Oxford University Press, 2016. — 224 p. How did Great Britain, which entered the twentieth century as a dominant empire, reinvent itself in reaction to its fears and fantasies about the United States? Investigating the anxieties caused by the invasion of American culture-from jazz to Ford motorcars to Hollywood films-during the first half of the twentieth century, Genevieve...
I. B. Tauris, 2015. — 320 p. The beginnings of what we now call 'globalization' dates from the early sixteenth century, when Europeans, in particular the Iberian monarchies, began to connect 'the four parts of the world'. From the end of the eighteenth and throughout the nineteenth centuries, technical advancements, such as the growth of the European rail network and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 220 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Beginning with Adam Smith's dictum that labour was the most significant human occupation, and William Cowper's idealisation of 'The Task', Richard Adelman traces the ways in which Romantic writers responded to a debate over the dangers and rewards of idle contemplation taking place in the second half...
Brill, 2020. — 490 p. — (Brill's Series in Church History 80). In The Catholic Church and the Bible: From the Council of Trent to the Jansenist Controversy (1564–1733), Els Agten studies the impact of Jansenism and anti–Jansenism on the ideas regarding vernacular Bible reading and Bible production in the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book...
Routledge, 2020. — 232 p. Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading Shakespeare’s plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature - how-to books on self-improvement - this book demonstrates the ways that the pursuit of personal improvement...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. — 245 p. This collection of essays examines the various encounters between Britain and the Other, from a cultural, racial, ethnic, artistic and social perspective. It investigates the constructions of various figures of the foreigner in the British Isles through representations and discourses in the political and literary fields, as well as...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — xii, 306 p. — ISBN 978-0-521-11534-6. This pioneering exploration of Georgian men and women's experiences as readers explores their use of commonplace books for recording favourite passages and reflecting upon what they had read, revealing forgotten aspects of their complicated relationship with the printed word. It shows how indebted English...
University of Chicago Press, 1983. — 302 p. "The art historian after Erwin Panofsky and Ernst Gombrich is not only participating in an activity of great intellectual excitement; he is raising and exploring issues which lie very much at the centre of psychology, of the sciences and of history itself. Svetlana Alpers's study of 17th-century Dutch painting is a splendid example of...
London: Ashgate, 2006. — 253 p. In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, experts from Britain and the United States in the fields of nineteenth-century literature, and social and cultural history explore new directions in the field of Victorian life writing. Chapters examine a varied yet interrelated range of genres, from the biography and autobiography, to the...
Oxford; Havertown: Oxbow Books, 2017. — 232 p. Antiquarianism and collecting have been associated intimately with European imperial and colonial enterprises, although both existed long before the early modern period and both were (and continue to be) practiced in places other than Europe. Scholars have made significant progress in the documentation and analysis of indigenous...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 264 p. The 16th and 17th centuries in Europe witnessed a significant paradigm shift. Rooted in medieval beliefs and preoccupations, the exploration so characteristic of the period stemmed from religious motives but came to be propelled by commerce and curiosity as Europeans increasingly engaged with the rest of the world. Interiors in both public...
Routledge, 2021. — 272 p. This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of Europe and the wider world were structured and played out through everyday practices. It focuses on the detail of individual lives and how these were shaped by spaces and places, by movement and material culture – both the buildings they...
Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2021. — 235 p. There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe’sRobinson Crusoe, which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontier myth, with Crusoe seen as an example of the self-sufficient adventurer and the archetypal colonizer and capitalist. Defoe’s original has been reimagined multiple times in legions...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 200 p. — ISBN-13 9781474238571. — ISBN-10 1474238572. A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Enlightenment , explores...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 233 p. — ISBN10: 1349509515; ISBN13: 978-1349509515 Romantic Organicism attempts to reassess the much maligned and misunderstood notion of organic unity. Following organicism from its crucial radicalisation in German Idealism, it shows how both Coleridge and Wordsworth developed some of their most profound ideas and poetry on its basis....
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 484 p. - Offers a refreshing look at the University of Oxford in the eighteenth century - Connects the eighteenth-century University with the wider world in a unique way - Offers an enhanced understanding of inter-institutional and individual connections in the 'long' eighteenth century - Assesses Oxford's cultural life and the extent of its...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 484 p. - Offers a refreshing look at the University of Oxford in the eighteenth century - Connects the eighteenth-century University with the wider world in a unique way - Offers an enhanced understanding of inter-institutional and individual connections in the 'long' eighteenth century - Assesses Oxford's cultural life and the extent of its...
Routledge, 2018. — 288 p. Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and whether they can be employed by those advocating for...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 302 p. John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647–1680), the notorious and brilliant libertine poet of King Charles II's court, has long been considered an embodiment of the Restoration era. This interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading scholars focuses new attention on, and brings fresh perspectives to, the writings of Lord...
De Gruyter, 2019. — 220 p. Dress is a key marker of difference. It is closely attached to the body, part of the daily routine, and an unavoidable means of communication. The clothes people wear tell stories about their allegiances and identities but also about their exclusion and stigmatization. They allow for the display of wealth and can mercilessly display poverty and...
De Gruyter, 2015. — 229 p. The logic of modernity is an ironical logic. Modern irony, a flash of genius produced by Romantic theorists, is first discussed, e.g. in Hegel and Kierkegaard, as an ethical problem personified in figures such as the aesthete, the seducer, the flaneur, or the dandy. It fully develops in the novel, the modern genre par excellence: in novels of the...
Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. — 532 p. — ISBN10: 3110427095; ISBN13: 978-3110427097. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. This volume casts light on the history,...
Routledge, 2022. — 625 p. The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture exposes, explores, and examines what Victorians once considered flagrant breaches of decorum. Infringements that were fantasized through artforms or were actually committed exceeded entertaining parlor gossip; once in print they were condemned as socially contaminative but were also...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 304 p. Parenting in England is the first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England. The author, Joanne Bailey, traces ideas about parenthood in a Christian society that was responding to new cultural trends of sensibility, romanticism and domesticity, along with Enlightenment ideas about childhood and self. All these shaped how...
Ashgate, 2016. — 296 p. The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain’s formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown. Spanish monarchs ruled far and wide, spreading agents and culture across Europe and the wider world. Yet in Italy they encountered another culture whose achievements were even prouder and whose aspirations often even grander than their own....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. — 280 p. This study traces the emergence and dissemination of Aryanism within the British Empire. The idea of an Aryan race became an important feature of imperial culture in the nineteenth century, feeding into debates in Britain, Ireland, India, and the Pacific. The global reach of the Aryan idea reflected the complex networks that enabled the global...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 268 p. This book investigates the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century in order to explore how ideas about militarism served as vehicles for conceptualizations of masculinity. Bringing together representations of military men and accounts of court martial proceedings, this book examines eighteenth-century arguments about...
Routledge, 2022. — 290 p. Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice explores how the legal history of long-eighteenth-century Britain has been transformed by the cultural turn, and especially the associated history of emotion. Seeking to reflect on the state of the field, 13 essays by leading and emerging scholars bring cutting-edge research to bear on the...
Routledge, 2022. — 610 p. The Routledge History of Emotions in the Modern World brings together a diverse array of scholars to offer an overview of the current and emerging scholarship of emotions in the modern world. Across thirty-six chapters, this work enters the field of emotion from a range of angles. Named emotions – love, anger, fear – highlight how particular categories...
Routledge, 2018. — 278 p. What is the relationship between Eros and music? How does the intersection of love and music contribute to define the perimeter of Early Modern love? The Early Moderns hold parallel discourses on the metaphysical doctrines of love and music as theories of harmony. Statements of love as music, of music as love, and of both as harmonic ideals, are found...
Toronto University Press, 2017. — 234 p. — ISBN 9781442675957, 1442675950. An exploration of the roots of the contemporary dissatisfaction with the modern Enlightenment. The author argues that the heralded «death of God» has been rapidly followed by the death of reason. Preface The Collapse o f the Modern Enlightenment. The Contemporary Consensus. The Project of Enlightenment...
2nd Edition. — The University of Chicago Press, 1941, 1981. — 405 p. — ISBN: 0-226-03859-9. Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition ( 1941 ) One: The Biological Revolution Two: The Social Revolution Three: The Artistic Revolution
Harper Collins, 2000. — 899 p. — ISBN: 0-06-017586-9. Prologue: From Current Concerns to the Subject This Book Part One: From Luther's Ninety-five Theses to Boyle's " Invisible College " Part Two: From the Bog and Sand of Versailles to the Tennis Court Part Three: From Faust, Part 1, to the " Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 " Part Four: From " The Great Illusion " to "...
Routledge, 2016. — 248 p. In his important contribution to the growing field of sports literature, Anthony Bateman traces the relationship between literary representations of cricket and Anglo-British national identity from 1850 to the mid 1980s. Examining newspaper accounts, instructional books, fiction, poetry, and the work of editors, anthologists, and historians, Bateman...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 288 p. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made new fashions more widely available, but at the same time made the need to differentiate social rank seem...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 288 p. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made new fashions more widely available, but at the same time made the need to differentiate social rank seem...
Michael W. Hickson (ed.). — Brill, 2016. — 446 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 256/18; Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History 256/18). Dialogues of Maximus and Themistius is the first English translation of Pierre Bayle’s last book, Entretiens de Maxime et de Thémiste, published posthumously in 1707. The two parts of the Dialogues offer Bayle’s final...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 336 p. Russia in Britain offers the first comprehensive account of the breadth and depth of the British fascination with Russian and Soviet culture, tracing its transformative effect on British intellectual life from the 1880s, the decade which saw the first sustained interest in Russian literature, to 1940, the eve of the Soviet Union's entry...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 576 p. Russomania: Russian Culture and the Creation of British Modernism provides a new account of modernist literature's emergence in Britain. British writers played a central role in the dissemination of Russian literature and culture during the early twentieth century, and their writing was transformed by the encounter. This study restores...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 192 p. Could an institution as sacred and traditional as marriage undergo a revolution? Some people living during the so-called Age of Enlightenment thought so. By marrying for that selfish, personal emotion of love rather than to serve religious or family interests, to serve political demands or the demands of the pocketbook, a few but growing...
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. — 352 p. In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond, in the form of stays, corsets, hoop petticoats and crinolines, right up until the twentieth century....
University of California Press, 2001. — 327 p. — (Studies on the History of Society and Culture). — ISBN: 9780520242166. Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism...
Penguin Books, 1988. — 383 p. This book develops the idea that modernity's defining characteristic is that of continual reassertion of ambivalence. In light of this argument the author revisits writers such as Goethe, Marx and Dostoevsky adding new dimensions to them all as well as to our understanding of modernity. From author: "In All That Is Solid Melts Into Air , I define...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. - 257 p.
Professor Lawrence Besserman of the English Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was the prime moving force behind a two- year faculty- student seminar in Jerusalem on the subject of the 'Secular and Sacred in Medieval and Modern Cultures'. The essays collected in this volume are the product of that seminar. They are ably gathered...
Belknap Press, 2018. — 360 p. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic arts and sciences, and wrote Muslim history using Arabic...
Brill, 2017. — xiv, 474 p. — (Brill's Series in Church History 74). Lay prophets in Lutheran Europe (c. 1550–1700) is the first transnational study of the phenomenon of angelic apparitions in all Lutheran cultures of early modern Europe. Jürgen Beyer provides evidence for more than 350 cases and analyses the material in various ways: tracing the medieval origins, studying the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 202 p. Before the first purpose-designed exhibition spaces and painting exhibitions emerged, showing art was mainly related to the habit of dressing up spaces for political commemorations, religious festivals, and marketing strategies. Palaces, cloisters, façades, squares, and shops became temporary and privileged venues for art display,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 256 p. Over the last century, there has been a revolution in self-presentation and social attitudes towards hair. Developments in mass manufacturing, advances in chemical science and new understandings of bodies and minds have been embraced by new kinds of hairdressers and their clientele and embodied in styles that reflect shifting ideals of what...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 256 p. Over the last century, there has been a revolution in self-presentation and social attitudes towards hair. Developments in mass manufacturing, advances in chemical science and new understandings of bodies and minds have been embraced by new kinds of hairdressers and their clientele and embodied in styles that reflect shifting ideals of what...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2001. Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? What do they have to say about the fear of crime in the present moment? This book examines the historical origins and development of true crime and its evolution into distinctive contemporary forms. Embracing a range of non-fiction accounts - true crime book and magazines, law and order television,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. — 272 p. In the eighteenth century, England became the richest and most powerful country in the world. This is a rounded portrait of English culture in the eighteenth century. Not only a matter of leading writers, from Swift and Pope to Dr. Johnson and Sheridan, and of artists from Hogarth to Reynolds, there was also room for popular ballads,...
London: William Heineman, 1912. — 202 p. (Little books about old furniture english furniture. Volume III) The name of Chippendale is so generally applied to mahogany furniture that it might seem, on a first inquiry, that he invented this rich and interesting wood, and also every style pertaining to it. Mahogany furniture, antique and otherwise, is so often airily described as...
Brill Academic Pub, 2015. — 242 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 239).
Bilingual Europe presents to the reader a Europe that for a long time was ‘multilingual’: besides the vernacular languages Latin played an important role. Even ‘nationalistic’ treatises could be written in Latin. Until deep into the 18th century scientific works were written in it. It is still...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - 321 p. Rolle Playing: “And the Word Became Flesh” Disruptive Simplicity: Gaytryge’s Translation of Archbishop Thoresby’s Injunctions Excitative Speech: Theories of Emotive Response from Richard Fitzralph to Margery Kempe Translating Scripture for Ma dame de Champagne: The Old French “Paraphrase” of Psalm 44 (Eructavit) The Mirror and the Rose:...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2020. — 570 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 2). Der Beruf des Architekten durchlief im Heiligen Römischen Reich bereits in der Frühen Neuzeit (ca. 1500–1800) die entscheidenden Stadien seiner Professionalisierung. In der Regel bereiteten mehrfache Ausbildungen...
Routledge, 2022. — 237 p. — (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) — ISBN 9780367137069. Combining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and...
Routledge, 2022. — 237 p. — (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) — ISBN 9780367137069. Combining contextual, institutional, and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 398 p. Orientalism and Visual Culture is the first sustained analysis of historical exoticism in the nineteenth century. Supplementing the tools of art history with aspects of postcolonial theory, the work of the Frankfurt School, and reception theory, Frederick Bohrer examines the varied reception of the art of ancient Mesopotamia at the...
Cornell University Press, 2021. — 288 p. Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Public is a compelling addition to the long-running debate about the link between the Enlightenment and the political struggle that followed. Elizabeth Andrews Bond scoured France's local newspapers spanning the two decades prior to...
Routledge, 2020. — 556 p. William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and...
Routledge, 2020. — 556 p. William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet, decorative artist, translator, romance writer, book designer, preservationist, socialist theorist, and political activist, whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and...
Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, 2007. — 216 p. This book is not a chronicle nor was it meant to be. It is not any dictionnaire raisonnee either, pretending to grasp as a whole the subject of the mutual relationships between the inhabitants of the Commonwealth of Poland and of the Netherlands (both South Netherlands, usually known in Poland as “Belgia” and North Netherlands, even...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 304 p, Since at least the Reformation, English men and women have been engaged in visiting, exploring and portraying, in words and images, the landscape of their nation. The Discovery of England examines these journeys and investigations to explore how the natural and historic English landscape was reconfigured to become a widely enjoyed cultural...
University of Illinois Press, 2015. — 208 p. Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the odium of the bourgeois with its distinctive sounds. Street vendors bellowed songs known as the Cris de Paris that had been associated with their trades since the Middle Ages; musicians itinerant and otherwise played for change; and...
Princeton University Press, 2008 - 262 p. The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in...
The History Press, 2010. — 192 p. — eISBN: 978 0 7524 6229 5 This history covers all varieties of crime on the railways and how it has changed over the years, from assaults and robberies, to theft of goods, murder, vandalism, football and other crowd activity, suicide on the line, fraud and white collar crime. The book also looks at the use of railway crime in film and literature.
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 288 p. In Taming Cannibals , Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only...
Cornell University Press, 2011. — 288 p. In Taming Cannibals , Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the nonwhite peoples of the world could not attain or, at best, could only...
Routledge, 2016. — 330 p. Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex processes of identity formation in the transatlantic world of the Hispanic Baroque. Identities in the Hispanic world are deeply intertwined with sociological concepts such as class and estate, with geography and religion (i.e. the mixing of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2017. — 218 p. The late 16th century and the first half of the 17th century saw a final resurgence of the concept of Fortuna. Shortly thereafter, this goddess of chance and luck, who had survived for millennia, rapidly lost her cultural and intellectual relevance. This volume explores the late heyday and subsequent erasure of Fortuna. It examines vernacular...
