Historia de Florencia, 1378-1509

Concebida en 1509, todavía bajo el influjo del ideal renacentista, la obra de Guicciardini es una imponente reconstrucción de la vida política florentina desde 1378, año de la Revolución de los Ciompi, hasta 1509, año en que el autor hace una aguda y honda reflexión ...

Conquista

una nueva historia del mundo moderno

David Day nos enseña a ver la historia del mundo moderno y contemporáneo con unos ojos nuevos: a combatir el mito de unas naciones instaladas en el territorio supuestamente eterno de la patria y percatarnos de que la historia entera de la humanidad ha sido ...

Early Modern Europe 1450-1789

Covering European history from the invention of the printing press to the French Revolution, this accessible and engaging textbook offers an innovative account of people's lives, from a variety of backgrounds, in the early modern period and within the global context of European developments ...

The modern Middle East

sourcebook for history

------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- "The Modern Middle East" is a collection of translated sources covering the period from 1700 to the present. Sources include official and private archives, the periodical press, memoirs, western journalists' and travellers' accounts, literature, and official reports (including statistical data). Each document has been prefaced ...

Siena

ciudad de la Virgen

Siena es uno de los más bellos monumentos de la cultura occidental, la única ciudad europea del siglo catorce que se conserva en su perfección original. Titus Burckhart describe en este libro un interesantísimo panorama del desarrollo histórico, cultural y espiritual de Siena y nos ...

Les sociétés anglaise, espagnole et française au XVIIe siècle

Le XVIIe siècle, tour à tour qualifié au cours des trente dernières années de tragique, baroque, de temps de crise ou de " siècle de fer ", est ici étudié à travers des études thématiques et chronologiques construites selon une démarche comparative. L'ouvrage présente des analyses ...

Madness, religion and the State in early modern Europe

a bavarian beacon

From the ideological crucible of the Reformation emerged an embittered contest for the human soul. In the care of souls, the clergy zealously dispensed spiritual physic; for countless early modern Europeans, the first echelon of mental health care. During its heyday, spiritual physic touched the ...

Un crimen sentimental

amor y locura en el siglo XVIII

Una noche de abril de 1779 Martha Ray, la bella amante de un famoso aristócrata británico fue asesinada en Londres de un disparo por un joven clérigo que después intentó en vano quitarse la vida. Mientras declaraba amor eterno a la mujer a la que ...

The new inquisitions

heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism

The only book of its kind, "The New Inquisitions" is an exhilarating investigation into the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Arthur Versluis unveils the connections between heretic hunting in the early and medieval Christianity, and the emergence of totalitarianism in the twentieth century. He shows how ...

El siglo XVI

Especialistas de la talla de Christopher Black o David Brading, dirigidos por el profesor Euan Cameron, han unido sus esfuerzos para replantearse, verificar y criticar los saberes recibidos sobre el Quinientos,a la luz de las investigaciones más solventes realizadas durante los últimos años.

María Antonieta

la última reina

La vida de María Antonieta (1755-1793) estuvo marcada desde el principio por el contraste y el desgarro. Hija del emperador Francisco I de Austria, con apenas catorce años fue enviada a Paris para contraer matrimonio con quien llegaría a ser el rey de Francia Luis ...

The memoirs of Catherine the Great

Empress Catherine II brought Europe to Russia, and Russia to Europe, during her long and eventful reign (1762-96). She fostered the culture of the Enlightenment and greatly expanded the immense empire created by Czar Ivan the Terrible, shifting the balance of power in Europe eastward ...

The making of western Jewry, 1600-1819

In a broad sweep from Central Europe to Ireland and from the Sixteenth to the early Nineteenth-century, this work puts the Jewish community and its rabbinic and 'lay' leaders at the centre of Jewish history. Of surpassing value is Kochan's treatment of the community ...

The rise of oriental travel

english visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720

"The Rise of Oriental Travel" follows four seventeenth-century Englishmen on their journeys around the Ottoman Empire, while it was still expanding westward and the British were, for the first time in history, becoming important players in the Mediterranean. Contrary to the hostile declamations of Protestant ...

On the inconstancy of witches

Pierre de Lancre's Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612)

The demonology Tableau de l'inconstance des mauvais anges et demons (1612) is an important text in the history of the early modern european witch persecutions. It is a report of the author's four-month stay in the Labourd (Basque) region of France, which is ...

La justice et l'histoire

sources judiciaires à l'époque moderne: (XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe siècles)

L'histoire de la justice et de la criminalité est devenue un thé essentiel pour les historiens de la France moderne (XVIe, XVII, XVIIIe siècles). Afin d'aider les étudiants et les chercheurs, quatre spécialistes ont ré dossiers qui fournissent les outils indispensables à l ...

Early modern Europe

the age of religious war, 1559-1715

Drawing on the most recent social, economic, cultural, and intellectual research, Mark Konnert provides an engrossing overview of Europe during a highly dynamic and turbulent historical period. The book argues that while territorial trade-offs, resource and wealth distribution, and social conflict contributed to a century ...

The Cambridge History of Turkey

Volume 3: The later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1839

Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Turkey traces the history of the later Ottoman Empire from the death of Mehmed III in 1603 to the proclamation of the tanzimat, the administrative reconstruction of the Ottoman state, in 1839. This was a period of relative ...

Les voyageurs européens sur les chemins de la guerre et de la paix du temps des Lumières au début du XIXe siècle

Cet ouvrage présente - à partir de témoignages, de relations de voyage, de journaux de combattants - un pan de l'histoire sociale et culturelle à l'époque des Lumières. Les lieux où éclatèrent des conflits durant tout le XVIIIe siècle constellant la carte européenne, les touristes ...

The Routledge companion to Early Modern Europe 1453-1763

This is compact and highly accessible work of reference that covers the broad sweep of events as Europe transformed during the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. This Companion examines the centuries that saw the Reformation and counter-Reformation, the expansion of Europe and the ...