Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “bruce janacek”
Skip side bar filters

  • Alchemical Belief

    Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England

    by Bruce Janacek ...
    Series series Magic in History
    What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective, Janacek presents it as integrated into the broader political, philosophical, and religious ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Christendom Destroyed

    Europe 1517-1648

    by Mark Greengrass ...
    Series series The Penguin History of Europe
    **“The latest volume to appear in the Penguin History of Europe. Like its companion volumes, [Christendom Destroyed] is no breezy survey but a masterly synthesis of depth and breadth."*—*The Wall Street Journal“The political and religious conflicts of early modern Europe receive high-quality treatment from Greengrass.... an excellent addition to the new Penguin History of Europe.”—Financial Times* ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Astronomer and the Witch

    Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother

    by Ulinka Rublack ...
    Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus´ s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe

    The Iconography of Power

    Edited by J.R. Mulryne, Maria Ines Aliverti, Anna Maria Testaverde ...
    Series series European Festival Studies: 1450-1700
    The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that ’voiced’ the social, political and cultural messages incorporated in processional entries in the countries of early modern Europe. The volume also includes a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011

    by John Morgan-Guy ...
    During the medieval and early modern periods the Welsh diocese of St Davids was one of the largest in the country and the most remote. As this collection makes clear, this combination of factors resulted in a religious life which was less regulated and controlled by the institutional forces of both Church and State. Addressing key ideas in the development of popular religious culture and the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Milton and the Puritan Dilemma, 1641-1660

    by Arthur Barker ...
    Series series Heritage
    This analysis of the progressive definition of John Milton’s social, political, and religious opinions during the fertile years of the Puritan Revolution has become a classic work of scholarship in the thirty-five years since it was first published. Professor Barker interprets Milton’s development in the light of his personal problems and of the changing climate of opinion among his revolutionary ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Cromwell Hath the Honour, but . . .

    Major-General Lambert's Campaigns in the North 1648

    by P. R. Hill, J. M. Watkinson, David Breeze ...
    Cromwell hath the honor, but Lamberts discreet, humble, ingenious, sweet and civil deportment gains him more hugs and ingenious respect.Much has been written about the first Civil War and the triumphs of Oliver Cromwell. Less is known, however, of the skirmishes of the second Civil War, especially in the north, or of the role and military prowess of the excellent young Parliamentarian commander ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aspiration, Representation and Memory

    The Guise in Europe, 1506–1688

    Edited by Jessica Munns, Penny Richards, Jonathan W. Spangler ...
    Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish themselves as dominant political players in France and indeed Europe, marrying within royal and princely circles and occupying the most important ecclesiastical and military positions. Propelled by ambitions derived from their position as cadets of a minor sovereign ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources

    Edited by Laura Sangha, Jonathan Willis ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the printing press, ensured that the State, the Church and the people generated texts and objects on an unprecedented scale. This book ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Susan Broomhall, Sarah Finn ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe examines the purposes for which specific forms of violence and particular emotional states functioned, how they operated in relation to each other, or indeed how one provoked, sustained or diminished the other.These twelve original essays demonstrate the complexities of violence and emotions and the myriad possibilities of their inter-relationships. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Cloister on Trial

    Religious Culture and Everyday Life in Late Medieval Hungary

    by Gabriella Erdélyi ...
    Series series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
    In 1517, the usually tranquil friary in the Hungarian town of Körmend found itself at the centre of controversy when its Augustinian friars, charged with drunkenness, sexual abuses and liturgical negligence, were driven out and replaced with observant Franciscans. The agent of change in this conflict, cardinal Thomas Bakócz, claimed to be acting in the name of ’cloister reform’ motivated by a ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Medieval and Renaissance Lactations

    Images, Rhetorics, Practices

    Edited by Jutta Gisela Sperling ...
    The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore some of the ambiguities and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD