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In Educating the Catholic People, David Salomoni reconstructs the
complex educational landscape that arose in sixteenth-century Italy
and lasted until the French Revolution. Over three centuries,
various religious orders, both male and female, took on the
educational needs of cities and states on the Italian peninsula,
renewing the traditional humanist pedagogy. Historians, however,
have not attempted to produce a synthesis on this topic, focusing
mainly on the pedagogical activities of the Jesuits and neglecting
the contributions and innovations of other groups. This book
addresses this historiographical gap, providing a new chapter in
the comparative study of pre-modern education.
Mining the unusually rich range of diaries, memoirs, and poems
written by Catholics in the sixteenth-century Low Countries, Judith
Pollmann explores how Catholic believers experienced religious and
political change in the generations between Erasmus and Rubens. The
Revolt that ripped apart the sixteenth-century Netherlands came at
the expense of a civil war, that eventually became a war of
religion. Originally both Catholics and Protestants supported the
rebellion, but it soon transpired that Catholics stood much to
lose. Their churches were ravaged by iconoclasts, priests feared
for their lives, and thousands of Catholics were forced to flee
their hometowns; Calvinist city republics imposed radical religious
changes, and in the rebel Dutch Republic Catholic worship was
banned. Although the Habsburg Netherlands eventually witnessed the
triumph of the militant Catholicism of the Baroque, Catholics
throughout the Netherlands found that the Revolt had changed their
lives forever.
By listening to the voices of individual Catholics, lay and
clerical, Professor Pollmann offers a new perspective both on the
Revolt of the Netherlands, and on the experience of religious
change in this period. She asks why Catholics responded so
passively to Calvinist aggression in the early decades of the
conflict, only to start offering very active support for a Catholic
revival after 1585, when the Habsburg Netherlands once again became
a Catholic bulwark. By exploring what it took to turn traditional
Christians into the agents of their own Counterreformation, she
highlights the changing dynamic between priests and laypeople as a
catalyst for religious change in early modern Europe.
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In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded
piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately
applied by the expanding European powers to the rest of the world,
mainly for the purpose of furthering colonial forms of domination
in the economic, political, military, legal and cultural spheres.
By contrast, this edited volume highlights the relevance of both
European and non-European understandings of piracy to the
development of global maritime security and freedom of navigation.
It explores the significance of 'legal posturing' on the part of
those accused of piracy, as well as the existence of non-European
laws and regulations regarding piracy and related forms of maritime
violence in the early modern era. The authors in Piracy in World
History highlight cases from various parts of the early-modern
world, thereby explaining piracy as a global phenomenon.
The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But
what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This
was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife;
when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love,
and the education of women was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor
century was also dominated by powerful and characterful women in a
way that no era had been before. Elizabeth Norton explores the
seven ages of the Tudor woman, from childhood to old age, through
the diverging examples of women such as Elizabeth Tudor, Henry
VIII's sister who died in infancy; Cecily Burbage, Elizabeth's wet
nurse; Mary Howard, widowed but influential at court; Elizabeth
Boleyn, mother of a controversial queen; and Elizabeth Barton, a
peasant girl who would be lauded as a prophetess. Their stories are
interwoven with studies of topics ranging from Tudor toys to
contraception to witchcraft, painting a portrait of the lives of
queens and serving maids, nuns and harlots, widows and chaperones.
Outside the imagination, witches don't exist. But in Poland and in
Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, people imagined
their neighbours to be witches, with tragic results. For the first
time in English, Michael Ostling tells the story of the imagined
Polish witches, showing how ordinary peasant-women got caught in
webs of suspicion and accusation, finally confessing under torture
to the most heinous of crimes. Through a close reading of
accusations and confessions, Ostling also shows how witches
imagined themselves and their own religious lives. Paradoxically,
the tales they tell of infanticide and host-desecration reveal to
us a culture of deep Catholic piety, while the stories they tell of
demonic sex and the treasure-bringing ghosts of unbaptized babies
uncover a complex folklore at the margins of Christian orthodoxy.
Caught between the devil and the host, the self-imagined Polish
witches reflect the religion of their place and time, even as they
stand accused of subverting and betraying that religion. Through
the dark glass of witchcraft Ostling explores the religious lives
of early modern women and men: their gender attitudes, their
Christian faith and folk cosmology, their prayers and spells, their
adoration of Christ incarnate in the transubstantiated Eucharist,
and their relations with goblin-like house demons and ghosts.
