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Early Modern Italian history has traditionally been presented in the context of the absence of a unified Italian state, foreign domination and of relative decline to former wealth and power. This new volume calls on a wealth of recent research to portray the complex history of the early modern Italian states on their own terms. A leading team of historians traces Italian material and cultural bonds of identity and solidarity beyond their common political narrative - from the Reformation through the hopes and frustrations of reform, renewal and restructuring of social and economic power to the...

This study shows how modern (including postmodern) adaptations of the Grail legend correspond to trends in the scholarly community and how the legend has been appropriated by competing world-views. There are three parallel trends in Grail scholarship and modern adaptations of the legend: controversy over Christian or pagan origins, secularization by way of humanism, and esoteric mysticism. These three trends reflect movements in popular culture. Relativism and multiculturalism influence Christian--pagan cultural conflict in the adaptations. Mythographers maintain the legend's appeal in a...

"The star field at Oregon includes, the reigning Olympic champion, the reigning World champion and the just minted world record holder."

Decathlon Trial is the story of a man who competes in two Olympic decathlon trials that take place twenty years apart. In between those two contests he and his wife raise a special needs child.

The presentation of the story alternates from the live decathlon events to flashbacks of family life over the last twenty years.

"The star field at Oregon includes, the reigning Olympic champion, the reigning World champion and the just minted world record holder."

Decathlon Trial is the story of a man who competes in two Olympic decathlon trials that take place twenty years apart. In between those two contests he and his wife raise a special needs child.

The presentation of the story alternates from the live decathlon events to flashbacks of family life over the last twenty years.

Nuanced understanding of the reciprocal nature of Spanish-Italian relations and the rich cultural production that was the product of the far-reaching exchanges between the two peninsulas throughout the early modern period guides the nineteen essays in this volume. The key political reality of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Spanish imperial domination in Italy--formal (Sicily, Sardinia, Naples, Milan), informal (Rome, Genoa, Tuscany), and more neutral or independent (Venice)--introduces the investigation in this volume into the methods and mechanisms of control and collaboration,...

The publication in English of this classic work will be welcomed by students and researchers in early modern European history, culture and politics.

The Revolt of Naples examines one of the major events in the years of revolution' in Europe in the 1640s: the revolt by the people of the Kingdom of Naples against the Spanish monarchy which ruled over them. Villari analyses the preconditions of the revolt, going back to its roots in the late 16th Century and discussing economic, social and political developments in the Kingdom.