Pierre Goubert is perhaps the foremost contemporary historian of the French peasantry, and in this book he synthesises the work of a lifetime to produce a vivid, readable, and uniquely accessible ...
Reaching its peak in late 17th century, after the wars with ... their country was the biggest in Europe. Poles – at least the nobles – enjoyed more freedom than people elsewhere, as absolutism was ...
In the 16th and 17th centuries, even something as simple as a mole could have had you accused of being a witch.
Robert Baldwin works on the social history of Late Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque art (1300-1700) and late 19th century European art with a focus on ... Limbourg Brother's "Tres Riches Heures," (7) ...
It’s true that Europe’s rulers had more ... between feudalism and absolutism. Absolutism is the system defined and defended by 17th century thinkers like Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes ...
By the second half of the 18th century Wales was one of the few European countries to have a literate majority. So successful was the project that it attracted the attention of Catherine the Great ...
More than 400 years after her death, the truth about “the Blood Countess,” a Hungarian noblewoman alleged to have been the most prolific female serial killer of all time, remains elusive ...
Even rarer is that it was written by a woman, according to Rachel Greenblatt, a cultural historian specializing in the Jews of central and Eastern Europe ... in the late 19th century.
The explosion of witch trials during the 17th century in Europe is explored using vivid illustrations of trials and executions. Professor Malcolm Gaskill investigate how the European pre-modern ...
However, it wasn't until the 13th century that much of this scientific work was brought together in European universities ... of Modern Science It was in the 17th century that modern science ...
Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art and literature in sixteenth- and ...