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Book SynopsisLong obfuscated by modern definitions of historical evidence and art patronage, Lucrezia Tornabuoni deâ Mediciâs impact on the visual world of her time comes to light in this book, the first full-length scholarly argument for a lay womanâs contributions to the visual arts of fifteenth-century Florence. This focused investigation of the Medici familyâs domestic altarpiece, Filippo Lippiâs Adoration of the Christ Child, is broad in its ramifications. Mapping out the cultural network of gender, piety, and power in which Lippiâs painting was originally embedded, author Stefanie Solum challenges the received wisdom that women played little part in actively shaping visual culture during the Florentine Quattrocento. She uses visual evidence never before brought to bear on the topic to reveal that Lucrezia Tornabuoni - shrewd power-broker, pious poetess, and mother of the 'Magnificent' Lorenzo deâ Medici - also had a profound impact on the visual arts. Lucrezia emerges as a fascinating key tTrade Review'Solum presents a fresh, innovative interpretation of a familiar masterpiece by Filippo Lippi, illuminating our understanding of a series of related works. This erudite and lucid text offers a new paradigm for the definition of the nature of the artist-patron relationship, especially important for future work on female patronage.' Bruce Edelstein, New York University in Florence'Stefanie Solum opens this stimulating book by discussing a question fundamental for those interested in artistic patronage in Renaissance Florence: whether or not laywomen commissioned significant paintings, sculptures, or buildings in the city during the fifteenth century. ...Lucrezia certainly pursued a religious ideal embodied by the saints, exemplified in religious texts, and outlined in devotional literature. Solum’s ingenious utilization of such evidence yields a fascinating hypothesis concerning Lucrezia’s role in influencing the creation of a major fifteenth-century painting, as well as a reconstruction of her inner life of prayer and rich religious imagination.' CAA.ReviewsTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the power of female patronage in 15th-century Florence; Saving the Medici; Gendered histories: Lucrezia Tornabuoni’s spiritual activism; Choosing the Child Baptist: beyond a civic icon; From outside in: the Child Baptist, Lucrezia Tornabuoni, and the contemplative turn; Garden, forest, and mountain: navigating the Baptist’s wilderness in the Palazzo Medici Adoration; Lucrezia Tornabuoni, female piety, and the power of patronage; Works cited; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeth's navy. It is a companion to The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I (Vol.157 in the NRS Series), where the apparatus serving both volumes was printed, and it complements the other NRS volumes that deal specifically with the Spanish Armada. This collection concentrates (though not exclusively so) on the early years of Elizabeth's reign when there was no formal war. From 1558-1585 the navy was involved in a number of small-scale campaigns, pursuit of pirates and occasional shows of force. The documents selected emphasize the financial and administrative processes that supported these operations, such as mustering, victualing, demobilisation, and ship maintenance and repair. The fleet varied in size from about 30 to 45 ships during the period and a vast amount of maintenance and repair was required. The main component of the volume is the massively detailed Navy Treasurer''s account for 1562-3 Trade Review'The editors should be commended for producing a valuable collection which has been meticulously referenced and cross-referenced to related volumes of documents. ... it is definitely a 'must have' for those researchers in the field as well as a useful addition to scholarly collections and libraries.' The Northern Mariner 'This attractively produced and carefully edited collection provides a wealth of material on Elizabethan naval administration. It is an admirable addition to the publications of the Navy Records Society; it will be of considerable value to naval and maritime historians for the evidence it provides of key aspects of procedure, organisation and personnel, and related matters concerning wages and shipping.' International Journal of Maritime History 'The first truly representative collection of archival documents relating to naval administration spanning the entirety of Elizabeth's reign. ... Elizabethan Naval Administration makes a significant contribution to the study of the Tudor Navy ... historians and sociologists of the maritime world will find the volume an indispensable addition to their reference collections.' Sixteenth Century Journal ’The volume is remarkable firstly for the range of archives from which it draws material together: not just The National Archives and the Pepys Library but also the Bodleian, the British Library and Hatfield House. There are careful explanations of how different records relate to each other and how they ended up where they now reside, including a helpful appendix on the documents surviving in the British Library, which illuminate the preparation of the Quarter Book...[There are] many attractions of this fine volume.’ Archives and RecordsTable of ContentsI First Naval Business in the State Papers, II The Navy Treasurer’s Quarter Book for 1562–1563, III The Navy Treasurer’s Declared Account for 1562–1563, IV Extracts from James Humphrey’s Book of Forms, 1568, V Papers relating to Wages and Wage Rates, VI The Navy Victualler’s 1565 Contract and related papers, VII Papers relating to Sir John Hawkins as Treasurer of the Navy, VIII Edward Fenton’s Notebook and other papers relating to the Expedition of 1590. Appendices.

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together a set of articles by Professor Anton Scharer dealing with the themes of conversion, court culture and royal representation in Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe. It includes two previously unpublished papers, and another four specially translated into English for this publication. Three papers focus on different aspects of conversion: the spread of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England by means of social relations, the role of language in this process and the monastic and social background of the insular mission to the Continent. With conversion came the import of Latin written culture, including charters, and one study focuses on royal styles in Anglo-Saxon charters. A second paper on early mediaeval royal diplomas, and what they at times reveal about very personal reactions and sentiments, leads to the theme of court culture. This is further explored in a batch of papers centred on Alfred the Great and covering the subjects of historiography, of inauTrade Review'...this excellent volume offers both a wide array of perspectives on and new avenues of research for scholars of both Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe alike' - English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; The conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kings in the 7th and 8th century; The role of language in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History; Insular mission to the continent in the early Middle Ages; The Gregorian tradition in early England; Die angelsächsischen Königreiche: Vielfalt und Einheit; Die intitulationes der angelsächsischen Könige im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert; King Alfred and late Carolingian Europe; The writing of history at King Alfred’s court; A new second ‘English’ Ordo?; Alfred the Great and Arnulf of Carinthia: a comparison; The king’s voice: on the expression of personal concern in early medieval diplomas; Charlemagne’s daughters; Duke Tassilo of Bavaria and the origins of the Rupertus Cross; Objects of royal representation in England and on the Continent; Bishops in Ottonian Bavaria; Index.

