Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe 9781409405528, 9781409405511

In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of

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Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe
9781409405528, 9781409405511

Colonial America stretched from Quebec to Buenos Aires and from the Atlantic littoral to the Pacific coast. Although Eur

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Contested Spaces of Early America is a wide-ranging, eclectic volume that seeks to reconcile the parallel histories and

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Early modern objects, images and artworks were often nodes of discussion and contestation. If images were sometimes cont

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Offering a fascinating survey of European queenship from 1500-1800, with each chapter beginning with a discussion of the

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This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in t

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The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expand

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Sodomy in Early Modern Europe is a collection of essays that reflect closely the main areas of debate within gay histori

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Eight essays by major authors who attempt to find out who read, published, or advertised what, when, and where from the

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Secrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphaticall

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