Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe : 1500 - 1700 9781317875512, 9780582423299

Surveying court life and urban life, warfare, religion, and peace, this book provides a comprehensive history of how gen

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Gender, Power and Privilege in Early Modern Europe : 1500 - 1700
9781317875512, 9780582423299

Interdisciplinary in scope, this collection examines the varied and complex ways in which early modern Europeans imagine

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This concise introduction provides an overview of the state of research on women's history in the early modern peri

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Occult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches—their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals—was a

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Once considered marginal members of the animal world (at best) or vile and offensive creatures (at worst), insects saw a

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Are images and spectacles fundamental mediators of power relationships in the West? This book draws upon the language of

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Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Marco Sgarbi tells a new history of epistemology from the Renaissance to Newton through the impact of Aristotelian scien

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Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400–1700 examines the hermeneutic functions of the modificati

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As literary history, Tang recounts how literature confronted the question of international world order and how, in the p

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Die epochalen Umbrüche im Denken der Frühen Neuzeit waren für die Ausbildung des Weltbilds der Moderne von prägender Kra

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