Birlinn, 2012. — 288 p. A history of Scotland's relationship with France during the Age of Enlightenment. Scotland has played an immense role in European high culture through the centuries, and among its cultural links, none have been greater than those with France. This book shows that the connections with France stretch back deep into the Middle Ages, and continue without a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 288 p. This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of societies in the nineteenth-century world. In the long nineteenth century, democracy evolved from a contested, maligned conception of government with little concrete expression at the level of the state, to a term widely...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 214 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) In the nineteenth century the beauty of the night sky is the source of both imaginative wonder in poetry and political and commercial power through navigation. The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy examines the impact of astronomical discovery and imperial...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 384 p. The nineteenth-century West saw extraordinary economic growth and cultural change. This volume explores and explains the birth of the modern world through the food it produced and consumed. Food security vastly improved though malnutrition and famines persisted. Scientific research radically altered the ways in which food and its relation to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 384 p. The nineteenth-century West saw extraordinary economic growth and cultural change. This volume explores and explains the birth of the modern world through the food it produced and consumed. Food security vastly improved though malnutrition and famines persisted. Scientific research radically altered the ways in which food and its relation to...
Brill, 2012. — 772 p. — (Intersections 20). This book examines scriptural authority and its textual and visual instruments, asking how words and images interacted to represent and by representing to constitute authority, both sacred and secular, in Northern Europe between 1400 and 1700. Like texts, images partook of rhetorical forms and hermeneutic functions – typological,...
London: SAGE Publications Ltd. — 1994. — 192 p. ISBN10: 0803989768; ISBN13: 978-0803989764. Translated by Patrick Camiller, with an Introduction by Bryan S. Turner. In this fascinating book, Christine Buci-Glucksmann explores the condition of modernity - alienation, melancholy, nostalgia - through the works of a number of writers and philosophers, including the social and...
UCL Press, 2018. — xx+418 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78735-393-0. In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. "Being Modern" builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 418 p. — (Visual and Material Culture, 1300–1700, 28). This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — x, 252 p. This groundbreaking volume gathers an international team of historians to present the practice of translation as part of cultural history. Although translation is central to the transmission of ideas, the history of translation has generally been neglected by historians, who have left it to specialists in literature and language....
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1978. — 400 р. — ISBN: 0-06-131928-7 The concept of cultural history has in the last few decades come to the fore of historical research into early modern Europe. Due in no small part to the pioneering work of Peter Burke, the tools of the cultural historian are now routinely brought to bear on every aspect of history, and have...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 327 p. — ISBN 9780300250022, 0300250029 From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of...
Yale University Press, 2020. — 327 p. — ISBN 9780300250022, 0300250029 From Leonardo Da Vinci to John Dee and Comenius, from George Eliot to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge in countless ways. But history can be unkind to scholars with such encyclopedic interests. All too often these individuals are remembered for just one part of...
London: Yale University Press, 2000. — 370 p. — (Yale Intellectual History of the West Series) — ISBN: 0-300-08390-4. This book is concerned with the history of ideas in Europe in a particular period. Obviously this formula can do with some expansion. What it is meant to indicate is that the intention throughout has been an historical one: to place the reader in the position of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 336 p. Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek–Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derives from ancient (Roman) and modern stereotypes: both the Orient and the idea of a woman in power...
Harvard University Press, 2011. — 304 p. From one of the leading historians of the Jewish past comes a stunning look into a previously unexamined dimension of Jewish life and culture: the calendar. In the late sixteenth century, Pope Gregory XIII instituted a momentous reform of Western timekeeping, and with it a period of great instability. Jews, like all minority cultures in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. - 329 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). Practicing Motherhood When the Definition of “Family” Is Ambiguous. “The Interests Common to Us All” At the Nexus of Impossibility Ippolita’s Wager Extravagant Pretensions.
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 320 p. In Modernism and the Celtic Revival, Gregory Castle examines the impact of anthropology on the work of Irish Revivalists such as W. B. Yeats, John M. Synge and James Joyce. Castle argues that anthropology enabled Irish Revivalists to confront and combat British imperialism. Castle shows how Irish Modernists employed textual and...
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2010. — 273 p. 'Romanticism had its roots in fantasy and fed on myth'. So Roderick Cavaliero introduces the European Romantic obsession with the Orient. Cavaliero draws on a life-time's research in Romantic literature and introduces a rich cast of leading Romantic writers, artists, musicians and travellers, including Beckford, Byron, Shelley, Walter Scott,...
I.B.Tauris, 2014. — 336 p. Although the eighteenth century is traditionally seen as the age of the Grand Tour, it was in fact the continental travel of Jacobean noblemen which really constituted the beginning of the Tour as an institutionalized phenomenon. James I's peace treaty with Spain in 1604 rendered travel to Catholic Europe both safer and more respectable than it had...
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. — 144 p. — ISBN10: 081221546X; ISBN13: 978-0812215465. In this provocative work, Roger Chartier continues his extraordinarily influential consideration of the forms of production, dissemination, and interpretation of discourse in Early Modern Europe. Chartier here examines the relationship between patronage and the market,...
Trans. by Lydia G. Cochrane. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994. — XI + 126 p. — ISBN 0-8047-2267-6. Шартье, Роже. Порядок книг. Читатели, писатели и библиотеки в Европе XIV-XVIII веков. Англ. перевод издания 1992 г. Книга представителя четвертого поколения французской школы Анналов анализирует роль и соотношение между позднемодерными явлениями сообщества ученых,...
Routledge, 2000. — 288 p. Beyond the Frame rewrites the history of Victorian art to explore the relationships between feminism and visual culture in a period of heady excitement and political struggle. Artists were caught up in campaigns for women's enfranchisement, education and paid work, and many were drawn into controversies about sexuality. This richly documented and...
2nd ed. — Routledge, 2008. — 236 p. — (The New Critical Idiom). — ISBN: 978-0-415-41544-6, 978-0-415-41546-0, 978-0-203-93378-7. The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. Modernism introduces and analyses what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural...
Manchester University Press, 2018. — 352 p. This book brings together essays on the burgeoning array of local antiquarian practices developed across Europe in the early modern era (c. 1400-1700). Adopting an interdisciplinary and comparative method it investigates how individuals, communities and regions invented their own ancient pasts according to concerns they faced in the...
Routledge, 2001. — 302 p. The Politics of Early Modern Women's Writing provides an introduction to the ever-expanding field of early modern women's writing by reading texts in their historical and social contexts. Covering a wide range of forms and genres, the author shows that rather than women conforming to the conventional 'chaste, silent and obedient' model, or merely...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016. — 288 p. The 19th century was a time of new sensory experiences and modes of perception. The raucous mechanical intensity of the train and the factory vied for attention with the dazzling splendour of department stores and world fairs. Colonization and trade carried European sensations and sensibilities to the world and, in turn, flooded the West with...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 276 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). This fascinating study reveals the extent to which the Orientalism of Byron and the Shelleys resonated with the reformist movement of the Romantic era. It documents how and why radicals like Bentham, Cobbett, Carlile, Hone and Wooler, among others in post-Revolutionary Britain, invoked Turkey, North...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 272 p. The past is always an interpretive act from the lens of the present. Through the lens of critical race theory, the essays collected here explore new analytical models, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches in attempting to reimagine the European Renaissance and early modern periods in terms of global expansion, awareness, and...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 316 p. — ISBN10: 1138252948; ISBN13: 978-1138252943. Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the long nineteenth century. The chapters speak to the special mixed-media properties of literature, while exploring the important interconnections of...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 320 p. This lively and erudite cultural history of Scotland, from the Jacobite defeat of 1745 to the death of an icon, Sir Walter Scott, in 1832, examines how Scottish identity was experienced and represented in novel ways. Weaving together previously unpublished archival materials, visual and material culture, dress and textile history,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 232 p. Latin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Waged as much on the printed page as on the battlefield, this worldwide conflict gave rise to an astonishing variety of Latin writing...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 232 p. Latin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Waged as much on the printed page as on the battlefield, this worldwide conflict gave rise to an astonishing variety of Latin writing...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 368 p. How did this vagabond word, bohemia, migrate across national borderlines over the course of the nineteenth century, and what happened to it as it traveled? In International Bohemia, Daniel Cottom studies how various individuals and groups appropriated this word to serve the identities, passions, cultural forms, politics, and...
Praeger, 2011. — 322 p. — (Praeger Series on the Early Modern World) As Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America makes clear, the early modern period was one of stark contrasts: witch burnings and the brilliant mathematical physics of Isaac Newton; John Locke's plea for tolerance and the palpable lack of it; the richness of intellectual and artistic life,...
Routledge, 2010. — 216 p. Their is enough background information in this well-conceived and clearly-written study to make the analyses accessible to those unfamiliar with the works discussed, and enough original interpretation and careful referencing to make it an enjoyable and engaging read for both cultural historians and literary scholars. Inheritance and Revolution....
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 312 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Jeffrey N. Cox reconsiders the history of British Romanticism, seeing the work of Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats responding not only to the 'first generation' Romantics led by Wordsworth, but more directly to the cultural innovations of the Napoleonic War years. Recreating in depth three moments of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 322 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative...
Boston: The MIT Press, 2001 — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0262531992; ISBN13: 978-0262531993. Suspensions of Perception is a major historical study of human attention and its volatile role in modern Western culture. It argues that the ways in which we intently look at or listen to anything result from crucial changes in the nature of perception that can be traced back to the second half...
Routledge, 2015. — 322 p. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals. These spectacles articulated the self-image of ruling elites and played out the tensions of the diverse social strata. Responding to the growing academic interest in festivals this volume focuses on the early modern Iberian world, in particular the spectacles staged by...
Routledge, 2015. — 322 p. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals. These spectacles articulated the self-image of ruling elites and played out the tensions of the diverse social strata. Responding to the growing academic interest in festivals this volume focuses on the early modern Iberian world, in particular the spectacles staged by...
Heidelberg University Publishing, 2022. — 467 S. — (Höfische Kultur interdisziplinär: Schriften und Materialien des Rudolstädter Arbeitskreises zur Residenzkultur 4). Unternehmerisches Engagement von Adeligen wurde in der europäischen Frühen Neuzeit unterschiedlich bewertet, galt aber tendenziell als nicht standesgemäß. Dennoch war das Wirtschaften, das am Gewinn orientierte...
Springer Netherlands, 2014. — 251 p. — (International Archives of the History of Ideas 213).
This book offers the first detailed examination of the life and works of biblical commentator Thomas Brightman (1562-1607), analysing his influential eschatological commentaries and their impact on both conservative and radical writers in early modern England. It examines in detail the...
Bucknell University Press, 2022. — 266 p. — ISBN13 9781684484331. — ISBN10 1684484332. When blacksmith Pierre Michaux affixed pedals to the front axle of a two-wheeled scooter with a seat, he helped kick off a craze known as velocipedomania , which swept France in the late 1860s. The immediate forerunner of the bicycle, the velocipede similarly reflected changing cultural...
Historical Publications, 2011. — 386 p. This wide-ranging, thorough and beautifully illustrated study of Freemasonry's influence on Western culture puts into context a movement that has left a significant legacy. Professor Curl shows how aspects of Freemasonic ideas have permeated the design of buildings, parks, gardens, and cemeteries, as well as other art-forms from...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 368 p. A study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the salon hostesses who shaped their musical worlds. In eighteenth-century Europe and America, musical salons - and the women who hosted and made music in them - played a crucial role in shaping their cultural environments. Musical salons served as a...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 288 p. This book sets out to show how new markets were cultivated by printers in the period 1476–1550. It argues that while print and manuscript reading continued alongside each other, developments in the marketing of printed texts began to change what readers read, the ways they read and the place of reading in their lives on a larger scale and...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 238 p. Tracing the demonstrative aesthetic shift in literary writings of fashionable London during the late 1590s, this book argues that the new forms which emerged during this period were intimately linked, arising out of a particular set of geographic, intellectual, and social circumstances that existed in these urban environs. In providing...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 475 p. A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era covers the period from 1400 to 1650, a time of discovery and rediscovery, of experiment and innovation. Renaissance learning brought ancient knowledge to modern European consciousness whilst exploration placed all the continents in contact with one another. The dissemination of knowledge...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 475 p. A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era covers the period from 1400 to 1650, a time of discovery and rediscovery, of experiment and innovation. Renaissance learning brought ancient knowledge to modern European consciousness whilst exploration placed all the continents in contact with one another. The dissemination of knowledge...
Yale University Press, 2019. — 498 p. Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of “the Club,” a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern. In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine,...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. — 218 p. — (Material texts). What is a book in the study of print culture? For the scholar of material texts, it is not only a singular copy carrying the unique traces of printing and preservation efforts, or an edition, repeated and repeatable, or a vehicle for ideas to be abstracted from the physical copy. But when the bibliographer...
W. W. Norton & Company , 2003. — ISBN: 0-393-05760-7. George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of false teeth that were made of everything but wood, from elephant ivory and walrus tusk to the teeth of a fellow human. With characteristic learning and bracing insight, Robert...
Oxford, UK; New York: O[ford University Press, 2021. — 416 p. — ISBN-10: 019514452X; ISBN-13: 978-0195144529. In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and...
Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. — 416 p. — ISBN 9780195144529, 019514452X. In the late-18th century, a group of publishers in what historian Robert Darnton calls the "Fertile Crescent" — countries located along the French border, stretching from Holland to Switzerland — pirated the works of prominent (and often banned) French writers and distributed them in...
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1979. — 639 p.— ISBN: 0-674-08785-2. Introduction: The Biography of a Book. Juggling Editions. Piracy and Trade War. Bookmaking. Diffusion. Settling Accounts. The Ultimate Encyclopédie. Encyclopedism, Capitalism, and Revolution. Appendices. Biographical Notes. Figures.
Harvard University Press, 1968. — 233 p.— ISBN: 0-674-59621-2. Mesmerism and Popular Science The Mesmerism Movement The Radical Strain in Mesmerism Mesmerism as a Radical Political Theory From Mesmer to Hugo Biographical Note Appendices
Praeger, 2012. — 248 p. — (Praeger Series on the Early Modern World). — ISBN: 978-0-313-39343-3; ISBN: 978-0-313-39344-0. The dark side of early modern European culture could be deemed equal in historical significance to Christianity based on the hundreds of books that were printed about the topic between 1400 and 1700. Famous writers and artists like William Shakespeare and...
London: Routledge, 2019. — 208 p. — ISBN-10: 0367086891; ISBN-13: 978-0367086893. The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment is an essential component of modernity itself. In the course of the study, Martin Davies offers an original...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 402 p. Playful, popular visions of Troy and Carthage, backdrops to the Iliad and Aeneid's epic narratives, shine the spotlight on antiquity's starring role in nineteenth-century culture. This is the story of how these ruined cities inspired bold reconstructions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, how archaeological discoveries in the Troad...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 296 p. This anthology presents annotated scripts of four major burlesques by key playwrights: Melodrama Mad! or, the Siege of Troy by Thomas John Dibdin (1819); Telemachus; or, the Island of Calypso by J.R. Planché (1834); The Iliad; or, the Siege of Troy by Robert Brough (1858) and Ulysses; or the Ironclad Warriors and the Little Tug of War by F.C....
New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. — 328 p. — ISBN-10: 0231169426; ISBN-13: 978-0231169424. In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 232 p. In the early modern age technological innovations were unimportant relative to political and social transformations. The size of the workforce and the number of wage dependent people increased, due in large part to population growth, but also as a result of changes in the organization of work. The diversity of workplaces in many significant...
Brill, 2020. — xlvi, 734 p.: 263 color ills. — (Intersections 65/2). Quid est secretum? Visual Representation of Secrets in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1700 is the companion volume to Intersections 65.1, Quid est sacramentum? Visual Representation of Sacred Mysteries in Early Modern Europe, 1400–1700. Whereas the latter volume focused on sacramental mysteries, the current one...
Routledge, 2016. — 318 p. The operatic culture of late eighteenth-century Naples represents the fullest expression of a matrix of creators, practitioners, theorists, patrons, and entrepreneurs linking aristocratic, public and religious spheres of contemporary society. The considerable resonance of 'Neapolitan' opera in Europe was verified early in the eighteenth century not...
Vanderbilt University Press, 2016. — 312 p. Rather than being properties of the individual self, emotions are socially produced and deployed in specific cultural contexts, as this collection documents with unusual richness. All the essays show emotions to be a form of thought and knowledge, and a major component of social life—including in the nineteenth century, which...
Rutgers University Press, 2020. — 264 p. For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source of compassion in human...
