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“jonathan seitz”

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  • Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies

    by Chris White, Fenggang Yang, Yucheng Bai, Jeffrey Chiu, Calida Chu, George Dunn, Bob Fu, Kim Kuen Ip, Wai Luen Kwok0, Tsz-him Lai1, Yan Liu2, Magdaléna Rychetská3, Jenny McGill4, Mark McLeister5, Timotheus Mui6, Shiho Murakami7, Jonathan Seitz8, Joshua Tan9, Carsten Vala0, Fuk Tsang Ying1, Xinzhang Zhang2 ...
    Series series
    Although Christianity has been a minority religion in Chinese societies, Christians have been powerful catalysts of social activism in seeking to establish democracy and rule of law in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and diasporic communities. The chapters gathered in this collection reveal the vital influence of Christian individuals and groups on social, political, and legal activism in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice

    by Jonathan Seitz ...
    In early modern Europe, ideas about nature, God, demons and occult forces were inextricably connected and much ink and blood was spilled in arguments over the characteristics and boundaries of nature and the supernatural. Seitz uses records of Inquisition witchcraft trials in Venice to uncover how individuals across society, from servants to aristocrats, understood these two fundamental categories ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

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  • A Concise History of Hungary

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  • The Sorcerer's Tale

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  • The Great Plague of London

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Plague has been the most feared disease across Europe since the Black Death in the 1340s. Dreaded because of the scale of the mortality and its sheer foulness, its periodic outbreaks had a devastating impact. London’s last and most destructive attack came in 1665, when, according to Bishop Gilbert Burnet, ‘a most terrible plague broke out, that depopulated the city of London, ruined the trade of ... Read more

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  • Cultures of Plague

    Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

    by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. ...
    Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America

    Edited by Brian P. Levack ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries. During these years witches were thought to be evil people who used magical power to inflict physical harm or ... Read more

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  • Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Lucrezia Borgia

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Analyzes Lucrezia's legacy and how it endured over the centuries.*Examines the legends and rumors surrounding Lucrezia's life in an attempt to separate fact from fiction.*Includes pictures depicting Lucrezia and other important people and places in her life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. Lucrezia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. ... Read more

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  • Panaceia's Daughters

    Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany

    by Alisha Rankin ...
    Panaceia's Daughters provides the first book-length study of noblewomen's healing activities in early modern Europe. Drawing on rich archival sources, Alisha Rankin demonstrates that numerous German noblewomen were deeply involved in making medicines and recommending them to patients, and many gained widespread fame for their remedies. Turning a common historical argument on its head, Rankin ... Read more

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  • History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

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    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
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    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
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