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History of civilization --- Esoteric sciences --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Spirits --- Invisible world --- Powers (Christian theology) --- Supernatural --- Fear of spirits --- History --- Europe --- Civilization.

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Spirits – airy, volatile ‘subtle bodies' – occupied a central place in early modern European culture. At the edge of the visible and perceptible, spiritus could signify a broad variety of subtle substances, both natural and divine: the vapours moving inside the body, the elements of air and fire, angels, demons and spectres, the Holy Spirit and the human soul. Spirits functioned as intermediaries between two opposite worlds with continually shifting borders. This book investigates specific meanings and uses of spiritus in a variety of early modern disciplines and fields – physiology, psychology, alchemy, theology, demonology, art theory, music theory, novels and the literature on love – thus revisiting the ambivalent history of a central ancient concept in a period of crisis and change. Contributors include: Wietse de Boer, Sven Dupré, Jennifer Frangos, Axel Christoph Gampp, Christine Göttler, Berthold Hub, Dawn Morgan, Wolfgang Neuber, Bret Rothstein, Rose Marie San Juan, Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann, Justin E. H. Smith, Paul J. Smith, Thijs Weststeijn, and Sarah F. Williams.

Geesten. --- Verbeelding. --- Erscheinungen. --- Geist. --- Geisterglaube. --- Gespenst. --- Spuk. --- Unsichtbarkeit. --- Vision. --- Spirits --- Invisible world --- Supernatural --- Fear of spirits --- History. --- Europa (geografie) --- Europe --- Civilization.

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This book explores the dynamic relationships between sites, peoples, objects, and images during the first age of globalization in early modern Europe. It investigates interactions, interconnections, and entanglements on both micro and macro levels, and aims to understand the specific dynamics of processes of translocal and transcultural intersection. Linking global perspectives with the history of material culture, Sites of Mediation highlights the potential of objects, artefacts, and things to connect (urban) cultures and imaginaries. Individual chapters focus on a number of European cities, which all operated on different levels of global and interregional connections and are presented here as sites of connectivity, encounters, and exchange. Contributors are: Tina Asmussen, Nadia Baadj, Benedikt Bego-Ghina, Davina Benkert, Daniela Bleichmar, Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, Christine Göttler, Franziska Hilfiker, Nicolai Kölmel, Ivo Raband, Jennifer Rabe, Antonella Romano, Michael Schaffner, Sarah-Maria Schober, Claudia Swan, and Stefanie Wyssenbach.

Acculturation --- Acculturation. --- Cities and towns --- Cities and towns. --- City and town life --- City and town life. --- Globalization --- HISTORY / Europe / Western. --- Historic sites --- Historic sites. --- Historiography. --- International relations. --- Material culture --- Material culture. --- Social conditions. --- History --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- 1492-1648. --- Europe --- Europe. --- Historiography --- History, Local. --- Relations. --- History of Europe --- History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- History. --- 1492-1648 --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Coexistence --- Foreign affairs --- Foreign policy --- Foreign relations --- Global governance --- Interdependence of nations --- International affairs --- Peaceful coexistence --- World order --- National security --- Sovereignty --- World politics --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Heritage places, Historic --- Heritage sites, Historic --- Historic heritage places --- Historic heritage sites --- Historic places --- Historical sites --- Places, Historic --- Sites, Historic --- Archaeology --- Historic buildings --- Monuments --- World Heritage areas --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Criticism --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Culture contact (Acculturation)

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This book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of "space" and "place", which are here understood as being shaped, structured, and imbued with meaning through both social and discursive solitary practices such as reading, writing, studying, meditating, and praying. Individual chapters investigate the imageries and imaginaries of outdoor and indoor spaces and places associated with solitude and its practices and examine the ways in which the space of solitude was conceived of, imagined, and represented in the arts and in literature, from about 1300 to about 1800.

eenzaamheid (kunst) --- History of civilization --- Art --- Literature --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1300-1399 --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Solitude in art --- Solitude in literature --- Arts, Medieval --- Arts, Modern --- Themes, motives --- Comparative literature --- Psychological study of literature --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1799 --- Arts, Medieval - Themes, motives --- Arts, Modern - Themes, motives --- Solitude --- Solitude in art. --- Solitude in literature. --- Seclusion --- Loneliness --- Privacy --- History.

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Biografie van de Antwerpse kunstenaarsfamilie Brueghel, die tussen 1550 en 1700 een vooraanstaande rol speelde in de Europese kunst. Met aandacht voor de vrouwen in de familie, wereldhandel en kolonialisme. Met kleurenillustraties.

Art --- Painting --- History of civilization --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- oil painters --- cultuurgeschiedenis