Architectures of Festival in Early Modern Europe : Fashioning and Re-fashioning Urban and Courtly Space / J.R. Mulryne, Krista De Jonge, Pieter Martens, R.L.M. Morris
Draws on up-to-date research by a Europe-wide group of academic scholars and museum and gallery curators to provide a unique, ...
Lire la suiteConstructions of Cancer in Early Modern England : Ravenous Natures
Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before ...
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De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period The Authors of the Commentaries
This book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take ...
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Forming the Mind
The book collects essays from some of the foremost scholars in a relatively new and very promising field of research. It ...
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Global History with Chinese Characteristics Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796
This book examines perceptions and dialogues between China and Europe by analysing strategic geopolitical sites which fostered ...
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Iberian World Empires and the Globalization of Europe 1415–1668
This book analyses Iberian expansion by using knowledge accumulated in recent years to test some of the most important theories ...
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Platonism at the Origins of Modernity : Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy
This collection of essays offers an overview of the range and breadth of Platonic philosophy in the early modern period. ...
Lire la suitePublishing Sacrobosco’s De sphaera in Early Modern Europe : Modes of Material and Scientific Exchange
This volume focuses on the cultural background of the pivotal transformations of scientific knowledge in the early modern ...
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Reading Breath in Literature
This book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, ...
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Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800
This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...
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