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Baroque Personae

Baroque Personae
Author: Rosario Villari
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1995-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226856377

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Originally published in Italian as L'Uomo Barocco (Editori Laterza), in 1991. Several chapters are published from the authors' original English-language versions, revised; one has been translated form the author's original French-language version, revised. Contributors develop a portrait of institutions, ideologies, intellectual themes, and social structures as they are reflected in characteristic social roles of the Baroque period, such as the statesman, the nun, the soldier, the artist, the witch, the scientist, and the bourgeois. Paper edition (85637-2), $18.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Jesuits and Fortifications

Jesuits and Fortifications
Author: Denis De Lucca
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2012-02-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004216510

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This book sheds light on the role of Jesuit mathematicians in the widespread dissemination of ideas about military architecture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, by means of teaching, writings and consultancy activities aimed at assisting Catholic leaders in their wars against protestants and infidels.


The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History

The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History
Author: William Reger
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317025326

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This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational - that plagued imperial formations in the early modern period (1500-1800). During this time of wrenching technological, demographic, climatic, and economic change, empires had to struggle with new religious movements, incipient nationalisms, new sea routes, new military technologies, and an evolving state system with complex new rules of diplomacy. Engaging with a host of current debates, the chapters in this book break away from conventional historical conceptions of empire as an essentially western phenomenon with clear demarcation lines between the colonizer and the colonized. These are replaced here by much more fluid and subtle conceptions that highlight complex interplays between coalitions of rulers and ruled. In so doing, the volume builds upon recent work that increasingly suggests that empires simply could not exist without the consent of their imperial subjects, or at least significant groups of them. This was as true for the British Raj as it was for imperial China or Russia. Whilst the thirteen chapters in this book focus on a number of geographic regions and adopt different approaches, each shares a focus on, and interest in, the working of empires and the ways that imperial formations dealt with - or failed to deal with - the challenges that beset them. Taken together, they reflect a new phase in the evolving historiography of empire. They also reflect the scholarly contributions of the dedicatee, Geoffrey Parker, whose life and work are discussed in the introductory chapters and, we’re proud to say, in a delightful chapter by Parker himself, an autobiographical reflection that closes the book.


Venice Reconsidered

Venice Reconsidered
Author: John Jeffries Martin
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2003-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801876443

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This collection of essays on centuries of culture and politics is “likely to become a landmark in Venetian historiography” (The Historical Journal). Venice Reconsidered offers a dynamic portrait of Venice from the establishment of the Republic at the end of the thirteenth century to its fall to Napoleon in 1797. In contrast to earlier efforts to categorize Venice’s politics as strictly republican and its society as rigidly tripartite and hierarchical, the scholars in this volume present a more fluid and complex interpretation of Venetian culture. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—history, art history, and musicology—these essays present innovative variants of the myth of Venice—that nearly inexhaustible repertoire of stories Venetians told about themselves.


Reason and Its Others

Reason and Its Others
Author: David R. Castillo
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826515452

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By exploring manifestations of normative and non-normative thinking in the geopolitical and cultural contexts of Early Modern Italy, Spain, and the American colonies, this volume hopes to encourage interdisciplinary discussions on the early modern notions of reason and unreason, good and evil, justice and injustice, center and periphery, freedom and containment, self and other.


By Force and Fear

By Force and Fear
Author: Anne Jacobson Schutte
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2011-07-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801463181

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An unwilling, desperate nun trapped in the cloister, unable to gain release: such is the image that endures today of monastic life in early modern Europe. In By Force and Fear, Anne Jacobson Schutte demonstrates that this and other common stereotypes of involuntary consignment to religious houses—shaped by literary sources such as Manzoni’s The Betrothed—are badly off the mark. Drawing on records of the Congregation of the Council, held in the Vatican Archive, Schutte examines nearly one thousand petitions for annulment of monastic vows submitted to the Pope and adjudicated by the Council during a 125-year period, from 1668 to 1793. She considers petitions from Roman Catholic regions across Europe and a few from Latin America and finds that, in about half these cases, the congregation reached a decision. Many women and a smaller proportion of men got what they asked for: decrees nullifying their monastic profession and releasing them from religious houses. Schutte also reaches important conclusions about relations between elders and offspring in early modern families. Contrary to the picture historians have painted of increasingly less patriarchal and more egalitarian families, she finds numerous instances of fathers, mothers, and other relatives (including older siblings) employing physical violence and psychological pressure to compel adolescents into "entering religion." Dramatic tales from the archives show that many victims of such violence remained so intimidated that they dared not petition the pope until the agents of force and fear had died, by which time they themselves were middle-aged. Schutte's innovative book will be of great interest to scholars of early modern Europe, especially those who work on religion, the Church, family, and gender.


Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy

Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy
Author: Gideon Manning
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2012-06-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 900421870X

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Bringing together an international team of historians of science and philosophy to discuss the fate of matter and form, this volume shows how disputes about matter and form spurred innovation as well as conservatism in early modern science and philosophy.


The Remnants of War

The Remnants of War
Author: John Mueller
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-02-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0801459575

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"War... is merely an idea, an institution, like dueling or slavery, that has been grafted onto human existence. It is not a trick of fate, a thunderbolt from hell, a natural calamity, or a desperate plot contrivance dreamed up by some sadistic puppeteer on high. And it seems to me that the institution is in pronounced decline, abandoned as attitudes toward it have changed, roughly following the pattern by which the ancient and formidable institution of slavery became discredited and then mostly obsolete."—from the Introduction War is one of the great themes of human history and now, John Mueller believes, it is clearly declining. Developed nations have generally abandoned it as a way for conducting their relations with other countries, and most current warfare (though not all) is opportunistic predation waged by packs—often remarkably small ones—of criminals and bullies. Thus, argues Mueller, war has been substantially reduced to its remnants—or dregs—and thugs are the residual combatants. Mueller is sensitive to the policy implications of this view. When developed states commit disciplined troops to peacekeeping, the result is usually a rapid cessation of murderous disorder. The Remnants of War thus reinvigorates our sense of the moral responsibility bound up in peacekeeping. In Mueller's view, capable domestic policing and military forces can also be effective in reestablishing civic order, and the building of competent governments is key to eliminating most of what remains of warfare.


Transcending Mission

Transcending Mission
Author: Michael W. Stroope
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 479
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830882251

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Is the language of mission clearly evident across the broad reaches of time? Or has the modern missionary enterprise distorted our view of the past? Michael Stroope investigates how the modern church has come to understand, speak of, and engage in the global expansion of Christianity, offering a hopeful way forward in this pressing conversation.