Jesuit Foundations And Medici Power 1532 1621
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Jesuit Foundations And Medici Power 1532 1621
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Author : Kathleen Comerford
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-11-07
Jesuit Foundations And Medici Power 1532 1621 written by Kathleen Comerford and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-07 with Religion categories.
In Jesuit Foundations and Medici Power, 1532-1621 Kathleen M. Comerford traces the rise of the Medici Grand Dukes and three Jesuit colleges in Tuscany. The book focuses on church/state cooperation in an age in which both institutions underwent significant changes.
The Beauty And The Terror
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Author : Catherine Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2020-03-05
The Beauty And The Terror written by Catherine Fletcher and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-05 with History categories.
The Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker than many of us realise. 'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness' Simon Sebag Montefiore We know the Mona Lisa for her smile, but not that she was married to a slave-trader. We revere Leonardo da Vinci for his art, but few now appreciate his ingenious designs for weaponry. We visit Florence to see Michelangelo's David, but hear nothing of the massacre that forced the republic's surrender. In fact, many of the Renaissance's most celebrated artists and thinkers emerged not during the celebrated 'rebirth' of the fifteenth century but amidst the death and destruction of the sixteenth century. The Beauty and the Terror is an enrapturing narrative which includes the forgotten women writers, Jewish merchants, mercenaries, prostitutes, farmers and citizens who lived the Renaissance every day. Brimming with life, it takes us closer than ever before to the reality of this astonishing era, and its meaning for today. 'Terrifying and fascinating' Sunday Times 'Enlightening...exactly the alternative history you might wish for' Daily Telegraph
Between Popes Inquisitors And Princes
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Author : Jessica M. Dalton
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-05-11
Between Popes Inquisitors And Princes written by Jessica M. Dalton and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-11 with History categories.
In Between Popes, Inquisitors and Princes Jessica Dalton re-examines the contribution of the first Jesuits in efforts to stem heresy in early modern Italy, exploring its impact on their relationship with the papacy, Roman Inquisition and secular princes.
A Short History Of Florence And The Florentine Republic
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Author : Brian Jeffrey Maxson
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-02-23
A Short History Of Florence And The Florentine Republic written by Brian Jeffrey Maxson and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-23 with History categories.
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art – that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.
The Routledge Companion To Art And Disability
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Author : Keri Watson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-03-30
The Routledge Companion To Art And Disability written by Keri Watson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-30 with Social Science categories.
The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability explores disability in visual culture to uncover the ways in which bodily and cognitive differences are articulated physically and theoretically, and to demonstrate the ways in which disability is culturally constructed. This companion is organized thematically and includes artists from across historical periods and cultures in order to demonstrate the ways in which disability is historically and culturally contingent. The book engages with questions such as: How are people with disabilities represented in art? How are notions of disability articulated in relation to ideas of normality, hybridity, and anomaly? How do artists use visual culture to affirm or subvert notions of the normative body? Contributors consider the changing role of disability in visual culture, the place of representations in society, and the ways in which disability studies engages with and critiques intersectional notions of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. This book will be particularly useful for scholars in art history, disability studies, visual culture, and museum studies.
Tuscany In The Age Of Empire
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Author : Brian Brege
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-13
Tuscany In The Age Of Empire written by Brian Brege and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with History categories.
Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize A new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy’s leading cities maintained its influence in an era of global exploration, trade, and empire. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was not an imperial power, but it did harbor global ambitions. After abortive attempts at overseas colonization and direct commercial expansion, as Brian Brege shows, Tuscany followed a different path, one that allowed it to participate in Europe’s new age of empire without establishing an empire of its own. The first history of its kind, Tuscany in the Age of Empire offers a fresh appraisal of one of the foremost cities of the Italian Renaissance, as it sought knowledge, fortune, and power throughout Asia, the Americas, and beyond. How did Tuscany, which could not compete directly with the growing empires of other European states, establish a global presence? First, Brege shows, Tuscany partnered with larger European powers. The duchy sought to obtain trade rights within their empires and even manage portions of other states’ overseas territories. Second, Tuscans invested in cultural, intellectual, and commercial institutions at home, which attracted the knowledge and wealth generated by Europe’s imperial expansions. Finally, Tuscans built effective coalitions with other regional powers in the Mediterranean and the Islamic world, which secured the duchy’s access to global products and empowered the Tuscan monarchy in foreign affairs. These strategies allowed Tuscany to punch well above its weight in a world where power was equated with the sort of imperial possessions it lacked. By finding areas of common interest with stronger neighbors and forming alliances with other marginal polities, a small state was able to protect its own security while carving out a space as a diplomatic and intellectual hub in a globalizing Europe.
The Baltic Battle Of Books
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Author : Jonas Nordin
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-07-03
The Baltic Battle Of Books written by Jonas Nordin and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-03 with History categories.
This book is about the creation, relocation, and reconstruction of libraries between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Confessionalization, that is, the era of religious division and struggle in Northern Europe following the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the time, different creeds clashed with each other, but it was also a period in which the political and intellectual geography of Europe was redrawn. Centuries-old political, economic, and cultural networks fell apart and were replaced with new ones. Books and libraries were at the centre of these cultural, political, and religious transformations, frequently seized as war booties and appropriated by their new owners in distant locations.
Embodiment Identity And Gender In The Early Modern Age
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Author : Amy E. Leonard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-30
Embodiment Identity And Gender In The Early Modern Age written by Amy E. Leonard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-30 with History categories.
Embracing a multiconfessional and transnational approach that stretches from central Europe, to Scotland and England, from Iberia to Africa and Asia, this volume explores the lives, work, and experiences of women and men during the tumultuous fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. The authors, all leading experts in their fields, utilize a broad range of methodologies from cultural history to women’s history, from masculinity studies to digital mapping, to explore the dynamics and power of constructed gender roles. Ranging from intellectual representations of virginity to the plight of refugees, from the sea journeys of Jesuit missionaries to the impact of Transatlantic economies on women’s work, from nuns discovering new ways to tolerate different religious expressions to bleeding corpses used in criminal trials, these essays address the wide diversity and historical complexity of identity, gender, and the body in the early modern age. With its diversity of topics, fields, and interests of its authors, this volume is a valuable source for students and scholars of the history of women, gender, and sexuality as well as social and cultural history in the early modern world.
From Rome To Zurich Between Ignatius And Vermigli
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-02-20
From Rome To Zurich Between Ignatius And Vermigli written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-20 with History categories.
Covering Reformation era polemics, theology, and thought, these essays cut new paths in Reformation scholarship, with each taking in some measure a cue from directions already offered by John Patrick Donnelly, in whose honor they were written.
Readings In The Cantos Volume I
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Author : Richard Parker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
Readings In The Cantos Volume I written by Richard Parker and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book will be required reading for any serious Pound scholar but also for those who work in the area of modernist poetry. Many of the book' s contributors (and its editor) are affiliated with the Ezra Pound Society, which will provide a built-in audience and mechanism for promoting the work. Although the book will be of interest to any library containing a copy of Pound' s Cantos, it will also be attractive to individual scholars who may not want to wade through the considerable scholarship but are looking for entry into specific cantos