Télécharger le livre :  Feuds and State Formation, 1550–1700
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This book re-evaluates the role of local agency and provides a new perspective to the political, social and cultural history of state formation, taking a microhistorical approach and through close analysis of archival sources between 1550 to 1700. The backcountry of the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-09-19
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Censorship and Heresy in Revolutionary England and Counter-Reformation Rome
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This book explores the secrets of the extraordinary editorial success of Jacobus Acontius' Satan's Stratagems, an important book that intrigued readers and outraged religious authorities across Europe. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work, first...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-09-19
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Infertility in Early Modern England
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This book explores the experiences of people who struggled with fertility problems in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. Motherhood was central to early modern women’s identity and was even seen as their path to salvation. To a lesser extent, fatherhood played...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-08-09
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Marriage, the Church, and its Judges in Renaissance Venice, 1420-1545
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This book investigates the actions of marriage tribunals by analyzing the richest source of marriage suits extant in Italy, those of the Venetian ecclesiastical tribunal, between 1420 and the opening of the Council of Trent. It offers a strongly representative overview...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-04-21
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lead Books of Granada
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Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan hillside, weave a mysterious tale of duplicity and daring set in the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-01-13
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Accounting for Affection
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Accounting for Affection examines the multifaceted nature of early modern motherhood by focusing on the ideas and strategies of Roman aristocratic mothers during familial conflict. Illuminating new approaches to the maternal and the familial employed by such women, it...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2015-03-13
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Christians of Spanish Naples 1528-1671
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This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the assistance of a series of merchants, financiers, and bureaucrats who shared a common identity as...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-05-30
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Peace and Authority During the French Religious Wars c.1560-1600
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Through a wide-ranging and close analysis of archival sources, this book re-evaluates both the role of royal authority and of local agency in the French religious wars in the lead up to the Edict of Nantes of 1598. Drawing on extensive research, it provides a new...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-05-29
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714
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This compelling new study examines the intersection between women, religion and politics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in Britain. It demonstrates that what inspired Dissenting and Anglican women to political action was their concern for the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-04-07
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Calamities and the Economy in Renaissance Italy
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Italy faced a number of catastrophes in the long sixteenth century. This economic and demographic history follows the consequences of these catastrophes - the action of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine and Plague, all followed by Death.

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-03-28
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760
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This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-03-13
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  The Martial Ethic in Early Modern Germany
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For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed power of the state. This book investigates how men were socialized to the martial ethic from all sides, and how...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-03-29
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Sexuality, and Syphilis in Early Modern Venice
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A unique study of how syphilis, better known as the French disease in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, became so widespread and embedded in the society, culture and institutions of early modern Venice due to the pattern of sexual relations that developed from...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-30
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Ships on Maps
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Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europeans were exploring with ships and to describe the real ships which were the newest and best products of technology. Above...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-08-04
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Bonds of Blood
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The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. Reinvesting the Aztecs with a humanity frequently denied to them, and exploring their spectacular religious violence as a comprehensible element of life, this book integrates a fresh...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-11-12
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Drinking Matters
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Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-10-26
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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Télécharger le livre :  Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography
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What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses vivid autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside, asking how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-11-28
Collection : Early Modern History: Society and Culture
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