18th Century – Bücher, CDs, Super Audio CDs und mehr, Seite 8

Elaine MacKay

19th-Century Patterns for the Modern Body

A beautifully illustrated practical guide to creating historically accurate 19th-century garments, gowns, and silhouettes for modern body shapes.

Jennifer Aston, Olive Anderson

Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales

Examines the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Acts and their use by married women to reclaim voting rights and rights of testation, inheritance and property ownership.

Alla beata Vergine - The Marian cult in 17th-century Naples

Roberta Invernizzi, I Turchini, Antonio Florio

A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Enlightenment

The 18th century saw the height of court culture in Europe as well as the beginnings of its demise with conflicts such as the American and French Revolutions. The Scientific Revolution, which had begun in…

Marialuisa Bianchi

History of Florence

This stimulating book tells the history of Florence, from its origins to the fateful day that the Medici collections were bound to the city of Florence, establishing it definitively as a city of art. Narr…

The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Novel

The Russian novel remains a subject of enduring interest for scholars, students, and general audiences. Russian novels were initially influenced by the parallel traditions of novel-writing in Britain, Fra…

Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni,

The Story of the Marquis de Cressy

A sentimental novel exploring love and betrayalReturning to court after triumphant success in war, the Marquis de Cressy sets out to become successful in society as well. Along the way, he begins romances…

Sophie Gee

Making Waste

The obsession with waste in eighteenth-century English literatureWhy was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers su…

Yehuda David Shenef

The Songs of Süsskind von Trimberg

Süßkind von Trimberg (or Suesskind of Trimberg) is known to us from the famous Codex Manesse as the author of 12 poems or songs from the 13th century, originating in what is now Bavaria. He is considered …

Michael Haydn (1737-1806)

Symphonien Vol.2

Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Patrick Gallois

Faszination Orgelimprovisation / Fascination Organ Improvisation

Kate Scarth

Romantic Suburbs

Drawing on novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Smith, and their contemporaries, Romantic Suburbs argues that in an era before public health and urban planning policies, Romantic-period women took matters int…

Michael Haydn (1737-1806)

Symphonien Vol.1

Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Patrick Gallois

Natania Meeker

Illusive Materialisms

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensual pleasure, framed as a mode of feminine responsiveness, is the primary business of …

Natania Meeker

Illusive Materialisms

Illusive Materialisms brings a close attention to gender to bear on the philosophical and political argument that sensual pleasure, framed as a mode of feminine responsiveness, is the primary business of …

Andy McPhee

The Doctors' Riot of 1788

Throughout the seventeenth century, medical lecturers demonstrated human anatomy by dissecting a cadaver while surrounded by students. After the Revolutionary War, though, instructors realized that they n…

Pierre Ambroise François Choderlos de Laclos, Choderlos De Laclos,

Dangerous Liaisons

A beautiful hardcover edition of one of the most notorious and entertaining novels of all time, a tale of feuding ex-lovers set among the decadent aristocrats of pre-Revolutionary FranceThe Marquise de Me…

Radka Nokkala Miltová

Towards the Olympian Gods

This book draws on extensive research into Baroque ceiling painting in Bohemia and Moravia. Three case studies of residential decoration present different representational strategies used by 17th century …

Anthony Turner

Seeking Natural Knowledge in Later 17th Century England

A narrative description of the context of natural history study and collecting in later 17th century England. It is constructed around the biography of the central figure of Robert Plot, but with his acti…