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  • Santorio Santori and the Emergence of Quantified Medicine, 1614-1790

    Corpuscularianism, Technology and Experimentation

    Edición de Jonathan Barry, Fabrizio Bigotti ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the life and works of Santorio Santori and his impact on the history of medicine and natural philosophy. Reputed as the father of experimental medicine and procedures, he is also known for his invention of numerous scientific instruments, including early precision medical devices (pulsimeters, hygrometers, thermometers, anemometers), as well as clinical and surgical tools. The ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present

    Edición de Cornelie Usborne, Jonathan Barry, Owen Davies ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume is a collection based on the contributions to witchcraft studies of Willem de Blécourt, to whom it is dedicated, and who provides the opening chapter, setting out a methodological and conceptual agenda for the study of cultures of witchcraft (broadly defined) in Europe since the Middle Ages. It includes contributions from historians, anthropologists, literary scholars and folklorists ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • The Tudor and Stuart Town 1530 - 1688

    A Reader in English Urban History

    de Jonathan Barry ...
    Series series Readers In English Urban History
    The Tudor and Stuart Town brings together many of the most important articles in the field of urban history. ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare State

    Edición de Jonathan Barry, Colin Jones ...
    What have been the roles of charities and the state in supporting medical provision? These are issues of major relevance, as the assumptions and practices of the welfare state are increasingly thrown into doubt. This title offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe, up to the advent of welfare states in the 20th century. Through detailed case ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • The Witch

    A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

    de Ronald Hutton ...
    This "magisterial account" explores the fear of witchcraft across the globe from the ancient world to the notorious witch trials of early modern Europe ( The Guardian, UK).The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep. In The Witch, historian Ronald Hutton sets the European witch trials in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Grimoires

    A History of Magic Books

    de Owen Davies ...
    What is a grimoire? The word has a familiar ring to many people, particularly as a consequence of such popular television dramas as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed. But few people are sure exactly what it means. Put simply, grimoires are books of spells that were first recorded in the Ancient Middle East and which have developed and spread across much of the Western Hemisphere and beyond over ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Witchcraft: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Malcolm Gaskill ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Witchcraft is a subject that fascinates us all, and everyone knows what a witch is - or do they? From childhood most of us develop a sense of the mysterious, malign person, usually an old woman. Historically, too, we recognize witch-hunting as a feature of pre-modern societies. But why do witches still feature so heavily in our cultures and consciousness? From Halloween to superstitions, and ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Witch Craze

    de Lyndal Roper ...
    From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches-of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops-and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Goethe

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Ritchie Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times... because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man.' In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • The Witch Hunts

    A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America

    de Robert Thurston ...
    Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Work of the Dead

    A Cultural History of Mortal Remains

    de Thomas W. Laqueur ...
    The meaning of our concern for mortal remains—from antiquity through the twentieth centuryThe Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone else care what became of his corpse? In The Work of the Dead, acclaimed cultural historian Thomas Laqueur examines why humanity has universally rejected Diogenes ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD