Sixteenth Century – Bücher, CDs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 8

Ali Benmakhlouf,
The Humanity of Others

How should we speak of humanism today? To answer this question, Moroccan philosopher Ali Benmakhlouf turns to Montaigne. Through a rich and attentive reading of Montaigne's Essays, Benmakhlouf reminds us …

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Shah Tahmasp I,
The Memoirs of Shah Tahmasp I

A remarkable first-person narrative by a sixteenth-century Iranian ruler, the Memoirs of Shah Tahmasp I, Safavid Ruler of Iran (1514-1576), originally written in Persian, represent a vitally important pri…

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Patrick Provost-Smith
Provost-Smith, P: 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…

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Mary Hollingsworth
Catherine de' Medici

A Financial Times Book of the Year'Thoroughly researched.' Sunday Times 'To be devoured.' Philip Mansel 'This book is a treat for fans of well-told history.' Washington PostHistory is rarely kind to women…

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Mariely Lares
Dawn of Fate and Fire

The stunning conclusion to the duology that began with the internationally bestselling Sun of Blood and Ruin, this gender-flipped Zorro reimagining weaves Mesoamerican mythology and sixteenth-century Mexi…

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Ruth Goodman
How To Be a Tudor - A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period from the crowning of Henry VII to the d…

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Kate Foster
The King's Witches

A masterpiece . . . I literally didn't look up from the first page to the last' - Janice Hallett, bestselling author of The AppealThe King's Witches by Kate Foster is a compelling and beautiful historical…

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Sara Kehaulani Goo
Kuleana

"From an early age, Sara Kehaulani Goo was enchanted by her family's land in Hawai'i. The vast area on the rugged shores of Maui's east side--given by King Kamehameha III in 1848--extends from mounta…

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Kate Mosse
The Burning Chambers

The Sunday Times No. 1 Bestseller 'A tour de force' - The ObserverBringing sixteenth-century France vividly to life, Kate Mosse's historical epic The Burning Chambers is a gripping story of love, betrayal…

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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…

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Forgotten Experts

"Forgotten Experts offers a history of Ottoman court astrologers and traces their shifting authority and prestige over the long sixteenth century. These individuals served the Ottoman court with thei…

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James Pilgrim
Pastoral's End

How early modern Italian painting addressed the ways humans shape and are shaped by their environments.In the sixteenth century, Italian artist Jacopo Bassano painted pictures of herdsmen and animals movi…

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Ernest J Weinrib
The Least of My Brethren

As pauperism and begging dramatically increased throughout Europe in the sixteenth century, poverty began to be treated as the object of governmental regulation rather than of individual benevolence. The …

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Jen-Yen Chen
Macau and Catholic Sacred Music Across the Sino-Western Divide

For three centuries, the former Portuguese colony of Macau served as the gateway into mainland China and the locale for the development of an Asian Catholic culture that encompassed distinctive musical pr…

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Lincoln Rathnam
The Practice of Skepticism

Although the ideas of freedom, peaceful coexistence, and a modest role for government are central to the liberal political tradition and the political practices of contemporary liberal democracies, their …

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Exoticizing Consumption

Exotic drugs and spices, from tea to opium, were among the first fruits of European commercial expansion in the sixteenth century. By the eighteenth, many had become profitable products of the European em…

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James E. Kelly
The Catholic Reformation

Very Short Introductions

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Catholic Reformation: A Very Short Introduction traces the Catholic Reformation from its beginnings in the first half of the sixteenth century, th…

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Glen van Brummelen
The Doctrine of Triangles

An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentiethThe Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, s…

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Tafel E 'Orient' in Archduke Ferdinand's Portrait Collection

Ottomania - Band 16

This volume presents a study of the thirty-four portraits in panel E 'Orient' in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. In this multi-faced object potentates from south-eastern Europe and Ottoman, Persian and…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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