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Book News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe  The Fugger Newsletters  Edited  with an Introduction  by George T  Matthews

Download or read book News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe The Fugger Newsletters Edited with an Introduction by George T Matthews written by George Tennyson MATTHEWS and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book News and rumours in Renaissance Europe

Download or read book News and rumours in Renaissance Europe written by G.T. Matthews and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Renaissance News

Download or read book Renaissance News written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare s Cross Cultural Encounters

Download or read book Shakespeare s Cross Cultural Encounters written by Geraldo U. De Sousa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly entertaining study, De Sousa argues that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions and reinscribes his alien characters - Jews, Moors, Amazons and gypsies. In this way, the dramatist questions the narrowness of a European perspective which caricatures other societies and views them with suspicion. De Sousa examines how Shakespeare defines other cultures in terms of the interplay of gender, text and habitat. Written in a provocative style, this readable book provides a wealth of fascinating information both on contemporary stage productions and on race and gender relations in early modern Europe.

Book Demon Lovers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Stephens
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2003-08-15
  • ISBN : 9780226772622
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Demon Lovers written by Walter Stephens and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-08-15 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 20, 1587, Walpurga Hausmännin of Dillingen in southern Germany was burned at the stake as a witch. Although she had confessed to committing a long list of maleficia (deeds of harmful magic), including killing forty—one infants and two mothers in labor, her evil career allegedly began with just one heinous act—sex with a demon. Fornication with demons was a major theme of her trial record, which detailed an almost continuous orgy of sexual excess with her diabolical paramour Federlin "in many divers places, . . . even in the street by night." As Walter Stephens demonstrates in Demon Lovers, it was not Hausmännin or other so-called witches who were obsessive about sex with demons—instead, a number of devout Christians, including trained theologians, displayed an uncanny preoccupation with the topic during the centuries of the "witch craze." Why? To find out, Stephens conducts a detailed investigation of the first and most influential treatises on witchcraft (written between 1430 and 1530), including the infamous Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches). Far from being credulous fools or mindless misogynists, early writers on witchcraft emerge in Stephens's account as rational but reluctant skeptics, trying desperately to resolve contradictions in Christian thought on God, spirits, and sacraments that had bedeviled theologians for centuries. Proof of the physical existence of demons—for instance, through evidence of their intercourse with mortal witches—would provide strong evidence for the reality of the supernatural, the truth of the Bible, and the existence of God. Early modern witchcraft theory reflected a crisis of belief—a crisis that continues to be expressed today in popular debates over angels, Satanic ritual child abuse, and alien abduction.

Book The Calabrian Charlatan  1598   1603

Download or read book The Calabrian Charlatan 1598 1603 written by E. Olsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-19 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1598 a man - branded the Calabrian Charlatan by his Spanish opponents - appeared in Venice claiming to be King Sebastian, the Portuguese monarch who disappeared in battle some twenty years before. Over the next five years Venetians, Spaniards, and Portuguese wrangled over the true character and identity of the man. Was he a lunatic? Was he an impostor? Was he a messianic king? Eric Olsen uses this strange event to explore Portuguese millenarianism and how a group of Portuguese rebels sought to exploit it to free their nation from Spain.

Book Journal of the History of Ideas

Download or read book Journal of the History of Ideas written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international quarterly devoted to intellectual history.

Book General Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publishers  Trade List Annual

Download or read book The Publishers Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 2768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Author and Title Catalog

Download or read book Author and Title Catalog written by Stanford University. Libraries. J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1960 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)

Book Subject Catalog

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by J. Henry Meyer Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Virginia Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Virginia Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Underground Wealth of Nations

Download or read book The Underground Wealth of Nations written by Jeannette Graulau and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large-scale businesses that demanded large investments and steady cash flow, achieved by spreading that risk through fungible shares and creating legal structures to protect entrepreneurs from financial disaster. Jeannette Graulau argues that mining preceded agriculture as the first true capitalist enterprise of the modern world.

Book Library Journal

Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Catholic Historical Review

Download or read book The Catholic Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Discovering Journalism

Download or read book Discovering Journalism written by Warren G. Bovee and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalism is the branch of mass communications that provides people with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions about issues affecting their personal and public lives. Journalism not only provides news but also presents interpretation, evaluation, and persuasion. Any discussion about journalism requires a common understanding of basic terms and concepts. By defining what journalism is, this book provides the answers to many current questions and debates about the current state of the mass media: What is news? Is journalism concerned with more than news? What are the purposes of editorials? Is it good or bad to combine journalism and fiction? Is it possible to report the news objectively? How are public relations and advertising related to journalism? This book will appeal to all persons seeking a solid understanding and knowledge about the functions and responsibilities of journalism. Terms are specifically defined and related to the broad context of mass communications.