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Book SynopsisCrusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.Table of ContentsContents: Articles: Approaches to the study of migration during the crusades, Piers D. Mitchell and Andrew R. Millard; The history and architectural design of Castellum Regis and some other finds in the village of Mi'ilya, Rabei G. Khamisy; Usama ibn Munqidh and Crusader law in the 12th century, Adam M. Bishop; Les difficultes de l'epigraphie franque de Terre sainte au XIIe et XIIIe siecles, Pierre-Vincent Claverie; The True Cross in the armies of Georgia and the Frankish East, Mamuka Tsurtsumia; Templars and Hospitallers in the cities of the West and Latin East (12th to 13th centuries), Damien Carraz; Gambling and gaming in the Holy Land: chess, dice and other games in the sources of the crusades, Elizabeth Lapina; Food and the Military Orders: attitudes of the Hospital and the Temple between the 12th and 14th centuries, Judith Bronstein; An academic call to arms in 1252: John of Garland's crusading epic De triumphis Ecclesiae, Martin Hall; Preaching crusade in 15th-century England: instructions for the administration of the anti-Hussite crusade of 1429 in the diocese of Canterbury, Robert Swanson; The kingdom of Cyprus and Muslim-Christian diplomacy in the age of Mehmed the Conqueror, Alexander Beihammer; Crusading traditions and chivalric ideals: the mentality of the Teutonic Order in Livonia at the beginning of the 16th century, Juhan Kreem. Reviews: Ane L. Bysted, Carsten Selch Jensen, Kurt Villads Jensen and John H. Lind, Jerusalem in the North: Denmark and the Baltic Crusades, 1100-1522, trans. Sarah and Frederick Pedersen, Jonathan Riley-Smith; The Chronicle of Prussia by Nicolaus von Jeroschin. A History of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, 1190-1331, trans. Mary Fischer, Kurt Villads Jensen; The Chanson d'Antioche. An Old French Account of the First Crusade, trans. Susan B. Edgington and Carol Sweetenham, David Trotter; Documents Concerning Cyprus from the Hospital's Rhodian Archives: 1409-1459, ed. Karl Borchardt, Anthony Luttrell and Ekhard Schoffler, Simon D. Phillips; La Fin de l'ordre du Temple, ed. Marie-Anna Chevalier, Francois-Olivier Touati; Marino Sanudo Torsello, The Book of the Secrets of the Faithful of the Cross: Liber Secretorum Fidelium Crucis, trans. Peter Lock, Mike Carr; Joseph O'Callaghan, The Gibraltar Crusade: Castile and the Battle for the Strait, Damian J. Smith; Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image, and Identity, ed. Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager, William Chester Jordan; Claire Taylor, Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Medieval Quercy, Jessalyn Bird. Short Notices: Languages of Love and Hate: Conflict, Communication, and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean, ed. Sarah Lambert and Helen Nicholson; Shipping, Trade and Crusade in the Medieval Mediterranean: Studies in Honour of John Pryor, ed. Ruthy Gertwagen and Elizabeth Jeffreys. Bulletin No 33 of the SSCLE.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment, and presents an alternative to the male-authored canon of philosophy and political thought. Over the course of the eighteenth century increasing numbers of women went into print, and they exploited both new and traditional forms to convey their political ideas: from plays, poems, and novels to essays, journalism, annotated translations, and household manuals, as well as dedicated political tracts. Recently, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women's literary writing and their role in salon society, but their participation in political debates is less well studied. This volume offers new perspectives on some better known authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, Catharine Macaulay, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, as well as neglected figures from the British Isles and continental Europe. The collection advances discussion of how best to understand women's polTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I Women’s Political Ideas in Continental Europe; Chapter 1 Emilie Du Châtelet’s Views on the Pillars of French Society, Judith P.Zinsser; Chapter 2 Royalist and Radical, PaulGibbard; Chapter 3 Performing Citizenship, FeliciaGordon; Chapter 4 Etta Palm d’Aelders and Louise Keralio-Robert, CalogeroAlberto Petix, KarenGreen; Chapter 5 Marie-Armande Gacon-Dufour, Erica J.Mannucci; Chapter 6 Legality and Morality in the Political Thought of Elise Reimarus and Immanuel Kant, LisaCurtis-Wendlandt; Chapter 7 Italian Women Intellectuals and Their Cultural Networks, MariannaD’Ezio; Chapter 8 Women’s Intellectual Agency in the History of Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century French Salons, StevenKale; Part II Women’s Political Ideas in the British Isles; Chapter 9 The Right to Resist, Elizabeth M.K.A.Sund; Chapter 10 Catharine Macaulay and Laetitia Barbauld, KarenGreen; Chapter 11 ‘The Manly Virtues’, MaryCaputi; Chapter 12 Between Enlightenment, Feminism, and Abolitionism, JeanetteEhrmann; Chapter 13 ‘Doing an Acceptable Service to my Country’, LesaNí Mhunghaile;

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual, and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. Recent scholarship has brought to the fore the economic, political, cultural, and personal interactions between Western European Christian states and the Eastern Mediterranean Islamic states, and has therefore highlighted the incongruity of conceiving of an iron curtain bisecting the mentalities of the various socio-political and religious communities located in the same Euro-Mediterranean space. Instead, the emphasis here is on interpreting the Mediterranean as a world traversed by trade routes and associated cultural and intellectual networks through which ideas, people and goods regularly travelled. The fourteen articles in this volume contribute to an exciting cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary scholarly dialogue that explores elements of continuity aTrade Review'The Renaissance and the Ottoman World is a first-class collection of essays.' Sixteenth Century Journal Volume '... written by scholars for the equally scholarly... To general knowledge, these essays on ideas, books, maps, music and events add patches of great depth and insight.' Brian Sewell's essential art books of 2013, London Evening Standard 'This book of essays is a blast of fresh air blowing through hermetically sealed rooms as it aims to portray the Ottomans not merely as hovering on the fringes of Europe, but as integral to Mediterranean culture, even becoming elements in the European Renaissance. Thirteen contributions highlight unusual areas, including technology, cartography, architectural inspiration and music.' Art Newspaper '... visually stunning as well as refreshing in its diverse views.' Renaissance Quarterly ’The range of the book is impressive, covering material culture, music, intellectual exchanges, art, cartography, historiography, textiles, and other issues ...a thought-provoking, wide-ranging book that convincingly argues that the Ottoman Empire participated as an accepted player in European affairs during the early modern period. Future studies will no doubt continue to add to many of the authors’ observations.’ European History QuarterlyTable of ContentsContents: Foreword; Section I Commercial, Artistic and Cultural Contexts: Blurring the boundaries: intellectual and cultural interactions between the Eastern and Western: Christian and Muslim worlds, Claire Norton; Sharing a taste? Material culture and intellectual curiosity around the Mediterranean from the 11th to the 16th century, Anna Contadini; The Lepanto paradigm revisited: knowing the Ottomans in the 16th century, Palmira Brummett. Section II Texts, Art and Music as Media for the Transmission of Intercultural Influences: The role of the book in the transfer of culture between Venice and the Eastern Mediterranean, Deborah Howard; The 'reception of the Venetian ambassadors in Damascus’: dating, meaning and attribution, Caroline Campbell; Giacomo Gastaldi’s maps of Anatolia: the evolution of a shared Venetian-Ottoman cultural space?, Sonja Brentjes; Turning a deaf ear, Owen Wright. Section III Renaissance Thought: Old and new demarcation lines between Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire: from Pope Pius II (1458-1464) to Pope Benedict XVI (2005-13), Zweder von Martels; Turco-Graecia: German humanists and the end of Greek antiquity - cultural exchange and misunderstanding, Asaph Ben Tov; Positive views of Islam and of Ottoman rule in the 16th century: the case of Jean Bodin, Noel Malcolm. Section IV The Renaissance and the Ottoman Empire: Binding relationships: Mamluk, Ottoman and Renaissance bookbindings, Alison Ohta; Ottoman textiles in European markets, Suraiya Faroqhi; Mehmed II as a patron of Greek philosophy: Latin and Byzantine perspectives, Anna Akasoy; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first English translation of the main contemporary accounts of the Crusade and death of the German Frederick I Barbarossa (ruled 1152-90). The most important of these, the ''History of the Expedition of the Emperor Frederick'' was written soon after the events described, and is a crucial, and under-used source for the Third Crusade (at least in the Anglophone world). The account begins with two letters describing the disaster of Hattin and Saladin''s subsequent conquest of most of the Holy Land (the second of these is addressed to the duke of Austria). It goes on to describe how the emperor took the Cross, the preparations and recruitment for the Crusade, the diplomatic contacts of Barbarossa with the Byzantine Emperor and the Sultan of Iconium in an attempt to secure a peaceful passage for the expedition, and the Crusade itself: the journey through the Balkans and the gruelling march through Asia Minor, beset by Turkish attack, until its arrival at Antioch on 21st July 1Trade Review'... this will prove an extremely useful collection to those teaching the Third Crusade, the Reconquista, and the history of the late twelfth-century Empire.' Parergon ’... a godsend to teachers and others who want to concentrate on the Third Crusade... Loud’s introduction is a model of its kind... a significant scholarly contribution that builds on recent German research and ought to be read by anyone interested in the Third Crusade.' Jonathan Riley-Smith, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History 'Faisant partie d’une collection aussi prestigieuse qu’utile, le présent volume comporte la traduction anglaise de sept textes relatifs à la croisade de Frédéric Barberousse, sa préparation, son recrutement, la traversée de l’Anatolie et son arrivée à Antioche, onze jours après la noyade de l’empereur... Claire et précise, l’introduction d’une trentaine de pages donne une vision globale de l’histoire de l’expédition.' Cahiers de Civilisation MédiévaleTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction; The history of the expedition of the Emperor Frederick; The history of the pilgrims; The chronicle of Magnus of Reichersberg; A letter concerning the death of the Emperor Frederick; The chronicle of Otto of St Blasien, 1187-1197; An account of the seaborne journey of the pilgrims heading to Jerusalem who captured Silves in 1189; Frederick I's imperial 'land peace' (issued at Nuremberg, 29 December 1188); Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisProbate inventories provide an unparalleled and intimate glimpse into the lives of the inhabitants of early modern England. After death, the items within the deceased's home would frequently be itemised and valued room-by-room. As well as providing invaluable information about the rich diversity and value of domestic material culture, the inventories also offer insights into the different tastes, domestic arrangements and range of activities that took place within the early modern home. Inventories also enable scholars to reconstruct the informal social and business networks that are crucial for understanding this period, but which might otherwise remain hidden. By offering a critical introduction to the use of probate inventories for historical research, and by providing transcriptions of inventories from French immigrants to early modern London, this book provides a new and important resource for students and researchers interested in the early modern household, material culture studTrade Review"This book is a useful reference volume for those of us interested in the material culture of early modern London and the difference immigrants brought with them when they settled in their new homeland."- Tracey Wedge, Independent Scholar, Aotearoa/New Zealand"These 92 inventory transcriptions, supported by a glossary, bibliography and indices, are thus a very solid addition to the existing corpus and ... this book should be in any serious library."- Newsletter of the Furniture History Society"The transcriptions are packed with interesting and puzzling items that will surely provoke discussion. ... This volume would be a welcome addition to the shelves of both researchers and teachers."- Sixteenth Century Journal"...a useful and necessary resource for historians studying French Protestant immigration, acculturation of immigrants to London, material culture and cultural studies."- Seventeenth Century"Without a doubt, Parker’s contribution to Huguenot scholarship and domestic history will be invaluable to researchers and students in migrant communities in early modern London, as well as those interested in the material culture of the urban middle classes."- French StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction, Inventory Transcriptions, Appendix A: Names, Appendix B: Occupations, Appendix C: Glossary

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Book SynopsisRome and Religion in the Medieval World provides a panoramic and interdisciplinary exploration of Rome and religious culture. The studies build upon or engage Thomas F.X. Noble's interest in Rome, especially his landmark contributions to the origins of the Papal States and early medieval image controversies. Scholars from a variety of disciplines offer new viewpoints on key issues and questions relating to medieval religious, cultural and intellectual history. Each study explores different dimensions of Rome and religion, including medieval art, theology, material culture, politics, education, law, and religious practice. Drawing upon a wide range of sources, including manuscripts, relics, historical and normative texts, theological tracts, and poetry, the authors illuminate the complexities of medieval Christianity, especially as practiced in the city of Rome itself, and elsewhere in Europe when influenced by the idea of Rome. Some trace early medieval legacies to the early modern perTable of ContentsThomas F.X. Noble: An Appreciation, Bibliography of the Works of Thomas F.X. Noble, 1974–2013, Discipuli Nobilis 1 “Whatever Mystery May be Given to My Heart”: A Latent Image in Arator’s History of the Apostles 2 Getting to Know Virgil in the Carolingian Age: The Vita Publii Virgilii 3 Why Not to Marry a Foreign Woman: Stephen III’s Letter to Charlemagne 4 Opposition to Pilgrimage in the Reign of Charlemagne? 5 The Sources of Textiles and Vestments in Early Medieval Rome 6 Christening, the Kingdom of the Carolingians, and European Humanity 7 The Astronomer’s Life of Louis the Pious 8 Paschasius Radbertus and Pseudo-Isidore: The Evidence of the Epitaphium Arsenii Rome and Religion in the Medieval World 9 Care of Relics in Early Medieval Rome 10 Rome and the Popes in the Construction of Institutional History and Identity in the Early Middle Ages: The Case of Leiden Universiteitsbibliotheek Scaliger MS 11 What’s in a Psalm? British Library, MS Arundel 60 and the Stuff of Prayer 12 Prolegomenon to a Study of the Vienna Coronation Gospels: Common Knowledge, Scholarship, Tradition, Legend, Myth 13 Toward Evolution: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions and the Receptions of the Libri Carolini in the Seventeenth Century

