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Book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others

Download or read book Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112044669122 and Others written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 2382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theoretical Discussions of Biography

Download or read book Theoretical Discussions of Biography written by Hans Renders and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretical Discussions of Biography: Approaches from History, Microhistory, and Life Writing offers comprehensive overviews by 14 academic scholars of the actual state of the field of Biography Studies. In the volume, edited by biography scholars Hans Renders and Binne de Haan, specifically the connections between biography and the fields of microhistory, journalism, and Life Writing illuminate key challenges and problems in studying individual lives. Different perspectives are provided on the ways in which biography contributes to scholarship in the humanities in general and academic historiography in particular. The contributing authors are academic experts in these fields and include Richard D. Brown, Carlo Ginzburg, Nigel Hamilton, Marlene Kadar, Giovanni Levi, Sabina Loriga, Matti Peltonen, and James Walter.

Book The Martyr Luis de Carvajal

Download or read book The Martyr Luis de Carvajal written by Martin A. Cohen and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documentary history of Luis de Carvajal the younger and his family in Spain, their migration to Mexico, their life there, their persecution and deaths at the hands of the Inquisition.

Book The Life of Gregory Lopez

Download or read book The Life of Gregory Lopez written by Francisco de Losa and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Interpretation of Universal History

Download or read book An Interpretation of Universal History written by José Ortega y Gasset and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1975 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ortega traces the course of Western civilization backward, searching out what makes a civilization rise or fall and offering a way of looking at our own time. Based on a series of lectures on A. J. Toynbee's A Study of History.

Book Dying in the Law of Moses

    Book Details:
  • Author : Miriam Bodian
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2007-05-22
  • ISBN : 0253116910
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Dying in the Law of Moses written by Miriam Bodian and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miriam Bodian's study of crypto-Jewish martyrdom in Iberian lands depicts a new type of martyr that emerged in the late 16th century -- a defiant, educated judaizing martyr who engaged in disputes with inquisitors. By examining closely the Inquisition dossiers of four men who were tried in the Iberian peninsula or Spanish America and who developed judaizing theologies that drew from currents of Reformation thinking that emphasized the authority of Scripture and the religious autonomy of individual interpreters of Scripture, Miriam Bodian reveals unexpected connections between Reformation thought and historic crypto-Judaism. The complex personalities of the martyrs, acting in response to psychic and situational pressures, emerge vividly from this absorbing book.

Book The Prince and the Infanta

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  • Author : Glyn Redworth
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300101980
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Prince and the Infanta written by Glyn Redworth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of 7th March 1623, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Buckingham knocked on the door of the British embassy in Madrid. Their unsolicited arrival began one of the most bizarre episodes in British history, as the Protestant heir to the Stuart throne struggled to win the Spanish Infanta as his bride. secure a marriage between the leading Protestant and Catholic royal families and heal Europe's century-old division into warring Christian camps. The effort was a diplomatic disaster. It split political and religious opinion in Britain, alienated much of Italy and Germany, confused the Spaniards (who thought that the English crown was about to convert), and failed to secure a marriage or to resolve the Thirty Years' War. explanation of this pivotal moment and tells a fascinating story of early modern politicking, cultural misunderstanding and religious confusion.

Book Regla y constituciones generales de la Orden de los Hermanos Menores

Download or read book Regla y constituciones generales de la Orden de los Hermanos Menores written by Franciscans and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish Migrants in Europe After Kinsale  1602 1820

Download or read book Irish Migrants in Europe After Kinsale 1602 1820 written by Thomas O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battle of Kinsale, 1601, fought during the Nine Years War of 1594-1603, marked a turning point in European and Irish history. Although the political power of the Gaelic nobility was broken and royal authority in the kingdom was enhanced, Ireland remained strategically important for other European powers, especially Spain and France. Therefore, when political, social and religious changes at home caused many Irish to migrate, temporarily or permanently, they headed for Habsburg and Bourbon territories.