A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative
survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes
covers 2800 years of the human body as a physical, social,
spiritual and cultural object. Volume 1: A Cultural History of the
Human Body in Antiquity (1300 BCE - 500 CE) Edited by Daniel
Garrison, Northwestern University. Volume 2: A Cultural History of
the Human Body in The Medieval Age (500 - 1500) Edited by Linda
Kalof, Michigan State University Volume 3: A Cultural History of
the Human Body in the Renaissance (1400 - 1650) Edited by Linda
Kalof, Michigan State University and William Bynum, University
College London. Volume 4: A Cultural History of the Human Body in
the Enlightenment (1600 - 1800) Edited by Carole Reeves, Wellcome
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College
London. Volume 5: A Cultural History of the Human Body in the Age
of Empire (1800 - 1920) Edited by Michael Sappol, National Library
of Medicine in Washington, DC, and Stephen P. Rice, Ramapo College
of New Jersey. Volume 6: A Cultural History of the Human Body in
the Modern Age (1900-21st Century) Edited by Ivan Crozier,
University of Edinburgh, and Chiara Beccalossi, University of
Queensland. Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters:
1. Birth and Death 2. Health and Disease 3. Sex & Sexuality 4.
Medical Knowledge and Technology 5. Popular Beliefs 6. Beauty and
Concepts of the Ideal 7. Marked Bodies I: Gender, Race, Class, Age,
Disability and Disease 8. Marked Bodies II: the Bestial, the Divine
and the Natural 9. Cultural Representations of the Body 10. The
Self and Society This means readers can either have a broad
overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through
history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly
illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most
authoritative and comprehensive survey available on the human body
through history.
General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a
cruel, vicious thug who deluged the region in blood after the
Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He is equally notorious in Northern
Ireland. Appointed to command the expedition to raise the Siege of
Londonderry in 1689, his assumed treachery nearly resulted in the
city's fall and he was made to look ridiculous when the blockade
was eventually lifted by a few sailors in a rowing boat. Yet Kirke
was closely involved in some of the most important events in
British and Irish history. He served as the last governor of the
colony of Tangier; played a central role in facilitating the
Glorious Revolution of 1688; and fought in the majority of the
principal actions and campaigns undertaken by the newly-formed
standing armies in England, Ireland and Scotland, especially the
Battle of the Boyne and the first Siege of Limerick in 1689. With
the aid of his own earlier work in the field, additional primary
sources and a recently-rediscovered letter book, John Childs looks
beyond the fictionalisation of Kirke, most notably by R. D.
Blackmore in Lorna Doone, to investigate the historical reality of
his career, character, professional competence, politics and
religion. As well as offering fresh, detailed narratives of such
episodes as Monmouth's Rebellion, the conspiracies in 1688 and the
Siege of Londonderry, this pioneering biography also presents
insights into contemporary military personnel, patronage, cliques
and procedures.
Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical
Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous
recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth
century. These were circulated and received in association with
each other until the mid-seventeenth century, when a number of them
appeared in Elias Ashmole's Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. These
editions are the first to make this previously unidentified corpus
available to researchers. The accompanying studies discover the
complex histories of these alchemica, in plain and illuminated
manuscripts, as anonyma and in attribution to famous authors, and
in private and institutional, medical and academic book
collections. Together, they offer novel insights into the role of
alchemy and poetry in late medieval and early modern England.
Turncoats and Renegadoes is the first dedicated study of the
practice of changing sides during the English Civil Wars. It
examines the extent and significance of side-changing in England
and Wales but also includes comparative material from Scotland and
Ireland. The first half identifies side-changers among peers, MPs,
army officers, and common soldiers, before reconstructing the
chronological and regional patterns to their defections. The second
half delivers a cultural history of treachery, by adopting a
thematic approach to explore the social and cultural implications
of defections, and demonstrating how notions of what constituted a
turncoat were culturally constructed. Side-changing came to
dominate strategy on both sides at the highest levels. Both sides
reviled, yet sought to take advantage of the practice, whilst
allegations of treachery came to dominate the internal politics of
royalists and parliamentarians alike. The language applied to
'turncoats and renegadoes' in contemporary print is discussed and
contrasted with the self-justifications of the side-changers
themselves as they sought to shape an honourable self-image for
their families and posterity. Andrew Hopper investigates the
implementation of military justice, along with the theatre of
retribution surrounding the trial and execution of turncoats. He
concludes by arguing that, far from side-changing being the dubious
practice of a handful of aberrant individuals, it became a
necessary survival strategy for thousands as they navigated their
way through such rapidly changing events. He reveals how
side-changing shaped the course of the English Revolution, even
contributing to the regicide itself, and remained an important
political legacy to the English speaking peoples thereafter.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
The social and cultural history of the Nordic region (including
Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland and Greenland), as well
as that of outlying former provinces such as Swedish Pomerania and
the erstwhile Caribbean colonies, is examined in this unique study.
Religious and spiritual values, family life and sexuality, health
and hygiene, town and country and slavery in the tropical colonies
are amongst the topics dealt with in some depth. At the same time,
Neil Kent also provides an architectural and artistic history of
the region.
It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans
were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants
needed the permission of their local administrators before they
could leave their villages. According to this view, only soldiers
and members of the governing elite would have been free to travel.