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Book SynopsisThis volume comprises nine articles on Islamic astronomy published since 1989 by Benno van Dalen. Van Dalen was the first historian of Islamic astronomy who made full use of the new possibilities of computers in the early 1990s. He implemented various statistical and numerical methods that can be used to determine the mathematical properties of medieval astronomical tables, and utilized these to obtain entirely new, until then unattainable historical results concerning the interdependence of individual tables and hence of entire astronomical works. His programmes for analysing tables, making sexagesimal calculations and converting calendar dates continue to be widely used. The five articles in the first part of this collection explain the principles of a range of statistical methods for determining unknown parameter values underlying astronomical tables and present extensive step-by-step examples for their use. The four articles in the second part provide extensive studies of materialsTrade Review'... what readers have before them in this book is twenty years of insightful, pioneering work into the analysis of Islamic astronomical tables. The impact of van Dalen’s work cannot be overstated.' - Journal of the History of Astronomy'This is an important collection of papers, published over the span of a quarter century, devoted entirely to one topic, the astronomical handbooks with tables and explanations for their use...' - Zentralblatt MATH"For the last 25 years, Benno van Dalen has devoted his efforts indefatigably to the study and analysis of medieval astronimical tables, particularly Islamic tables, and his research has contributed substantially to the progress in this field...it is most welcome that nine of his most remarkable papers, dating from 1989 to 2008, are now published together in a single volume." - José Chabás, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, AestimatioTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Part 1 Methods for Analysing Astronomical Tables: A statistical method for recovering unknown parameters from medieval astronomical tables; On Ptolemy’s table for the equation of time; A table for the true solar longitude in the Jami’ Zij; Al-Khwarizmi’s astronomical tables revisited: analysis of the equation of time; Origin of the mean motion tables of Jai Singh. Part 2 Studies of Zijes: The Zij-i Nasiri by Mahmud ibn ‘Umar. The earliest Indian-Islamic astronomical handbook with tables and its relation the Ala i Zij; A second manuscript of the Mumtahan Zij; Re-editing the tables in the Sabi’ Zij by al-Battani (ca. AD 900) (with Fritz S. Pedersen); Dates and eras in the Islamic world: era chronology in astronomical handbooks; Indexes.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe''s historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of religious change, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period. But the interpretation of the European wars of religion still remains largely defined by national boundaries, tied to specific processes of state building as well as nation building. In order to more thoroughly interrogate these concepts and assumptions, this volume focusses on terms repeatedly used and misused in public debates such as religious violence and holy warfare within the context of military conflicts commonly labelled religious wars. The chapters not only focus on the role of religion, but also on the emerging state as a driver of the escalation of violence in the so-called age of religious war. By using different methodological and theoretical approaches historians, philosopherTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionWolfgang Palaver, Harriet Rudolph, and Dietmar RegensburgerPart I Historical Approaches1 Religion and Violence in the Hussite WarsPavel Soukup2 Religion, War, and Violence in the Swiss ConfederationThomas Lau3 Were the French Wars of Religion Really Wars of Religion?Philip Benedict4 Religious Wars in the Holy Roman Empire? From the Schmalkaldic War to the Thirty Years WarHarriet Rudolph5 England’s Wars of Religion: A ReassessmentCharles W. A. Prior6 Justifying Force in Early Modern Doctrines on Self-defence and ResistanceLuise Schorn-SchüttePart II Approaches from Philosophy and Theology7 Secularization of the Holy: A Reading of the ‘Wars of Religion’William T. Cavanaugh8 The Modern State or the Myth of ‘Political Violence’Paul Dumouchel9 The Modern Military–Humanitarian Hybrid State: A Response to Paul DumouchelBruce Ward10 Confessional Wars and Religious Violence in Christianity from a Theological ViewpointRalf Miggelbrink11 Religion and Violence: The Case of Wars in the Former YugoslaviaJanez Juhant12 The Debate About the European Wars of Religion as a Challenge to Interdisciplinary CooperationWolfgang PalaverIndex

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Book SynopsisSince the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris from the 1840s to the 1940s. This unusual territory, although marginal in a social and geographical sense, came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture. Previous studies have focused on its urban and social history, or on particular ways in which it was represented during particular periods. By bringing together and analysing a wider range of sources from the duration of the zone's existence, this study offers a rich and nuanced account of how the area was perceived and used by successive generations of Parisian novelists (including Zola and Flaubert), poets, songwriters, artists, photographers, film-makers, politicians and town-planners. More generally, it aims to raise awareness of a neglected aspect ofTrade Review’For over a century, the Parisian zone was an extraordinary place, seen as the dreadful heart of the French underworld, and filled with dropouts, gypsies, vagrants, ragpickers, pimps and prostitutes. James Cannon’s book is a reliable and remarkable guide into this devastated landscape. It explains the making of this new Cour des miracles, nourished by hundreds of novels, songs, poems, press reports, photographs, films, etc. But Cannon also knows that no imaginary is univocal and he shows how the zone was also a place of social solidarity and mutual aid, a vast playground and a place of entertainment for the popular classes. A brilliant and strongly documented study on one of the major myths of Parisian life.’ Dominique Kalifa, Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France '... informative, well-researched history ... Cannon's history gives perspective to France's current political and social problems, including disaffection and brutality emanating from the zone. ... Highly recommended.' ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: The Urban Periphery and the Zone before 1870; 2: The Emergence of the Zone as a Metaphor, 1870–1889; 3: From Metaphor to Myth, 1890–1918; 4: The Zone between the Wars, 1919–1939; 5: The Death Knell of the Zone, 1940–1944; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThese studies explore the history of the Jewish minority of Ashkenaz (northern France and the German Empire) during the High Middle Ages. Although the Jews in medieval Europe are usually thought to have been isolated from the Christian majority, they actually were part of a ''Jewish-Christian symbiosis.'' A number of studies in the collection focus on Jewish-Christian cultural and social interactions, the foundations of the community ascribed to Charlemagne, and especially on the fashioning of a martyrological collective identity in 1096. Even when Jews resisted Christian pressures they often did so by internalizing Christian motifs and turning them on their heads to argue for the truth of Judaism alone. This may be seen especially in the formation of Jews as martyrs, a trope that places Jews as collective Christ figures whose suffering brings about vicarious atonement. The remainder of the studies delve into the lives and writings of a group of Jewish ascetic pietists, Hasidei AshkenTable of ContentsContents: Introduction. The Jews of Medieval Northern France and Germany (Ashkenaz): A Jewish-Christian symbiosis: the culture of early Ashkenaz; The foundation legend of Ashkenazic Judaism; Rashi's historiosophy in the introductions to his Bible commentaries; The dynamics of Jewish Renaissance and renewal in the 12th century; Honey cakes and Torah: a Jewish boy learns his letters; A pious community and doubt: Jewish martyrdom among northern European Jewry and the story of Rabbi Amnon of Mainz; History, story and collective memory: narrativity in early Ashkenazic culture; From politics to martyrdom: shifting paradigms in the Hebrew narratives of the 1096 crusade riots; Jews and Christians imagining the other in medieval Europe. Medieval German Pietism (Hasidei Ashkenaz): The recensions and structure of Sefer Hasidim; The song of songs in German Hasidism and the school of Rashi: a preliminary comparison; Exegesis for the few and for the many: Judah he-Hasid's biblical commentaries; Narrative fantasies from Sefer Hasidim; The historical meaning of Hasidei Ashkenaz: fact, fiction or cultural self-image?; The devotional ideals of Ashkenazic pietism; Prayer gestures in German Hasidism. Index.

