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Jordan R Katz

Delivering Knowledge

This book offers a new perspective on the history of early modern Jewish communities by centering the experiences of Jewish midwives. In the wake of the Thirty Years' War, as cities and towns across north…

Jordan R Katz

Delivering Knowledge

This book offers a new perspective on the history of early modern Jewish communities by centering the experiences of Jewish midwives. In the wake of the Thirty Years' War, as cities and towns across north…

Ran Segev

Sacred Habitat

Known as a time of revolutions in science, the early modern era in Europe was characterized by the emergence of new disciplines and ways of thinking. Taking this conceit a step further, Sacred Habitat sho…

Henry Sumner Maine

Ancient Law. Its Connection with the Early History of Society, and its Relation to Modern Ideas

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

Rebecca M Rush

The Fetters of Rhyme

How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry In his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme, portr…

David H Price

Defending Judaism

Defending Judaism: Jewish Writing and Religious Toleration in Early Modern Europe explores the decisive contributions of Jewish writers to the expansion of religious toleration during the period 1600-1789…

Martin Mulsow,

Knowledge Lost

A compelling alternative account of the history of knowledge from the Renaissance to the EnlightenmentUntil now the history of knowledge has largely been about formal and documented accumulation, concentr…

Noa Levin,

Benjamin, Deleuze and the Baroque

For Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, who both authored seminal theoretical works on early cinema and photography, the history of modern media begins much earlier, in Baroque culture and science. Benjam…

Brendan C. McMahon

Iridescence and the Image

At the turn of the seventeenth century, people in Spain and Mexico were fascinated by iridescence. Artists stretched the capacities of conventional media in attempts to capture its shifting hues, while ot…

Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore

The State Drug

A revelatory account of the "wonder drug" theriac, which became a powerful tool in the hands of medical and political authorities at the height of the Italian Renaissance.From the 1490s, one of …

João Figueiredo

Sorcery and Jurisdiction in Angola

Jurisdiction, law, and "sorcery"

Craig Muldrew

The Capitalist Self

In this radical reinterpretation of the Financial Revolution, Craig Muldrew transforms our understanding of capitalism as a socially constructed set of institutions and beliefs. He shows how credit was tr…

Camille Serchuk

Lies of the Land

"Explores how late medieval and early modern French painters pioneered a highly pictorial standard for cartography that was imbued with legibility and authority by drawing on their training to bring …

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 …

Buddy Holly

Platinum Collection

Platin ist seltener und wertvoller als Gold und daher ist es angebracht, Buddy Holly auf diese Art und Weise zu würdigen. Hunderte von Künstlern haben bereits Gold-Rekorde aufgestellt, aber Buddy Hollys E…

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…

Sneaker Pimps

Becoming X

Anne Sophie Refskou

Shakespeare's Compassion

This book shows that Shakespeare's dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages a conflicted emotion available to be solicited, manipulated and at times even monop…

Manuela Ceballos

Between Dung and Blood

Between Dung and Blood investigates the stories of two sixteenth-century saints: the Spanish Christian Teresa de Jesús and the Moroccan Sufi Sīdī Riḍwān al-Januwī, both from families of converts. Through …