Early Modern – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 8

Folke Gernert

Divination on stage

Magicians, necromancers and astrologers are assiduous characters in the European golden age theatre. This book deals with dramatic characters who act as physiognomists or palm readers in the fictional wor…

Teruko Saito

Money-lending Contracts in Konbaung Burma

Various contractual deeds were exchanged between people in Burmese dynastic society in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These deeds, known as thet-kayits, especially debt deeds, are valuable docum…

The Auteurs

The Complete EMI Recordings

Ein gerechtes 6CD Clamshell Box Set, das die kompletten EMI-Aufnahmen von The Auteurs mit 125 Titeln versammelt. Enthalten sind alle vier Alben von The Auteurs, zusammen mit Lukes Nebenprojekt (dem sel…

Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses

In the Modern Age, the encounter and conflict between competing religious identities produced a renewed emphasis on the concept of peace, which was invested with religious, political and ideological conno…

Christine Schott

Canon Fanfiction

Several scholarly fields investigate the reuse of source texts, most relevantly adaptation studies and fanfiction studies. The limitation of these two fields is that adaptation studies focuses narrowly on…

David Bowie

Moonage Daydream - Music From The Film

Im September 2022 läuft in den Kinos »Moonage Daydream« an, der erste offiziell genehmigte Film über David Bowie. Das Begleitalbum zu dem hochgelobten Dokumentarfilm von Regisseur Brett Morgen (u.a. »The …

Patrick Provost-Smith

Holy War, Just War

Explores the sixteenth century debates about the nature of conflict, focusing on the Spanish conquistadors and their evangelisation of Mexico and Peru. This title shows how these debates were later approp…

Adolfo Polo y La Borda

Global Servants of the Spanish King

"This book explores mobility and cosmopolitanism across the early modern Spanish empire, and how they impacted its governance. It will attract students and scholars interested in colonialism and empire, g…

Narratives of Peace in Religious Discourses

"This volume explores the role of religious discourse in the construction of the concept of peace from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, analyzing the narratives which in Europe gave extrahuman value …

Beyond Exceptionalism

While the economic involvement of early modern Germany in slavery and the slave trade is increasingly receiving attention, the direct participation of Germans in human trafficking remains a blind spot in …

Michael Jung

Reduce Diving To A Science

The early modern period was a particularly exciting and pioneering era for the development of diving technology. The beginnings of commercial diving, scientific diving and recreational diving can be found…

From Europe to Overseas

The titanic adaptations of European sanctity in the face of modernity and world conquest

The Distillers

The Distillers (20th Anniversary) (remastered) (Limited Edition) (Opaque Sunburst Vinyl) (US Edit.)

Product Information To call The Distillers simply a punk band doesn't do justice to either the band or the word "punk". Guitarist, lyricist, and vocalist Brody Dalle uses her medium as a platform for a h…

Joel Ross

Nublues

Vibraphonist Joel Ross legt mit seinem vierten Blue Note-Album eine Sammlung von Blues und Balladen vor, präsentiert von einer der kreativsten modernen Jazzgruppen unserer Zeit. Kommunikation ist hier ein…

The Next Movement

The Next Movement

Bereits seit 2003 treffen die drei in der Schweiz etablierten, an renommierten Musikhochschulen (Berklee College Of Music, Musikhochschule Basel, Jazzschule Luzern) studierten und mehrfach ausgezeichneten…

Tracing the Jerusalem Code

With the aim to rewrite the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image or rather the imagination of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and ar…

Louise K Stein

The Marqués, the Divas, and the Castrati

In this book, author Louise K. Stein analyzes early modern opera as appreciated and produced by Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán (1629-87), Marqués de Heliche and del Carpio and a distinguished patron of the arts …

Maria Madalena Brito

"The Slave is a Human Person"

With the edition, translation and study of a 16th moral theology treatise, Maria Madalena Brito shows how this discipline was the area par excellence for critical debate on slavery in Portugal at this tim…

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