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Book SynopsisA favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Henry Lee was known as 'the most accomplished cavaliero' in England. This handsome, entertaining and highly convivial gentleman was an important participant in life at court as Elizabeth's tournament champion. He created the spectacular Accession Day tournaments held annually before London crowds of more than 8,000 people, was Lieutenant of Elizabeth's palace at Woodstock, and Master of the Armoury at the Tower of London during the Spanish Armada. This is the only biography of Sir Henry Lee in print, and explores the interaction of politics, culture and society of the Elizabethan court through the eyes of a popular and long-serving courtier. Indeed, few other courtiers managed to live such a long and satisfying life, and although this study of Sir Henry's life shows a diverse nature typical of many Elizabethan gentlemen - his travels to the courts of Italy, his knowledge of arms and armour, his delight in the world of emblems and symbolism, his cloTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chapter 1 The Making of a Courtier Gentleman, 1533–1573; Chapter 2 ‘The Queen’s Knight’: Sir Henry Lee and the Elizabethan Tournaments; Chapter 3 The Relationship between Sir Henry Lee and Elizabeth I, 1570–1603; Chapter 4 Master of the Armoury, 1580–1611; Chapter 5 The Life of a Tudor Gentleman: Lee’s Personal Estates and Financial Position; Chapter 6 Sir Henry Lee’s Family, Mistress, Friends and Art Collection; Chapter 7 Sir Henry Lee in the Reign of James I, 1603–1611; Chapter 8 An Evaluation of ‘The Most Accomplished Cavaliero I Have Ever Seen’;

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first study to consider the extraordinary manuscript now known as the Carrara Herbal (British Library, Egerton 2020) within the complex network of medical, artistic and intellectual traditions from which it emerged. The manuscript contains an illustrated, vernacular copy of the thirteenth-century pharmacopeia by Ibn SarÄbÄ, an Arabic-speaking Christian physician working in al-Andalus known in the West as Serapion the Younger. By 1290, Serapionâs treatise was available in Latin translation and circulated widely in medical schools across the Italian peninsula.Commissioned in the late fourteenth century by the prince of Padua, Francesco II âil Novelloâ da Carrara (r. 1390â1405), the Carrara Herbal attests to the growing presence of Arabic medicine both inside and outside of the University. Its contents speak to the Carrara familyâs historic role as patrons and protectors of the Studium, yet its form â a luxury book in Paduan dialect adorned Trade Review‘Kyle’s work represents a significant contribution to the history of the circulation of knowledge and ideas, being of great interest for historians of science (medicine in particular), art historians, and scholars of humanism... Kyle’s research goes beyond the object in discovering a whole world of connections, themes, and patterns within an intricate network of medical, artistic, and intellectual knowledge that could only be found and analyzed by an acute and detective-minded scholar’ – ISIS (Volume 110: 4, December 2019).‘The study draws on textual and artistic sources, humanist and antique writings by men of letters (mostly Petrarch) and by physicians, providing a fine compendium of original sources for the topics discussed… Kyle’s study provides a novel insight into understanding the Carrara Herbal ’s genesis from the ideologies of court culture and medicine as well as its status within them. In particular, it generates perspectives for a better understanding of similar health book commissions, to name only the Tacuina sanitatis, created for the rival court of the Visconti dynasty at Milan. It will therefore find readers among those interested in art history and history of the book as well as in the history of sciences and medicine’ – Renaissance Quarterly (Volume LXXI, No. 3)‘With respect to the topic relating medicine to Humanism, the relevant sections – the bulk of the book – are erudite, carefully referenced and are an important addition to studies of Humanism in late Medieval Italy’ – Garden History (45:2).‘Kyle’s extensive exploration starts from the Carrara Herbal as an object, and her investigation of its various contexts makes her cross and recross the boundaries between art history, the study of humanism, and the history of medicine … The erudition that underpins this study is massive, and ranges widely in terms of subjects as well as a long way back in history’ – Nuncius (33; 2018).‘Sarah Kyle’s Medicine and Humanism in Late Medieval Italy: The Carrara Herbal is the delightful and useful first book of a young scholar… Kyle is an art historian at the University of Central Oklahoma with a penchant for interdisciplinarity. She is at her best writing about art history, something that she does with remarkable clarity in beautiful prose. She is equally remarkable at tackling medical history subjects… Overall, Kyle has managed to produce a good first book, which will be useful to American undergraduates, and will delight more experienced researchers with its interdisciplinary flair’ - British Journal for the History of Science (51:1; 2018).‘… Kyle gelingt es durch eine bemerkenswerte Literaturrecherche eindrucksvoll, die diversen Quellen, Traditionsstränge, das kulturelle und höfische Umfeld, das wissenschaftliche Milieu und die künstlerischen Kontexte der einzigartigen Handschrift zu entschlüsseln. Das wahre Verständnis des Herbariums ist, folgt man ihr, nur möglich, wenn man den Inhalt mit weiteren zeitgenössischen Paduaner Manuskripten korreliert und als programmatischen Anspruch einer umfassenden höfischen Kultur interpretiert. Padua wurde in dieser Hinsicht, was die Selbstinszenierung und kulturelle Konstruktion der Herrscherfamilie betraf, sogar für die Florentiner Medici, geschweige denn viele kleinere Signorien in Oberitalien zum Vorbild’ - Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 45, 2018. (In English translation: ‘… Kyle impressively succeeds, through remarkable research into the literature, in deciphering this unique manuscript’s diverse sources, strands of tradition, cultural and courtly environment, scientific milieu, and artistic contexts. The true understanding of the herbal, to follow her argument, is possible only if one correlates the content with additional contemporary Paduan manuscripts and interprets it as a programmatic claim of an extensive courtly culture. In this respect, as regards the self-presentation and cultural construction of the ruling [Carrara] family, Padua became the model not only for the many smaller signorie in northern Italy, but even for the Florentine Medici’).'Kyle’s work represents a significant contribution to the history of the circulation of knowledge and ideas, being of great interest for historians of science (medicine in particular), art historians, and scholars of humanism—as its title indeed suggests. It is therefore not just a herbal, and Kyle’s research goes beyond the object in discovering a whole world of connections, themes, and patterns within an intricate networkof medical, artistic, and intellectual knowledge that could only be found and analyzed by an acute and detective-minded scholar.' - Dr. Raffaella Bruzzone.