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Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378
Transnational Networks and Cross-Religious Exchange in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

Transnational Networks and Cross-Religious Exchange in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-03-09
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In 1644, the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Europe fuelling an already febrile atmosphere of messianic and millenarian expectation. By tracing the process in which one set of apocalyptic ideas was transmitted across the Christian and Islamic worlds, this book provides fresh insight into the origin and transmission of eschatological constructs, and the resulting beliefs that blurred traditional religious boundaries and identities. Beginning with an investigation of the impact of Montezinos’s narrative, the next chapter follows the story to England, examining how the Quaker messiah James Nayle...

A Sociable Moment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

A Sociable Moment

A Sociable Moment is the first book to examine the rise of opera in Siena during the Baroque. It focuses both on opera as a manifestation of civic self-fashioning and sociability, especially in pastoral works promoted by the expatriate Chigi family, and opera as business under the impresario Girolamo Gigli.

British Messotinto Portraits
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 586

British Messotinto Portraits

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1884
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Land and Credit
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Land and Credit

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-02-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume investigates the use of mortgages in the European countryside between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. A mortgage allowed a loan to be secured with land or other property, and the practice has been linked to the transformation of the agrarian economy that paved the way for modern economic growth. Historians have viewed the mortgage both positively and negatively: on the one hand, it provided borrowers with opportunities for investment in agriculture; but equally, it exposed them to the risk of losing their mortgaged property. The case studies presented in this volume reveal the variety of forms that the mortgage took, and show how an intricate balance was struck between t...

British Mezzotint Portraits
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 630

British Mezzotint Portraits

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1884
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Altomani & Sons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Altomani & Sons

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British Mezzotinto Portraits
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 514

British Mezzotinto Portraits

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1883
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Voice Machines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 429

Voice Machines

An exploration of the castrato as a critical provocation to explore the relationships between sound, music, voice instrument, and machine. Italian courts and churches began employing castrato singers in the late sixteenth century. By the eighteenth century, the singers occupied a celebrity status on the operatic stage. Constructed through surgical alteration and further modified by rigorous training, castrati inhabited human bodies that had been “mechanized” to produce sounds in ways that unmechanized bodies could not. The voices of these technologically enhanced singers, with their unique timbre, range, and strength, contributed to a dramatic expansion of musical vocabulary and prompted...

New Perspectives on Handel's Music
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 476

New Perspectives on Handel's Music

An international collaboration between leading scholars showcases a broad spectrum of observations on Handel and his music, covering many aspects of modern interdisciplinary and traditional philological musicology.