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  • Women at the Early Modern Swedish Court

    Power, Risk, and Opportunity

    de Fabian Persson ...
    Series series Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
    What was possible for a woman to achieve at an early modern court? By analysing the experiences of a wide range of women at the court of Sweden, this book demonstrates the opportunities open to women who served at, and interacted with, the court; the complexities of women's agency in a court society; and, ultimately, the precariousness of power. In doing so, it provides an institutional context to ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts, 1200–1840

    Edición de Fabian Persson, Munro Price, Cinzia Recca ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book demonstrates the evolution of resilience and recovery as a concept by applying it to a new context, that of courts and monarchies. These were remarkably resilient institutions, with a strength and malleability that allowed them to ‘bounce back’ time and again. This volume highlights the different forms of resilience displayed in European courts during the medieval and early modern ... Leer más

    $134.09 USD

  • Survival and Revival in Sweden's Court and Monarchy, 1718–1930

    de Fabian Persson ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book will be the first to deeply analyze the Swedish court and monarchy through a longue duree perspective to show the crucial role of the court in maintaining a relationship between the monarchy and nobility throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Sweden offered a different type of monarchy in comparison to the more often studied French and British monarchies. Sweden's court ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

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  • The Invention of News

    How the World Came to Know About Itself

    de Andrew Pettegree ...
    "A fascinating account of the gathering and dissemination of news from the end of the Middle Ages to the French Revolution" and the rise of the newspaper (Glenn Altschuler, The Huffington Post).Long before the invention of printing, let alone the daily newspaper, people wanted to stay informed. In the pre-industrial era, news was mostly shared through gossip, sermons, and proclamations. The age of ... Leer más

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  • The Great Survivors

    How Monarchy Made it into the Twenty-First Century

    de Peter Conradi ...
    In this riveting and extensively researched account, Peter Conradi the celebrated author of The Kings Speech, on which the Oscar award-winning film of the same name was based offers an uncompromising portrayal of Europes royals and reveals the scandals, excesses, conflicts and interests hidden behind the pomp of the ceremonial garb and the grandeur of official functions.At a time when Western ... Leer más

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  • Rousseau and Revolution

    The Story of Civilization, Volume X

    de Will Durant, Ariel Durant ...
    Series series The Story of Civilization
    Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeA history of civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the remainder Europe from 1715 to 1789. ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800

    de Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly, Adam Morton ...
    Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and cultural ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Dynasty and Piety

    Archduke Albert (1598-1621) and Habsburg Political Culture in an Age of Religious Wars

    de Luc Duerloo ...
    The youngest son of Emperor Maximilian II, and nephew of Philip II of Spain, Archduke Albert (1559-1621) was originally destined for the church. However, dynastic imperatives decided otherwise and in 1598, upon his marriage to Philip's daughter, the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, he found himself ruler of the Habsburg Netherlands, one of the most dynamic yet politically unstable territories in ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Memory in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

    de Judith Pollmann ...
    For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans engaged with the past and 'practised' memory in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800. From ... Leer más

    $36.89 USD

  • The Military Orders Volume III

    History and Heritage

    Edición de Victor Mallia-Milanes ...
    Series series The Military Orders
    In the last twenty years there has been an explosion of scholarly interest in the Military Orders. With a history stretching from the early twelfth century to the present day, they were among the richest and most powerful orders of the church in medieval Europe. They founded their own states in Prussia and on the Mediterranean islands of Rhodes and Malta. They are of concern to historians of the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Strategy Before Clausewitz

    Linking Warfare and Statecraft, 1400-1830

    de Beatrice Heuser ...
    Series series Cass Military Studies
    This collection of essays combines historical research with cutting-edge strategic analysis and makes a significant contribution to the study of the early history of strategic thinking.There is a debate as to whether strategy in its modern definition existed before Napoleon and Clausewitz. The case studies featured in this book show that strategic thinking did indeed exist before the last century, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Money and the Church in Medieval Europe, 1000-1200

    Practice, Morality and Thought

    de Giles E. M. Gasper, Svein H. Gullbekk ...
    Series series Religion and Money in the Middle Ages
    Bringing together essays from experts in a variety of disciplines, this collection explores two of the most important facets of life within the medieval Europe: money and the church. By focusing on the interactions between these subjects, the volume addresses four key themes. Firstly it offers new perspectives on the role of churchmen in providing conceptual frameworks, from outright condemnation, ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD