748円 This antiquarian book contains Alexandre Dumas's work "Martin Guerre". It was first published as part of his eight-volume series "Celebrated Crimes" (1839-40), and recounts the unbelievable story of a famous case of imposture in sixteenth-century France. Some years subsequent to leaving his wife ...

4,908円 This is the first systematic scholarly study of the Ottoman experience of plague during the Black Death pandemic and the centuries that followed. Using a wealth of archival and narrative sources, including medical treatises, hagiographies and travellers' accounts, as well as recent scientific res...

1,400円 On 30 April 1665, the diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the first rumours that the bubonic plague was spreading through London: 'Great fears of the sickness here in the City - God preserve us all!' Thought to have come by ship from Amsterdam, which had been ravaged by the disease for two years, the P...

1,400円 Henry VIII had the most controversial love life of the Tudor period, and he remains Britain’s most famous king because of it. His pursuit of a male heir for his throne led him to cast aside five consecutive wives and bring about the reformation of the Catholic Church, changing the face of British...

10,280円 This volume examines early modern representations of women’s reproductive knowledge through new readings of plays, monstrous birth pamphlets, medical treatises, court records, histories, and more, which are often interpreted as depicting female reproductive bodies as passive, silenced objects of ...

4,172円 A discussion by a broadly respected authority of the complicated relationship between theology and ordinary life in the early church. The first section of the book scrutinizes theology with a view to understanding its bearing upon Christian understandings of life (the theological “stories” of Ire...

4,861円 In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme ...

5,224円 During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine's in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive j...

9,616円 First Published in 2004. During the 1640s, tens of thousands of young British men set off for the Civil Wars full of that innocent enthusiasm with which so many before and since have welcomed the prospect of battle. Few had much idea of the reality of war. Brought up in a relatively peaceful soci...

2,420円 La biographie de référence de Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), le plus célèbre des penseurs italiens de la Renaissance, philosophe, théoricien de la politique, de l'histoire et de la guerre. La biographie de référence de Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), le plus célèbre des penseurs italiens de la...

1,320円 A l'occasion des 500 ans de la bataille de Marignan (1515), la publication en Tempus du livre de référence sur la plus grande victoire de François Ier. Sorte de lieu commun de notre conscience collective, " Marignan, 1515 " est dans toutes les mémoires. Cet événement des guerres d'Italie est deme...

1,320円 Bien plus que par la découverte du Nouveau Monde, 1492 fut marquée par nombre de mutations, d'innovations et de changements majeurs annonçant véritablement un monde nouveau. Explications de Bartolomé et Lucile Bennassar. Il est communément admis que 1492 marque la découverte du Nouveau Monde. C'e...