Enlightening the World

the creation of the Statue of Liberty

Conceived in the aftermath of the American Civil War and the grief that swept France over the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the Statue of Liberty has been a potent symbol of the nation's highest ideals since it was unveiled in 1886. In Enlightening the ...

The coming of the book

the impact of printing, 1450-1800

The emergence of the book was an event of world historical importance, and heralded the dawning of modernity. In this much praised history of that momentous process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of ...

Caterina Sforza and the art appearances

gender, art and culture in Early Modern Italy

In the first major book in four decades on Caterina Sforza (1463-1509), Joyce de Vries investigates the famous noblewoman's cultural endeavors, and explores the ways in which gender, culture, and consumption practices were central to the invention of the self in early modern Italy ...

La traducción cultural en la Europa moderna

Eds. Peter Burke y R. Po-Chia Hsia; Trads. Jesús Izquierdo Martín y Patricia Arroyo Calderón. Este pionero volumen reúne a un equipo internacional de prestigiosos historiadores con el objetivo de presentar la historia de la práctica de la traducción en la Edad Moderna como una ...

El arte del poder

la Real Armería y el retrato de corte

Ed. Álvaro Soler del Campo. Este catálogo de exposición pretende recoger piezas forjadas por los armeros más importantes de la Edad Moderna.

Cross-cultural scientific exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1560- 1660

Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific Revolution. Through five meticulously researched case studies - in which he explores how a single obscure object or text moved in ...

The enlightenment

a genealogy

What was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of 'the Enlightenment' first emerged, Edelstein departs from ...

The Gesualdo Hex

music, myth, and memory

A riveting investigation of one of the most provocative musicians of the Renaissance, who continues to captivate composers, artists, and audiences today.

Catherine de Médicis

1519-1589

Le destin de Catherine de Médicis, reine de France, reine-mère et régente, depuis son enfance jusqu'à son mariage avec François Ier, qui reigna durant les périodes troubles du fanatisme religieux, des assassinats et des massacres entre catholiques et protestants.

Anne Boleyn

Fatal Attractions

In this groundbreaking new biography, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of England#s most captivating queens. Through a wide- ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn#s girlhood, her experience at the French court, the nature of her relationship ...

The Essential Dürer

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), perhaps the most famous of all German artists, embodies the modern ideal of the Renaissance man-he was a remarkable painter, printmaker, draftsman, designer, theoretician, and even a poet. More is known about his thoughts and his life than about any other Northern ...

Américo Vespucio

la historia de un error histórico

Zweig desentierra en esta obra los motivos por los cuales Américo Vespucio dio su nombre a un continente recién descubierto, una historia de altibajos y errores que se convierten en verdades. Vespucio no era un mentiroso o un estafador; no pretendió ser un gran filósofo ...

Spagna e Italia in Età Moderna

storiografie a confronto

Lo scambio storiografico tra storici italiani e spagnoli è stato, anche nel passato, molto intenso, soprattutto per la compenetrazione delle vicende della Monarchia ispanica e dell’Italia preunitaria. Il volume non focalizza però la storiografia sull’Italia “spagnola”, ma partendo dalla comune identità mediterranea di ...

La ilustración

La aventura legendaria del caballero san jorge y el dragón presentada en un cuento con escenas espectaculares, desplegables y textos rimados con mucho sentido del humor.

A sudden terror

the plot to murder the Pope in renaissance rome

In 1468, on the final night of Carnival in Rome, Pope Paul II sat enthroned above the boisterous crowd, when a scuffle caught his eye. His guards had intercepted a mysterious stranger trying urgently to convey a warning - conspirators were lying in wait to slay ...

Reliques modernes, cultes et usages chrétiens des corps saints des Réformes aux révolutions

Volume I

Reliques modernes, cultes et usages chrétiens des corps saints des Réformes aux révolutions

Volume II

Elisabetta Farnese: prinipessa di Parma e regina di Spagna

Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Parma, 2-4 ottobre 2008

Erede di una dinastia in via di estinzione, Elisabetta Farnese sposa nel 1714 Filippo V di Spagna. Allevata in una piccola ma culturalmente prestigiosa corte padana, la principessa, rivelatasi immediatamente «scaltra come una zingara», esercita un ruolo di primo piano nella direzione politica del Regno ...

Prácticas en termodinámica

Se incluyen un total de seis prácticas asociadas a las asignaturas de Termodinámica y Termodinámica Técnica del Plan de Estudios de Ingeniería Industrial y a la parte correspondiente de Termodinámica de la asignatura Laboratorio de Ingeniería Química I del Plan de Estudios de Ingeniería Química ...

Mercaderes atlánticos

redes del comercio flamenco y holandés entre Europa y el Caribe

" Mercaderes atlánticos: Redes del comercio flamenco y holandés entre Europa y el Caribe" es una recopilación de trabajos sobre la presencia neerlandesa en España y su expansión atlántica: Se trata de textos escogidos, algunos de ellos inéditos y otros ya publicados pero revisados,con los ...