Springer, 2023. — 144 p. — ISBN 978-3-031-25812-1. Heraldic devices first appeared on ceramics in Western Europe from the sixteenth century onwards; however, it was not until the 1760s that British ceramic manufactories began executing commissions for services displaying heraldic devices for the gentry.This book explores the rise of the new gentry class and the market for...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 256 p. The Enlightenment was a time of monetary turmoil and transformation in Europe. Change began with a riot of experimentation, including novel ideas about human agency and capacity to promote economic progress, efforts to reframe divinity in terms (like the providential) compatible with market exchange, new instruments of credit, and innovative...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 256 p. The Enlightenment was a time of monetary turmoil and transformation in Europe. Change began with a riot of experimentation, including novel ideas about human agency and capacity to promote economic progress, efforts to reframe divinity in terms (like the providential) compatible with market exchange, new instruments of credit, and innovative...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 158 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
Before the Enlightenment, and before the imperialism of the later eighteenth century, how did European readers find out about the varied cultures of Asia? Orientalism in Louis XIV's France presents a history of Oriental studies in seventeenth-century France, revealing the prominence within the...
University of Virginia Press, 2017. — 336 p. With Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters, James Diedrick offers a groundbreaking critical biography of the German-born British poet Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), a freethinking radical feminist. Born to politically radical parents, Blind had, by the time she was thirty, become a pioneering female aesthete in...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 244 p. — (Scientiae Studies) Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England traces major concepts including: the creation of the visual effects of accuracy through careful action and training; the development of visual judgment and connoisseurship; the role of an epistolary network in the production of knowledge; balancing readers’ expectations...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 273 p. Despite their apparent separation, law and literature have been closely linked fields throughout history. Linguistic creativity is central to the law, with literary modes such as narrative and metaphor infiltrating legal texts. Equally, legal norms of good and bad conduct, of identity and human responsibility, are reflected or subverted...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 270 p. This provocative new history of early modern Europe argues that changes in the generation, preservation and circulation of information, chiefly on newly available and affordable paper, constituted an ‘information revolution’. In commerce, finance, statecraft, scholarly life, science, and communication, early modern Europeans were...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 305 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture).
A Mystery Unfolds
Books of Spells or Sacred Revelations?
History, Religion, Culture: Contextualizing Sixteenth-Century Granada
Prime Suspect: Alonso del Castillo
Miguel de Luna — Hoaxer, Heretic or Hero?
‘As Precious as the Ark of the Covenant’
Unification in Opposition: The Strategy of...
Routledge, 2017. — 330 p. Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment comprises fifteen new essays written by a team of international scholars. The collection re-evaluates the characteristics, meaning and impact of the Radical Enlightenment between 1660 and 1825, spanning England, Ireland, the Dutch Republic, France, Germany and the Americas. In addition to dealing with canonical...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 338 p. Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation is an edited collection exploring the varied and complex interactions between national romanticisms in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden. The collection considers both the reception and influence of Nordic romanticism in Britain and Germany and also the reciprocal impact...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 338 p. Nordic Romanticism: Translation, Transmission, Transformation is an edited collection exploring the varied and complex interactions between national romanticisms in Britain, Denmark, Germany, Norway and Sweden. The collection considers both the reception and influence of Nordic romanticism in Britain and Germany and also the reciprocal impact...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. — 257 p. How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as the long eighteenth century. It explores key developments including: the French fairy tale vogue of the 1690s, dominated by women authors...
Parkstone Press International, 2012. — 255 p. Gothic Romanticism is a study of the relationship between British Romanticism and the Gothic Revival. Reading a wide range of canonical and rare texts, and spanning the Romantic discourses of architecture, politics, and literary form, the book recovers the collaborative project of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey for a purified...
Springer, 2013. — 214 p. — (International Archives of the History of Ideas 209).
The first book to address the role of correspondence in the study of religion, Debating the Faith: Religion and Letter Writing in Great Britain, 1550-1800 shows how letters shaped religious debate in early-modern and Enlightenment Britain, and discusses the materiality of the letters as well as...
OR Books, 2019. — 274 p. 300 years after it was first published, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe remains hugely influential and hotly debated. Since its initial release in 1719, discussions have surrounded the novel’s depiction of individual solitude and work, colonial and racial relations, and mankind’s relationship with the rest of the animal world. To this day, Crusoe’s...
Yale University Press, 2004. — 414 p. — ISBN: 0-300-10032-9. A Definition and a Provisional Justification A Different Cosmos A New Sense of Selfhood Toward a New Conception of Art The Moral Crisis The Origin of Modern Social Theories The New Science of History The Religious Crisis The Faith of the Philosophers Spiritual Continuity and Renewal
Routledge, 2022. — 228 p. This book traces the development of scientific conservation and technical art history. It takes as its starting point the final years of the nineteenth century, which saw the establishment of the first museum laboratory in Berlin, and ground-breaking international conferences on art history and conservation held in pre-World War I Germany. It follows...
Routledge, 2022. — 441 p. Modern literature has always been obsessed by music. It cannot seem to think about itself without obsessing about music. And music has returned the favour. The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature addresses this relationship as a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of word and music studies. The 37 chapters within consider...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 242 p. The aesthetics of everyday life, as reflected in art museums and galleries throughout the western world, is the result of a profound shift in aesthetic perception that occurred during the Renaissance and Reformation. In this book, William A. Dyrness examines intellectual developments in late Medieval Europe, which turned attention away...
Brill Academic Pub, 2015. — 345 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 248).
The Battle of Gods and Giants Redux is a collection of 14 original essays by leading scholars in the field. Part One includes figures and topics associated with Descartes, the chief idealist in the story, including Leibniz, Spinoza, and Malebranche; Part Two includes figures and topics that fall...
Routledge, 2020. — 262 p. Embodiment, Expertise, and Ethics in Early Modern Europe highlights the agency and intentionality of individuals and groups in the making of sensory knowledge from approximately 1500 to 1700. Focused case studies show how artisans, poets, writers, and theologians responded creatively to their environments, filtering the cultural resources at their...
University of Chicago Press, 2022. — 512 p. A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind. We often think of reason as a fixed entity, as a definitive body of facts that do not change over time. But during the Enlightenment, reason also was seen as a process, as a set of skills...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 257 p. A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Modern Age, explores peace in the period from 1920 to the present. As with...
Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2012. — 410 p. — (Intersections 18). — ISBN10 900421206X; ISBN13 978-9004212060. In modern Western society horses appear as unexpected visitors: not quite exotic, but not familiar either. This estrangement between humans and horses is a recent one since, until the 1930s, horses were fully present in the everyday world. Indeed, as well as performing...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 512 p. An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance “Historically rich and superbly written.”—David J. Davis, Wall Street Journal Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 276 p. Traversed by masses of migrants and wracked by environmental and economic change, the Mediterranean has come to connote crisis. In this context, Critically Mediterranean asks how the theories and methodologies of Mediterranean studies may be brought to bear upon the modern and contemporary periods. Contributors explore how the Mediterranean...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 365 p. Famous as the author of the Botanic Garden (1791) and grandfather of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was a larger-than-life enlightenment natural philosopher (scientist) and writer who practised as a doctor across the English Midlands for nearly half a century. A practical gardener and horticulturist, Darwin created a botanic...
Running Press, 2008. — 408 p. — (Britannica Guide To...) – ISBN 9780762433704, 0762433701. Introduction by A.C. Grayling. In the early years of the twenty-first century, ideas first proposed over two hundred years ago could not be more compelling. The Enlightenment of the seventeenth century in response to upheaval and uncertainty laid the foundation stone for modern society. A...
Running Press, 2008. — 408 p. — (Britannica Guide To...) – ISBN 9780762433704, 0762433701. Introduction by A.C. Grayling. In the early years of the twenty-first century, ideas first proposed over two hundred years ago could not be more compelling. The Enlightenment of the seventeenth century in response to upheaval and uncertainty laid the foundation stone for modern society. A...
Brill, 2018. — xxxiv, 570 p. — (Intersections 56). This book explores the spatial, material, and affective dimensions of solitude in the late medieval and early modern periods, a hitherto largely neglected topic. Its focus is on the dynamic qualities of “space” and “place”, which are here understood as being shaped, structured, and imbued with meaning through both social and...
Brill, 2019. — 442 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 307/41). This monograph studies the constructions of ‘impressive’ historical descent manufactured to create ‘national’, regional, or local antiquities in early modern Europe (1500-1700), especially the Netherlands. This was a period characterised by...
Brill, 2015. — 510 p. — (Intersections 40). Early modern anger is informed by fundamental paradoxes: qualified as a sin since the Middle Ages, it was still attributed a valuable function in the service of restoring social order; at the same time, the fight against one’s own anger was perceived as exceedingly difficult. And while it was seen as essential for the defence of an...
Harvard University Press, 1981. — 416 p. In a work of astonishing intellectual range, James Engell traces the evolution of the creative imagination, from its emergence in British empirical thought through its flowering in Romantic art and literature. The notion of a creative imagination, Engell shows, was the most powerful and important development of the eighteenth century. It...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. - 197 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Prologue Sebastianism, Millenarianism, and Nationalism The New Chosen People Venice: Portuguese King or Calabrian Charlatan? Lisbon: Rumor and Simmering Discontent Venice to Leghorn: Sanctifying the King Florence, Naples, and Sanlúcar: Descent into Purgatory Epilogue
University of Delaware Press, 2014. — 266 p. Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization...
University of Delaware Press, 2014. — 266 p. Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 229 p. This collection brings together current research on topics that are perennially important to Romantic studies: the life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the landscape and history of his native Switzerland.
Routledge, 2011. — 376 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft).
Originally published in 1929, the author presents a formidable collection of facts, brought together in a scholarly manner. This is an examination of the general history of witchcraft, its changing laws and legal procedures, as well as methods of interrogation and punishment. This book must be considered an...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 256 p. — (Studies in Early Modern European History). By the end of the sixteenth century, stories about the Revolt in the Low Countries (c. 1567-1648) had begun to spread throughout Europe. These stories had very different authors with very different intentions. Over time the plethora of sources and interpretations faded away, leaving us...
Brill, 2020. — xii, 301 p. — (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 27). This volume aims to furnish a broader framework for analyzing the scientific and institutional context that gave rise to scientific academies in Europe—including the Accademia del Cimento in Florence; the Royal Society in London; the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris; and the Academia...
University Of Chicago Press, 2007. — 592 p. Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century’s most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 168 p. — (Very Short Introductions). In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Ferber explores Romanticism during the period of its incubation, birth, and growth, covering the years roughly from 1760 to 1860. This is the only introduction to Romanticism that incorporates not only the English but the Continental movements, and not only literature but...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 — 219 p. — ISBN10: 1137007974; ISBN13: 978-1137007971. Victorian Time examines how literature of the era registers the psychological impact of the onset of a modern, industrialized experience of time as time-saving technologies, such as steam-powered machinery, aimed at making economic life more efficient, signalling the dawn of a new age of...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 352 p. Historians and literary scholars tend to agree that British intellectual culture underwent a fundamental transformation between 1770 and 1845. Yet they are unusually divided about the nature of that transformation and whether it is best understood as an epistemic rupture from, or a continuous dialogue with, the long eighteenth century....
Voltaire Foundation / Oxford University Press, 2015. — 270 p. In an era haunted by its past, modern Europe sought to break with the old; the future and the new became the ideal. In Italy however, where the remains of the past dominated the landscape, ruins were a token both of decadence and of the inspiring legacy of tradition. Sabrina Ferri proposes a counter-narrative to the...
Updated edition — Princeton University Press, 2015. — 232 p. — ISBN 9781400865833,1400865832 With a new afterword by the author. Translated by Elisabetta Tarantino. In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical...
Updated edition — Princeton University Press, 2015. — 232 p. — ISBN 9781400865833,1400865832 With a new afterword by the author. Translated by Elisabetta Tarantino. In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 232 p. — ISBN 9781400865833, 1400865832. With a new afterword by the author. Translated by Elisabetta Tarantino. In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations...
Brill, 2019. — xviii, 398 p., 134 ill. — (The History of Oriental Studies 5). Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Tableau général de l’Empire othoman offered the Enlightenment Republic of Letters its most authoritative work on Islam and the Ottomans, also a practical reference work for kings and statesmen. Profusely illustrated and opening deep insights into illustrated book production in...
University of Delaware Press, 2022. — 248 p. Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and widely collected photographs spread news of her beauty, and the twentieth-century German-language film trilogy Sissi (1955-57) cemented...
Yale University Press, 2020. — xiv, 287 p. — (The Margellos World Republic of Letters). — ISBN: 978-0-300-16749-8. An exemplary collection of work from one of the world's leading scholars of intellectual history Laszlo F. Foeldenyi is a writer who is learned in reference, taste, and judgment, and entertaining in style. Taking a place in the long tradition of public intellectual...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 288 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs). Between the late 1880s and the onset of the Second World War, anti-slavery activism experienced a revival in Europe. Anti-slavery organizations in Britain, Italy, France, and Switzerland forged an informal international network to fight the continued existence of slavery and slave trading in Africa....
Routledge, 2015. — 227 p. This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new models of economic thought marked the transition from a marketplace centred around the fulfilment of...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 260 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Dramatic changes in the reading public and literary market in early nineteenth-century England not only altered the relationship between poet and reader but prompted new conceptions of the poetic text, literary reception, and authorship. With the decline of patronage, the rise of the novel and the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 224 p. Spoiled Distinctions investigates crises of evaluation in twentieth-century France. Taking Marcel Proust as its central figure, the book theorizes the disorienting force of everyday aesthetic experience. In a series of surprising readings, Hannah Freed-Thall frees Proust from his reputation as the most refined of high modernists. The...
Brill, 2013. — 352 p. Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018. — 320 p. — (Gothaer Forschungen zur Frühen Neuzeit 14). Die Erforschung der frühneuzeitlichen Bildungsgeschichte hat in den letzten Jahren ein neues Profil gewonnen. Vor allem dem 16. und 17. Jahrhundert werden hierbei in der Entwicklung und Umgestaltung des Schul- und Bildungswesens eine besondere Bedeutung zugeschrieben. Die Autorinnen und Autoren...
3. Auflage. - München: C.H.Beck, 1996. - 1570 S. - ISBN: 3406409881 Einleitung: Was heißt und zu welchem Ende studiert man Kulturgeschichte? (1927). Erstes Buch: Renaissance und Reformation – Von der schwarzen Pest bis zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg (von 1349 bis 1618). (1927). Zweites Buch: Barock und Rokoko – Vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zum Siebenjährigen Krieg (1618 bis 1756)....
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 254 p. This is the first book of original research on the women who never married in early modern England. Amy Froide looks at how singlewomen's lives differed from those of wives and widows, at the social relationships of women without husbands, and at how these women supported themselves. She also examines the economic and civic contributions...
Routledge, 2021. — 176 p. Nineteenth-Century Visions of Race: British Travel Writing about America concerns the depiction of racial Others in travel writing produced by British travelers coming to America between 1815 and 1861.The travelers’ discussion of slavery and of the situation of Native Americans constituted an inherent part of their interest in the country’s democratic...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 228 p. Here the author explores the dynamics of imitation among early modern European powers in literary and historiographical texts from sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Spain, Italy, England, and the New World. The book considers a broad sweep of material, including European representations of New World subjects and of Islam. It...
Brill, 2016. — 628 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 255/15; Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 255/15). From the late seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, large-scale Italian frescoes soared in popularity as nobles in the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire constructed new palaces at an unprecedented rate. They...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 324 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). This study develops a detailed reading of the interrelations between aesthetics, ideology, language, gender and political economy in two highly influential works by Edmund Burke: his Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1757), and the Reflections on the...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. — 240 p. — ISBN10: 080188277X; ISBN13: 978-0801882777 — (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) Passions of the Sign traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von...
Reaktion Books, 2013. — 320 p. Spectacular Miracles confronts an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images: that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep, or produce miraculous cures. Although contrary to widely held assumptions, the cults of particular paintings and statues held to be miraculous have persisted beyond the middle...
Routledge, 2020. — 320 p. In the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia’s cross-Channel, transatlantic, and trans-Pacific migrations, locating its creative expressions and social practices within a...
University of Minnesota Press, 2008. — 240 p. In 1585, the British painter and explorer John White created images of Carolina Algonquian Indians. These images were collected and engraved in 1590 by the Flemish publisher and printmaker Theodor de Bry and were reproduced widely, establishing the visual prototype of North American Indians for European and Euro-American readers. In...
Brill, 2022. — 418 p. — (Intersections 80). The Allure of the Ancient investigates how the ancient Middle East was imagined and appropriated for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bringing together scholars of the ancient and early modern worlds, the volume approaches reception history from an interdisciplinary perspective,...
