How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster, and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period c...Lasīt vairāk
Atlantic Circulations investigates literary conversations about empire in the British Atlantic world, c.1650-1750. Reading texts by Anne Bradstreet, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, Benjamin Franklin, as well as writing by overlooked authors who deserve m...Lasīt vairāk
Franciscan friars were everywhere in the early modern Catholic world, a world that stretched from the Americas, through Western and Central Europe, to the Middle East and Asia. This global brotherhood was as deeply entangled in the great religious...Lasīt vairāk
Silent Teachers considers for the first time the influence of Ottoman scholarly practices and reference tools on oriental learning in early modern Europe. Silent Teachers considers for the first time the influence...Lasīt vairāk
Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World aims to be both accessible and innovative. It will be essential to students and researchers interested in European politics, intellectual history, and shared Anglo-Dutch society, while showcasing c...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen Elizabeths reign. His ceaseless experimentation was hugely influential on those later Elizabethans - including Spenser, Sidney and...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines Cardinal Ridolfi and his court in order to understand the extent to which cardinalate courts played a key part in Romes resurgence....Lasīt vairāk
Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbuss arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as...Lasīt vairāk
By looking at rhetoric and politics, this book offers a novel account of Juan Luis Vives intellectual oeuvre. It argues that Vives adjusted rhetorical theory to a monarchical context in which direct speech was not a possibility, demonstrat...Lasīt vairāk
How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster, and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period c...Lasīt vairāk
These texts and translations are accompanied by an introduction placing these authors in the context of the great European religious wars, advice on further reading, and a full bibliography....Lasīt vairāk
This book provides the first in-depth study of contacts between Rome and the Maronites during the fifteenth and sixteenth century. It is essential reading for scholars and students of early modern Europe, as well as those interested in the Reforma...Lasīt vairāk
The development of a coherent, cohesive visual system of mathematics brought about a seminal shift in approaches towards abstract thinking in western Europe. Vernacular translations of Euclids Elements made these new and developing approaches ava...Lasīt vairāk
Silent Teachers considers for the first time the influence of Ottoman scholarly practices and reference tools on oriental learning in early modern Europe. ...Lasīt vairāk
Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World aims to be both accessible and innovative. It will be essential to students and researchers interested in European politics, intellectual history, and shared Anglo-Dutch society, while showcasing c...Lasīt vairāk
Euhemerism and Its Uses offers the first interdisciplinary, focussed, and all-round view of the long history of an important but understudied phenomenon in European intellectual and cultural history. Euhemerism the claim that the...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on a wide range of sources including interdiction procedures, records of criminal justice, documentation from mental hospitals, and medical literature, this book provides a comprehensive study of the spaces in which madness was recorded in...Lasīt vairāk
This interdisciplinary volume of eleven essays examines the idea and the reality of equality between the sexes in early modern France. It aims to contribute towards the development of the history of equality as an intellectual category within the...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen Elizabeths reign. His ceaseless experimentation was hugely influential on those later Elizabethans - including Spenser, Sidney and S...Lasīt vairāk
