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  • - A Merchant's Life in the Seventeenth Century
    af Thomas Max Safley & Matheus Miller
    1.102,95 - 1.210,95 kr.

    This book reconstructs the worldview of a Lutheran merchant from the city of Augsburg in the seventeenth century. Yet, despite its individual focus, the book explores universal institutions of early modern Europe: patriarchy, hierarchy, honor, community, and confession.

  • - White Slavery in the Mediterranean, The Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800
    af R. Davis
    1.587,95 kr.

    Here are explored the actual extent of Barbary Coast slavery, the dynamic relationship between master and slave, and the effects of this slaving on Italy, one of the slave takers' primary targets and victims.

  • af Elizabeth Drayson
    336,95 - 957,95 kr.

    Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan hillside, weave a mysterious tale of duplicity and daring set in the religious crucible of sixteenth-century Spain.

  • - Messianic Nationalism in Early Modern Europe
    af E. Olsen
    695,95 kr.

    In 1598 a man - branded the Calabrian Charlatan by his Spanish opponents - appeared in Venice claiming to be King Sebastian, the Portuguese monarch who disappeared in battle some twenty years before.

  • - Lindau, 1520-1628
    af Johannes Wolfart
    1.096,95 - 1.320,95 kr.

    The story of conflict in an island community offers a valuable case study for the analysis of early modern German political culture.

  • af K. Hodgkin
    877,95 kr.

    What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses vivid autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and experienced from the inside, asking how certain people came to be defined as insane, and what we can learn from the accounts they wrote.

  • - Public Houses and Social Exchange in Early Modern Central Europe
    af B. Kumin
    898,95 kr.

    Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs as well as infinite forms of social exchange.

  • - The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England
    af C. Muldrew
    2.179,95 kr.

    It is a major argument of the book that money was used only in a limited number of exchanges, and that credit in terms of household reputation, was a 'cultural currency' of trust used to transact most business.

  • - Civic Duty and the Right of Arms
    af Ms. B. Ann Tlusty
    1.977,95 kr.

    For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed power of the state. This book investigates how men were socialized to the martial ethic from all sides, and how masculine identity was confirmed with blades and guns.

  • - Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c.1425-1675
    af Alessandro Arcangeli
    1.210,95 - 1.292,95 kr.

    In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a cultural topos. the spectrum of leisure activities, often gender-specific or appropriate to particular social groups; and the visual representation of leisure.

  • - Architecture and Iconography
    af Robin Usher
    1.197,95 - 1.198,95 kr.

    This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in the 1770s. The meanings ascribed to statues, churches, houses, and public buildings are traced in detail, using a wide range of visual and written sources.

  • af S. Hindle
    1.587,95 kr.

    This is a study of the social and cultural implications of the growth of governance in England in the century after 1550. and analyses litigation, arbitration, social welfare, criminal justice, moral regulation and parochial analyses administration as manifestations of the increasing role of the state in early modern England.

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