Macmillan, 1991. — x, 222 pp. — ISBN: 978-1-349-21746-5. "Rebuilding: the Art of Contemporary English Culture" is an effort to define the culture expressed in the literature and art of England between 1939 and the present. Gilpin uses examples from literature, criticism, art, architecture and popular music to articulate the national identity of contemporary Britain. Included...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 272 p. — ISBN-13 978-0226674414. In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the “hounds of God,” fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches, and even Satan to protect the fields, flocks, and...
Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, 2019. — 374 p. — ISBN: 978-1-350-00677-5 This book explores such an impact from many angles, in widely different social and cultural environments. The intricate relationship between medical and juridical cases is at the center of Islam Dayeh’s Chapter 7 on Islamic casuistry dealing with the controversial use of hashish, coffee, and tobacco....
Reprint of the 1903 ed. — Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1969. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0836910818; 9780836910810 — (William Belden Noble lectures) Dante, the Poet Michelangelo, the Artist Fichte, the Philosopher Victor Hugo, the Man of Letters Richard Wagner, the Musician Ruskin, the Preacher
Reprint of the 1903 ed. — Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press, 1969. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0836910818; 9780836910810 — (William Belden Noble lectures) Dante, the Poet Michelangelo, the Artist Fichte, the Philosopher Victor Hugo, the Man of Letters Richard Wagner, the Musician Ruskin, the Preacher
Routledge, 2022. — 182 p. This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics, interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors, designers and tastemakers during the years leading to, during and following the Second World War. The Ionides Collection of European style Chinese export porcelain forms the nucleus of this study – defined by...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. — 205 p. Are images and spectacles fundamental mediators of power relationships in the West? This book draws upon the language of cultural studies to investigate a contemporary hypothesis in the shifting ideological landscape of early modern Europe. Apparently aesthetic choices by artists may also have been the means to consolidate and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 232 p. The period from the 1920s to the present is marked by the rise of eugenics, the expansion and hardened enforcement of immigration laws, legal apartheid, the continuance of race pseudoscience, and the rise of human and civil rights discourse in response. Eugenics programmes in the early 20th century focused on sterilization and evolved into...
Brill, 2021. — 452 p. — (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 21). Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas illuminates the remarkable range of Greco-Roman classical receptions across the western hemisphere from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century. Bringing together fifteen essays by scholars working at the intersection of Classics and all aspects...
Brill, 2014. — 270 p. — (Brill's Series in Church History, Volume: 64). This is the first published monograph on Claude Pajon (1626-1685), the theologian at the origin of the greatest doctrinal controversy within the French Protestant camp in the mid to late seventeenth century. Drawing on manuscript sources, this study examines Pajon’s thought and its origins, and traces the...
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. — 246 p. — ISBN: 0–674–89198–8; ISBN: 0–674–89199–6 Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of paleontology and evolutionary theory, and his gift for brilliant explication, that he has brought dust and dead bones to life, and...
Bloomsbury, 2022. — 272 p. Between 1750 and 1840, the home took on unprecedented social and emotional significance. Focusing on the design, decoration, and reception of a range of elite and middling class homes from this period, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840 demonstrates that the material culture of domestic life was central to how this function of the home was...
Brill, 2022. — 465 p. — (Intersections 78). Privacy is often considered a modern phenomenon. Early Modern Privacy: Sources and Approaches challenges this view. This collection examines instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy, and opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies. Scholars of architectural...
Routledge, 2022. — 608 p. Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introduces the dynamics of power and culture in the early modern European court. Exploring the period from 1500 to 1750, Early Modern Court Culture is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, providing...
Routledge, 2022. — 608 p. Through a thematic overview of court culture that connects the cultural with the political, confessional, spatial, material and performative, this volume introduces the dynamics of power and culture in the early modern European court. Exploring the period from 1500 to 1750, Early Modern Court Culture is cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, providing...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 232 p. In 1859, Charles Baudelaire is writing the poetry and criticism of the new urban cultural and social world which would make him described by a number of historians as the first modern. Indeed, it is he who coined the term ‘modernity’. In the east, Ivan Turgenev with On the Eve begins reflections about Russia and modernity which would result in...
Walter de Gruyter, 2022. — 232 p. In 1859, Charles Baudelaire is writing the poetry and criticism of the new urban cultural and social world which would make him described by a number of historians as the first modern. Indeed, it is he who coined the term ‘modernity’. In the east, Ivan Turgenev with On the Eve begins reflections about Russia and modernity which would result in...
De Gruyter Art & Architecture, 2020. — 304 p. What is the relation between image practices and the iconic power of flying and more specifically falconry? The book investigates for the first time this interaction by focussing on common intersections between culture and nature, vision and gaze, tactility and perception, perspective and surveillance, material and symbol. Also...
Routledge, 2014. — 240 p. In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transatlantic literary figures who were both influenced by the English naturalist Gilbert White. In Part 1, Hall examines evidence that as Romantic naturalists interested in meteorology, Wordsworth and Emerson...
Routledge, 2020. — 670 p. A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2015. — 670 p. A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008. — 250 p. This collection of essays brings together eighteenth-century scholars from a variety of disciplines, to discuss conversation in the eighteenth century as concept and practice. At the heart of the volume is a simple question: are eighteenth-century conceptualisations of the role and purpose of conversation still relevant or useful to...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2013 — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0231142218; ISBN13: 978-0231142212. In the romantic tradition, music is consistently associated with madness, either as cause or cure. Writers as diverse as Kleist, Hoffmann, and Nietzsche articulated this theme, which in fact reaches back to classical antiquity and continues to resonate in the modern imagination....
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 704 p. — ISBN 0199696381. The Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 865 p. — ISBN 0199696381. The Oxford Handbook to European Romanticism brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The book focuses on the cultural history of the period extending from the French Revolution to the uprisings of 1848. It begins...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 280 p. — ISBN10: 0521785545; ISBN13: 978-0521785549 This is the only available systematic critical overview of German aesthetics from 1750 to the present. The book begins with the work of Baumgarten and covers all the major writers on German aesthetics that follow: Kant, Schiller, Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer...
Pickering & Chatto, 2007. — 299 p. This book describes the haunting of eighteenth-century England. It is the first in-depth study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This period saw the establishment of the ghost story as a literary genre. Handley combines close textual analysis with a broad conception of historical...
Princeton University Press, 2022. — 400 p. — (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series) Between the late sixteenth century and early nineteenth century, the British imagination—poetic, political, intellectual, spiritual and religious—displayed a pronounced fascination with images of ascent and flight to the heavens. Celestial Aspirations explores how British literature and art during that...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 252 p. A Cultural History of Education in the Modern Age presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories. The twentieth...
Rodopi, 2007. — 260 p. This volume draws contributors from around the globe who represent the full range of approaches to scholarship in nineteenth-century French studies: historical, literary, cultural, art historical, philosophical, and comparative. The theme of the volume - Birth and Death - is one with particular resonance for nineteenth-century French studies, since the...
Princeton University Press, 1996. - 309 pp.
By the 1920s in Central Europe, it had become a truism among intellectuals that natural science had "disenchanted" the world, and in particular had reduced humans to mere mechanisms, devoid of higher purpose. But could a new science of "wholeness" heal what the old science of the "machine" had wrought? Some contemporary scientists...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — xii, 218 p. — ISBN 978–0–19–953384–8. The relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has been obscured by two well-established historiographical narratives. The first charts changes in domestic patriarchy, founded on political patriarchalism in the early modern period and transformed during the eighteenth century by...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1970. — 432 p. The Mechanical Age. The Face of the Country. Machinery. Enterprise. Communications. Transition. Responses. Prophets and Sceptics. Religion and Materialist Philosophy. The Great Exhibition. Art and Design. John Ruskin. William Morris. Looking Forward. Literature.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 282 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) This book studies the impact of violence on the writing of the Romantic period. The focus is on the response of writers to a series of violent events including the revolutions in America and France and the Irish rebellion of 1798. Authors covered include Coleridge,...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 221 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Ian Haywood explores the 'Golden Age' of caricature through the close reading of key, iconic prints by artists including James Gillray, George and Robert Cruikshank, and Thomas Rowlandson. This approach both illuminates the visual and ideological complexity of graphic satire and demonstrates how...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. 19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad objects on show at the Great Exhibitions. The latter, hosted at venues such as the Crystal Palace, hinted at the level of global trade in hair economies, from hair harvest, hairpieces, and hairwork to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. 19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad objects on show at the Great Exhibitions. The latter, hosted at venues such as the Crystal Palace, hinted at the level of global trade in hair economies, from hair harvest, hairpieces, and hairwork to...
Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2010. — 528 p. — ISBN10: 0822344742; ISBN13: 978-0822344742. Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition....
Manchester University Press, 2014. — 297 p. Twenty-first-century Scottish play-acting draws depth and energy from a European and Western tradition of dreaming Scottish dreams, and this tradition dates back to at least the late eighteenth century, to the beginnings of European Romanticism. This book explores how contemporary celebrations of Scotland build upon earlier Scottish...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 332 p. None of the stereotypes of Victorian England - narrow-minded, inhibited, moralistic, complacent - prepares us for the vitality, variety, and above all extraordinary quality of intellectual life displayed in this volume of essays. Selected and annotated by Gertrude Himmelfarb, a distinguished historian of Victorian thought, the writings...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. — 273 p. — (Early Modern History: Society and Culture).
Offering the first comparative survey of public houses in pre-industrial Europe and drawing on a vast range of primary sources, this study establishes inns and taverns as principal communication sites in local communities. Contested and continuously renegotiated, they catered for basic human needs...
Camden House, 2013. — 270 p. The concept and study of orientalism in Western culture gained a changed understanding from Edward Said's now iconic 1978 book Orientalism. However, recent debate has moved beyond Said's definition of the phenomenon, highlighting the multiple forms of orientalism within the "West," the manifold presence of the "East" in the Western world, indeed the...
University of Illinois Press, 2016. — 282 p. Scorned since antiquity as low and animal, the sense of taste is celebrated today as an ally of joy, a source of adventure, and an arena for pursuing sophistication. The French exalted taste as an entrée to ecstasy, and revolutionized their cuisine and language to express this new way of engaging with the world. Viktoria von Hoffmann...
Lexington Books, 2018. — 448 p. Concepts of visual communication form an explanatory framework for discussing the visual expressions of urban symbolic communication in urban life in towns in the center of Europe in the late medieval and early modern period, including the dramatic times of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. This book examines the role of images and visual...
Routledge, 2020. — 264 p. This book investigates the uses of crusader medievalism – the memory of the crusades and crusading rhetoric and imagery – in Britain, from Walter Scott’s The Talisman (1825) to the end of the Second World War. It seeks to understand why and when the crusades and crusading were popular, how they fitted with other cultural trends of the Victorian and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 241 p. The period between the 16th and 18th centuries witnessed the expansion of European travel, trade and colonization around the globe, resulting in greatly increased contact between Westerners and peoples throughout the rest of the world. With the rise of print and the commercial book market, Europeans avidly consumed reports of the outside...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 241 p. The period between the 16th and 18th centuries witnessed the expansion of European travel, trade and colonization around the globe, resulting in greatly increased contact between Westerners and peoples throughout the rest of the world. With the rise of print and the commercial book market, Europeans avidly consumed reports of the outside...
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022. — 289 p. Traditional dress is a common phenomenon across much of Western Europe, often originating in elaborate practices for rural religious events. Yet despite its fundamentally local nature, traditional dress in various European regions developed along a similar trajectory, sometimes being transformed into political symbols and regional...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 256 p. The coronation was, and perhaps still is, one of the most important ceremonies of a monarch’s reign. This book examines the five coronations that took place in England between 1509 and 1559: those of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. It considers how the sacred rite and its related ceremonies and pageants...
Third edition — Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010. — 720 p. — ISBN: 9780312554590, 0312554591. The Making of the West is a story of interactions — cross-cultural exchanges that span the globe, as well as the ongoing interactions between societies, cultures, governments, economies, religions, and ideas. To highlight these interactions and help students grasp the vital connections between...
3rd edition. — Bedford/St. Martin's, 2010. — 523 p. — ISBN: 9780312556662, 0312556667. The Making of the West is a story of interactions — cross-cultural exchanges that span the globe, as well as the ongoing interactions between societies, cultures, governments, economies, religions, and ideas. To highlight these interactions and help students grasp the vital connections between...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 392 p. - Provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding theories of early modern state formation - Includes in-depth discussions on how global trade, consumption and communication impacted on state formation - Discusses alternative approaches on modernity, early modern states, institutions and agents of power This book offers a new...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. — 392 p. - Provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding theories of early modern state formation - Includes in-depth discussions on how global trade, consumption and communication impacted on state formation - Discusses alternative approaches on modernity, early modern states, institutions and agents of power This book offers a new...
London: Routledge, 1998. — 318 p. — ISBN-10: 0415188555; ISBN-13: 978-0415188555. In recent times major efforts have been made to eliminate racial prejudice, but there is plenty of evidence that it still survives. Gustav Jahoda demonstrates how deeply rooted western perceptions going back more than a thousand years are still feeding racial prejudice today. In Images qf Savages...
Pen and Sword Books, 2017. — 208 p. Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to live in the nineteenth century? How would you have gotten a partner in a ballroom? What would you have done with a letter of introduction? And where would you have sat in a carriage? Covering all these nineteenth-century dilemmas and more, this book is your must-have guide to the...
Routledge, 2024. — 220 p. — (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors’ predilection for Italian painting and its influence on Spanish painters. Focused on collecting and using a novel methodology, this volume studies how the painters of the Sevillian school,...
Routledge, 2024. — 220 p. — (Visual Culture in Early Modernity). This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors’ predilection for Italian painting and its influence on Spanish painters. Focused on collecting and using a novel methodology, this volume studies how the painters of the Sevillian school,...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 598 p. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes, including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics, including...
University of California Press, 2011. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-0-520-26771-8. "The entire town is disguised," declared a French tourist of eighteenth-century Venice. And, indeed, maskers of all ranks--nobles, clergy, imposters, seducers, con men--could be found mixing at every level of Venetian society. Even a pious nun donned a mask and male attire for her liaison with the...
Amsterdam - New York, Rodopi, 2010. — 261 p. (Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) — ISBN: 978-90-420-3113-5 Aesthetic Anxiety analyzes uncanny repetition in psychology, literature, philosophy, and film, and produces a new narrative about the centrality of aesthetics in modern subjectivity. The often horrible, but...
Routledge, 2016. — 312 p. Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registers. Providing detailed discussions of not only bearded men but also beardless boys, bearded women, and half-bearded hermaphrodites, author Mark Albert...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 304 p. You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 272 p. Breslau has been almost entirely forgotten in the Anglophone sphere as a place of Enlightenment. Moreover, in the context of the Jewish Enlightenment, Breslau has never been discussed as a place of intercultural exchange between German-speaking Jewish, Protestant and Catholic intellectuals. An intellectual biography of Moses Hirschel offers an...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 272 p. Breslau has been almost entirely forgotten in the Anglophone sphere as a place of Enlightenment. Moreover, in the context of the Jewish Enlightenment, Breslau has never been discussed as a place of intercultural exchange between German-speaking Jewish, Protestant and Catholic intellectuals. An intellectual biography of Moses Hirschel offers an...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. — 48 p. — ISBN 10: 0870993291; ISBN 13: 9780870993299. An essay by Philippe Jullian with illustrations selected by Diana Vreeland. La Belle Epoque emerged in the last half of the nineteenth century from the dream and the reality of the grandiose plans of Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann for the transformation of Paris. Philippe Jullian, in his...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. — 50 p. A glance in cultural study essay on francais most unique and stylish time "Belle epoque" enlight historical background, culture patterns of Third republic in France and main fashion codes.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 250 p. How has our expression, use and reception of comedy developed from antiquity to the present day? What role has it occupied in Western culture, and what can it tell us about how society has changed? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 250 p. How has our expression, use and reception of comedy developed from antiquity to the present day? What role has it occupied in Western culture, and what can it tell us about how society has changed? In a work that spans 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addressed by 55 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 456 p. — (Cultures of Early Modern Europe). — ISBN 9781350277649, 1350277649. In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 456 p. — (Cultures of Early Modern Europe). — ISBN 9781350277649, 1350277649. In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 456 p. — (Cultures of Early Modern Europe). — ISBN 9781350277649, 1350277649. In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 224 p. A Dark History of Chocolate looks at our long relationship with this ancient ‘food of the Gods’. The book examines the impact of the cocoa bean trade on the economies of Britain and the rest of Europe, as well as its influence on health, cultural and social trends over the centuries. Renowned food historian Emma Kay takes a look behind the...
