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  • Christian Social Activism and Rule of Law in Chinese Societies

    de 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 ...
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    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 ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Witchcraft and Inquisition in Early Modern Venice

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

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    de David Loades ...
    Mary Tudor was the first female English sovereign a ruling queen who was not simply the consort of the king. Yet little is known about this complex woman, whose reputation for ruthlessness belied her emotional fragility and who, like her half-sister Elizabeth, had to survive from childhood in the turbulent Tudor court.David Loades explores the twisting path whereby Princess Mary, daughter of a ... Leer más

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  • A Concise History of Hungary

    de Miklós Molnár ...
    Traducido por Anna Magyar ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the elections of 1988. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people which became a great power in the region and then fought against - and was invaded by - Ottomans, Germans and Soviets. The Hungarian people preserved ... Leer más

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  • The Sorcerer's Tale

    Faith and Fraud in Tudor England

    de Alec Ryrie ...
    An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. This is the world of Gregory Wisdom, a physician, magician, and consummate con-man at work in sixteenth-century London. In this book, Alec Ryrie ... Leer más

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  • The Great Plague of London

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

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

    de 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. ... Leer más

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  • Panaceia's Daughters

    Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning

    de Nancy G. Siraisi ...
    Series series Cultures Of Knowledge In The Early Modern World
    A path-breaking work at last available in paper, History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning is Nancy G. Siraisi’s examination of the intersections of medically trained authors and history from 1450 to 1650. Rather than studying medicine and history as separate traditions, Siraisi calls attention to their mutual interaction in the rapidly changing world of Renaissance erudition. ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Prince's Body

    de Valeria Finucci ...
    Series series I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
    Using four notorious moments in the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua, Valeria Finucci explores changing early modern concepts of sexuality, reproduction, beauty, and aging. She deftly marries salacious tales with historical analysis to tell a broader story of Italian Renaissance cultural adjustments and obsessions. ... Leer más

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