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

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 …

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…

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…

Sneaker Pimps

Becoming X

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…

Lars Behrisch

Democracy's Double Helix

Where does our modern democracy come from? It is a composite of two very different things: a medieval tradition of political participation, pluralistic but highly elitist; and the notion of individual equ…

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 …

François Soyer

The 'Catalan Hermaphrodite' and the Inquisition

This book examines the life of Maria Duran, who was born with female genitalia, but was accused of being a man and subsequently put on trial for sorcery by the Portuguese Inquisition during the 18th centu…

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…

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…

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Sex and Style

"A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to descri…

Masculinities and Representation

Masculinities and Representation reveals how gender construction served to affirm but also diversify premodern masculinity.

Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures in the Dutch Republic

How did objects move between places and people, and how did they reshape the Republic's arts, cultures and sciences? 'Objects' were vitally significant for the early modern Dutch Republic, which is known …

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Sex and Style

"A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Many of the terms we use today to descri…

Genevieve Warwick

The Mirror of Art

One of the key pictorial developments of Renaissance art was a conceptualisation of painting as a mirror reflection of the visible world. The idea of painting as specular was argued in Renaissance art the…

Patrick Wallis

The Market for Skill

How apprenticeship shaped the English economy Apprenticeship dominated training and skill formation in early modern Europe. Years spent learning from a skilled master were a nearly universal experience fo…