Pen and Sword History, 2021. — 224 p. A Dark History of Chocolate looks at our long relationship with this ancient ‘food of the Gods’. The book examines the impact of the cocoa bean trade on the economies of Britain and the rest of Europe, as well as its influence on health, cultural and social trends over the centuries. Renowned food historian Emma Kay takes a look behind the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 268 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). — ISBN: 978-1-107-01667-5. Paul Keen explores how a consumer revolution which reached its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century shaped debates about the role of literature in a polite modern nation, and tells the story of the resourcefulness with which many writers responded to these...
Amsterdam University Press, 2023. — 244 p. We all look to our past to define our present, but we don’t always realize that our view of the past is shaped by subsequent events. It’s easy to forget that the Dutch dominated the world’s oceans and trade in the seventeenth century when our cultural imagination conjures up tulips and wooden shoes instead of spices and slavery. This...
Brill, 2018. — 288 p. — (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions 23). Archival Afterlives explores the posthumous fortunes of scientific and medical archives in early modern Britain. If early modern natural philosophers claimed all knowledge as their province, theirs was a paper empire. But how and why did naturalists engage with archives, and in particular, with...
Prometheus, 2022. — 353 p. — ISBN 9781633887947, 1633887944. Enlightenment — Aufklärung in German, Lumières in French — is more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical context of revolutionary scientific advances, increasing economic and social freedom, rising literacy and prosperity, and a greater willingness to challenge the...
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010 — 599 p. — ISBN10: 0199592551; ISBN13: 978-0199592555. Seventeenth-century 'English Literature' has long been thought about in narrowly English terms. Archipelagic English corrects this by devolving anglophone writing, showing how much remarkable work was produced in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, and how preoccupied such English authors as...
Berg, 2009. — 248 p. A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire explores the cultural position of animals in the period from 1800 to 1920. This was a time of extraordinary social, political and economic change as the Western world rapidly industrialized and modernized. The Enlightenment had attempted to define the human self; the Age of Empire pulled animals and humans...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 326 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). In this important and innovative study Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the 'Arts and Sciences' by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. He investigates the work of...
Central European University Press, 2023. — 692 p. — (Central European Medieval Texts 7). The latest title in the Central European Medieval Texts series contains the lives of saints who were canonized in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries in the newly Christianized countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, and Dalmatia). A rejoinder to the earlier...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2006. — 707 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 140). This Life of Charles Kingsley is a detailed intellectual biography, which is at the same time a critical and contextual study. Working from the original manuscript letters, the author has placed the events of KingsleyвЂs life against a social-historical-religious background, paying much...
Berg (Oxford International Publishers Ltd.), 2002. — ix, 365 p. — (Leisure, Consumption and Culture). — ISBN 1-85973-520-7; 1-85973-525-8. . In the wake of the American and French revolutions, European culture saw the evolution of a new leisure regime never previously enjoyed. Now we speak of modern leisure societies, but the history of leisure, its experiences and...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 272 p. This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor, provoking both laughter and sympathetic tears. Comic expression in the Enlightenment reflects...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 272 p. This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor, provoking both laughter and sympathetic tears. Comic expression in the Enlightenment reflects...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 238 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Collaborative Dissent: Barbauld and Aikin’s Sibling Pamphlets “The A ikin School”: Adopting an Aesthetic Walking “Backwards and Forwards”: The Wordsworths in 1802/1807 Incorporating the Literary Family Generations: Conflict, Continuity, and the Genius Familiae Epilogue
University of California Press, 2002. — 315 p. — (Studies on the History of Society and Culture). In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire--and the reasons for its remarkable longevity--in David Kuchta's engaging and...
Berg Publishers, 2014. — 272 p. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries form a very distinctive period in European food history. This was a time when enduring feudal constraints in some areas contrasted with widening geographical horizons and the emergence of a consumer society.While cereal based diets and small scale trade continued to be the mainstay of the general...
Berg Publishers, 2014. — 272 p. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries form a very distinctive period in European food history. This was a time when enduring feudal constraints in some areas contrasted with widening geographical horizons and the emergence of a consumer society.While cereal based diets and small scale trade continued to be the mainstay of the general...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 201 pp. Conjuring Science explores the history of magic shows and scientific entertainment. It follows the frictions and connections of magic and science as they occurred in the world of popular entertainment in France from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth century. It situates conjurers within the broader culture of science and argues that...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. — 378 p. In the eighteenth century, antiquaries - wary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historians - used old objects to establish what they claimed was a true account of history. But just what could these small, fragmentary, frequently unidentifiable things, whose origins were unknown and whose worth or meaning...
The American University in Cairo Press, 2021. — 256 p. The extraordinary story of how an obelisk from the banks of Luxor was transferred to the Place de la Concorde in Paris in the early 19th century. Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early nineteenth century. No obelisk this size (two hundred and fifty tons) had...
Princeton University Press, 2019. — 295 p. An engaging look at how debates over the fate of literature in our digital age are powerfully conditioned by the nineteenth century's information revolution. What happens to literature during an information revolution? How do readers and writers adapt to proliferating data and texts? These questions appear uniquely urgent today in a...
Princeton University Press, 2006. — 260 p. — ISBN: 978-0-691-12131-4. During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it would reveal not his callousness but his sensitivity: the destruction had failed to crush his artist’s spirit....
Routledge, 1998. — 272 p. — ISBN 9780415114813. Examining visual, musical and literary works from the late Tudor period to the First World War, Mary Queen of Scots traces a nation’s long romance with the queen it once rejected. Considering both mainstream works (from Edmund Spenser to Sir Walter Scott) and the attachments to Mary that have been formed and sustained by certain...
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 348 p. In this collection of essays from leading scholars, the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture is explored for the first time, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences. Rather than focusing simply on evolution and literature or art, this volume brings together essays exploring the impact of...
Western Michigan University Press, 2018. — 185 p. When James VI of Scotland and I of England proclaimed himself King of Great Britain he proposed a merger of parliaments as he had joined two crowns in his own person ascending the throne of England in 1603. For James, the Cambro-Celtic past led to an Anglo-Scottish present, and Wales stood as the ideal. Although the...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. — 320 p. Writing New Worlds analyses the different ways in which travel literature constituted a fundamental pillar in the production of knowledge in the modern era. The impressive frequency of publication and the widespread circulation of translations and editions account for the leading and essential contribution of travel literature for a...
Harvard University Press, 2012. - 352 p.
Paper Memory tells the story of one man’s mission to preserve for posterity the memory of everyday life in sixteenth-century Germany. Matthew Lundin takes us inside the mind of an undistinguished German burgher named Hermann Weinsberg, whose personal writings allow us to witness firsthand the great transformations of early modernity: the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 244 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Romantic Dharma charts the emergence of Buddhism into European consciousness during the nineteenth century. Mark S. Lussier probes the shared ethical and intellectual commitments embedded in Buddhist and Romantic thought, and proposes potential ways by which those insights translate into contemporary...
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000. — 229 p. — (Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories) — ISBN-10: 0312226713; ISBN-13: 978-0312226718. Romantic Dynamics creatively collides English poetry with a wide range of exotic concepts associated with the 'new physics' of relativity and quantum to uncover their shared concerns for indeterminacy, uncertainty, relativity,...
Yale University Press, 2008. — 305 p. In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination. The themes of the...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 912 р. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0190678449. Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Europe. When we hear the term âBaroque,â the first images that come to mind are symmetrically designed gardens in French chateaux, scenic...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 906 р. — (Oxford Handbooks). Few periods in history are so fundamentally contradictory as the Baroque, the culture flourishing from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries in Europe. When we hear the term âBaroque,â the first images that come to mind are symmetrically designed gardens in French chateaux, scenic fountains in Italian...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 257 p. A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge. As European modes of civilization and cultivation were exported worldwide, botanical study...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 257 p. A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge. As European modes of civilization and cultivation were exported worldwide, botanical study...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 200 p. This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn, figured in something even broader. Protestant and...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 200 p. This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and literature, they remembered by means of medieval and modern Scandinavia. These memories, in turn, figured in something even broader. Protestant and...
London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 184 p. — ISBN10: 1472590074; ISBN13: 978-1472590077. The modernist period was an era of world war and violent revolution. Covering a wide range of authors from Joseph Conrad and Thomas Hardy at the beginning of the period to Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett at the end, this book situates modernism's extraordinary literary...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 432 p. As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported more than troops and goods. In every colony, imperial delegates dispersed British cultural forms. Facilitated by the rapid growth of print, photography, film, and radio, imperialists imagined this new global culture would cement the unity of the empire. But this remarkably...
Yale University Press, 2022. — 432 p. As the British Empire expanded across the globe, it exported more than troops and goods. In every colony, imperial delegates dispersed British cultural forms. Facilitated by the rapid growth of print, photography, film, and radio, imperialists imagined this new global culture would cement the unity of the empire. But this remarkably...
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. — x, 231 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9088-8. Erin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less respectable but no less celebrated eighteenth-century masculine types: the rake, the highwayman, and the pirate. Mackie traces the emergence of these character types to the seventeenth and early...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 216 p. Explores the influence of Russian aesthetics on British modernists. In what ways was the British fascination with Russian arts, politics and people linked to a renewed interest in the unseen? How did ideas of Russianness and ‘the Russian soul’ - prompted by the arrival of the Ballets Russes and the rise of revolutionary ideals - attach...
Routledge, 2015. Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England is an original collection of thirty stories of true crime during the period 1580-1700. Published in short books known as chapbooks, these stories proliferated in early modern popular literature. The chapbooks included in this collection describe serious, horrifying and often deeply personal stories of murder and...
Routledge, 2017. — 265 p. This title was first published in 2000. Published in two volumes, "Work and the Image" addresses a critical theme in contemporary social and cultural debates whose place in visual representation has been neglected. Ranging from Greek pottery to contemporary performance, and exploring a breadth of geo-national perspectives including those of France,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 264 p. What made art modern? What is modern art? The Legends of the Modern demystifies the ideas and "legends" that have shaped our appreciation of modern art and literature. Beginning with an examination of the early modern artists Shakespeare, Michelangelo, and Cervantes, Didier Maleuvre demonstrates how many of the foundational works of modern...
Routledge, 2005. — x, 148 p. — (The New Critical Idiom). — ISBN: 0-415-28064-8, 0-415-28065-6. True PDF In this book, Simon Malpas introduces a range of key theorists and theories that have, under the banner of the postmodern, sought in different ways to explore art, culture and the nature of thought in the contemporary world. He examines some of the most important and...
Brill, 2016. — 394 p. — (Brill's Series in Church History 75). Jewish Books and their Readers discusses the transformative effect of the circulation and readership of sacred and secular texts written by Jews on Christian as well as Jewish readers in early modern Europe. Its twelve essays challenge traditional paradigms of Christian Hebraism and undermine simplistic visions of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 300 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) This book explores the reciprocal influence of friendship ideals and narrative forms in eighteenth-century British fiction. It examines how various novelists, from Samuel Richardson to Mary Shelley, drew upon classical and early modern conceptions of true amity as...
Routledge, 2016. — 316 p. Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology, archeology and anthropology – interacted, breaking down languages, unearthing artifacts,...
Brepols, 2006. — 474 p. Over the course of the fifteenth century easel paintings edged out tapestries, frescoes and wood inlay pictures on the walls of private dwellings. Millions of such paintings were produced in the period 1450-1800, in all shapes and sizes, and across the whole range of prices. Who bought them? How were they distributed? What place did they occupy among...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002 — 270 p. — ISBN10: 0804740712; ISBN13: 978-0804740715. This book explores how modernity gives rise to temporal disorders when time cannot be assimilated and integrated into the realm of lived experience. Inspired by Walter Benjamin's description of the shock experience of modernity through readings of Baudelaire, the book turns to...
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0816616043 (ISBN13: 9780816616046). Translation by Martha M. Houle. Foreword by Tom Conley. "What about power and its representations and, inversely, what about representation and its powers?" Louis Marin asks in his introduction to Le Portrait du roi, a book that centers on the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the role...
Victoria University of Wellington / Te Herenga Waka, 2022. — 114 p. This thesis is an annotated translation of seventeenth century letters composed in early colonial Mexico and posted to Europe by the novohispano Alexandro Favián. An active reader of the German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher’s encyclopedic works about scientific curiosities, Favián wrote eleven letters...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. — 368 p. Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expanded across the Americas, colonial travelers encountered, translated, and reinterpreted Amerindian traditions of knowledge - knowledge that was later translated by the British, reading...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 272 p. — (Cambridge Companions to Literature). — ISBN 978-0-521-85063-6, 978-0-521-61561-7. Situated between the Victorians and Modernism, the fin de siècle is an exciting and rewarding period to study. In the literature and art of the 1890s, the processes of literary and cultural change can be seen in action. In this, more than any previous...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. — 365 p. — (Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century) The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as...
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 — 232 p. — ISBN10: 0801867789; ISBN13: 978-0801867781. In The Shattering of the Self: Violence, Subjectivity, and Early Modern Texts , Cynthia Marshall reconceptualizes the place and function of violence in Renaissance literature. During the Renaissance an emerging concept of the autonomous self within art, politics, religion,...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 256 p. At the heart of this anthology lies the world of fashion: a concept that pervades the realm of clothes and dress; appearances and fashionable manners; interior design; ideas and attitudes. Here sixteen papers focus on the Nordic world (Denmark, Norway, Sweden Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Isles and Greenland) within the time frame AD 1500–1850. This...
UNC Press, 2004 — 233 p. — (UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures) — ISBN 9781469657486, 1469657481. Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G. E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn, Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Prussia's newly minted metropolis challenged these intellectuals to engage in...
UNC Press, 2004 — 233 p. — (UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures) — ISBN 9781469657486, 1469657481. Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G. E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn, Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Prussia's newly minted metropolis challenged these intellectuals to engage in...
UNC Press, 2004 — 233 p. — (UNC studies in the Germanic languages and literatures) — ISBN 9781469657486, 1469657481. Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G. E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn, Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Prussia's newly minted metropolis challenged these intellectuals to engage in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. Between 1780 and 1920, modern conceptions of emotion-conceptions still very much present in the 21st century-first took shape. This book traces that history, charting the changing meaning and experience of feelings in an era shaped by political and market revolutions, romanticism, empiricism, the rise of psychology and psychoanalysis. During...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 232 p. Between 1780 and 1920, modern conceptions of emotion-conceptions still very much present in the 21st century-first took shape. This book traces that history, charting the changing meaning and experience of feelings in an era shaped by political and market revolutions, romanticism, empiricism, the rise of psychology and psychoanalysis. During...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 205 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). From Jews to New Christians: Religious Minorities in the Making of Spanish Naples Conversos in Counter-Reformation Italy “El de los Catalanes”: The First Campaign against the New Christians, 1569–1582 The Rise of the Portuguese Merchant-Bankers, 1580–1648 The Inquisition against the Vaaz
Oxford: Berg, 2008. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 1845203747; ISBN13: 978-1845203740 Francis I's ties with the Ottoman Empire marked the birth of court-sponsored Orientalism in France. Under Louis XIV, French society was transformed by cross-cultural contacts with the Ottomans, India, Persia, China, Siam and the Americas. The consumption of silk, cotton cloth, spices, coffee, tea, china,...
Routledge, 2022. — 302 p. This is volume two of a three-volume set that brings together a rich collection of primary source materials on flirtation and courtship in the nineteenth-century. Introductory essays and extensive editorial apparatus offer historical and cultural contexts of the materials included. Throughout the long nineteenth-century, a woman’s life was commonly...
State University of New York Press, 2011. — 222 p. — (SUNY Seris in Western Esoteric Traditions; Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 29). This new edition of Christopher McIntosh’s classic book on the Golden and Rosy Cross order is eagerly awaited. The order stands out as one of the most fascinating and influential of the high-degree Masonic and Illuminist groups that...
Liverpool University Press, 1998. — 320 p. McNairn analyses representations of Wolfe in both popular culture and high art, from mass-produced ceramics to Benjamin West's famous painting of the death of Wolfe, from popular songs to the writings of Oliver Goldsmith, Horace Walpole, Tobias Smollett, Thomas Godfrey, Benjamin Franklin, and William Cowper. He argues that Wolfe became...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 288 p. Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in darker fabrics also reflected the ascendancy of a puritan middle class as well as a more practical approach to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 288 p. Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in darker fabrics also reflected the ascendancy of a puritan middle class as well as a more practical approach to...
2014. — 1088 p. — (Intersections 33). This volume consists of essays that pose fundamental questions about the relation between verbal and visual hermeneutics, especially as relates to biblical culture. Exegesis, as theologians and historians of art, religion, and literature, have come increasingly to acknowledge, was neither solely textual nor aniconic; on the contrary,...
Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2015. — 549. — (Intersections 34). — ISBN 978-90-04-26170-9 (hardback), 978-90-04-27503-4 (e-book). Anthropomorphism — the projection of the human form onto aspects of the world — closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. Both notions existed in Antiquity, but they came to be more closely associated during the fifteenth through...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021. — 384 p. At war for sixty years, eighteenth-century Britain and France experienced demographic, social, and economic exchanges despite their imperial rivalry. Paradoxically, this rivalry spurred their participation in scientific and industrial developments. Their shared interest in standards of living and cultural practices was fuelled by...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 352 p. Now reissued in an updated paperback edition, this groundbreaking account of the Medieval Revival movement examines the ways in which the style of the medieval period was re-established in post-Enlightenment England - from Walpole and Scott, Pugin, Ruskin, and Tennyson to Pound, Tolkien, and Rowling. The style of the medieval period, which...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 288 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture). While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 257 p. A Cultural History of Plants in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries covers the period from 1650 to 1800, a time of global exploration and the discovery of new species of plants and their potential uses. Trade routes were established which brought Europeans into direct contact with the plants and people of Asia, Oceania, Africa and the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 241 p. This volume, the fourth in the series, considers the role of plants as they intersect with imperial power and empirical philosophy during the Enlightenment. While the Enlightenment was not a global movement, the ideas that developed during this period impacted many parts of the world through exploration, trade, and colonization. Framed by the...
Brill Academic Pub, 2015. — 228 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 242).
In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and explores its role as a powerful agent of epistemological change during one of the most seismic moments in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 272 p. This volume covers the cultural history of race in 'the long 19th century' – the age of empire and nation-state, a transformative period during which a modern world had been forged and complex and hierarchical imperial formations were challenged by the emerging national norm. The concept of race emerged as a dominant epistemology in the...
Cornell University Press, 2019. — 368 p. From the 1880s to 1940, French colonial officials, businessmen and soldiers, returning from overseas postings, brought home wooden masks and figures from Africa. This imperial and cultural power-play is the jumping-off point for a story that travels from sub-Saharan Africa to Parisian art galleries; from the pages of fashion magazines,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 248 p. The Enlightenment led to revised ideas about work together with new social attitudes toward work and workers. Coupled with dynamism in the economy, and the rise of the middling orders, work was more frequently perceived positively, as a commodity and as a source of social respectability. This volume explores the cultural implications of the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 248 p. The Enlightenment led to revised ideas about work together with new social attitudes toward work and workers. Coupled with dynamism in the economy, and the rise of the middling orders, work was more frequently perceived positively, as a commodity and as a source of social respectability. This volume explores the cultural implications of the...
Boydell & Brewer, 2014. — 256 p. The influence on Enlightenment thought of medievalism has been underestimated; it is here reappraised and its significance brought out. Literary medievalism played a vital role in the construction of the French Enlightenment. Starting with the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, it influenced movements leading to the Romantic rediscovery of the...
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. — 311 p. The radical break with the past heralded by the French Revolution in 1789 has become one of the mythic narratives of our time. Yet in the drawn-out afterlife of the Revolution, and through subsequent periods of Empire, Restoration, and Republic, the question of what such a temporal transformation might involve found complex, often...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 332 p. This collection will draw attention to new ideas in both Victorian studies and in the emerging area of literature and the environment. Adopting a broad interpretation of the term ‘environment’ the work aims to draw together new approaches to Victorian texts and cultures that conceptualise and are influenced by environments ranging from rural...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 332 p. This collection will draw attention to new ideas in both Victorian studies and in the emerging area of literature and the environment. Adopting a broad interpretation of the term ‘environment’ the work aims to draw together new approaches to Victorian texts and cultures that conceptualise and are influenced by environments ranging from rural...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 200 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Books for Christmas, 1822–1860 How Victorians Read Christmas How Mr. Punch Stole Christmas: The Evolution of the Holiday in Periodicals Ghost Stories at Christmas The Expansion of Christmas Consumerism: Gifts and Commodities The Poetry of Christmas Modern Marketing of the Victorian Christmas
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022. — 368 р. Domestic Space in France and Belgium offers a new addition to the growing body of work in Interior Studies. Focused on late 19th and early 20th-century France and Belgium, it addresses an overlooked area of modernity: the domestic sphere and its conception and representation in art, literature and material culture. Scholars from the US,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 265 p. — (A Cultural History of Education 2). — ISBN 9781350035034, 1350035033. « A Cultural History of Education » is the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of education from ancient times to the present day. With six illustrated volumes covering 2800 years of human history, this is the definitive reference...
Alicante : Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, 2005. Notas de reproducción original: Otra ed.: México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 1998. — 359 p. En el último decenio se ha asistido a un notable incremento, cuantitativo y cualitativo, de los estudios sobre el periodo colonial hispanoamericano, tanto en el medio académico...
Manchester University Press, 2023. — 285 p. Starting with the premise that clothing is political and that analysing clothing can enhance understanding of political style, this collection explores the relationships among political theory, dress, and self-presentation during a period in which imperial and colonial empires assumed their modern form. Organised under three thematic...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 296 p. This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions. Enlightenment as precursor to liberal democratic modernity was once secular catechism for generations of readers. Yet democracy did not elicit much enthusiasm among...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 296 p. This volume surveys the burst of political imagination that created multiple Enlightenment cultures in an era widely understood as an age of democratic revolutions. Enlightenment as precursor to liberal democratic modernity was once secular catechism for generations of readers. Yet democracy did not elicit much enthusiasm among...
Yale University Press, 2024. — 432 p. Marriage is at the centre of Jane Austen’s novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches, and, of course, love itself, motivate her characters and continue to fascinate readers today. But what were love and marriage like in reality for ladies and gentlemen in Regency England? Rory Muir uncovers the excitements and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 296 p. Placing "literature" at the centre of Renaissance economic knowledge, this book offers a distinct intervention in the history of early modern epistemology. It is premised on the belief that early modern practices of change and exchange produced a range of epistemic shifts and crises, which, nonetheless, lacked a systematic vocabulary. These...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 296 p. Placing "literature" at the centre of Renaissance economic knowledge, this book offers a distinct intervention in the history of early modern epistemology. It is premised on the belief that early modern practices of change and exchange produced a range of epistemic shifts and crises, which, nonetheless, lacked a systematic vocabulary. These...
Brill, 2011. — 243 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 203).
Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) was the most significant biblical critic in eighteenth-century Germany, as well as an eminent Enlightenment philosopher, a renowned classicist and expert on Judaism. How do the different strands of his scholarship fit together? Is there a direct way from critical philology...
Brill, 2019. — x, 366 p. — (Intersections 63). Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions – occasionally with good reason. In the history of...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 412 p. The early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and extremist positions, on the basis of secular natural law, an anti-metaphysical epistemology, and new social ethics. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this...
Brill, 2014. — 463 p. — (Intersections 31). This volume exposes the contested history of a virtue so central to modern disciplines and public discourse that it can seem universal. The essays gathered here, however, demonstrate the emergence of impartiality. From the early seventeenth century, the new epithet ‘impartial’ appears prominently in a wide range of publications....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 208 p. The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services, especially in the new metropolises; new technologies and infrastructures emerged for saving and circulating money and for standardizing coinage; and paper currencies were printed, founded purely...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 208 p. The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services, especially in the new metropolises; new technologies and infrastructures emerged for saving and circulating money and for standardizing coinage; and paper currencies were printed, founded purely...
Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 1985. — ISBN10: 0674868021; ISBN13: 978-0674868021 — (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature, 37) Looking at a broad spectrum of writers--English, French, German, Italian, Russian and other East Europeans--Virgil Nemoianu offers here a coherent characterization of the period 1815-1848. This he calls the era of the...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. — 256 p. Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound...
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019. — 360 p. In early July 1899, an excavation team of paleontologists sponsored by Andrew Carnegie discovered the fossil remains in Wyoming of what was then the longest and largest dinosaur on record. Named after its benefactor, the Diplodocus carnegii - or Dippy, as it’s known today - was shipped to Pittsburgh and later mounted and unveiled at...
London: Routledge, 2017. — 370 p. — ISBN13: 978-1138525160; ISBN10: 1138525162 The idea of progress from the Enlightenment to postmodernism is still very much with us. In intellectual discourse, journals, popular magazines, and radio and talk shows, the debate between those who are "progressivists" and those who are "declinists" is as spirited as it was in the late seventeenth...
Routledge, 2014. — 259 p. Using an interdisciplinary and trans-historical framework this book examines the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration relationships from the medieval period through to the contemporary post-Celtic Tiger era. With attention to people’s different uses of social space, relationships with and memories of the landscape, as well...
Harvard University Press, 2024. — 448 p. A dramatic new interpretation of the encounter between Europe and the Americas that reveals the crucial role of animals in the shaping of the modern world. When the men and women of the island of Guanahani first made contact with Christopher Columbus and his crew on October 12, 1492, the cultural differences between the two groups were...
Brill Academic Pub, 2014. — xii, 690 p. — (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars, 4) During the later Middle Ages (twelfth to fifteenth centuries), the study of chronology, astronomy, and scriptural exegesis among Christian scholars gave rise to Latin treatises that dealt specifically with the Jewish calendar and its adaptation to Christian purposes. In Medieval Latin Christian Texts...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 325 p. The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular...
London: Routledge, 2016. — 176 p. The Supernatural in Tudor and Stuart England reflects upon the boundaries between the natural and the otherworldly in early modern England as they were understood by the people of the time. The book places supernatural beliefs and events in the context of the English Reformation to show how early modern people reacted to the world of unseen...
Routledge, 2003. — 275 p. Japan held a profound fascination for western artists in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the influence of Japonisme on western art was pervasive. Paradoxically, just as western artists were beginning to find inspiration in Japan and Japanese art, Japan was opening to the western world and beginning a process of thorough modernisation,...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 342 p. Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to Greece which was still part of the Ottoman Empire. Offering a fresh account of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024. — 342 p. Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerged as the principal technology for envisioning ancient Greek culture, at a time when very few people could travel to Greece which was still part of the Ottoman Empire. Offering a fresh account of...
Yale University Press, 1999. — 382 p. In its golden years of the Baroque era, Poland expressed creative ties to east and west in extraordinary works of fine and decorative art. This gorgeously illustrated book displays more than 150 works of art that celebrate the cross-cultural richness of Poland's creative output during this period. From the dramatic uniform of the winged...
Routledge, 2016. — 296 p. Toward the end of the fifteenth century, the Habsburg family began to rely on dynastic marriage to unite an array of territories, eventually creating an empire as had not been seen in Europe since the Romans. Other European rulers followed the Habsburgs' lead in forging ties through dynastic marriages. Because of these marriages, many more aristocrats...
Brill, 2015. — 258 p. — (National Cultivation of Culture 11). The Harp and the Constitution consists of eleven essays charting the unexpected ways in which the Celts and Goths were reinvented in Britain and other European countries through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries – becoming not just mythologised races, but lending their names to entire value systems....
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 720 p. In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: "two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages". The influence on Victorian culture of the "Middle Ages" (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance) was both pervasive and multi-faceted. This...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 720 p. In 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: "two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages". The influence on Victorian culture of the "Middle Ages" (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman Empire and the Renaissance) was both pervasive and multi-faceted. This...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 272 p. A bold study on the very epicentre of Victorian ideology: the white, male body. The Victorian Male Body examines some of the main expressions and practices of Victorian masculinity and its embodied physicality. The white, and frequently middle class, male body was often normalised as the epitome of Victorian values. Whilst there has...
Open Book Publishers, 2016. — 680 p. This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy,...
Routledge, 2018. — 289 p. In the century following the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, British art had an international reputation: prints spread knowledge of the work of British artists around the globe, and it was widely seen as the product of a modern, commercial society, and much admired by artists as diverse as Goya in Spain, Delacroix in France, and Bierstadt in...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 239 p. Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age. It covers a range of forms and examples from 1920 to the present day, including plays, film,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 205 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the French Revolution. It features Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and literary periodicals featuring Byron and Horace Smith. Changing the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 236 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Why are material objects so prominent in European Romantic literature, both as symbol and organizing device? This collection of essays maintains that European Romantic culture and its aesthetic artifacts were fundamentally shaped by “object aesthetics,” an artistic idiom of acknowledging, through a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. — 195 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Victorian Medicine and Social Reform traces Florence Nightingale’s career as a reformer and Crimean war heroine. Her fame as a social activist and her writings including Notes on Nursing and Notes on Matters Affecting the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the British Army influenced...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 212 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Fellow feeling for animals, compassion, kindness, friendship, and affection are expressed in every time and place and culture, in primordial artifacts,Egyptian tombs, Homer’s description of the old dog Argos, as much as in Henry Moore’s 1980 drawings of sheep. Perhaps no argument for kindness to...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 297 p. — ISBN 978-0-230-30726-1. The volume explores Elizabeth I's impact on English and European culture during her life and after her death, through her own writing as well as through contemporary and later writers. The contributors are codicologists, historians and literary critics, offering a varied reading of the Queen and of her cultural...
Bucknell University Press, 2011. — 275 р. Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. — 295 p. Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century. These lands were criss-crossed by adventurers, merchants, diplomats and men of the cloth. In particular, John Covel (1638-1722) - chaplain to the Levant Company in the 1670s, later Master of Christ's College, Cambridge - was representative of a...
Routledge, 2016. — 236 p. Buying for the Home is a book about the experiences and also the polarities of shopping and the home. It analyses the ways in which the agencies and discourses of the retail environment mesh with the processes of physical and imaginative re-creation that constitute the domestic space, teasing out the negotiations and interactions that mediate this key...
University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 368 p. Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best...
The University of Chicago Press, 2009. — 358 p. The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes in the way scientific knowledge was gathered, and Spanish cosmographers in particular...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. - 140 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture).
Introduction: Manzoni and the Making of Italy
From History to Fiction
A Source and Its Archive
A Conflict of Wills
Concerning a Capitulary
From Invention to History
Afterword: Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 256 p. The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donning elaborate wigs and hairdos. Such unprecedentedly extravagant styling naturally increased the demand for the services of professional hairdressers, whose numbers grew apace throughout the...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. — 256 p. The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donning elaborate wigs and hairdos. Such unprecedentedly extravagant styling naturally increased the demand for the services of professional hairdressers, whose numbers grew apace throughout the...
Bucknell University Press, 2011. — 256 p. The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain as well as in Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. Representing the views of both moderate and radical eighteenth-century thinkers, these essays by eminent scholars discover that twenty-fi...
Reaktion Books, 2011. — 289 p. Note: Illustrations available only in print version. The seventeenth century is considered the Dutch Golden Age, a time when the Dutch were at the forefront of social change, economics, the sciences, and art. In Dutch Culture in the Golden Age, eminent historian J. L. Price goes beyond the standard descriptions of the cultural achievements of the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2014. — 1064 p. Romanticism was always culturally diverse. Though English-language anthologies have previously tended to see Romanticism as predominantly British, the term itself actually originated in Germany, where it became the banner of a Europe-wide movement involving the profound intellectual and aesthetic changes which we now associate with...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 304 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
The Gospel According to Renan provides a new and holistic interpretation of one of the non-fiction sensations of the nineteenth century: Ernest Renan's Life of Jesus (Vie de Jesu). Published in 1863, Renan's book aroused enormous controversy through its claim to be a historically accurate biography of...
Routledge, 2011. — 249 p. — (Routledge Library Editions: Witchcraft).
Though it is clearly an exceptionally important part of popular culture, witchcraft has generated a variety of often contradictory interpretations, starting from widely differing premises about the nature of witchcraft, its social role and the importance of higher theology as well as more popular beliefs....
University of Toronto Press, 2007. — 472 p. Dualism is a motif that runs through literature of all genres and historical contexts, inspiring argumentation at the highest level and showing the formation of ideas in association as a creative exchange. It arises with special pertinence in western literature since the Renaissance and Reformation. In Dualisms , noted scholar Ricardo...
Oxford University Press, 1975. — 185 p. Theodore K Rabb's contemplative book offers a new interpretation of the seventeenth century Europe, focusing on a crucial transition from turmoil to relative tranquility. The book shows, in splendid illustrations, how painters, like writers and scientists, reflected the change that is his main theme - the shift from belligerence to...