‘This book represents the first major study of London, British Library, MS Egerton 2020. Better known as the Herbarium Carrara (the Carrara Herbal), it is an ambitious translation from Latin into Italian—Paduan dialect, to be specific—of the Libro dei Semplici (The Book of Simple Medicaments) by Ibn Sarābī, the mid-thirteenth-century Christian physician better known in the West as Serapion the Younger... Sarah Kyle’s analysis of the material within the framework of the long tradition of Latin translations of Serapion opens the way for her to examine the manuscript’s origins in depth.’ - Speculum 95/2 (April 2020).Table of ContentsIntroduction: Medicine and Metaphor at the Carrara Court / 1. The Carrara Herbal and the Traditions of Illustrated Books of Materia Medica / 2. The Healthy Pleasures of Reading the Carrara Herbal / 3. The ‘Physician Prince’ and his Book / 4. Portraits of the Carrara / 5. Physiognomy in Late Medieval Padua / 6. Embodiments of Virtue in Francesco Novello’s Library / Conclusion / Appendix: List of Manuscripts from Francesco Zago’s Inventory, 1404

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Book SynopsisContributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women's private writings available to historians: their wills. In these, female voices speak out, commenting on their daily lives, on identity, gender, status, familial relationships and social engagement. Wills show women to have been active participants in a civil society, well aware of their personal authority and potential influence, whose committed actions during life and charitable strategies after death could and did impact the health of that society. From an intensive analysis of more than 1200 wills, this pioneering work focuses on women from all parts of the country and all strata of society, revealing an entire population of articulate, opportunistic, and capable individuals who found the spaces between the lines of the law and used those spaces to achieve personal goals. Author Susan James demonstrates how willTrade Review"This book is highly recommended for its topic, approach, and new perspectives on women’s wills in the Tudor epoch. James presents her views with clarity and at a welcome pace." - George Lazaroiu, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, NY, and Spiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania"Does James succeed in allowing us access to the voices of ordinary women? The answer is yes, and with an extraordinary level of detail. Her desire to focus on women’s common experience, however, introduces the idea of a more “universal” Tudor woman than some historians would be willing to accept. But the book should be read by everyone interested in women’s voices, especially in this period. The great strength of James’s book is the amount of knowledge she has so admirably extracted from her sources. Wills really are so much more than mere transfers of property." - Judith Spicksley, University of York, UK"This is an important contribution that analyses an impressive body of data. James’s investigation of women’s wills sheds light on the concerns, preoccupations and activities of women in Tudor England and raises important new questions about gender and inheritance." - CHARMIAN MANSELL, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: The Performance of Death; 2: Identity and Remembrance; 3: Women's Work; 4: The Dispersal of Assets; 5: The Dispersal of Assets; 6: The Dispersal of Assets; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe fifteenth-century Italian artist Piero della Francesca painted a familiar world. Roads wind through hilly landscapes, run past farms, sheds, barns, and villages. This is the world in which Piero lived. At the same time, Piero's paintings depict a world that is distant. The subjects of his pictures are often Christian and that means that their setting is the Holy Land, a place Piero had never visited. The Realism of Piero della Francesca studies this paradoxical aspect of Piero's art. It tells the story of an artist who could think of the local churches, palaces, and landscapes in and around his hometown of Sansepolcro as miraculously built replicas of the monuments of Jerusalem. Piero's application of perspective, to which he devoted a long treatise, was meant to convince his contemporaries that his paintings report on things that Piero actually observed. Piero's methodical way of painting seems to have offered no room for his own fantasy. His art looks deliberatelTable of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Life and Work1 Before the Work2 The Time of the Work3 The Site In the Work4 After the WorkConclusionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisCrusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of war, their home fronts and settlements from the Baltic to Africa and from Spain to the Near East and on theology, law, literature, art, numismatics and economic, social, political and military history. Routledge publishes this journal for The Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East. Particular attention is given to the publication of historical sources in all relevant languages - narrative, homiletic and documentary - in trustworthy editions, but studies and interpretative essays are welcomed too. Crusades appears in both print and online editions.Table of ContentsArticles: Eleventh-century pilgrimage from Catalonia to Jerusalem: new sources on the foundations of the First Crusade, Nikolas Jaspert; A Constantinopolitan poet views Frankish Antioch, Elizabeth Jeffreys and Michael Jeffreys; Bologna und der Fünfte Kreuzzug, Hans Eberhard Mayer; La reine de Serbie Hélène d’Anjou et la maison de Chaources, Nicolas Petrovitch; Jacob van Zuden and the early 14th-century expansion of the Hospitallers in the bishopric of Utrecht, Florence Koorn (†) and Johannes A. Mol; The fate of the former templar estates in England, 1308-1338, Philip Slavin; Reviews; Short notices, Bulletin no. 35 of the SSCLE.

