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Au coeur de la forêt saxonne, une jeune femme abandonne son enfant avant d'être rattrapée par les gardes du seigneur de Magdeburg qui l'accuse de sorcellerie. Quinze ans plus tard, alors que les premiers feux de la Réforme et de la Renaissance commencent à briller sur Wittenberg, Gretchen, en quête de son identité, croise le chemin de Luther, Cranach et Faust.
Mothers and daughters --- Sixteenth century --- Middle Ages --- Renaissance --- Germany
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Arts and Humanities --- History --- Renaissance --- Humanism --- Sixteenth century --- French literature --- France --- Humanisme --- Histoire --- Sixteenth century. --- Renaissance. --- History of France
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Denis Crouzet imprime sa marque de chercheur et d'historien depuis les années 1990. Sa thèse monumentale, "Les Guerriers de Dieu. La violence au temps des troubles de religion", publiée en 1990, a renouvelé la compréhension de la Réforme et des guerres de Religion. Ses analyses novatrices ont restitué au XVIe siècle sa complexité. La Renaissance est devenue sous sa plume un temps d'angoisse et de violence, éclairé par moments des rêves de paix et de tolérance, et animé de grandes figures dont il a proposé une approche novatrice : Catherine de Médicis, Michel de L'Hospital, Calvin, Charles Quint, Nostradamus, Christophe Colomb. Les articles de ce volume de mélanges, composé par les nombreux amis et élèves de Denis Crouzet qui souhaitaient lui rendre hommage et le remercier, évoquent la figure de cet historien à l'imagination sans limites, ainsi que l'histoire des pouvoirs, des croyances, des conflits et des confrontations interconfessionnelles. Ils présentent aussi des analyses de quelques points centraux de sa pensée - la question de la psychanalyse en histoire, la réflexion sur le statut des acteurs -, mais aussi de la réception de ses ouvrages, en particulier dans le monde anglo-saxon. Tout comme l'oeuvre de Denis Crouzet, complexe mais fascinante, ce livre marquera une étape importante dans l'historiographie des Temps dits modernes, dont on sait aujourd'hui qu'ils ont été traversés par des tensions d'une force inédite.
Seizième siècle. --- Renaissance. --- Violence --- Histoire des mentalités --- Crouzet, Denis, --- France --- Sixteenth century. --- Europe --- History --- Civilization
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These probate inventories describe the houses, furniture, farming and clothing for different social groups, including widows, in sixteenth century and seventeenth century Bedfordshire.
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Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Congresses --- Europe --- Civilization --- Sixteenth century --- -16th century --- Reformation --- Renaissance --- Congresses. --- -Congresses --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Civilization, Modern - Congresses --- Humanism - Congresses --- Europe - Civilization - Congresses
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From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over the next five years the disease killed some 500,000 people in Castile, around 10 percent of the population. Plague is traditionally understood to have triggered chaos and madness. By contrast, Ruth Mackay focuses on the sites of everyday life, exploring how beliefs, practices, laws, and relationships endured even under the onslaught of disease. She takes an original and holistic approach to understanding the impact of plague, and explores how the epidemic was understood and managed by everyday people. Offering a fresh perspective on the social, political, and economic history of Spain, this original and engaging book demonstrates how, even in the midst of chaos, life carried on.
Plague --- Epidemics --- History, 16th Century --- Bubonic plague --- Yersinia infections --- 16th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 16th Cent. History of Medicine --- 16th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 16th Century --- History of Medicine, 16th Cent. --- History, Sixteenth Century --- Medical History, 16th Cent. --- Medicine, 16th Cent. --- 16th Century History --- 16th Cent. Histories (Medicine) --- 16th Century Histories --- Cent. Histories, 16th (Medicine) --- Cent. History, 16th (Medicine) --- Century Histories, 16th --- Century Histories, Sixteenth --- Century History, 16th --- Century History, Sixteenth --- Histories, 16th Cent. (Medicine) --- Histories, 16th Century --- Histories, Sixteenth Century --- History, 16th Cent. (Medicine) --- Sixteenth Century Histories --- Sixteenth Century History --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- History --- history --- Outbreaks --- Spain. --- Balearic Islands --- Canary Islands --- History of Spain --- anno 1500-1599 --- Epidemics. --- History, 16th Century. --- Plague. --- Social Conditions --- History. --- Pest, ... --- 1500-1599. --- Kastilien. --- Spanien. --- Pandemics --- Social aspects
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Places the warrior-poet Aldana in the appropriate poetic and philosophical context of the Spanish Golden Age and the European Renaissance.
Love in literature. --- Neoplatonism in literature. --- Aldana, Francisco de, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Belief. --- Desire. --- Francisco de Aldana. --- Love Poetry. --- Neoplatonism. --- Petrarchism. --- Physical Love. --- Physical. --- Romance. --- Search. --- Sixteenth-Century Poetry. --- Spanish Golden Age. --- Spiritual Love. --- Transcendental Bliss.
