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New Material Histories of Music: Music in the Flesh : An Early Modern Musical Physiology (Hardcover)

A corporeal history of music-making in early modern Europe. Music in the Flesh reimagines the lived experiences of music-making subjects--composers performers listeners--in the long seventeenth century. There are countless historical testimonies of the... more

International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Inte: Millenarianism and Messianism in Early Modern European Culture: Volume I: Jewish Messianism in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)

The earliest scientific studies of Jewish messianism were conducted by the scholars of the Wissenschaft des Judentums school particularly Heinrich Graetz the first great Jewish historian of the Jews since Josephus. These researches were invaluable... more

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World: Wives Widows Mistresses and Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage (Hardcover)

Through a visually oriented investigation of historical (in)visibility in early modern Italy the essays in this volume recover those women - wives widows mistresses the illegitimate - who have been erased from history in modern literature rendered... more

Early American Histories: Making the Early Modern Metropolis : Culture and Power in Pre-Revolutionary Philadelphia (Paperback)

Philadelphia was the most dynamic city in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British America. In Making the Early Modern Metropolis Daniel Johnson takes a thematic approach to Philadelphia s related economic legal and popular cultures to provide a... more

International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Inte: Platonism at the Origins of Modernity: Studies on Platonism and Early Modern Philosophy (Paperback)

commentary but by selection and accretion. Those inspired by Plato form as intrinsic a part of Platonism as Plato himself--these are the so-called Neo-P- tonists (a divisive latter-day term which implies discontinuity between Plato and 6 his later... more

International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Inte: Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy (Paperback)

This book explores how far some leading philosophers from Montaigne to Hume used Academic Scepticism to build their own brand of scepticism or took it as its main sceptical target. The book offers a detailed view of the main modern key figures... more

Dorian Unbound : Transnational Decadence and the Wilde Archive (Hardcover)

This book examines the broad archive of texts that Oscar Wilde read from quite early in his literary career through to the release of Dorian Gray making the case for a transnational network of literary forms that influenced Wilde s unique and hybrid... more

Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literat Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe: Performance Geography Privacy Book 23 (Paperback)

Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009) this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of... more

Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture: Don Quixote in the Archives: Madness and Literature in Early Modern Spain (Hardcover)

A new reading of madness in Don Quixote based on archival accounts of insanity.From the records of the Spanish Inquisition Dale Shuger presents a social corpus of early modern madness that differs radically from the literary madness previously studied.... more

Options for Teaching Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives Book 36 (Paperback)

The availability of digital editions of early modern works brings a wealth of exciting archival and primary source materials into the classroom. But electronic archives can be overwhelming and hard to use for teachers and students alike and... more

The Specter of the Archive : Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain (Edition 1) (Hardcover)

An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter... more

Making of the Modern World: The Early Modern World 1450-1750 (Paperback)

The Early Modern World 1450-1750: Seeds of Modernity takes a distinctive approach to global history and enables a holistic view of the world during this period without prioritizing any one nation or region. It guides students towards an understanding... more

Princeton Legacy Library Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies Book 5233 (Paperback)

Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century Barbara Benedict poses the question Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste? She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work:... more

International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Inte: Pamphlets Printing and Political Culture in the Early Dutch Republic (Paperback)

This book resulted from a desire to understand the role of pamphlets in the political life of that most curious early modern state the Dutch Republic. The virtues of abundance and occasional liveliness have made little blue books as they were called a... more

Oxford Early Christian Texts Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God (Hardcover)

This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa On the Human Image of God (formerly known as On the Making of Man De hominis opificio) and the first English translation since the nineteenth century. This treatise is... more

Pre-Owned Making Difference in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia: 1 Paperback

Our books are pre-loved which means they have been read before. We carefully check all our books and believe them to be in a - USED - VERY GOOD Condition condition. If you re not completely satisfied please get in touch & we ll be happy to help.... more

Magic in History Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic (Paperback)

This volume presents editions of two fascinating anonymous and untitled manuscripts of magic produced in Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual. Frank Klaassen uses these texts which he argues are representative of the... more

Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin : Their early political careers and the making of the modern Labor Party (Paperback)

Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and... more

Silver Trade and War: Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe Paperback 0801877555 9780801877551 Stanley J. Stein Barbara H. Stein

This is a Brand New book in excellent condition. Format: Paperback Author: Stanley J. Stein Barbara H. Stein ISBN10: 0801877555 ISBN13: 9780801877551 The 250 years covered by Silver Trade and War marked the era of commercial capitalism that bridge... more

Empires of Love: Europe Asia and the Making of Early Modern Identity (Hardcover)

Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries--epic poetry private correspondence secular dramas and colonial legislation--Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of India as the... more

Pre-Owned The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) Paperback

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Pre-Owned Making Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: Practices Objects and Texts 1400-1800 (Paperback 9780226763293) by Prof. Pamela H Smith Benjamin Schmidt

9780226763293. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 336. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. The fruits of knowledge - such as books data and ideas - tend to generate far... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History: Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth 1485-1547 (Hardcover)

The dawn of the Tudor regime is one of most recognisable periods of English history. Yet the focus on its monarchs private lives and ministers constitutional reforms creates the impression that this age s major developments were isolated to halls of... more

Pre-Owned Silver Trade and War : Spain and America in the Making of Early Modern Europe 9780801861352 Used

Silver Trade and War is about men and markets national rivalries diplomacy and conflict and the advancement or stagnation of states. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust... more

Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era (Hardcover)

Featuring over 100 colour images this book explores the photographic self-representations of the urban middle classes in Turkey in the 1920s and the 1930s. Examining the relationship between photography and gender body space as well as materiality and... more

Making the Modern Turkish Citizen: Vernacular Photography in the Early Republican Era (Paperback)

Featuring over 100 colour images this book explores the photographic self-representations of the urban middle classes in Turkey in the 1920s and the 1930s. Examining the relationship between photography and gender body space as well as materiality and... more

Rest Days : A Study in Early Law and Morality. (Paperback)

The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 includes over 20 000 analytical theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists including Sir Edward Coke Sir William Blackstone... more

When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible (Paperback)

How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the Rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church? The... more

International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Inte: Johannes Clauberg (1622-1665): And Cartesian Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Paperback)

In this book twelve outstanding historians of early modern philosophy undertake a study of the philosophy of Johannes Clauberg (1622-1665). Clauberg was not only among the first followers of Descartes (whose philosophy he taught from 1650 in Herborn... more

Harvard East Asian Monographs: The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Hardcover)

Over the centuries early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account... more

Harry Ransom Center Photography Series: Reading Magnum : A Visual Archive of the Modern World (Hardcover)

This first reading of the vast Magnum Photos archive as a body of work presents an astonishingly rich survey of life and death in the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries as well as a concise history of modern photography. more

Edinburgh Studies in Modern Arabic Literature: Prophetic Translation: The Making of Modern Egyptian Literature (Hardcover)

In this novel and pioneering study Maya I. Kesrouany explores the move from Qur anic to secular approaches to literature in early 20th-century Egyptian literary translations asking what we can learn from that period and the promise that translation... more

Pre-Owned Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America s University. Updated Edition (Paperback 9780195325157) by Morton Keller Phyllis Keller

9780195325157. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Revised ed. Language: English. Pages: 608. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 608 p. Contains: Unspecified. Early twentieth-century Harvard was the country s oldest and richest university but... more

International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Inte: The Metaphysics of Resurrection in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy (Hardcover)

This book provides a new account of the emergence of the philosophy of personal identity in the early modern period. Reflection on personal identity is often thought to have begun in earnest with John Locke s famous consciousness-based account... more

International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives Inte: Johannes Clauberg (1622-1665): And Cartesian Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover)

In this book twelve outstanding historians of early modern philosophy undertake a study of the philosophy of Johannes Clauberg (1622-1665). Clauberg was not only among the first followers of Descartes (whose philosophy he taught from 1650 in Herborn... more

Themes in British Social History Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750 (Hardcover)

Still the only general survey of the topic available this widely-used exploration of the incidence causes and control of crime in Early Modern England throws a vivid light on the times. It uses court archives to capture vividly the everyday lives of... more

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies: The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World (Paperback)

This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe s greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the... more

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Stu The Political Economy of Empire in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)

This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe s greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the... more