Book The Irish in Europe  1580 1815

Download or read book The Irish in Europe 1580 1815 written by Thomas O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish presence in England, France, and Spain is the subject of a dozen papers edited by O'Connor (history, National U. of Ireland, Maynooth). The contributors (lecturers and four graduate students in history and a librarian) examine Irish immigration to France based on archival sources there, th

Book The Battle of Kinsale

Download or read book The Battle of Kinsale written by Hiram Morgan and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2004 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sea in European History

Download or read book The Sea in European History written by Luc François and published by Plus. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philip III and the Pax Hispanica  1598 1621

Download or read book Philip III and the Pax Hispanica 1598 1621 written by Paul C. Allen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impoverished and exhausted after fifty years of incessant warfare, the great Spanish Empire at the turn of the sixteenth century negotiated treaties with its three most powerful enemies: England, France, and the Netherlands. This intriguing book examines the strategies that led King Philip III to extend the laurel branch to his foes. Paul Allen argues that, contrary to widespread belief, the king's gestures of peace were in fact part of a grand strategy to enable Spain to regain military and economic strength while its opponents were falsely lulled away from their military pursuits. From the outset, Allen contends, Philip and his advisers intended the Pax Hispanica to continue only until Spain was able to resume its battles--and defeat its enemies. Drawing on primary sources from the four countries involved, the book begins with a discussion of how Spanish foreign policy was formulated and implemented to achieve political and religious aims. The author investigates the development of Philip's "peace" strategy, the Twelve Years' Truce, and the decision to end the truce and engage in war with the Dutch, and then with the English and French. Renewed warfare was no failure of peace policy, Allen shows, but a conscious decision to pursue a consistent strategy. Nevertheless the negotiation for peace did represent a new diplomatic method with significant implications for both the future of the Spanish Empire and the practices of European diplomacy.

Book Spanish Irish Relations Through the Ages

Download or read book Spanish Irish Relations Through the Ages written by Declan M. Downey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays - representative of new historiographical approaches and perspectives concerning the study of Irish history from Continental European and Latin American sources - derives from the first International Symposium on Spanish-Irish Relations held in the Royal College of the Noble Irish at Salamanca." "The essays cover the medieval, early modern and modern-contemporary periods. The range and quality of the material and analysis presented here will be of special value to those interested in political, economic, social, legal and cultural history; the history of international relations; and diplomacy." "The contributors provide new and exciting insights based on original research into the cultural, economic, diplomatic and political dimensions of the centuries-old unique and special relationship between Spain and Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Babylonian Horoscopes

Download or read book Babylonian Horoscopes written by Francesca Rochberg and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1998 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging for the first time in the 5th cent. B.C., horoscopes reflect the application of the idea and practice of celestial divination to the life of the individual. Whereas an omen focuses on a single astronomical phenomenon, the horoscope takes into account the positions of the moon, sun, and five planets at the moment of a birth. As such, Babylonian horoscopes presuppose the concept of the ecliptic and a methodology for obtaining the positions of heavenly bodies when they are not observable. This is the first complete edition of the extant cuneiform horoscopes -- with transcription and philological and astronomical commentary. This study offers a systematic description of the documents as a definable class of Babylonian astronomical/astrological texts.

Book Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century  1665 1700

Download or read book Spain in the Later Seventeenth Century 1665 1700 written by Henry Kamen and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1980 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish Communities in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Irish Communities in Early Modern Europe written by Thomas O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of the most recent scholarly investigation into Irish communities on the Continent in the early modern period. Essays deal not only with the activities of military, political and ecclesiastical migrants in Spain and France but also with Irish merchants in the Low Countries, Irish industrial entrepreneurs in Sweden and Irish diplomats in Saxony. Of particular significance are the synthetic essays that set the results of archival research into rigorous interpretative frameworks based on the latest advances in European and Irish historiography. This ground-breaking collection confirms the centrality of migrants and migrant communities in the evolution of early modern Europe and sets a demanding but exciting agenda for future collaborative work in the field.