Duke University Press, 2001. — 304 p. Nineteenth-century England witnessed an unprecedented increase in the number of publications and institutions devoted to the creation and the dissemination of knowledge: encyclopedias, scientific periodicals, instruction manuals, scientific societies, children’s literature, mechanics’ institutes, museums of natural history, and lending...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 206 p. This study explores representations of the Madonna and Child in early modern culture. It considers the mother and son as a conceptual, religio-political unit and examines the ways in which that unit was embodied and performed. Of primary interest is the way mothers derived agency from bearing incipient rulers. Sid Ray is a professor of English...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 206 p. This study explores representations of the Madonna and Child in early modern culture. It considers the mother and son as a conceptual, religio-political unit and examines the ways in which that unit was embodied and performed. Of primary interest is the way mothers derived agency from bearing incipient rulers. Sid Ray is a professor of English...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. — 315 p. — (Material texts).
Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics, and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence of weekly...
Brill, 2017. — 312 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 260). Neo-Latin Literature and Literary Culture in Early Modern Scotland is the first detailed examination of the vibrant culture of literature written by Scots in Latin in the late-sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The essays in this collection draw on several recent ground-breaking research projects to...
Cambridge University Press, 1997. — 264 p. Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a "spatial" way of thinking. Timothy J. Reiss offers a more complex explanation for the massive changes in thought that occurred. He describes how, while teaching and public debate continued to be...
Routledge, 2017. — 486 р. — ISBN: 9781315613161. "The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe" marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research. The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work on the nature and significance of materiality in early modern Europe – a...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 264 p. The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain. Author Robbie Richardson argues that depictions of "Indians" in British literature were used to critique and articulate evolving ideas about consumerism, colonialism,...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 264 p. The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Britain. Author Robbie Richardson argues that depictions of "Indians" in British literature were used to critique and articulate evolving ideas about consumerism, colonialism,...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 342 p. — (Forschungen zur Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mitteleuropa 38). Der Briefwechsel zwischen dem tschechischen Historiker und Literaturtheoretiker Balbín und dem deutschen Pädagogen, Dichter und Dramatiker Weise bildet einen anschaulichen Beleg für den Wissenschaftstransfer in der Frühen Neuzeit über konfessionelle Schranken hinweg:...
Amsterdam University Press, 2012. — 236 p. — ISBN: 978-9048515714. Sex and Drugs Before Rock ’n’ Roll is a fascinating volume that presents an engaging overview of what it was like to be young and male in the Dutch Golden Age. Here, well-known cohorts of Rembrandt are examined for the ways in which they expressed themselves by defying conservative values and norms. This study...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 279 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture). Paths to Peace Phases of Peace Mechanisms of Peace Brokers of Peace Themes of Peace Communities of Peace Practicalities of Peace
Lexington Books, 2015. — 302 p. Romantic Sustainability is a collection of sixteen essays that examine the British Romantic era in ecocritical terms. Written by scholars from five continents, this international collection addresses the works of traditional Romantic writers such as John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Samuel Coleridge but also delves...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 302 p. Romantic Sustainability is a collection of sixteen essays that examine the British Romantic era in ecocritical terms. Written by scholars from five continents, this international collection addresses the works of traditional Romantic writers such as John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Samuel Coleridge but also delves...
Brill, 2020. — Vol. 1: xviii, 938 p.; Vol. 2: x, 1014 p. — (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 54). From a modern point of view, the four volumes of the Atlantica of Olaus Rudbeck the elder (1630-1702) seem to be not only the climax of Gothicism, but a key example of an early modern polymath. In Odins Imperium Bernd Roling reconstructs Rudbeck’s immense influence at...
Brill, 2021. — 336 p. — (Brill’s Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History 56). This book analyzes the evolving interaction between court and media from an understudied perspective. Eight case studies focus on different European Empress consorts and Queen regnants from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, using a comparative, cross-media, and cross-period...
Pen & Sword History, 2022. — 184 p. What springs to mind when you think of British Victorian men and women? – manners, manners and more manners. Behavior that was as rigid and constricted as the corsets women wore. From iron-knicker sexual prudery to men so uptight they furtively released their pent up emotions in opium dens and prostitute hot spots. All, of course, exaggerated...
Pen & Sword History, 2022. — 184 p. What springs to mind when you think of British Victorian men and women? – manners, manners and more manners. Behavior that was as rigid and constricted as the corsets women wore. From iron-knicker sexual prudery to men so uptight they furtively released their pent up emotions in opium dens and prostitute hot spots. All, of course, exaggerated...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 342 p. As we face new global challenges – from climate change to the international political order – the need to re-examine the historical roots of cosmopolitanism and liberal principles on a global scale has become increasingly central to the political conversation. Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment brings together leading scholars in...
Oxford University Press, 2013. - 288 p.
An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. This is the world of Gregory Wisdom, a physician, magician, and consummate con-man at...
Routledge, 2018. — 784 p. — (Routledge Worlds). This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is...
Routledge, 2018. — 784 p. — (Routledge Worlds). This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is...
HarperPress, 2012. — 1656 p. A magisterial narrative account of the creation and consumption of all forms of ‘culture’ across the European continent over the last two hundred years. This compelling, wide-ranging and hugely ambitious book offers, for the first time ever, an integrated history of the culture produced and consumed by Europeans since 1800, and follows its...
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000 — 296 p. — ISBN10: 0521661242; ISBN13: 978-0521661249. Ronald Schleifer offers a powerful reassessment of the politics and culture of modernism. His study analyzes the transition from the Enlightenment to post-Enlightenment ways of understanding in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He argues that this transition...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 258 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) In Romanticism and Pleasure nine scholars discuss the aesthetics, culture, and science of pleasure in the Romantic period. Richard Sha, Denise Gigante, and Joel Faflak, among others, make a timely contribution to recent debates about issues of pleasure, taste, and appetite by looking anew at the work...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. — 448 p. As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the subject of this highly original and richly textured study of cultural...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 352 p. What is the je-ne-sais-quoi , if it is indeed something at all, and how can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He examines the expression's rise and fall as a noun and as a topic of philosophical and...
Boydell Press, 2019. — 308 p. At the end of the eighteenth century metropolitan Britain was entranced by stories emanating from the furthest edge of its nascent empire. In the experience of eighteenth-century Britain, Oceania was both a real place, evidenced by the journals of adventurers like Joseph Banks, the voyage books of Captain James Cook and the growing collection of...
Legenda, 2016. — 165 p. Crystal palaces and railway stations, greenhouses and arcades, church windows and shop frontages, wine glasses and lamp shades: from the monumental to the minuscule, glass became increasingly pervasive in nineteenth-century France. Yet as the bombshells and fires of the Année Terrible wreaked havoc upon Paris in 1870-71, this modern dreamland was...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 320 p. The first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and the development of the field of...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 320 p. The first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement. Comprising a number of often secret but sometimes very influential religious groups in the West and in the Islamic world, it affected mainstream and radical politics in Europe and the development of the field of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 216 p. A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Empire , explores peace in the period from 1800 to 1920. As with all...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 216 p. A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of peace throughout history. This volume, A Cultural History of Peace in the Age of Empire , explores peace in the period from 1800 to 1920. As with all...
Routledge, 2020. — 264 p. Household Servants in Early Modern Domestic Tragedy considerably advances existing scholarship on the institution of service in early modern culture and as represented on the early modern stage. With its focus on the homes of the middling sorts, to whom the protagonists of domestic tragedy belong, the book expands our understanding of employer-servant...
Routledge, 2009. — 254 p. Posing a challenge to more traditional approaches to the history of education, this interdisciplinary collection examines the complex web of beliefs and methods by which culture was transmitted to young people in the long eighteenth century. Expanding the definition of education exposes the shaky ground on which some historical assumptions rest. For...
Routledge, 2016. — 256 p. This is the first comprehensive study of the use, abuse and development of the crusade image in popular and high culture in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing upon a diverse range of sources, mainly from the British Isles, but with parallels from Western Europe and North America, the author shows the different approaches to the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. — 238 p. — (Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters) Introduction: Popular Medievalism and the Romantic Ethos Rites and Rights: The Topography of Ancient British Law Taking Medievalism Home: The National Melody Medievalism Onstage in the French Revolutionary Era The Radical Bestiary Buried Alive: Gothic Reading and Medievalist Subjectivity Scottish...
D.S. Brewer, 2021. — 238 p. A survey of the rituals of the year in Victorian England, showing the influence of the Middle Ages. What does a maypole represent? Why eat hot cross buns? Did Dick Whittington have a cat? All these questions are related to a larger one that nineteenth-century Britons asked themselves: which was more fun: living in their own time, or living in the...
Scarecrow Press, 2006. — 405 p. The literature of Scandinavia is amazingly rich and varied, consisting of the works produced by the countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland, and stretching from the ancient Norse Sagas to the present day. While much of it is unknown outside of the region, some has gained worldwide popularity, including the fairy tales of Hans...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 288 p. This book argues that touch and movement played a significant role, long overlooked, in generating perceptions of ancient material culture in the late 18th century. At this time the reception of classical antiquity had been transformed. Interactions with material culture - ruins, sculpture, and artefacts - formed the core of this...
Brill, 2024. — 252 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 351). The age of Enlightenment – the so-called age of reason – was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of...
Harvard University Press, 2011. - 392 p.
In a brilliant, original rendition, Monsters of the G?vaudan revisits a spellbinding French tale that has captivated imaginations for over two hundred years, and offers the definitive explanation of the strange events that underlie this timeless story.In 1764 a peasant girl was killed and partially eaten while tending a flock of sheep....
The University of Michigan Press, 2011. — 299 p. "Colbert has long been celebrated as Louis XIV's minister of finance, trade, and industry. More recently, he has been viewed as his minister of culture and propaganda. In this lively and persuasive book, Jake Soll has given us a third Colbert, the information manager."---Peter Burke, University of Cambridge"Jacob Soll gives us a...
Brill, 2011. — 544 p. This book shows how a group of early-seventeenth-century writers excluded theologically grounded argument from a wide range of disciplines, from the natural sciences to international relations. Somos uses richly contextualised portraits of Scaliger, Heinsius, Cunaeus and Grotius to develop a new model of secularisation as a contingent, cumulative, and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 294 p. British Romanticism and the Jews explores the mutual influences exerted by the British-Christian and British-Jewish communities on each other during the period between the Enlightenment and Victorianism. The essays in the volume demonstrate how the texts produced by the Jewish Enlightenment provided a significant resource for romantic...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. — 334 p. Expanding the perspective initiated by British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature (0-312-29522-7), this volume explores more deeply the complexities inherent in the relationship between the British and Jewish cultures as initiated in the Romantic Period in England, though extending to the present in the Middle East....
Brill, 2015. — 437 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 191). This volume brings together some of the most exciting new scholarship on these themes, and thus pays tribute to the ground-breaking work of Charles Zika. Seventeen interdisciplinary essays offer new insights into the materiality and belief systems of early modern religious cultures as found in...
Routledge, 2020. — 390 p. A Cultural History of Early Modern Europe examines the relationships that developed in cities from the time of the late Renaissance through to the Napoleonic period, exploring culture in the broadest sense by selecting a variety of sources not commonly used in history books, such as plays, popular songs, sketches, and documents created by ordinary...
Brill, 2012. — 412 p. — (Intersections 23). The religious upheavals of the early modern period and the fierce debate they unleashed about true devotion gave conversion an unprecedented urgency. With their rich variety of emotive, aesthetic and rhetoric means of expression, literature and the visual arts proved particularly well-adapted means to address, explore and represent...
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 368 p. — ISBN10: 022663261X; ISBN13: 978-0226632612. How have ruins become so valued in Western culture and so central to our art and literature? Covering a vast chronological and geographical range, from ancient Egyptian inscriptions to twentieth-century memorials, Susan Stewart seeks to answer this question as she traces the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 288 p. Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional attachment, yet its study remains under-developed in the context of the European house. In this volume, Jon Stobart has assembled an international cast of contributors to discuss the ways in which architectural and spatial...
Palgrave, 2011. — 245 p. — (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic). A comparative analysis of early witch trials in Lucerne, Nuremberg and Basel, within the context of criminal justice and social control. The case of Lucerne presents a fascinating interplay between witch trials and a transformation in the city's criminal procedure on one hand, and between...
Routledge, 2016. — 248 p. The Making of English Popular Culture provides an account of the making of popular culture in the nineteenth century. While a form of what we might describe as popular culture existed before this period, John Storey has assembled a collection that demonstrates how what we now think of as popular culture first emerged as a result of the enormous changes...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 255 p. Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations that included the emergence of the entertainment industry, the rise of the professional...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 255 p. Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations that included the emergence of the entertainment industry, the rise of the professional...
Transaction Publishing, 2003. — 224 p. — ISBN: 0-7658-0136-1. Preface by Roger Kimball Introduction by Andrew Irvine Part One: So You Think You're an Egalitarian? Part Two: Why the World is the Way It Is Part Three :Reclaiming the Jungle
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 370 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism). Advertising, which developed in the late eighteenth century as an increasingly sophisticated and widespread form of brand marketing, would seem a separate world from that of the 'literature' of its time. Yet satirists and parodists were influenced by and responded to advertising, while copywriters...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 192 p. Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving garments of Alexandra, Princess of Wales –...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023. — 240 p. Wild Track is an exploration of birdsong and the ways in which that sound was conveyed, described and responded to through text, prior to the advent of recording and broadcast technologies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Street links sound aesthetics, radio, natural history, and literature to explore how the brain and imagination...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 264 p. In this book, Marek Sullivan challenges a widespread consensus linking secularization to rationalization, and argues for a more sensual genealogy of secularity connected to affect, race and power. While existing works of secular intellectual history, especially Charles Taylor's A Secular Age (2007), tend to rely on rationalistic conceptions...
Leiden; Boston; Koln: Brill, 2003. — 416 p. — (A new History of the Sermon, 2) — ISBN-10: 0391042033; ISBN-13: 978-0391042032. Sermons are an invaluable source for our knowledge of religious history and sociology, anthropology, and the mental landscape of men and women in pre-modern Europe, of what they were taught and what they practiced. But how did an individual process the...
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0295993200; ISBN13: 978-0295993201. Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of "physiological aesthetics," which sought physiological explanations for the...
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2015. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 0295993200; ISBN13: 978-0295993201. Robert Brain traces the origins of artistic modernism to specific technologies of perception developed in late-nineteenth-century laboratories. Brain argues that the thriving fin-de-siècle field of "physiological aesthetics," which sought physiological explanations for the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 216 p. The period 1800–1920 was one in which work processes were dramatically transformed by mechanization, factory system, the abolition of the guilds, the integration of national markets and expansion into overseas colonies. While some continued to work in trades that were similar to those of their parents and grandparents, increasing numbers of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 216 p. The period 1800–1920 was one in which work processes were dramatically transformed by mechanization, factory system, the abolition of the guilds, the integration of national markets and expansion into overseas colonies. While some continued to work in trades that were similar to those of their parents and grandparents, increasing numbers of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. - 388 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture).
For German townsmen, life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was characterized by a culture of arms, with urban citizenry representing the armed power of the state. This book investigates how men were socialized to the martial ethic from all sides, and how masculine identity was...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 248 p. — (A Cultural History of Education (Volume 4). — ISBN 9781350035157, 1350035157. A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability;...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 248 p.— (A Cultural History of Education (Volume 4)— ISBN 9781350035157, 1350035157. A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners...
The Ohio State University Press, 2008. — xiii, 328 p. — ISBN-13: 978–0–8142–1086–4. While “freaks” have captivated our imagination since well before the nineteenth century, the Victorians flocked to shows featuring dancing dwarves, bearded ladies, “missing links,” and six-legged sheep. Indeed, this period has been described by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson as the epoch of...
Cornell University Press, 1993. — 145 p. In her graceful account of the transformation of European attitudes toward the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Lucette Valensi follows the genealogy of the concept of Oriental despotism. The Birth of the Despot examines a crucial moment in the long and ambiguous encounter between the Christian and Islamic...
Brill, 2014. — xxx, 477 p. — (Brill's Series in Church History, Volume: 69). In Bremen als Brennpunkt reformierter Irenik, Leo van Santen demonstrates how Ludovicus Crocius’s irenical theology, meant to mediate between the Reformed and the Lutheran Churches, was instigated by the Bremen municipal authorities who had an interest in good relations with the Lutheran surrounding...
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 512 p. Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology....
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 512 p. Taking into account the destructive powers of globalization, Making Worlds considers the interconnectedness of the world in the early modern period. This collection examines the interdisciplinary phenomenon of making worlds, with essays from scholars of history, literary studies, theatre and performance, art history, and anthropology....
Brill, 2019. — xiv, 431 p. — (Intersections 62). This volume investigates the various ways in which writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves, across early modern Europe. A multiplicity of self-commenting modes, ranging from annotations to explicatory prose to prefaces to separate critical texts and exemplifying a variety of...
