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  • De gesel en de ander

    lijfstraffen en culturele identiteit van oudheid tot heden

    de G. Geltner ...
    Traducido por Claire Weeda ...
    Lijfstraffen worden vaak gezien als een lakmoesproef voor de mate van beschaving van een maatschappij. Aan de barbarij ontsnapt, zou de verlichte Moderne Tijd van de premoderne periode verschillen door de wettige toepassing van lijfstraffen. Geltner laat echter zien dat het opleggen van fysieke pijn helemaal niet is verdwenen uit onze strafrechtpraktijken en niet per se typerend was voor oude ... Leer más

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  • Lucifer's Land

    The Mines and Miners of Europe, 1180–1550

    de G. Geltner ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    A social, cultural, and environmental history of Europe’s preindustrial mines and minersIn the late twelfth century CE, Europe began to experience its first, centuries-long mining boom. From the Carpathians to Cornwall, and from Sweden to Sardinia, tens of thousands of laborers bore into the subsoil to quench the region’s newfound thirst for metals and minerals. While the strategic and economic ... Leer más

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  • Public Health in the Premodern World

    Dynamic Balances

    Chapters [6, 12, and 14] of this work are available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International] open access licence. This part/these parts of the work is/are free to read on [the Oxford Academic platform] and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The public health movement is commonly (and incorrectly) characterized as a response to the ills of ... Leer más

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  • Roads to Health

    Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy

    de G. Geltner ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In Roads to Health, G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcrowding, shortages of food and clean water, air pollution, and the improper disposal of human and animal waste. He consults scientific, narrative, and normative sources that detailed and consistently denounced the physical and environmental ... Leer más

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  • Roads to Health

    Infrastructure and Urban Wellbeing in Later Medieval Italy

    de G. Geltner ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    In Roads to Health, G. Geltner demonstrates that urban dwellers in medieval Italy had a keen sense of the dangers to their health posed by conditions of overcrowding, shortages of food and clean water, air pollution, and the improper disposal of human and animal waste. He consults scientific, narrative, and normative sources that detailed and consistently denounced the physical and environmental ... Leer más

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  • The Great Wave : Price Revolutions And The Rhythm Of History

    David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive--even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshaling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to outline a history of ... Leer más

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    Machiavelli and the World That He Made

    A "serious and thoughtful" interpretation of Machiavelli's life and thought—and its relevance today—from the acclaimed author of Terror and Consent ( The Times, London).Constitutional scholar Philip Bobbitt turns his expert attention to the life and work of Niccolo Machiavelli, the sixteenth century political philosopher whose classic text The Prince remains one of the most important and ... Leer más

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    Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

    Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of ... Leer más

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  • Venice Reconsidered

    The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797

    This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is "likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography" ( The Historical Journal).Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice's politics as strictly republican ... Leer más

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