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  • The Transatlantic Hispanic Baroque

    Complex Identities in the Atlantic World

    by Harald E. Braun, Jesús Pérez-Magallón ...
    Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation in the transatlantic world of the Hispanic Baroque. Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined with sociological concepts such as class and estate, with geography and religion (i.e. the mixing of Spanish Catholics with converted Jews, ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish Political Thought

    by Harald E. Braun ...
    Series series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
    The Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1535-1624) is one of the most misunderstood authors in the history of political thought. His treatise De rege et regis institutione libri tres (1599) is dedicated to Philip III of Spain. It was to present the principles of statecraft by which the young king was to abide. Yet soon after its publication, Catholic and Calvinist politiques in France started branding Mariana ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Renaissance Conscience

    Edited by Harald E. Braun, Edward Vallance ...
    Series series Renaissance Studies Special Issues
    This book presents one of the first studies of the Renaissance notion of conscience, through examining theological manuals, legal treatises, letters and other sources of the period.Represents one of the few modern studies exploring developments in scholastic and Renaissance notions of conscienceSynthesizes literary, theological and historical approachesPresents case studies from England and the ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

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  • Generations of Feeling

    A History of Emotions, 600–1700

    by Barbara H. Rosenwein ...
    Generations of Feeling is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of emotions in pre- and early modern Western Europe. Charting the varieties, transformations and constants of human sentiments over the course of eleven centuries, Barbara H. Rosenwein explores the feelings expressed in a wide range of 'emotional communities' as well as the theories that served to inform and reflect their ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Culture

    Edited by Andrew Galloway ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The cultural life of England over the long period from the Norman Conquest to the Reformation was rich and varied, in ways that scholars are only now beginning to understand in detail. This Companion introduces a wide range of materials that constitute the culture, or cultures, of medieval England, across fields including political and legal history, archaeology, social history, art history, ... Read more

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  • Suicide in the Middle Ages, Volume 2

    by Alexander Murray ...
    A group of men dig a tunnel under the threshold of a house. Then they go and fetch a heavy, sagging object from inside the house, pull it out through the tunnel, and put it on a cow-hide to be dragged off and thrown into the offal-pit. Why should the corpse of a suicide – for that is what it is– have earned this unusual treatment? In The Curse on Self-Murder, the second volume of his three-part ... Read more

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  • From Humanism to Hobbes

    Studies in Rhetoric and Politics

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    The aim of this collection is to illustrate the pervasive influence of humanist rhetoric on early-modern literature and philosophy. The first half of the book focuses on the classical rules of judicial rhetoric. One chapter considers the place of these rules in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, while two others concentrate on the technique of rhetorical redescription, pointing to its use in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English

    Edited by Elaine Treharne, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of medieval literature has experienced a revolution in the last two decades, which has reinvigorated many parts of the discipline and changed the shape of the subject in relation to the scholarship of the previous generation. 'New' texts (laws and penitentials, women's writing, drama records), innovative fields and objects of study (the history of the book, the study of space and the ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Legal Emblems and the Art of Law

    Obiter Depicta as the Vision of Governance

    by Peter Goodrich ...
    The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition as a juridical genre, along with the concept of, and training in, obiter depicta, in things seen ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Birth of Territory

    by Stuart Elden ...
    Political theory professor Stuart Elden explores the history of land ownership and control from the ancient to the modern world in The Birth of Territory.Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial ... Read more

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  • The Rights of War and Peace

    Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

    by Richard Tuck ...
    The Rights of War and Peace is the first fully historical account of the formative period of modern theories of international law. It sets the scene with an extensive history of the theory of international relations from antiquity down to the seventeenth century. Professor Tuck then examines the arguments over the moral basis for war and international aggression, and links the debates to the ... Read more

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