Trefferliste "Early Modern" - alle Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr

Fumiko Joo

Peony Lantern Tales

""The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) travelled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in …

Hilaire Kallendorf

Perilous Passions

Perilous Passions explores the ethical implications of emotion in Spanish Golden Age theatre.

Giulio Pertile

Hexameral Poetics

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Sneaker Pimps

Becoming X

Don Friedman (1935-2016)

A Day In The City / Circle Waltz

Product Information After an early period as a sideman in Los Angeles, in early 1960 Don Friedman moved to NYC, where he soon revealed himself as a pianist of extraordinary originality, and a thoroughly…

Erin Griffey

Facing Decay

"Examines how early modern women sought to preserve youth and combat signs of aging through therapeutic cosmetics. Explores beauty practices as sites of medical knowledge, scientific innovation, and …

Catherine Deutsch

Maddalena Casulana

Sixteenth-century Italian composer Maddalena Casulana was the first woman to publish music under her own name, but her legacy has long been overlooked. This book explores her life, work and times, and off…

Mengxiao Wang

Performing Enlightenment

In Performing Enlightenment, Mengxiao Wang argues that the late Ming and early Qing Buddhists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries resolved their conflict between religion and worldly entertainment …

Giulio Pertile

Hexameral Poetics

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The Distillers

The Distillers (20th Anniversary) (remastered) (Limited Edition) (Violet Swirl 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…

Debra Kaplan, Elisheva Carlebach

A Woman Is Responsible for Everything

A groundbreaking look at the integral role of women in early modern Jewish communal lifeIn small villages, bustling cities, and crowded ghettos across early modern Europe, Jewish women were increasingly a…

Andrew Schonebaum

Observing the Unseen

Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiry What did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing the Un…

Andrew Schonebaum

Observing the Unseen

Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China

Jenny C Mann

The Trials of Orpheus

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled…

Shira Brisman

The Goldsmith's Debt

Reveals how art shaped the economy, social order, and legal claims during the rise of capitalism.In the sixteenth century, German goldsmiths played a unique role in articulating property claims and social…

J. P. Park

The Forger's Creed

"The Forger's Creed is the first comprehensive study of forgery practices in early modern China and the underlying cultural, social, and genealogical anxieties that produced this plethora of fabricat…

Indira Ghose

A Defence of Pretence

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civilityIs civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and excluding others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarised world, enabling us …

Indira Ghose

A Defence of Pretence

How the drama of Shakespeare's time demonstrates the tensions within civilityIs civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and excluding others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarised world, enabling us …

Helen Pfeifer

Empire of Salons

A history of the Ottoman incorporation of Arab lands that shows how gentlemanly salons shaped culture, society, and governanceHistorians have typically linked Ottoman imperial cohesion in the sixteenth ce…