Torre, Pico de la Mirándola, Tomás Moro, Francisco de Vitoria y la ...

María Tudor

La gran reina desconocida

Esta completa biografía es el resultado de más de veinte años de trabajo acerca de la figura de María Tudor, reina de Inglaterra y segunda esposa de Felipe II. La autora muestra su profundo conocimiento de la historia de Inglaterra y España, avalando su estudio ...

La Corte en Europa

política y religión (siglos XVI-XVIII)

Las distintas confesiones surgidas en el siglo XVI (catolicismo, luteranismo, calvinismo) se han estudiado como formaciones uniformes que resultan útiles para explicar el proceso de confesionalización de las Monarquías europeas. No obstante, una investigación minuciosa demuestra que existieron distintas corrientes espirituales dentro de la ortodoxia ...

Autoridad, libertad y maquinaria automática en la primera modernidad europea

Quizá nunca en la historia la sociedad ha quedado tan fascinada con una máquina como cuando, en los inicios de la Europa moderna, el reloj asumió el papel de imagen cultural relevante. Fue usada ampliamente en la literatura, la ciencia y la filosofía cartesiana. Las ...