El estallido de la Guerra de Secesión

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Moderna, Nº 2, año 2012)

· La última guerra antigua, la primera guerra moderna por Peter Cozzens. La Guerra de Secesión es un conflicto bisagra en el que las tácticas empleadas, de herencia napoleónica, tenían ya difícil encaje en un contexto de tropas inexperimentadas, armamento cada vez más eficaz y unos ...

La Corte estense nel primo Seicento

diplomazia e mecenatismo artistico

Dalla perdita di Ferrara (1598) alla pace dei Pirenei (1659), la dinastia estense vive una fase particolarmente significativa e tumultuosa della sua storia, che culmina nelle imprese militari di Francesco I, alleato della Francia, ai danni della Lombardia spagnola. Sono i decenni segnati dalla necessità ...

The return of Hans Staden

a go-between in the Atlantic World

Hans Staden's sixteenth-century account of shipwreck and captivity by the Tupinamba Indians of Brazil was an early modern bestseller. This retelling of the German sailor's eyewitness account known as The True History shows both why it was so popular at the time and ...

Le Code Noir ou le calvaire de Canaan

Le Code Noir raconte une très longue histoire qui commence à Versailles à la Cour du Roi Soleil, en mars 1685 et se termine à Paris en avril 1848 sous Arago, au début de l'éphémère IIe république. En très peu de pages, avec l ...

Ammazonia

l'impero dell'acqua 1500-1800

Avvenne così che l’Amazzonia fosse sconvolta da un pugno di europei e di meticci, poche centinaia a metà del Seicento, qualche migliaio un secolo più tardi. Un impero dell’acqua conteso – spagnoli da ovest, portoghesi da est – e sopraffatto da dure genti di guerra ...

The italian wars, 1494-1559

War, State and Society in Early Modern Europe

The Italian Wars of 1494-1559 had a major impact on the whole of Renaissance Europe. In this important text, Michael Mallett and Christine Shaw place the conflict within the political and economic context of the wars. Emphasising the gap between aims and strategies of the ...

Vasa

a swedish warship

Vasa was the most modern warship imaginable in 1628. Her ability for fast and aggressive sailing, the multiple gun deck and the heavy, custom-made guns were innovations. She was meant to be a key asset for Sweden in a bid for power in Northern Europe ...

Esculturas para la guerra

la creación y evolución de la artillería hasta el S.XVII

El diseño clásico del cañón de artillería se alcanzó tras doscientos cincuenta años de sucesivo perfeccionamiento. Desde el sencillo perfil de florero utilizado en los albores del siglo XIV hasta las suaves formas redondas y bien proporcionadas empleadas a finales del siglo XVII, los primitivos ...

María Antonieta

María Antonieta nació en Viena en 1755, hija del emperador austríaco Francisco I y de María Teresa. En mayo de 1770 contrajo matrimonio, cuando tenía catorce años, con Luis XVI de Francia. De nuevo la destreza de Stefan Zweig para el retrato y su finísima ...

The rise of female kings in Europe, 1300-1800

In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs - the famous (Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, Catherine the ...

Trent

what happened at the Council

The Council of Trent (1545--1563), the Catholic Church's attempt to put its house in order in response to the Protestant Reformation, has long been praised and blamed for things it never did. Now, in this first full one-volume history in modern times, John W ...

Habsburg communication in the Dutch Revolt

The rebels of the Dutch Revolt, their political thoughts and the media they used to express them, have long been a focus of historical attention. This book, however, focuses on the largely untold story of what the other side, the Habsburg regime and its local ...

The serpent and the lamb

Cranach, Luther and the making of the Reformation

This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-reformer Martin Luther (the Lamb). Contemporaries and friends (each ...

The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597

building the faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain's Monarchy

English Catholic voices, once disregarded as merely confessional, are now acknowledged to provide important perspectives on Elizabethan society. Based on extensive archival research, this book builds on previous studies for the first thorough investigation of the Jesuit mission to England during a critical period between ...

Writing history in Renaissance Italy

Leonardo Bruni and the uses of the past

Leonardo Bruni (1370--1444) is widely recognized as the most important humanist historian of the early Renaissance. But why this recognition came about--and what it has meant for the field of historiography--has long been a matter of confusion and controversy. Writing History in Renaissance Italy offers ...

La Ilustración radical

la filosofía y la construcción de la modernidad, 1650-1750

La obra explora la noción de una Ilustración europea como un solo movimiento cultural e intelectual altamente integrado, que en su mayor parte se preocupó no sólo por los mismos "problemas intelectuales", sino con frecuencia por los mismos libros y percepciones en todas partes, desde ...

El problema de la incredulidad en el siglo XVI

la religión de Rabelais

Tomando como guía y fuente histórica el conjunto de la obra rabelasiana el análisis del siglo XVI que lleva a cabo Lucien Febvre se ha convertido ya en una obra ejemplar: la sensibilidad de la época, la vida intelectual y la influencia universal de las ...

Juan de Fuca's strait

voyages in the waterway of forgotten dreams

From internationally recognised author and historian Barry Gough, here is another riveting history of intrigue and exploration on the high seas. The tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic story of a marine ...

Reshaping New Spain

government and private interests in the colonial bureaucracy, 1531-1550

Originally published in Mexico as "Gobierno y Sociedad en Nueva Espana", Ethelia Ruiz Medrano's seminal study "Reshaping New Spain" is now available in an updated English edition. Drawing on extensive archival research, Ruiz examines the developing colonial institutions in Mexico and how they changed ...

Dialogues. Volume I: Charon and Antonius

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Giovanni Pontano (1426--1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy ...