Zbirka: Zgodnji novi vek: od 1450/1500 do 1700
563 rezultatov
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Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England(2022) ULLYOT, MICHAEL (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY)This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that exemplarity is driven by both reader and author, and that positive moral examples were presented as aspiratioVezava: Trda153,22 € -
Courtier, Scholar, and Man of the Sword(2021) JACKSON, CHRISTINE (EMERITUS FELLOW, AND FORMERLY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY, EMERITUS FELLOW, AND FORMERLY ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN EARLY MODERN HISTORY, KELLOGG COLLEGE, OXFORD AND OXFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION)Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat, known for his duelling and extravagance but also for his great intellect. His life and writings offer a unique window into the aristocratic world and culture of the early seVezava: Trda205,21 € -
Voices of Nimes(2022) LIPSCOMB, SUZANNAH (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON)Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. In this book, Suzannah Lipscomb recovers the lives and aspirations of ordinary sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French women, using rich source material to showVezava: Mehka32,30 € -
Babur(2018) DALE, STEPHEN F. (OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY)This book is a concise biography of Babur, who founded the Timurid-Mughal Empire of South Asia. It is based primarily on his autobiography and existential verse. It offers a revealing portrait of Babur's Perso-Islamic culture, Timurid imperial ambition anVezava: Mehka39,92 € -
Astronomer and the Witch(2015) RUBLACK, ULINKA (PROFESSOR OF EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.Vezava: Trda35,04 € -
Habeas Corpus(2021) TYLER, AMANDA L. (SHANNON CECIL TURNER PROFESSOR OF LAW, SHANNON CECIL TURNER PROFESSOR OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY)Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Thomas Harriot(2019) ARIANRHOD, ROBYN (ADJUNCT RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, ADJUNCT RESEARCH FELLOW, SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES, MONASH UNIVERSITY)A new biography of Thomas Harriot, the greatest unknown scientific mind of the RenaissanceVezava: Trda57,01 € -
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Cause(2021) ELLIS, JOSEPH J., PH.D.A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it.Vezava: Trda39,90 € -
Ephemeral City(2016) SALZBERG, ROSAExplores the rapid rise of cheap print and how it permeated Venetian urban culture in the Renaissance -- .Vezava: Mehka44,55 € -
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Gentleman's Mistress(2019) THORNTON, TIM,CARLTON, KATHARINEThis book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of ProtestanVezava: Trda77,52 € -
Little Book of Mary Queen of Scots(2022) MAYHEW, MICKEYA witty, informative narrative of one of history's most fascinating, enigmatic monarchsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Ladies of the Manor(2014) HORN, PAMELAThe real lives of women in Britain's country houses.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Dutch Light(2021) ALDERSEY-WILLIAMS, HUGHHugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age – a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation – in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Jamestown Brides(2019) POTTER, JENNIFERThe extraordinary story of the British women who made the perilous journey to Jamestown, Virginia, to become wives for tobacco planters in the New Colony.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
