Doctors Ambassadors Secretaries
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Doctors Ambassadors Secretaries
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Author : Douglas Biow
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2002-07
Doctors Ambassadors Secretaries written by Douglas Biow and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07 with History categories.
In this book, Douglas Biow traces the role that humanists played in the development of professions and professionalism in Renaissance Italy, and vice versa. For instance, humanists were initially quite hostile to medicine, viewing it as poorly adapted to their program of study. They much preferred the secretarial profession, which they made their own throughout the Renaissance and eventually defined in treatises in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Examining a wide range of treatises, poems, and other works that humanists wrote both as and about doctors, ambassadors, and secretaries, Biow shows how interactions with these professions forced humanists to make their studies relevant to their own times, uniting theory and practice in a way that strengthened humanism. His detailed analyses of writings by familiar and lesser-known figures, from Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Tasso to Maggi, Fracastoro, and Barbaro, will especially interest students of Renaissance Italy, but also anyone concerned with the rise of professionalism during the early modern period.
Venice S Secret Service
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Author : Ioanna Iordanou
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-28
Venice S Secret Service written by Ioanna Iordanou 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 2019-10-28 with History categories.
Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances. Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.
The Ambassador S Secretary A Tale
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Author : Jane Harvey (Novelist.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
The Ambassador S Secretary A Tale written by Jane Harvey (Novelist.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with categories.
The Ambassador S Secretary
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Author : Jane Harvey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
The Ambassador S Secretary written by Jane Harvey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with categories.
The Ambassador S Secretary A Tale
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Author : Jane Harvey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
The Ambassador S Secretary A Tale written by Jane Harvey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with categories.
Diplomacy In Renaissance Rome
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Author : Catherine Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-14
Diplomacy In Renaissance Rome written by Catherine Fletcher and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-14 with History categories.
The first comprehensive study of Renaissance diplomacy for sixty years, focusing on Europe's most important political centre, Rome, between 1450 and 1530.
Erasmus Contarini And The Religious Republic Of Letters
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Author : Constance M. Furey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006
Erasmus Contarini And The Religious Republic Of Letters written by Constance M. Furey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This 2005 book examines how the religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship, gender, reading and writing.
The Ambassador S Secretary
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Author : Jane Harvey (of Newcastle.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1828
The Ambassador S Secretary written by Jane Harvey (of Newcastle.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1828 with categories.
The Limits Of Empire European Imperial Formations In Early Modern World History
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Author : William Reger
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Limits Of Empire European Imperial Formations In Early Modern World History written by William Reger and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with History categories.
This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational - that plagued imperial formations in the early modern period (1500-1800). During this time of wrenching technological, demographic, climatic, and economic change, empires had to struggle with new religious movements, incipient nationalisms, new sea routes, new military technologies, and an evolving state system with complex new rules of diplomacy. Engaging with a host of current debates, the chapters in this book break away from conventional historical conceptions of empire as an essentially western phenomenon with clear demarcation lines between the colonizer and the colonized. These are replaced here by much more fluid and subtle conceptions that highlight complex interplays between coalitions of rulers and ruled. In so doing, the volume builds upon recent work that increasingly suggests that empires simply could not exist without the consent of their imperial subjects, or at least significant groups of them. This was as true for the British Raj as it was for imperial China or Russia. Whilst the thirteen chapters in this book focus on a number of geographic regions and adopt different approaches, each shares a focus on, and interest in, the working of empires and the ways that imperial formations dealt with - or failed to deal with - the challenges that beset them. Taken together, they reflect a new phase in the evolving historiography of empire. They also reflect the scholarly contributions of the dedicatee, Geoffrey Parker, whose life and work are discussed in the introductory chapters and, we’re proud to say, in a delightful chapter by Parker himself, an autobiographical reflection that closes the book.
Thomas Wyatt
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Author : Susan Brigden
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2012-09-18
Thomas Wyatt written by Susan Brigden and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Thomas Wyatt (1503?-1542) was the first modern voice in English poetry. 'Chieftain' of a 'new company of courtly makers', he brought the Italian poetic Renaissance to England, but he was also revered as prophet-poet of the Reformation. His poetry holds a mirror to the secret, capricious world of Henry VIII's court, and alludes darkly to events which it might be death to describe. In the Tower, twice, Wyatt was betrayed and betrayer. This remarkably original biography is more - and less - than a Life, for Wyatt is so often elusive, in flight, like his Petrarchan lover, into the 'heart's forest'. Rather, it is an evocation of Wyatt among his friends, and his enemies, at princely courts in England, Italy, France and Spain, or alone in contemplative retreat. Following the sources - often new discoveries, from many archives - as far as they lead, Susan Brigden seeks Wyatt in his 'diverseness', and explores his seeming confessions of love and faith and politics. Supposed, at the time and since, to be the lover of Anne Boleyn, he was also the devoted 'slave' of Katherine of Aragon. Aspiring to honesty, he was driven to secrets and lies, and forced to live with the moral and mortal consequences of his shifting allegiances. As ambassador to Emperor Charles V, he enjoyed favour, but his embassy turned to nightmare when the Pope called for a crusade against the English King and sent the Inquisition against Wyatt. At Henry VIII's court, where only silence brought safety, Wyatt played the idealized lover, but also tried to speak truth to power. Wyatt's life, lived so restlessly and intensely, provides a way to examine a deep questioning at the beginning of the Renaissance and Reformation in England. Above all, this new biography is attuned to Wyatt's dissonant voice and broken lyre, the paradox within him of inwardness and the will to 'make plain' his heart, all of which make him exceptionally difficult to know - and fascinating to explore.