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Book SynopsisIn the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expected to allow the brain to write in its own language, and which would reveal the way the brain worked. Borck traces the numerous contradictory interpretations of electroencephalography, from Berger's experiments and his publication of the first human EEG in 1929, to its international proliferation and consolidation as a clinical diagnostic method in the mid-twentieth century. Borck''s thesis is that the language of the brain takes on specific contours depending on the local investigative cultures, from whose conflicting views emerged a new scientific object: the electric brain.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Brain Waves Then and Now 1. Electrifying Brain Images 2. Hans Berger’s Long Path to the EEG 3. Electrotechniques of the Live Mind 4. Terra nova: Contexts of Electroencephalographic Explorations 5. Set to and Survey Much! 6. Designing, Tinkering, Thinking Conclusion - Plea for an Open Epistemology

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Book SynopsisThe starting point of this volume is the scathing attack, far-reaching in its consequences, launched in 1942 by J.C. van Leur on the views then current on the character and significance of the 18th century as a category in Asian history. His denial of European pre-eminence in Asian waters represented a direct attack on colonial historiography. The essays here derive from an international conference held 50 years later, to assess the impact of van Leur’s work. In part historiographic, in part drawing on new research, they aim to delimit the boundaries of European-Asian interaction, and to provide case studies of what this period actually meant for the history of South and East Aia.Trade Review'...a fascinating and wide-ranging tour d’horizon of recent Asian historiography struggling with the issue of eighteenth-century change....' Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 58, No. 4 '... reflective overviews by experienced historians...' Journal of World History 'This excellent and well-connected collection of essays is well worth the purchase of the volume and belongs on any historian's bookshelf.... it is hoped that university libraries and other institutions will add this book to their collections.' Journal of Asian HistoryTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; the 18th century as a category in Asian history; J.C.Van Leur, 1908-1942: a short life in history, Jaap Vogel; The 18th century in Southeast Asia, David K. Wyatt; The long 18th century and the new age of commerce in the Melaka Straits, J. Kathirithamby-Wells; Periodization, institutional change and 18th-century Java; Mason C. Hoadley; Princes, pretenders, and the Chinese phrakhlang: an analysis of the Dutch evidence concerning Siamese court politics, Dhiravat na Pombejra; Japan in the 18th century: demography and economy, Akira Hayami; From company to individual company servants: Dutch trade in 18th-century Japan, Yoko Nagazumi; Domestic interregional trade in 18th-century China, William T.Rowe; The impact of the international tea trade on the social economy of Northwest Fujian in the 18th century, Zhuang Guotu; The 18th century in Indian economic history; Irfan Habib; Trade and politics in 18th-century Bengal, Om Prakash; Merchants and commerce in Coromandel: Trends and tendencies in the 18th century, S. Arasaratnam; Van Leur and the Indian 18th century, C.A. Bayly; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England. This study places the market town at the centre of the transformation of early-modern England, both catalysing changes in agriculture and experiencing, in a distinctive fashion, the urbanisation that was to occur a century or more later in the great industrial and commercial centres of Europe. In the two centuries after 1500 the rural economy changed from a pattern of subsistence to 'improved' farming. The first great enclosures took place during this time, but the economic base for this revolution was the growth of local trading, centred on markets and local communications networks. This redistribution of produce, provisions and information was the motor of specialisation and hence modernisation. The strength of this study is in its detailed research into this process in one representative locality, and the sensitive extrapolation of local experiences on to the national and European scale. By integrating in one book the themes of rural transformation and early urbanisation this account of one typical midland market town demonstrates the continuing vigour of the discipline of local history.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Urban and rural communities; Population and poverty; The farming economy; The town economy; Town and village; The peasant economy transformed; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThough the first edition of this book (1960) rapidly established itself as a sound collection of source material and a comprehensive analysis of the government of England in the sixteenth century, the astonishing amount of work done, by many hands including the author's, in the last twenty years has rendered a revision very necessary. The scope of these changes is indicated by the fact that in the list of books cited some 180 make a first appearance while some 70 have been discarded. In the upshot, no single section has remained unaltered and several (especially on the Church, on Parliament and on the Law) have had to be entirely rewritten. While there was room for the addition of only a few documents, they have been chosen with an eye to topics especially alive in the researches of the present day. One such issue â patronage and faction â while not amenable to documentation in a book of this kind has not been forgotten in the commentary.Table of Contents1. The crown; 2. The council; 3. The seals and the secretary; 4. Financial administration; 5. The ancient courts; 6. Conciliar courts; 7. Ecclesiastical courts; 8. Parliament; 9. The Church; Local government; List of books; Glossary; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis major work of academic reference provides the first comprehensive survey of political thought in Europe, North America and Asia in the century following the French Revolution. Written by a distinguished team of international scholars, this Cambridge History is the latest in a sequence of volumes firmly established as the principal reference source for the history of political thought. In a series of scholarly but accessible essays, every major theme in nineteenth-century political thought is covered, including political economy, religion, democratic radicalism, nationalism, socialism and feminism. The volume also includes studies of major figures, including Hegel, Mill, Bentham and Marx, and biographical notes on every significant thinker in the period. Of interest to students and scholars of politics and history at all levels, this volume explores seismic changes in the languages and expectations of politics accompanying political revolution, industrialisation and imperial expansTable of ContentsEditors' introduction; Part I. Political Thought after the French Revolution: 1. Counter-revolutionary thought Bee Wilson; 2. Romanticism and political thought in the early nineteenth century John Morrow; 3. On the principle of nationality John Breuilly; 4. Hegel and Hegelianism Frederick C. Beiser; 5. Historians and lawyers Donald R. Kelley; 6. Social science from the Revolution to Positivism Cheryl B. Welch; 7. Radicalism, Republicanism and Revolutionism, from the principles of '89 to the origins of modern terrorism Gregory Claeys and Christine Lattek; Part II. Modern Liberty and its Defenders: 8. From Jeremy Bentham's radical philosophy to J. S. Mill's philosophic radicalism Frederick Rosen; 9. John Stuart Mill, mid-Victorian Ross Harrison; 10. 'Woman question' and the origins of feminism Lucy Delap; 11. Constitutional Liberalism in France: from Benjamin Constant to Alexis de Tocqueville Jeremy Jennings; 12. American political thought from Jeffersonian Republicanism to Progressivism James P. Young; 13. German Liberalism in the nineteenth century Wolfgang J. Mommsen; 14. Visions of stateless society K. Steven Vincent; Part III. Modern Liberty and its Critics: 15. Aesthetics and politics Douglas Moggach; 16. Non-Marxian socialism 1815–1914 Gregory Claeys; 17. The young Hegelians, Marx and Engels Gareth Stedman Jones; Part IV. Secularity, Reform and Modernity: 18. Church and state: the problem of authority John E. Toews; 19. The politics of nature: science and religion in the age of Darwin Daniel Pick; 20. Conservative political thought from the revolutions of 1848 until the fin de siècle Lawrence Goldman; 21. Modern liberty redefined James Thompson; 22. Political economy Emma Rothschild; 23. German socialism and social democracy 1860–1900 Vernon L. Lidtke; 24. Russian political thought of the nineteenth century Andrezj Walicki; 25. European political thought and the wider world during the nineteenth century Christopher Bayly; 26. Empire and imperialism Duncan Bell; Epilogue: French Revolution to fin de siècle: political thought in retrospect and prospect, 1800 to 1914 Jose F. Harris.

