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  • The Military Orders Volume VIII

    In a Wider World

    Edited by Emanuel Buttigieg, Clara Almagro Vidal ...
    Series series The Military Orders
    The genesis of this volume lies in the online conference held by Nottingham Trent University in 2022. This was the eighth in the series of military orders conferences organised since 1992. The conference fostered rich exchange and debate, as reflected in the twenty-three chapters in this book.The Military Orders Volume VIII – organised around five thematic axes: interactions, administration, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Forms of unfreedom in the Medieval Mediterranean

    Edited by Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, Clara Almagro Vidal ...
    Series series Biblioteca - Estudos & Colóquios
    Dependence and loss of freedom – be it partial or total – go hand in hand. During the Middle Ages, people were bonded together through a wide variety of ties that limited their freedom in different ways and to variable degrees.This volume explores these forms of unfreedom. Focusing on both the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean from the eighth century until the fifteenth, the contributors ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Eco-Concepts

    Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought

    by Cenk Tan, ISMAIL Serdar Altaç, Panchali Bhattacharya, Brian Deyo, Erden El, Lenka Filipova, Mahinur Gözde Kasurka, Narayan Jena, Philippe Lynes0, Amarjeet Nayak1, Ufuk Özdag2, Pritam Panda3, Abhra Paul4, Aina Vidal-Pérez5, Denis Petrina6, Ziba Rashidian7, Ana Simic8, Milena Škobo9, Gina Stamm0, Clara Soudan1, Inna Sukhenko2, Rebekah A. Taylor-Wiseman3, Dr Kübra Vural Özbey4 ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought offers an intellectual journey through the ever-evolving landscapes of environmental discourse. This thought-provoking volume brings together contributors from international scholarship to scrutinize and illuminate the contemporary trends reshaping our understanding of the natural environment. From the ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

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    by Thomas James Dandelet ...
    This book brings together a bold revision of the traditional view of the Renaissance with a new comparative synthesis of global empires in early modern Europe. It examines the rise of a virulent form of Renaissance scholarship, art, and architecture that had as its aim the revival of the cultural and political grandeur of the Roman Empire in Western Europe. Imperial humanism, a distinct form of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mediterranean Identities in the Premodern Era

    Entrepôts, Islands, Empires

    Edited by John Watkins, Kathryn L. Reyerson ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    The first full length volume to approach the premodern Mediterranean from a fully interdisciplinary perspective, this collection defines the Mediterranean as a coherent region with distinct patterns of social, political, and cultural exchange. The essays explore the production, modification, and circulation of identities based on religion, ethnicity, profession, gender, and status as free or slave ... Read more

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  • The Medieval Frontiers of Latin Christendom

    Expansion, Contraction, Continuity

    by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto ...
    Series series The Expansion of Latin Europe, 1000-1500
    The aim of this first volume in the series "The Expansion of Latin Europe" is to sketch the outlines of medieval expansion, illustrating some of the major topics that historians have examined in the course of demonstrating the links between medieval and modern experiences. The articles reprinted here show that European expansion began not in 1492 following Columbus's voyages but earlier as ... Read more

    $345.99 USD

  • From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico

    Religious Globalization in the Context of Empire

    Edited by David Charles Wright-Carr, Francisco Marco Simón ...
    From Ancient Rome to Colonial Mexico compares the Christianization of the Roman Empire with the evangelization of Mesoamerica, offering novel perspectives on the historical processes involved in the spread of Christianity. Combining concepts of empire and globalization with the notion of religion from a postcolonial perspective, the book proposes the method of analytical comparison as a point of ... Read more

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  • Emperor

    A New Life of Charles V

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    This "elegant and engaging" biography dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of the sixteenth-century Holy Roman Emperor: "a masterpiece" (Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times).The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But capturing the nature of this elusive man has ... Read more

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  • Conquistadores

    A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest

    by Fernando Cervantes ...
    A sweeping, authoritative history of 16th-century Spain and its legendary conquistadors, whose ambitious and morally contradictory campaigns propelled a small European kingdom to become one of the formidable empires in the world“The depth of research in this book is astonishing, but even more impressive is the analytical skill Cervantes applies. . . . [He] conveys complex arguments in delightfully ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?

    Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation

    by Robert Bartlett ...
    "An indispensable point of departure for anyone interested in the cult of the saints in the Middle Ages." —Eamon Duffy, The New York Review of BooksFrom its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Knights Templar

    by Professor in Medieval History Helen Nicholson ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    Much has been written about the Knights Templar in recent years. A leading specialist in the history of this legendary medieval order now writes a full account of the Knights of the Order of the Temple of Solomon, to give them their full title, bringing the latest findings to a general audience. Putting many of the myths finally to rest, Nicholson recounts a new history of these storm troopers of ... Read more

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  • Colonial Latin American Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Rolena Adorno ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World. A leading scholar of colonial Latin American literature, Rolena Adorno examines the ... Read more

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