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

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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Sion Parkinson
Stinkhorn

A meditation on sound, inviting us to listen through the nose and open the mind to the musical potential in unpleasant odors.The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, cert…

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Luis De Gongora Y. Argote, Pablo Picasso,
Gongora: Bilingual Edition

Picasso was first attracted to the work of sixteenth-century Spanish poet Luis de Gongora y Argote during the 1920s, when the poet, called the father of modern poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca, was resurre…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Cristina Cruz González
Saints & Santos

Explore how sacred art evolved in early Mexico, adapting to local cultures and artistic traditions.This beautifully illustrated book reveals the importance of saints in New Spain, a viceroyalty that was p…

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Bishnupriya Gupta
An Economic History of India

This book offers a major new economic history of India from the reign of Akbar in the sixteenth century to India's post-independence integration into the global economy. Using concepts and theories from e…

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Andrea Beth Wenz
Bernardino Ochino's Exile and the Composition of an International Reformation

Bernardino Ochino was one of the most celebrated Italian Catholic preachers of the sixteenth century-until the Roman Inquisition forced him into exile. But rather than silencing him, displacement granted …

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