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Book SynopsisThis volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages. Organized by topic and culture, its essays are written by a group of distinguished scholars and offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of medieval science currently available.Table of ContentsGeneral editors' preface; Introduction Michael H. Shank and David C. Lindberg; 1. Islamic culture and the natural sciences F. Jamil Ragep; 2. Islamic mathematics J. L. Berggren; 3. The mixed mathematical sciences: optics and mechanics in the Islamic Middle Ages Elaheh Kheirandish; 4. Islamic astronomy Robert G. Morrison; 5. Medicine in medieval Islam Emilie Savage-Smith; 6. Science in the Jewish communities Y. Tzvi Langermann; 7. Science in the Byzantine Empire Anne Tihon; 8. Schools and universities in medieval Latin science Michael H. Shank; 9. The organization of knowledge: disciplines and practices Joan Cadden; 10. Science and the medieval church David C. Lindberg; 11. Natural knowledge in the early Middle Ages Stephen C. McCluskey; 12. Cosmology, astronomy, and mathematics Bruce S. Eastwood; 13. Early medieval medicine and natural science Vivian Nutton; 14. Translation and transmission of Greek and Islamic science to Latin Christendom Charles Burnett; 15. The twelfth-century renaissance Charles Burnett; 16. Medieval alchemy William R. Newman; 17. Change and motion Walter Roy Laird; 18. Cosmology Edward Grant; 19. Astronomy and astrology John North; 20. The science of light and color, seeing, and knowing David C. Lindberg and Katherine H. Tachau; 21. Mathematics A. George Molland; 22. Logic E. J. Ashworth; 23. Geography David Woodward; 24. Natural history from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries Karen Meier Reeds and Tomomi Kinukawa; 25. Anatomy, physiology, and medical theory Danielle Jacquart; 26. Medical practice Katharine Park; 27. Technology and science George Ovitt; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisAntecedents and Beginnings to 1801 is the first of twelve volumes in the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States. In this first volume, Julius Goebel Jr. details the creation of a national judiciary in the United States under the Act of 1789 and traces the Supreme Court's development through its first decade of existence.Trade Review"Too many 'talk the talk' of making children a priority in society. What Hamilton has done with her book is to show a clear and simple way that policymakers can 'walk the walk'... [she] clearly and articulately connects the value of using civil law as a tool to protect children. " --Ted Thompson, Executive Director, NAPSAC (Natl Assn to Prevent the Sexual Abuse of Children) "This brave book is one all lawmakers should read." --Jason Berry, author of Lead Us Not Into Temptation "In understandable, eloquent prose, Marci Hamilton makes the case for abolishing a statutory scheme that protects sexual predators and which closes our courtrooms to maltreated children. Although it is too late to claim the honor of having acted quickly to address this injustice, this book shows us how to avoid the disgrace of having never acted at all." --Victor Vieth, Director, National Child Protection Training Center "Hamilton is absolutely right: a vigorous and effective children's civil rights movement is long overdue ... I applaud Marci Hamilton for leading the way with her outstanding legal scholarship, advocacy and passion for justice!" --Eileen King, Regional Director, Justice For Children "Hamilton provides a compelling case that demonstrates that the interests of insurance companies, unions, churches, and schools will always trump the safety of children unless we do something about it. Hamilton tells us what we can do, how to do it, and why it will work." --Charol Shakeshaft, Chairperson and Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University "Professor Hamilton combines genuine sensitivity to the plight of survivors of childhood sexual abuse with in depth expertise in the working of the legal system. " --Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, Director, Center on Children and Families, Fredric G. Levin College of Law, University of Florida "A powerful call to action by one of America's leading constitutional scholars. Marci Hamilton makes clear what must be done if we are to prevent the continued sexual abuse of children." --Jeff Dion, National Center for Victims of Crime. "...Hamilton tackles the issue head-on but in language that is clearly written and not full of unnecessary legalese...I encourage you to read Hamilton's book." ---Bucks County Courier Times, Diane Shea, Langhorne, adjunct professor, Holy Family University and former director, residential services for Elwyn, Inc. "Professor Marci A Hamilton, a law professor at Cardozo School of Law, has written a strong and well researched book...a must-read for lawyers who have represented victims or, as Professor Hamilton refers to them, survivors, of sexual abuse." --Herbert J. Friedman, The Nebraska Lawyer "Justice Denied is about one of the most horrendous offenses against children short of murder: child sexual abuse...The author paints a vivid and shocking picture of child sexual abuse which should disavow the attitudes of those who think its limited to sinister looking street denizens in dirty trench coats... Marci Hamilton's book is short and to the point. Its last sentence sums up the book and the cause: "It is an either/or choice: we can either protect the predators or the children." This book concludes with the hope that it will be so for the right of children and their parents to live in a society without fear of sexual assault." -- Thomas P. Doyle, is a Dominican priest and served as a canon lawyer at the Vatican Embassy. Doyle is the author of Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church's 2,000-Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse with A.W. Richard Sipe and Patrick Wall. "Argues for removing states' statutes of limitation for cases of child sexual abuse..." --Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of Contents1. The path of the law - old world to new; 2. The traditions of judicial control over legislation; 3. The new states and the principle of constitutional authority; 4. The continental congress and national judicial authority; 5. The constitutional convention and the judiciary; 6. The appeal to the people and the molding of opinion; 7. The framers as propagandists; 8. The raising I: the judicial before the states; 9. The raising II: the judicial before the states; 10. Unfinished business - the Bill of Rights; 11. The Judiciary Act of 1789; 12. The process acts; 13. The circuit courts - organization, civil and appellate jurisdiction; 14. The circuit courts - criminal jurisdiction; 15. The Supreme Court - appellate practice; 16. The Supreme Court - political and constitutional issues I; 17. The Supreme Court - political and constitutional issues II; Appendix: the business of the Supreme Court, 1789–1801, appellate jurisdiction; Manuscript sources - abbreviations of locations; Location of manuscript federal judicial records consulted; Manuscripts other than federal judicial records; Contemporary newspapers and periodicals cited; Short titles and abbreviations; Select bibliography.

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