Brill, 2014. — 352 p. — (Brill's Series in Church History 65). Harlot, pious martyr, marriage breaker, obedient sister, prophetess, literate woman, agent of the devil, hypocrite. These are some qualifications of the image of Anabaptist/Mennonite women, from a wide array of perspectives. Over the ages they became both negative and positive stereotypes, created by either...
Brill, 2019. — xvi, 422 p. — (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions 216). Perceptions of the Dutch Revolt continue to this day to be shaped by Frans Hogenberg's visual reports on its events. In his book Das Auge der Geschichte, Ramon Voges offers for the first time a comprehensive historical analysis of these prints. By examining the broadsheets not as reflections of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. - 260 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture). Female Monasticism Revived: Foundations and Vocations The Monastic Family: Order and Disorder in the Cloister The Monastic Economy: Prayer and Manual Labour Beyond the Cloister: Patronage, Politics and Society Active in Contemplation: Spiritual Choices and Practices
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 228 р. Changes in production and consumption fundamentally transformed the culture of work in the industrial world during the century after World War I. In the aftermath of the war, the drive to create new markets and rationalize work management engaged new strategies of advertising and scientific management, deploying new workforces increasingly...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 668 p. Anyone wishing to look beyond the paradigm of Western progress needs to understand how it came into being. In the intellectual culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, the competitive comparison of Ancients and Moderns and their respective relations to civilization and barbarism constituted one of the formative discourses. Yet alternative ideas of time...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 668 p. Anyone wishing to look beyond the paradigm of Western progress needs to understand how it came into being. In the intellectual culture of the 17th and 18th centuries, the competitive comparison of Ancients and Moderns and their respective relations to civilization and barbarism constituted one of the formative discourses. Yet alternative ideas of time...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 568 p. This Handbook provides a forum for consolidated interdisciplinary discussion on intellectual culture in the “long” nineteenth century highlights and focuses its innovative methodological potential for the areas of musicology, literary and historical studies. In particular, the collection challenges the work-centred focus of Western music...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 568 p. This Handbook provides a forum for consolidated interdisciplinary discussion on intellectual culture in the “long” nineteenth century highlights and focuses its innovative methodological potential for the areas of musicology, literary and historical studies. In particular, the collection challenges the work-centred focus of Western music...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. — 552 p. This book gives a fuller picture than has hitherto been attempted of the variety of Britons who became residents of Florence between the end of the Napoleonic wars and the absorption of Tuscany into the kingdom of Italy. Many of them were leisured, and some aristocratic; a few were writers or artists; the British clergy and physicians who...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 240 p. From the recent spate of equine deaths on racetracks to protests demanding the removal of mounted Confederate soldier statues to the success and appeal of War Horse , there is no question that horses still play a role in our lives - though fewer and fewer of us actually interact with them. In Precarious Partners , Kari Weil takes...
University of Chicago Press, 2020. — 240 p. From the recent spate of equine deaths on racetracks to protests demanding the removal of mounted Confederate soldier statues to the success and appeal of War Horse , there is no question that horses still play a role in our lives - though fewer and fewer of us actually interact with them. In Precarious Partners , Kari Weil takes...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 544 p. Northern Arts is a magnificent and provocative exploration of Scandinavian literature and art. With intellectual power and deep emotional insights, writer and critic Arnold Weinstein guides us through the most startling works created by the writers and artists of Scandinavia over the past two centuries. Here readers will gain new...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 160 p. The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the patron system, the artist was free to move around, to seek an audience wherever...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 160 p. The Romantic myth of Bohemia originated in the early nineteenth century as a way of describing the new conditions faced by artists and writers when the previous system of aristocratic patronage collapsed in the wake of the Age of Revolution. Without the patron system, the artist was free to move around, to seek an audience wherever...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 132 p. — (Very Short Introductions). The history of decadent culture runs from ancient Rome to nineteenth-century Paris, Victorian London, fin de si cle Vienna, Weimar Berlin, and beyond. The decline of Rome provides the pattern for both aesthetic and social decadence, a pattern that artists and writers in the nineteenth century imitated,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. — 226 p. — (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print) Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse to...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 225 p. A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The revolution in making, and in consuming the things which were made, impacted on lives at every scale –from body to home to workplace to city to...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023. — 360 p. Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly integrated global economy all...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 280 p. A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the digital to biotechnology - have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and...
Yale University Press, 2011. — ix, 299 p. — ISBN 978-0-300-16382-7. In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in England, making it a leading player in the European horticultural game. Ideas were exchanged across networks of gardeners, botanists, scholars, and courtiers, and the burgeoning...
Praeger, 2008. — 368 p. — (Praeger Series on the Early Modern World) While few intellectuals today accept the notion that the world is literally about to end through a prophesied supernatural act, between 1500 and 1800 many of Europe's and America's most creative minds did believe it. Perhaps most surprisingly, apocalyptic expectations played a central role during this period in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. - 276 p. - (Early Modern History: Society and Culture).
The story of conflict in an island community offers a valuable case study for the analysis of early modern German political culture. Investigations range from interpersonal relations to dynamics of civic church and imperial government. Chronicled throughout are the interactions of two opposing...
Stanford University Press, 1994. — 436 p. This is a wide-ranging intellectual history of how, in the 18th century, Europe came to be conceived as divided into "Western Europe" and "Eastern Europe". The author argues that this conceptual reorientation from the previously accepted "Northern" and "Southern" was a work of cultural construction and intellectual artifice created by...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 248 p. How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume explores the period when the European fairy tales conquered the world and shaped the global imagination in its own image. Examining how collectors, children's writers, poets, and artists seized the...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 214 p. Explores the development of the Gothic through the history of martial, political and literary conflict between Britain and France. In describing his proto-Gothic fiction, The Castle of Otranto (1764), as a translation, Horace Walpole was deliberately playing on national anxieties concerning the importation of war, fashion and...
Oxford University Press, 2001. — 256 p. — (Oxford Historical Monographs).
Recently, we have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the history of disability. In this book, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the "insane" population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England--using the...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. — 401 p. This volume offers new perspectives on a crucial figure of nineteenth-century cultural history - the flaneur. Recent writing on the flaneur has given little sustained attention to the widespread adaptation of the flaneur outside Paris, let alone outside France and indeed Europe, whether in the form of historic antecedents, modern...
5th edition. — Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. — 1656 p. — ISBN10: 1405190752; ISBN13: 978-1405190756. This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen; Wordsworth and...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 208 p. The Victorians were preoccupied by the eighteenth century. It was central to many nineteenth-century debates, particularly those concerning the place of history and religion in national life. This book explores the diverse responses of key Victorian writers and thinkers, Thomas Carlyle, John Henry Newman, Leslie Stephen, Vernon Lee, and...
Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010. — 328 p. Modern-Postmodern: Society, Philosophy, Literature offers new definitions of modernism and postmodernism by presenting an original theoretical system of thought that explains the differences between these two key movements. Taking a contrastive approach, Peter V. Zima identifies three key concepts in the relationship...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. - 254 p. - (Early Modern History Society and Culture).
Introduction Nursing Mothers and Sanctified Sisters: Women’s Political Behavior after the Restoration
Nursing Mothers: Dissenting Women and Opposition Politics
A Dangerous Woman: Mary Speke, her Family, and the Puritan Gentry
Sanctified Sisters: Aphra Behn and the Culture of Nonconformity
An...
Routledge, 2003. — 200 p. — ISBN: 0-8093-1852-0, 0-8093-1887-3. In The Parameters of Postmodernism, Nicholas Zurbrugg demonstrates how contemporary artistic creativity discredits popular apocalyptic theories. The Parameters of Postmo dernism offers a highly polemical discussion of the conflict between what Zurbrugg presents as the misleading assumptions of many of the more...
Routledge, 2003. — xvi, 184 p. — ISBN: 0-8093-1852-0, 0-8093-1887-3. In The Parameters of Postmodernism, Nicholas Zurbrugg demonstrates how contemporary artistic creativity discredits popular apocalyptic theories. The Parameters of Postmo dernism offers a highly polemical discussion of the conflict between what Zurbrugg presents as the misleading assumptions of many of the more...
Routledge, 2005. — 275 p. — (Critical voices in art theory and culture). — ISBN: 0-203-98533-8, 90-5701-062-3. In these essays, Nicholas Zurbrugg charts the developments in late 20th-century multimedia art. He challenges accounts of postmodern techno-culture, and interweaves literary and cultural theory and visual studies to demonstrate the neutering of mass-media culture and...
Routledge, 2005. — xviii, 257 p. — (Critical voices in art theory and culture). — ISBN: 0-203-98533-8, 90-5701-062-3. In these essays, Nicholas Zurbrugg charts the developments in late 20th-century multimedia art. He challenges accounts of postmodern techno-culture, and interweaves literary and cultural theory and visual studies to demonstrate the neutering of mass-media...
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 261 p. Explores the influence of contemporary radicalism over Oscar Wilde Offers a new, politicised interpretation of Wilde’s most famous literary worksContextualises Wilde’s writing by reading it against the contemporary political crises that it addressed Focuses on archival research, drawing on Wilde’s correspondence, reviews,...
Учебное пособие. — Воронеж: Воронежский государственный технический университет, 2005. — 81 с.
В учебном пособии систематизированы и изложены основные сведения о культуре Возрождения и Нового времени. Материал изложен по проблемно-хронологическому принципу при сочетании конкретных фактических данных и теоретических обобщений. Особое внимание уделено искусству, становлению...
М.: Наука, 1974. - 212 с.
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Учебное пособие. - Великий Новгород: Изд-во НовГУ им. Ярослава Мудрого, 2001. - 144 с.
Учебное пособие представляет собой продолжение ранее изданного (Большаков В. П., Новицкая Л. Ф. Особенности культуры в ее историческом развитии (от зарождения до эпохи Возрождения). Главы и разделы новой книги написаны: В. П. Большаковым - Гл. I, IV и V; К. Ф. Завершинским - Гл. II, Разд. 1,...
Екатеринбург: Уральский федеральный университет имени первого Президента России Б.Н. Ельцина, 2019. — 164 с. — ISBN: 978-5-7996-2523-8. Учебное пособие посвящено истории английской и немецкой художественной культуры Нового времени (XVI — начала XX в.). Представлена характеристика основных художественных направлений и стилей, доминировавших в Англии, Австрии и Германии в...
Санкт-Петербург: Алетейя, 2015. — 456 с. : ил. Монография финского театроведа, доктора философии Лийсы Бюклинг (Liisa Byckling) является результатом многолетней работы. В книгу вошли статьи разных лет, посвященные литературе и театру в Великом княжестве и Республике Финляндии, их взаимосвязи с Россией. Центральные темы книги – восприятие творчества А.П. Чехова в Финляндии;...
Санкт-Петербург: Алетейя, 2015. — 456 с. : ил. Монография финского театроведа, доктора философии Лийсы Бюклинг (Liisa Byckling) является результатом многолетней работы. В книгу вошли статьи разных лет, посвященные литературе и театру в Великом княжестве и Республике Финляндии, их взаимосвязи с Россией. Центральные темы книги – восприятие творчества А.П. Чехова в Финляндии;...
Академия наук СССР. Институт всеобщей истории. — Москва; Париж: Наука, 1970. — 336 с. Сборник «Век Просвещения» — первое совместное франко-советское издание, выходящее одновременно на русском и французском языках в Москве и Париже. На его страницах выступают известные французские и советские историки, изучающие один из самых ярких периодов в истории мировой культуры и общественной...
При участии профессоров Гааза, Бюхнера, Лефманна и др. / Пер. под ред. профессора А. Трачевского и доктора философии М. Филиппова. — СПб.: Типография П. П. Сойкина, 1900. — 349, [27] с.: ил. Гельвальд Фридрих Антон Геллер (1842-1892) — известный этнограф, географ и историк; был некоторое время офицером австрийской службы. В 1871-1882 гг. редактировал журнал "Ausland".
Перевод осуществлен с английского издания: William M. Johnston. The Austrian Mind. An Intellectual and Social History 1848—1938. — University of California Press, Berkeley. Los Angeles. London. 1972. — Москва: Московская школа политических исследований, 2004. — 640 с. ISBN: 5-93895-065-1 «Австрийский Ренессанс» — это систематизированное исследование социальной и...
Перевод осуществлен с английского издания: William M. Johnston. The Austrian Mind. An Intellectual and Social History 1848—1938. — University of California Press, Berkeley. Los Angeles. London. 1972. — Москва: Московская школа политических исследований, 2004. — 640 с. — ISBN: 5-93895-065-1. «Австрийский Ренессанс» — это систематизированное исследование социальной и...
М.: АСТ, 2020. — 1006 с. Евгений Викторович – известный российский писатель, литературовед, публицист, переводчик. Профессор кафедры всемирной литературы филологического факультета МПГУ. Новая книга Евгения Жаринова посвящена эпохе романтизма, противоречивого момента в истории культуры человечества. Повальное увлечение мистикой и спиритизмом соседствовало с бурным развитием...
М.: АСТ, 2021. — 416 с. — (Классика лекций). — ISBN 9978-5-17-138709-9. Как чума повлияла на мировую литературу? Почему «Изгнание из рая» стало одним из основополагающих сюжетов в культуре Воз-рождения? Чем похожи «Властелин Колец» и «Война и мир»? Как повлиял рыцарский роман и античная литература на Александра Сергеевича Пушкина? Почему «Дон Кихот» — это не просто паро-дия на...
Издание т-ва "Общественная польза", 1912. — 160 с. — (Библиотека современной философии). Предлагаемая читателю книга посвящена исследованию романтизма — идейного и художественного направления в культуре конца XVIII — первой половины XIX века, и его отражения в различных сферах жизни, прежде всего в философии, религии, литературе и искусстве. Романтизм, утверждающий преобладание...
Ленинград: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1984. В данной коллективной монографии рассматривается развитие художественной культуры в Западной и Восточной Европе, на Ближнем и Дальнем Востоке, Латинской Америке от эпохи Возрождения до конца XX века. Предназначена для культурологов, искусствоведов, эстетиков, аспирантов и студентов гуманитарных специальностей. Сохраняя...
М.: Прогресс-Традиция, 2009. — 297 с.: ил. — ISBN: 5-89826-211-3 Книга Т.П. Каптеревой, обращенная к широкому кругу читателей, является комплексным исследованием художественной жизни Испании, развернутой в веках панорамой национальной культуры. Стержень изложения - образ Мадрида, центра интеллектуальной и художественной истории страны. В динамическую картину жизни столицы...
Пермь: Пермский Государственный Университет, 1975. - 298 с.
Учебное пособие по спецкурсу.
Книга об истории формирования в среде рабочего класса индустриально развитых стран зачатков новой, социалистической культуры.
Пермь: Пермский Государственный Университет, 1975. - 296 с.
Учебное пособие по спецкурсу.
Книга об истории формирования в среде рабочего класса индустриально развитых стран зачатков новой, социалистической культуры.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2012. — 480 с. — ISBN: 978-5-227-03681-0. В книге пересказываются для русской аудитории легенды, приметы, сказки и баллады, популярные в Англии XIX века. Быт англичан показан здесь через призму обычаев и суеверий. Вся жизнь подданного Британской империи с момента рождения и до смерти сопровождалась незыблемыми традициями и обрядами, многие из которых вызывают...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2011. — 480 с. — ISBN: 978-5-227-03021-4 Авторы книги пересказывают для русской аудитории легенды, приметы, сказки и баллады, популярные в Англии XIX века. Быт англичан показан здесь через призму обычаев и суеверий. Вся жизнь подданного Британской империи с момента рождения и до смерти сопровождалась незыблемыми традициями и обрядами, многие из которых...
М.: Центрполиграф, СПб.: Русская тройка-СПб, 2011. — 480 с.
ISBN: 978-5-227-03021-4 (в пер.), 978-5-227-03681-0, 978-5-227-05881-2.
Авторы книги пересказывают для русской аудитории легенды, приметы, сказки и баллады, популярные в Англии XIX века. Быт англичан показан здесь через призму обычаев и суеверий. Вся жизнь подданного Британской империи с момента рождения и до смерти...
Текст лекций подготовлен преподавателями кафедры истории и политологии СПБГУТД.
Место эпохи просвещения в европейской культуре.
Мыслители эпохи просвещения Англии и Франции.
Литература Западной Европы XVIII в.
Музыкальное искусство Западной Европы XVII-XVIII вв.
Барокко и классицизм в искусстве Нового времени.
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М.: Республика, 1993. — 511 с.: ил. Эта книга — первый из трех томов издания, в котором воспроизводится русский перевод уникального, до сих пор непревзойденного по богатству материала исторического повествования на вечную тему — об отношениях мужчины и женщины. Эти отношения прослеживаются на протяжении нескольких веков. Увлекательно рассказывается о том, как в разных странах и...
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