Early Modern History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 4

Olivia Weisser
The Dreaded Pox

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the 'pox,' was a dreaded diagnosis throughout Europe. Its ghastly marks, along with their inexorable link to sex, were so stigmatizing tha…

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Rethinking Science and Religion in Early Modern Culture

Early modern Europe provides a rich context from which to challenge the rigid opposition between science and religion in this bold new edited collection. Contributors reveal how modes of science or natura…

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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 …

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Marinos Sariyannis
Ottomans and the Supernatural

A comprehensive exploration of Ottoman-era magic and occult sciences that employs a unique methodology involving close readings of a very wide range of textual sources.

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Malissa Taylor
Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its "classica…

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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Becoming Ottoman

This book examines the role of Europeans who settled in the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries and assumed "Ottoman identity", be it by way of conversion to Islam and assimilatin…

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Fatima Lahham
Improvising Otherwise

This volume redefines how we approach early music and cultural histories, intertwining feminist, decolonial, and creative perspectives. Fatima Lahham delves into the improvisational practices of early mod…

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Fatima Lahham
Improvising Otherwise

This volume redefines how we approach early music and cultural histories, intertwining feminist, decolonial, and creative perspectives. Fatima Lahham delves into the improvisational practices of early mod…

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Paige Donaghy
Pregnant Women's Sexuality in Early Modern England

Genders and Sexualities in History

This book provides the first history of pregnant women's sexuality in England from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, with some discussion of broader Northern European perspectives on pregnancy and …

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Eileen O'Neill,
Disappearing Ink

When Eileen O'Neill (1953-2017) published her ground-breaking essay, "Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosophers and the History of Philosophy" in 1998, women philosophers were virtually …

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Abigail Williams
Reading It Wrong

"How eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read. Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores w…

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Dona Brown
Hill Farms

There is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms , historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural…

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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 …

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Michael Harrigan
Culture and Environment in the Early French Caribbean

Ideas, practices, and human priorities: culture in the unstable environment of the early Caribbean colonies.Early French colonization in the Caribbean from the 1620s to circa 1730 brought great demographi…

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Elaine M Fisher
The Meeting of Rivers

The Meeting of Rivers reconstructs the prehistory of India's newest religion, Virasaivism (or Lingayatism) from its own voices, drawing on unstudied and unpublished archival sources in several south India…

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Igor Pérez Tostado
Anglo-Spanish Relations During the English Civil Wars

The development of European diplomacy has long been recognised as one of the main achievements of the early modern period. This story of diplomatic accord, however, often fails to take into account the fa…

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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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John Samuel Harpham
The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world.The period from 1550 to 1700 …

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Alessandro Mulieri
Machiavelli, Aristotle and Popular Republicanism

The first study to comprehensively investigate the Aristotelian roots of Niccolò Machiavelli's radical republican thought.

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