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  • Roads to Health

    Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy

    de Guy Geltner ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In Roads to Health, G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcrowding, shortages of food and clean water, air pollution, and the improper disposal of human and animal waste. He consults scientific, narrative, and normative sources that detailed and consistently denounced the physical and environmental ... Leer más

    $50.99 USD

  • Anticorruption in History

    From Antiquity to the Modern Era

    Edición de Ronald Kroeze, Guy Geltner, André Vitória ...
    Anticorruption in History is a timely and urgent book: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem we face as a global society, undermining trust in government and financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the law and human wellbeing in general. Corruption, in short, is a major hurdle on the "path to Denmark" a feted blueprint for stable and successful ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • La prigione medievale

    Una storia sociale

    de Guy Geltner ...
    La società medievale non aveva una «mentalità persecutoria»: al contrario di quanto si pensa, era in realtà molto più sfumata nella definizione e nel trattamento dei suoi elementi marginali. Guy Geltner lo dimostra esplorando ogni sfaccettatura della carcerazione tardomedievale – dal terrore provato al momento dell’arresto al rilascio, all’evasione o alla morte – fino a operare una vera e propria ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Black Death and the Transformation of the West

    de David Herlihy ...
    In this small book David Herlihy makes subtle and subversive inquiries that challenge historical thinking about the Black Death. Looking beyond the view of the plague as unmitigated catastrophe, Herlihy finds evidence for its role in the advent of new population controls, the establishment of universities, the spread of Christianity, the dissemination of vernacular cultures, and even the rise of ... Leer más

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  • The Garments of Court and Palace

    Machiavelli and the World That He Made

    de Philip Bobbitt ...
    A "serious and thoughtful" interpretation of Machiavelli's life and thought—and its relevance today—from the acclaimed author of Terror and Consent ( The Times, London).Constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt turns his expert attention to the life and work of Niccolo Machiavelli, the sixteenth century political philosopher whose classic text The Prince remains one of the most important and ... Leer más

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  • Cultures of Plague

    Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $56.99 USD

  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    de John Jeffries Martin, Dennis Romano ...
    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Machiavellian Moment

    Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition

    de John Greville Agard Pocock ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and social consciousness arising from the ideal of the classical republic revived by Machiavelli and other thinkers of Renaissance Italy. Pocock shows that Machiavelli's prime emphasis was on the moment in ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • A History of Law in Europe

    From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

    de Antonio Padoa-Schioppa ...
    Traducido por Caterina Fitzgerald ...
    With its roots in ancient Greece, Roman law and Christianity, European legal history is the history of a common civilisation. The exchange of legislative models, doctrines and customs within Europe included English common law and has been extensive from the early middle ages to the present time. In this seminal work which spans from the fifth to the twentieth century, Antonio Padoa-Schioppa ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Dante & the Limits of the Law

    de Justin Steinberg ...
    In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure essential to Dante's Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by sophisticated laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards. He makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly structured legal system ... Leer más

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  • Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

    Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe

    de Gary Ferguson ...
    From the tenor of contemporary discussions, it would be easy to conclude that the idea of marriage between two people of the same sex is a uniquely contemporary phenomenon. Not so, argues Gary Ferguson in Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome.Making use of substantial fragments of trial transcripts Gary Ferguson brings the story of a same-sex marriage to life in striking detail. He unearths an ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe

    Edición de Helen Hills ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    Written by leading scholars in the field, the essays in this book address the relationships between gender and the built environment, specifically architecture, in early modern Europe. In recent years scholars have begun to investigate the ways in which architecture plays a part in the construction of gendered identities. So far the debates have focused on the built environment of the nineteenth ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD