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  • Fronsperger and Laffemas

    16th-century Precursors of Modern Economic Ideas

    by Leonhard Fronsperger, Barthélemy de Laffemas ...
    Series Book 2 - Anthem Other Canon Economics
    This volume introduces two unique and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge and makes them available internationally for the first time in full English translation. The messages of the books are seemingly contradictory, one focuses on the role of individual interests and the other on the role of government., but together they form two important pillars ... Read more

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  • The True Prophecies: Prognostications And Oracles of Michael Nostradamus

    by Michael Nostradamus ...
    It is not unusual for Calumny to follow the best Wits, and those whom God hath endowed with so extraordinary Talent, upon weak and slight grounds. It is not also unusual for Men to side easier with calumny against innocent persons, then with those truths that justifie them; therefore no body ought to wonder, if Michael Nostradamus hath been so much cried down and defamed by several Authors, being ... Read more

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  • The Prophecies

    A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text

    by Nostradamus, Richard Sieburth ...
    Translated by Richard Sieburth ...
    The first major literary presentation of Nostradamus's Prophecies, newly translated and edited by prizewinning scholarsThe mysterious quatrains of the sixteenth-century French astrologer Nostradamus have long proved captivating for their predictions. Nostradamus has been credited with anticipating the Great Fire of London, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and the September 11 terrorist attacks. Today, as ... Read more

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  • The Book of Gladness / Le Livre de Leesce

    A 14th Century Defense of Women, in English and French, by Jehan Le Fevre

    by Jehan Le Fèvre, Linda Burke ...
    The Book of Gladness (ca. 1380) contains one of the most powerful, original, and influential pro-feminine voices of the late Middle Ages. In a spirited riposte to the misogynist tradition, Le Fevre (with the help of Gladness, his lady-persona) boldly reinterprets the Bible while questioning ancient authorities in the light of "true" experience, especially his own.Despite its foundational ... Read more

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  • Constantinople and its Hinterland

    Papers from the Twenty-Seventh Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Oxford, April 1993

    by Cyril Mango, Gilbert Dagron ...
    Series series Publications of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies
    From its foundation, the city of Constantinople dominated the Byzantine world. It was the seat of the emperor, the centre of government and church, the focus of commerce and culture, by far the greatest urban centre; its needs in terms of supplies and defense imposed their own logic on the development of the empire. Byzantine Constantinople has traditionally been treated in terms of the walled ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book

    by Andrew Pettegree, Paul Nelles ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    This study comprises the proceedings of a conference held in St Andrews in 1999 which gathered some of the most distinguished historians of the French book. It presents the 16th-century book in a new context and provides the first comprehensive view of this absorbing field. Four major themes are reflected here: the relationship between the manuscript tradition and the printed book; an exploration ... Read more

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  • Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being

    The search for a republican morality

    by Jonathan Smyth ...
    Series series Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
    The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being. This day of national celebration was held to inaugurate the new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, and whilst traditionally it has been dismissed as a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Reconsidering Roman power

    Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions and reactions

    Edited by Katell Berthelot ...
    Series series Collection de l'École française de Rome
    Among the imperial states of the ancient world, the Roman empire stands out for its geographical extent, its longevity and its might. This collective volume investigates how the many peoples inhabiting Rome’s vast empire perceived, experienced, and reacted to both the concrete and the ideological aspects of Roman power. More precisely, it explores how they dealt with Roman might through their ... Read more

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  • Baron D'Holbach: A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France

    by Max Pearson Cushing ...
    Diderot, writing to the Princess Dashkoff in 1771, thus analysed the spirit of his century: Chaque siècle a son esprit qui le caractérise. L'esprit du nôtre semble être celui de la liberté. La première attaque contre la superstition a été violente, sans mesure. Une fois que les hommes ont osé d'une manière quelconque donner l'assaut à la barrière de la religion, cette barrière la plus formidable ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne

    Edited by Philippe Desan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne's thought and ... Read more

    $140.39 USD

  • At the Origins of Mathematical Economics

    The Economics of A.N. Isnard (1748-1803)

    by Richard Van Den Berg ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
    Achille Nicolas Isnard (1749-1803) an engineer with a keen interest in political economy, is best known for demonstrating the concept of market equilibrium using a system of simultaneous equations. The breadth and depth of his work undoubtedly established him as one of the forerunners of modern mathematical economics, yet his seminal contributions to the study of economics remained largely ... Read more

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  • Studies on the Crusader States and on Venetian Expansion

    Studies on the Crusader States and on Venetian Expansion

    by David Jacoby ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. This volume is a sequal to the two published in the Variorum Reprints series,in 1975 and 1979 respectively under the following titles: Société et démographie. ... Read more

    $41.99 USD