The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottomans

from global imperial power to absolutist States

The Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire, especially under their charismatic leaders Charles V and Suleyman I, were major empires of the early-modern period. Both exercised global power as, respectively, leaders of the universal 'res publica Christiana' and 'dar-es Islam'. However, both lost supreme ...

Deterrence through strength

British Naval power and foreign policy under Pax Britannica

The notion of a Pax Britannicaoa concept implying that Britain's overwhelming strength enforced global peace in the era that began with Napoleon's defeat in 1815o largely ended with the British Empire itself. Although most historians still view this period as a departure from ...

Missions d'évangélisation et circulation des savoirs

XVIe-XVIIIe siècle

Quels furent les savoirs utilisés, diffusés et produits par les missionnaires catholiques, à partir du milieu du XVIe siècle, aussi bien en Europe, qu'en Amérique, en Asie et en Afrique ? Dans quelle mesure l'entreprise d'évangélisation des âmes, jugées par les missionnaires comme ...

An account of Denmark

with Francogallia and some considerations for the promoting of agriculture and employing the poor

This Liberty Fund edition of "An Account of Denmark", with its related texts, is the first modern edition of Molesworth's writings. This volume presents not only "An Account", a text that for most of the eighteenth century was recognized as one of the canonical ...

Les sociétés de frontière

de la Méditerranée à l'Atlantique (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle)

Au moment où se crée un espace européen sans frontières intérieures, au sein d'un monde globalisé, il est temps de renouveler l'histoire des confins en les considérant comme des espaces vécus et non plus seulement comme des lieux de construction des États. Cet ...

Matteo Ricci

a jesuit in the Ming Court

Matteo Ricci (1552D1610), the first of the early Jesuit missionaries of the China mission, is widely considered the most outstanding cultural mediator of all time between China and the West. This engrossing and fluid book offers a thorough, knowledgeable biography of this fascinating and influential ...

Micaela Villegas

"La Perricholi"

La extraordinaria vida de una criolla plebeya y sus amores con el virrey del Perú, en el inicio del crepúsculo imperial español en América. Micaela Villegas, “La Perricholi”, es una figura singular y apasionante del Perú colonial que ha inspirado toda suerte de creaciones artísticas ...

This great struggle

America's Civil War

Referring to the war that was raging across parts of the American landscape, Abraham Lincoln told Congress in 1862, 'We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope on earth.' Lincoln recognized what was at stake in the American Civil War: not only ...

Derrota de Vasco de Gama

el primer viaje marítimo a la India

«Venimos a buscar cristianos y especias», respondió uno de los hombres de Vasco de Gama a los mercaderes con los que se entrevistó nada más llegar a la indostánica Calicut, el 21 de mayo de 1498. Por sus trascendentales consecuencias, el primer viaje de Vasco ...

Strangers in blood

relocating race in the Renaissance

Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals. Arguing that, in early modern discourse, the concept of race was primarily linked with notions of bloodline, lineage, and ...

John Calvin

John Calvin (1509-1564) is one of the most important figures in religious history. Sitting on the cusp of the medieval and early modern world, he was centre stage during the Reformation. In this new biography, Michael Mullett introduces us to this most important figure, tying ...

Política militar de Príncipes

Política militar de príncipes (1680) del cronista regio y genealogista Juan Baños de Velasco y Acevedo (1615-1682) constituye un ejemplo del género denominado <<tratados de educación de príncipes>>. Esta literatura alcanzó altas cotas de producción en la época moderna, sobre todo a raíz de la ...

Modern poets

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 48)

Born in Ferrara, Lilio Gregorio Giraldi (1479--1552) received an excellent classical education at the world-famous humanist schools of his native city. On his various travels in search of a patron, he visited Naples, frequenting the Academy there; Mirandola, where he entered the service of Gianfrancesco ...

Letters to friends

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 47)

Bartolomeo Fonzio (1447--1513) was a leading literary figure in Florence during the time of Lorenzo de' Medici and Machiavelli. A professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Florence, he included among his friends and colleagues leading figures such as Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano ...

Genealogy of the pagan gods. Volume I: Books I-V

(The I Tatti Renaissance Library; 46)

Giovanni Boccaccio's Genealogy of the Pagan Gods is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and medieval literary sources so as to create a massive synthesis of Greek and Roman mythology. The work also contains a famous defense of ...

Innovation and empire in Turkey

Sultan Selim III and the modernisation of the Ottoman Navy

Ottoman naval technology underwent a transformation under the rule of Sultan Selim III. New types of sailing warships such as two- and three-decked galleons, frigates and corvettes began to dominate the Ottoman fleet, rendering the galley-type oared ships obsolete. This period saw technological innovations such ...

Regulating the british economy, 1660-1850

This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies between political, social and economic change as Britain was transformed into a global power. Inspired by recent research on consumerism and ...

China and maritime Europe, 1500-1800

trade, settlement, diplomacy and missions

China and Maritime Europe, 1500-1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play ...

Colonial America

a history to 1763

Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies.* Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliography* Includes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish ...

Black affricans in renaissance Europe

This highly original book opens up the much neglected area of the black African presence in Western Europe during the Renaissance. Covering history, literature, art history and anthropology, it investigates a whole range of black African experience and representation across Renaissance Europe, from various types ...