10,612円 Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe examines the purposes for which specific forms of violence and particular emotional states functioned, how they operated in relation to each other, or indeed how one provoked, sustained or diminished the other. These twelve original essays demonstrate ...

5,920円 The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance brings together a selection of primary source documents designed to introduce students to the richness of the period. For this edition, a new chapter on Dante and his time provides a useful transition to the Renaissance from the culture of the Middle Ag...

6,322円 Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overview. In his introductory Note to the Reader, Bartlett first explains why he chose Jacob Burckhardt's classic narrative to guide students through the c...

220円 15mn d'Histoire : une nouvelle collection de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes. François Ier reste dans la mémoire collective comme un souverain magnifique, roi chevalier, prince galant, amoureux des lettres et des arts, incarnation d'un temps réputé glorieux à j...

220円 15mn d'Histoire : une nouvelle collection de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes ! La beauté glacée et immuable de Diane de Poitiers demeure légendaire, attestée par de grands peintres, mais ce ne fut pas sa seule arme. Favorite d'Henri II bien qu'âgé de dix-neuf a...

220円 15mn d'Histoire : une collection numérique de textes courts pour apprendre et comprendre l'Histoire en 15 minutes ! Le 28 juin 1559 eut lieu la dernière joute d'Henri II. Son courage face à la souffrance le hissèrent au panthéon des rois. Aux yeux de la postérité, son héroïsme racheta un bilan pl...

4,908円 In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues that China has been shaped by its relations wi...

1,280円 'A rare gift . . . The story he has to tell may be a thrilling one but not every historian could tell it so thrillingly.' Financial Times 'Magnificently rip-roaring history . . . Bursting with colour and excitement.' Dominic Sandbrook As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, th...

1,549円 'In the midst of life we are in death.' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiari...

28,787円 Among the most important of Erasmus’ contributions to Christian humanism were his Greek text, new Latin translation, and annotations of the New Testament, an implicit challenge to the authority of the Vulgate and one that provoked numerous responses. This volume of the Collected Works contains tr...

11,409円 As the first translator of Plato’s complete works into Latin, the Florentine writer Marsilio Ficino (1433–99) and his blend of Neoplatonic and Hermetic philosophy were fundamental to the intellectual atmosphere of the Renaissance. In Spain, his works were regularly read, quoted, and referenced, a...

949円 1589-1599 : tout change au royaume de France. En dix années, un sursaut extraordinaire mène le pays de la ruine à la gloire. Au centre de cet échiquier où s'opposent catholiques et huguenots, Anglais et Espagnols, Allemands et Italiens apparaît le ravissant visage d'une jeune fille blonde qui règ...