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Between the Middle Ages and Modernity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Between the Middle Ages and Modernity

This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities in the profound transitions of the early modern period. Taking a global and comparative approach to historical issues, the distinguished contributors show that individual and community created and recreated one another in the major structures, interactions, and transitions of early modern times. Offering an important contribution to our understanding both of the early modern period and of its historiography, this volume will be an invaluable resource for scholars working in the fields of medieval, early modern, and modern history, and on the Renaissance and Reformation.

The Transmission of Well-being
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 542

The Transmission of Well-being

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

What does well-being mean when we talk about men and women in the past? Their sheer chances of survival, their protection from want, their social status, their individual agency and their self-esteem were all strongly mediated by the family, the predominant social institution. Family laws and customs of family formation created differences between insiders and outsiders in terms of well-being. Within families, there were strong differences in autonomy, status and freedom between the genders and generations. The book offers a fascinating exploration of gender differences in well-being in many regions of historic Europe, with some comparative perspectives. It explores how historic family systems differed with respect to choosing a marriage partner, transmitting property, living and care conditions of widows and widowers and the position of children born out of wedlock.

Strangers Within
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 624

Strangers Within

A comprehensive study of the New Christian elite of Jewish origin—prominent traders, merchants, bankers and men of letters—between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries In Strangers Within, Francisco Bethencourt provides the first comprehensive history of New Christians, the descendants of Jews forced to convert to Catholicism in late medieval Spain and Portugal. Bethencourt estimates that there were around 260,000 New Christians by 1500—more than half of Iberia’s urban population. The majority stayed in Iberia but a significant number moved throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, coastal Asia and the New World. They established Sephardic communities in North Africa, the Ottoman...

Picking Wedlock
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Picking Wedlock

In Picking Wedlock, Shifra Armon illuminates the remarkable convergence of three women novelists of Spain's Golden Age: Maria de Zayas, Mariana de Carvahal, and Leonor de Meneses. Armon considers these extraordinary writers together for the first time, appraising them in relationship to the historical and literary nexus that gave impetus to the publication of their work.

War, Trade and Neutrality
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 275

War, Trade and Neutrality

This book is the culmination of a research project funded by the University of Pisa's internationalisation support programme of 2008-10. The project's underlying idea is that the Mediterranean is of decisive importance for any investigation into the political and commercial relations between states of different size and constitutional structure in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It thus scrutinises the practices, institutions and cultural tendencies of the region's ruling classes, from those of the Italian small states to those of the great powers. Salerno, Edigati, Angiolini, Addobbati and Zamora examine the theme of the small state by focusing on the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and it...

1997
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

1997

Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.

Revista Hidalguía número 301. Año 2003
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 148

Revista Hidalguía número 301. Año 2003

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Some Late Eighteenth-century Louisianians
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 638

Some Late Eighteenth-century Louisianians

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Harkness Collection in the Library of Congress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

The Harkness Collection in the Library of Congress

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1932
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Leading Facts of New Mexican History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 717

The Leading Facts of New Mexican History

As an avid supporter of New Mexico statehood, the author argued the territorys case for elevated political status, celebrated its final victory in 1912, and even designed New Mexicos first state flag in 1915. This reprint of his 1911 edition serves as a tribute to the states centennial celebration of 2012.