However, Suraiya Faroqhi's extensive archival research shows that
this was not the case; pious men from all walks of life went on
pilgrimage to Mecca, slaves fled from their masters and
craftspeople travelled in search of work. Most travellers in the
Ottoman era headed for Istanbul in search of better prospects and
even in peacetime the Ottoman administration recruited artisans to
repair fortresses and sent them far away from their home towns. In
this book, Suraiya Faroqhi provides a revisionist study of those
artisans who chose - or were obliged - to travel and those who
stayed predominantly in their home localities. She considers the
occasions and conditions which triggered travel among the artisans,
and the knowledge that they had of the capital as a spatial entity.
She shows that even those craftsmen who did not travel extensively
had some level of mobility and that the Ottoman sultans and
viziers, who spent so much effort in attempting to control the
movements of their subjects, could often only do so within very
narrow limits. Challenging existing historiography and providing an
important new revisionist perspective, this book will be essential
reading for students and scholars of Ottoman history.
The Book of the Courtier (Il Cortegiano), describing the behaviour
of the ideal courtier (and court lady) was one of the most widely
distributed books in the 16th century. It remains the definitive
account of Renaissance court life. This edition, Thomas Hoby's 1561
English translation, greatly influenced the English ideal of the
"gentleman." Baldesar Castiglione was a courtier at the court of
Urbino, at that time the most refined and elegant of the Italian
courts. Practising his principles, he counted many of the leading
figures of his time as friends, and was employed on important
diplomatic missions. He was a close personal friend of Raffaello
Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael, who painted the
sensitive portrait of Castiglione on the cover of this edition.
The Transformations of Tragedy: Christian Influences from Early
Modern to Modern explores the influence of Christian theology and
culture upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy. The
volume is divided into three parts: early modern, modern, and
contemporary. This series of essays by established and emergent
scholars offers a sustained study of Christianity's creative
influence upon experimental forms of Western tragic drama. Both
early modern and modern tragedy emerged within periods of
remarkable upheaval in Church history, yet Christianity's diverse
influence upon tragedy has too often been either ignored or
denounced by major tragic theorists. This book contends instead
that the history of tragedy cannot be sufficiently theorised
without fully registering the impact of Christianity in transition
towards modernity.
In Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land
of the Infidel, Eloy Martin-Corrales surveys Hispano-Muslim
relations from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a
period of chronic hostilities. Nonetheless there were thousands of
Muslims in Spain at that time: ambassadors, exiles, merchants,
converts, and travelers. Their negotiating strategies, and the
necessary support they found on both shores of the Mediterranean
prove that relations between Spaniards and Muslims were based on
reasons of state and on a pragmatism that generated intense
political and economic ties.These increased enormously after the
peace treaties that Spain signed with Muslim countries between 1767
and 1791.
This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material
world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has
both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a
distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive
for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how
affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and
exploring the religious and cultural identity dimensions of the use
of materials and artefacts. It thus aims to refocus our
understanding of the meaning of the material world in this period
by centring on the vibrancy of matter itself. To achieve this goal,
the authors approach "the material" through four themes - glass,
feathers, gold paints, and veils - in relation to specific
individuals, material milieus, and interpretative communities. In
examining these four types of materialities and object groups,
which were attached to different sensory regimes and valorizations,
this book charts how each underwent significant changes during this
period.
In The Boxer Codex, the editors have transcribed, translated and
annotated an illustrated late-16th century Spanish manuscript. It
is a special source that provides evidence for understanding
early-modern geography, ethnography and history of parts of the
western Pacific, as well as major segments of maritime and
continental South-east Asia and East Asia. Although portions of
this gem of a manuscript have been known to specialists for nearly
seven decades, this is the first complete transcription and English
translation, with critical annotations and apparatus, and
reproductions of all its illustrations, to appear in print.
The book Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c.
1600-1911) is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and
local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and
Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period. It combines the
methods of various disciplines to bring more light into the
neglected history of a region that witnessed a faster population
growth than any other region in China during that age. The
contributions to the volume analyse conflicts and arrangements in
immigrant societies, problems of environmental change, the economic
significance of copper as the most important "export" product,
topographical and legal obstacles in trade and transport, specific
problems in inter-regional trade, and the roots of modern
transnational enterprise.
The early modern era is often envisioned as one in which European
genres, both narrative and visual, diverged indelibly from those of
medieval times. This collection examines a disparate set of travel
texts, dating from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, to
question that divergence and to assess the modes, themes, and
ethnologies of travel writing. It demonstrates the enduring nature
of the itinerary, the variant forms of witnessing (including
imaginary maps), the crafting of sacred space as a cautionary tale,
and the use of the travel narrative to represent the transformation
of the authorial self. Focusing on European travelers to the
expansive East, from the soft architecture of Timur's tent palaces
in Samarqand to the ambiguities of sexual identity at the Mughul
court, these essays reveal the possibilities for cultural
translation as travelers of varying experience and attitude
confront remote and foreign (or not so foreign) space.
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