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Richard Rodney Bennett (1936-2012)

Orchesterwerke Vol.1

Jonathan Lemalu, Paul Watkins, Philharmonia Orchestra, Richard Hickox

The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century

This edited volume explores the intersection of medicine and philosophy throughout history, calling attention to the role of quantification in understanding the medical body. Retracing current trends and …

Maria Fabricius Hansen

Grotesques

When the term, Grotesques, first arose around the year 1500 in Italy, it referred specifically to ornamental frescoes featuring exceptionally inventive, noteworthy, humorous, or monstrous motifs. These pa…

Martin Austin Nesvig

The Women Who Threw Corn

This book tells the stories of women from Spain, North Africa, Senegambia, and Canaries accused of sorcery in sixteenth-century Mexico for adapting native magic and healing practices. These non-native wom…

John Adey Repton

Some Account of the Beard and the Moustachio: Chiefly From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

Reprint of the original, first published in 1839. 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…

Ana Garriga, Carmen Urbita

Convent Wisdom

Tormented by financial woes? Saint Theresa and her fellow Carmelites have some divine budgeting hacks. Suffering from FOMO while doom-scrolling through social media? Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, who could lit…

Serge Gruzinski,

The Language of the Conquerors

One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the linguistic revolution which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies. Writing, pape…

Serge Gruzinski,

The Language of the Conquerors

One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the linguistic revolution which changed the forms of communication in indigenous societies. Writing, pape…

Sonia Velton

The Nightingale's Castle

'The 17th-century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Bathory, allegedly responsible for the torture and murder of hundreds of young girls, is one of history's most notorious serial killers... an absorbing work …

Pieter Veerman,

Learning to Pray

Pieter Veerman in his work explains why the Heidelberg Catechism is a unique teacher of thankfulness in its sixteenth-century context. Veerman provides an in-depth theological analysis of Q&A 115-129.…

A History of Modern French Literature

"This is a tremendous achievement, bringing into a single volume much of the best writing and thinking on French literature that is currently available anywhere. It is highly readable, full of energe…

Beatrice Zucca Micheletto, Nicoleta Roman

Women, Migration and the Exchange of Knowledge from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century

This book examines female migration between Eastern and Western Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from scholars working in diverse disciplines, the book f…

Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism

Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural p…

Sandro Landi

Machiavelli's Gaze

This book examines Machiavelli in contemporary or past realities through the way in which he read, wrote, related to cultures distant in time and space---a first in the field of Machiavellian studies. It …

Ethan Matt Kavaler

Actors Carved and Cast

"Examines the genres and conventions that made Netherlandish sculpture a vital and influential medium during the sixteenth century"--

Rainbow

Catch The Rainbow: The Anthology

The Cambridge History of Rights: Volume 3, the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, contemporary authors explored the myriad ways in which the concept of rights could be understood, but almost always arrived at the same conclusion: it was vital…

Vital Byl

Witch Trials in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

This book explores witchcraft accusations as bizarre and violent reflections of the tensions, fears, and fantasies within one of Early Modern Europe's most culturally diverse societies.At the crossroads o…

Leopold Ranke, Sarah Austin

The Ecclesiastical and Political History of the Popes of Rome During the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840. 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…