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A superb piece of local history. Professor Mark Bailey, University of East Anglia.
Lowestoft became an increasingly important Suffolk town during the later middle ages. This book traces its history from its Anglo-Saxon origins up until its fully recognisable urban nature in the first half of the sixteenth century. During that time, notable changes occurred in its social, economic and topographical structure, all of which are investigated here; the picture which emerges is one of small beginnings which eventually led (following the township's relocation to a new site) to a position of local pre-eminence.
Two important elements in Lowestoft's overall development were its surface geology and coastal location, and due account is taken of these influences. So is its comparative freedom from outside interference in its affairs by having a far-distant, absentee manorial lord. Added to these factors was proximity to the port of Great Yarmouth, whose late medieval difficulties (access to the harbour and effective control of local waters) were very much to Lowestoft's advantage in developing its own maritime activity. From being a mere outlier to the Lothingland hub-manor at the time of Domesday, the town gradually became not only a notable coastal station in local terms, but one which was directly connected with various ports on the continent of Western Europe. For a community of only moderate size, it had broad and wide-ranging associations. Particular attention is paid to the town's magnificent church, and to its fishing industry.
David Butcher is a retired Lowestoft schoolteacher and former lecturer in the Continuing Studies Department at the University of East Anglia. He has published widely on the local history of the Lowestoft area.
Cities and towns, Medieval --- Medieval cities and towns --- Lowestoft (England) --- Lowestoft, Eng. --- Lowestoft (Suffolk) --- History. --- History --- To 1500 --- English history. --- Suffolk. --- church. --- economics. --- fishing industry. --- fishing. --- local history. --- medieval studies. --- medieval towns. --- middle ages. --- religion. --- sixteenth century. --- sociology. --- topography. --- trade.
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Three monarchs of Scotland (James V, Mary Queen of Scots, and James VI/I) were crowned during the sixteenth century; each came to the throne before their second birthday. Throughout all three royal minorities, the Scots remained remarkably consistent in their governmental preferences: that an individual should 'bear the person' of the infant monarch, with all the power and risks that entailed. Regents could alienate crown lands, call parliament, raise taxes, and negotiate for the monarch's marriage, yet they also faced the potential of a shameful deposition from power and the assassin's gun. In examining the careers of the six men and two women who became regent in context with each other and contemporary expectations, Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland offers the first study of regency as a political office. It provides a major reassessment of both the office of regency itself and of individual regents. The developments in how the Scots thought about regency are charted, and the debates in which they engaged on this subject are exposed for the first time. Drawing on a broad archival base of neglected manuscript materials, ranging from financial accounts, to the justiciary court records, to diplomatic correspondence scattered from Edinburgh to Paris, the book reveals a greater level of continuity between the personal rules of the adult Stewarts and of their regents than has hitherto been appreciated. Amy Blakeway is a Junior Research Fellow in History at Homerton College, University of Cambridge.
Scotland --- History --- Regency --- Scotlan --- Monarchy --- 1500 - 1599 --- Politics and government --- Amy Blakeway. --- James V. --- James VI/I. --- Mary Queen of Scots. --- Political Office. --- Regency. --- Scottish Monarchs. --- Sixteenth Century. --- University of St Andrews.
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This collection of critical essays examines the diverse ways in which music -- and ideas about it -- have been disseminated in print and other media from the sixteenth century onward. Contributors look afresh at unfamiliar facets of the sixteenth-century book trade and the circulation of manuscript and printed music in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. They also analyze and critique new media forms, showing how a dizzying array of changing technologies has influenced what we hear, whom we hear, and how we hear. The repertoires considered include Western art music -- from medieval to contemporary -- as well as popular music and jazz. Assembling contributions from experts in a wide range of fields, such as musicology, music theory, music history, and jazz and popular music studies, 'Music in Print and Beyond: Hildegard von Bingen to The Beatles' sets new standards for the discussion of music's place in Western cultural life. Roberta Montemorra teaches music at the University of Iowa and is the author of 'Verdi the Student-Verdi the Teacher' (Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani, 2010) and editor of 'The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia' (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Craig A. Monson is a Professor of Musicology at Washington University (St Louis, Missouri) and is the author of 'Divas in the Convent: Nuns, Music, and Defiance in 17th-century Italy' (University of Chicago Press, 2012).
Dissemination of music --- Music --- Criticism --- Circulation of music --- Music dissemination --- Music and globalization --- History and criticism --- Circulation --- E-books --- Dissemination of music. --- History and criticism. --- Dissemination. --- Electronic Formats. --- Hildegard von Bingen. --- Manuscript. --- Music. --- Print. --- Sixteenth Century. --- The Beatles.
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