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Witchcraft, Gender and Society in Early Modern Germany
Recent witchcraft historiography, particularly where it concerns the gender of the witch-suspect, has been dominated by theories of social conflict in which ordinary people colluded in the persecution of the witch sect. The reconstruction of the Eichstätt persecutions (1590-1631) in this book shows that many witchcraft episodes were imposed exclusively ‘from above’ as part of a programme o…
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- 9789047420552
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- 316 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, Volume:
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Verse and Transmutation : A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Criti…
Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers’ stone dating from the fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in association with each other until the mid-seventeenth century, when a number of them appeared in Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. These …
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- 9789004254831
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- 390 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science, Volume: 21
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Microhistories of Technology
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals selectively adopted or rejected modern gadgets, tools, and machines. In standard historical narratives, globalization is portrayed as an unstoppable force that flattens all obsta…
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- 978-3-031-22813-1
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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Feeling Political
Historicizing both emotions and politics, this open access book argues that the historical work of emotion is most clearly understood in terms of the dynamics of institutionalization. This is shown in twelve case studies that focus on decisive moments in European and US history from 1800 until today. Each case study clarifies how emotions were central to people’s political engagement and its …
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- 978-3-030-89858-8
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Emotions
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European Modernity and the Passionate South
In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European civilization and modernity. This book studies, for the first time in comparative perspective, the gender dimension of a process that legitimised internal hierarchies between N…
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- 978-90-04-52722-5
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- Studia Imagologica, Volume: 32
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Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to th…
Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of news and newspaper studies. Ranging across eastern and western Europe and beyond, the chapters look back to the early modern period and into the eighteenth century to consider how the news of the past was gathered and spread, how news outlets gaine…
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- 9789004362871
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- 408 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Library of the Written Word, Volume: 66 Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 66
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Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance = Responses to Religious Pluralism …
Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences of religious plurality, providing insights into the developments and drawbacks of religious coexistence in this turbulent period. The essays examine three main groups of a…
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- 9789004371309
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- 278 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Studies in Central European Histories, Volume: 64
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The Years of Jesuit Suppression, 1773–1814: Survival, Setbacks, and Transfo…
The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well a…
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- 9789004423374
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- 124 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Brill Research Perspectives in Jesuit Studies
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Economic Imperatives for Women's Writing in Early Modern Europe
Economic Imperatives for Women’s Writing in Early Modern Europe delves into the early modern history of women’s authorship and literary production in Europe taking a material turn. The case studies included in the volume represent women writers from various European countries and comparatively reflect the nuances of their participation in a burgeoning commercial market for authors while pro…
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- 978-90-04-38302-9
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- Women Writers in History, Volume: 2
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Early Modern Privacy Sources and Approaches
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 history, art history, church history, economic history, gender histo…
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- 978-90-04-15307-3
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- Intersections, Volume: 78
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