Bøger om Tidlige 17. århundrede

CHRISTIAN 4. var en af de mest kendte og beundrede konger i den danske kongerække. Christian 4. regerede i over 59 år og fik mere end 20 børn med flere forskellige kvinder. Han forsøgte at gøre det danske rige til en stormagt i Nordeuropa. Han opførte nye byer og byggende blandt andet Rosenborg Slot, Holmens Kirke og Rundetårn. Men Christian 4. var også en tyran. Han var ikke altid den bedste militærstrateg, og han efterlod sig et kongerige i økonomisk ruin. Fortællingen om Christian 4. er på alle måder en farverig og fascinerende historie om storhed og fald. Det siges, at Danmark er Europas ældste monarki. Alligevel er det de færreste danskere, der kender de farverige historier om de danske regenter. KONGERÆKKEN er danmarkshistorie fortalt gennem de danske regenter. Og den er fuld af storslået drama, politiske intriger og er ikke mindst en fortælling om udviklingen af det danske samfund. For med skiftende stormagter som nabo har Danmark gennem tiden måtte forholde sig til de evige europæiske konflikter, og kongernes beslutninger har derfor haft betydning for både Danmarks størrelse og nationale selvforståelse. ?

Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's handwritten illustrated book Nueva corónica y buen gobierno from 1615 - honored by UNESCO as a "Memory of the World" item - rewrote Andean history in accordance with his goals of reforming Spanish colonial rule in Peru. On the eve of the four-hundredth anniversary of Guaman Poma's book, a renowned group of international scholars has been assembled to focus fresh attention on the work, its author, and its times. This volume brings together a range of established and younger scholars to explore the countless avenues of inquiry that emerge from Guaman Poma's work, including Andean institutions and ecology, Inca governance, Spanish conquest-era history, and much more.Rolena Adorno is the Sterling Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.Ivan Boserup is a classical scholar and was from 1999 through 2014 Head of Western Manuscripts of the Royal Library (National Library of Denmark), where Guaman Poma's book has been preserved since the late seventeenth century.

Paul Klingenberg was the trusted confidant of King Frederik III of Denmark, whom he served both as Postmaster general and by laying out the maze in the royal garden at Rosenborg. He had begun his working career with a trading company in Hamburg, where he was to become the driving force. He married the granddaughter of the founder, Elisabeth Berns, whose grandfather, father, and uncles and the Marselis family all had outstanding gardens, and it was in this circle that Paul Klingenberg’s love of gardening developed. In 1639 he began to keep a day-book of work undertaken in his garden at Hanerau in Holstein. Writing in German, he entered details of the plants and seeds he purchased, the names of the suppliers and the prices paid, the dates of planting and sowing, the weather conditions and the subsequent successes and failures. There are impressive lists of varieties, particularly of tulips, hyacinths, crocuses, anemones, ranunculuses, apples, pears, and melons. Fruit trees were his main interest (he was commissioned to buy fruit trees for King Frederik III and Queen Charlotte Amalie), and he recorded his tasting notes of many varieties. After his death in 1690 his son, also Paul Klingenberg, a distinguished lawyer, continued to add to the day-book at his residence Højriis in Jutland. He was principally interested in ornamental plants, particularly the newly imported exotics, and to assist in their cultivation he installed a hothouse of the very latest design. For some years after the death of Paul Klingenberg the younger the day-book was in a private collection in Denmark, but by 1765 it had disappeared, and its whereabouts remained unknown until Dr. Annie Christensen found it in the Danish Public Record Office. Realizing its great importance as a source of garden history, she transcribed it, translated it into Danish and wrote introductory chapters and a commentary on the text. Quotations from “The Garden Day Book of Sir Thomas Hanmer” (written in 1659) and previously unpublished contemporary plant drawings from Danish sources have been used to complement the material in the day-book and help to give the reader a more complete picture of gardening in the seventeenth century.The book contains 292 pages with 30 beautiful colour plates from the Gottorfer Codex, The Royal Collection of Engravings, and approx. 20 black and white drawings, maps and garden plans.