Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 16th Century

Die Beitrage des Bandes fragen nach der Thematisierung von Herrschaft, Macht, Recht und Gewalt in Tierepen des Mittelalters und der Fruhen Neuzeit: Lasst sich hier neben satirischer Kritik auch eine epistemisch tiefer greifende Auseinandersetzung mit den Geltungsgrunden politischer Ordnung beobachten? Dabei werden nicht nur Reaktionen auf vorbestehende Normgeltungen sichtbar, sondern auch originare Reflexionen des Poltischen.

Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and unearthed on a Granadan hillside, weave a mysterious tale of duplicity and daring set in the religious crucible of sixteenth-century Spain. This book evaluates the cultural status and importance of these polyvalent, ambiguous artefacts which embody many of the dualities and paradoxes inherent in the racial and religious dilemmas of Early Modern Spain. Using the words of key individuals, and set against the background...

The German Landsknechte (German plural, singular Landsknecht), meaning "servants of the land," were colourful mercenary soldiers with a redoubtable reputation, who took over the Swiss forces' legacy and became the most formidable military force of the late 15th and throughout 16th century Europe, consisting predominantly of German and Swiss mercenary pikemen and supporting foot soldiers, they achieved the reputation for being the universal mercenary of early modern Europe. Was Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 to 1519, the founder of the first mercenary Landsknecht regiments in...

A representative selection of the best poetry of Spain's Golden Age.

The Early Modern World takes a distinctive approach to global history. It guides students towards an understanding of how different empires, nations, communities and individuals constructed, contested and were touched by major trends and events. Its thematic structure, covering politics, technology, economics, the environment and intellectual and religious worldviews, enables a holistic view of the world during this period, avoiding prioritizing any one nation or region.

In order to connect global trends and events to human experiences, each chapter is underpinned by a social...

The Early Modern World takes a distinctive approach to global history. It guides students towards an understanding of how different empires, nations, communities and individuals constructed, contested and were touched by major trends and events. Its thematic structure, covering politics, technology, economics, the environment and intellectual and religious worldviews, enables a holistic view of the world during this period, avoiding prioritizing any one nation or region.

In order to connect global trends and events to human experiences, each chapter is underpinned by a social...

This volume is a statistical and sociological analysis of one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Combining original research and a review of all major previous studies on criminal homicide in America, this study attempts to discover and to analyze patterns in criminal homicide from among almost six hundred cases that occurred in the city of Philadelphia between January 1, 1948, and December 31, 1952.

The primary source of data utilized by Marvin E. Wolfgang was the files of the Homicide Squad of the Philadelphia Police Department. Answers were sought to a series of...

Moving beyond the preoccupation of honour and its associations with violence and sexual reputation, Courtney Thomas offers an intriguing investigation of honour's social meanings amongst early modern elites in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

If I Lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself reveals honour's complex role as a representational strategy amongst the aristocracy. Thomas' erudite and detailed investigation of multi-generational family papers as well as legal records and prescriptive sources develops a fuller picture of how the concept of honour was employed, often...