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“silvia mostaccio”

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  • Early Modern Jesuits between Obedience and Conscience during the Generalate of Claudio Acquaviva (1581-1615)

    by Silvia Mostaccio ...
    The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola on a principal of strict obedience to papal and superiors’ authorities, yet the nature of the Jesuits's work and the turbulent political circumstances in which they operated, inevitably brought them into conflict with the Catholic hierarchy. In order to better understand and contextualise the debates concerning obedience, this book examines the ... Read more

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  • The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros 1595 to 1606

    by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros ...
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  • Andrew Melville (1545-1622)

    Writings, Reception, and Reputation

    by Steven J. Reid ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Andrew Melville is chiefly remembered today as a defiant leader of radical Protestantism in Scotland, John Knox’s heir and successor, the architect of a distinctive Scottish Presbyterian kirk and a visionary reformer of the Scottish university system. While this view of Melville’s contribution to the shaping of Protestant Scotland has been criticised and revised in recent scholarship, his broader ... Read more

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  • Jesuit Science and the End of Nature's Secrets

    by Mark A. Waddell ...
    Jesuit Science and the End of Nature’s Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including Niccolò Cabeo, Athanasius Kircher, and Gaspar Schott - tackled the problem of occult or insensible causation in the seventeenth century. The search for hidden causes lay at the heart of the early modern study of nature, and included phenomena such as the activity of the magnet, the ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Europe's Rich Fabric

    The Consumption, Commercialisation, and Production of Luxury Textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and Neighbouring Territories (Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)

    Edited by Bart Lambert, Katherine Anne Wilson ...
    Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term 'luxury' is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption, commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy and the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period, ... Read more

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  • Children of Wrath: Possession, Prophecy and the Young in Early Modern England

    by Anna French ...
    The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English Reformation became an issue of urgent interest. This book explores questions surrounding early modern childhood, focusing especially on some of the extreme religious experiences in which children are documented: those of demonic possession and godly prophecy. Dr French argues that ... Read more

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  • Treasure, Treason and the Tower

    El Dorado and the Murder of Sir Walter Raleigh

    by Paul R. Sellin ...
    In this remarkable book, the oft-told narrative of Sir Walter Raleigh is blown apart through the chance discovery of hitherto neglected Dutch correspondence found in a Swedish archive. Following an exciting paper-trail through Jacobean history to modern-day Venezuela, Professor Sellin makes a convincing case for Raleigh's innocence of the charges that led him to the block in 1618. Spurred on by ... Read more

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  • Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany

    Memory, Power and Community

    by Dean Phillip Bell ...
    Although Jews in early modern Germany produced little in the way of formal historiography, Jews nevertheless engaged the past for many reasons and in various and surprising ways. They narrated the past in order to enforce order, empower authority, and record the traditions of their communities. In this way, Jews created community structure and projected that structure into the future. But Jews ... Read more

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  • Europe in the Seventeenth Century

    by Donald Pennington ...
    Series series General History of Europe
    As before, the second edition of this widely-used survey is in two main parts. The first analyses the major themes of seventeenth-century European history on a continent-wide basis. The second part moves on to outline political, diplomatic and military events in the various states and nations of the time. For the second edition all the chapters have been rewritten to take account of recent ... Read more

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  • Louis XIV Outside In

    Images of the Sun King Beyond France, 1661-1715

    by Tony Claydon, Charles-Édouard Levillain ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750
    Louis XIV - the ’Sun King’ - casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Yet while he has been the subject of numerous works, much of the scholarship remains firmly rooted within national frameworks and traditions. Thus in France Louis is still chiefly remembered for the splendid baroque culture his reign ushered in, and his political achievements in ... Read more

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