Trefferliste "Sixteenth Century" - alle Bücher, CDs, Super Audio CDs und mehr

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

True prayer arises from the heart

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…

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 …

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…

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…

Julia Jorati

Slavery and Race

Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries explores philosophical ideas, theories, and arguments that are central to early modern discussions of slavery. Jorati exp…

Civilisation - The Complete Series (1969) (UK Import)

Kenneth Clarke's eloquent and deeply personal documentary series exploring the cultural heritage of the western world, from the collapse of the Roman Empire until the birth of modernism, was groundbreakin…

Philip Daileader

Time and Governance in Fifteenth-Century Perpignan

This book examines how and why late medieval townspeople reconceptualized time and applied their new understanding of it to politics and economics. It is for students and scholars of late medieval history…

Frank Trentmann,

Herrschaft der Dinge

Faszinierend und unterhaltsam: der Weg in die moderne ÜberflussgesellschaftWas wir konsumieren, ist zu einem bestimmenden Aspekt des modernen Lebens geworden. Wir definieren uns über unseren Besitz. Aber …

Yaniv Fox

The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition

"The Merovingian centuries were a foundational period in the historical consciousness of western Europe, and their stories were shaped through a process of historiographical adaptation across a mille…

Joanna Papiernik,

Philosophies of the Afterlife in the Early Italian Renaissance

The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant momentum in 16th-century Europe. But what came before Pietro Pomponazzi and his contemp…

Aguirre - Der Zorn Gottes (1972) (Ultra HD Blu-ray) (UK Import)

Shot entirely on location in the wild Amazonian jungle near Machu Picchu, Aguirre, the Wrath of God stars the legendarily volatile Klaus Kinski (Nosferatu the Vampyre) as Don Lope de Aguirre, a power-craz…

Andrei I. Pliguzov

Documentary Sources on the History of Rus Metropolitanate

Edited and curated by the renowned medievalist Andrei Pliguzov, Documentary Sources on the History of Rus' Metropolitanate is a rich resource for any reader interested in the controversies and preoccupati…

Resistance in the Iberian Worlds from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century

This book highlights the broad scope and span of resistance as a contentious practice in the early modern Iberian world. In this context, from the late Middle Ages onwards, resistance, rooted in the polit…

Orlando di Lasso (Lassus) (1532-1594)

Prophetiae Sibyllarum (22 Weihnachtsmotetten)

Weser-Renaissance Bremen, Manfred Cordes