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Italy in the Baroque
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Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy
In Italy, the powerful Borromeo family of Milan have long been held up as a rare example of paternalist aristocrats who withstood the temptations of self-enrichment so many of their peers succumbed to during the period of Spanish rule. Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy, the first major study of the family in the seventeenth century, challenges this myth and explains how it came about. Based on research in the previously inaccessible Borromeo private papers, the volume details the Borromeo's increasing involvement with, and dependence on, the patronage of the kings of Spain. At the center of the analysis are the ways in which one family sought to rationalize and conceal this controve...
The Social History of Skepticism
The result was a powerful current of skepticism with extraordinary consequences. Combined with late-seventeenth-century developments in other areas of thought and writing, it produced skepticism about the possibility of gaining any historical knowledge at all." "Joining the history of ideas to the history of journalism and publishing, Dooley sets out to discover when early modern people believed their political informants and when they did not."--BOOK JACKET.
The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe
First attempt to bring together a range of research on the origins of news publishing Provides a broad-ranging, comprehensive survey High quality contributors with very good publishing record
A Pocket Mirror for Heroes
A Pocket Mirror for Heroes is a mirror because it reflects "the person you are or the one you ought to be." It is a pocket mirror because its author took the time to be brief. And it is a mirror for heroes because it provides a vivid image of ethical and moral perfection to which all can aspire. The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian was all but forgotten for three hundred years, until its republication in 1992 turned this lost classic into a New York Times bestseller. Now Gracian, the Spanish Jesuit considered Machiavelli's better in strategy and insight, sets a new standard on the art of living and the practice of achieving. That new standard is the art of heroism--how to be "the co...
Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture, Volume 18 (2016)
This is volume 18 of Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture published by The Interpreter Foundation. It contains articles on a variety of topics including: "Cloud Illusions and the Perfect Day," "Viewing the Temple Through Wilford Woodruff’s Eyes," "The 'Fiery Darts of the Adversary' in 1 Nephi 15:24," "'He Did It': A Christmas Message," "Jesus Christ’s Interactions with the Women of the New Testament," "The More Part of the Book of Mormon Is Early Modern English," "Joseph Smith Read the Words," "Untangling Scripture from the Philosophies of Men," "The Case of the {-th} Plural in the Earliest Text," "The Case of Plural?Was in the Earliest Text," "To 'See and Hear'," "Samuel the Lamanite, Christ, and Zenos: A Study of Intertextuality," "The Yoke of Christ: A Light Burden Heavy With Meaning," "The Faith to See: Burning in the Bosom and Translating the Book of Mormon in Doctrine and Covenants 9," "'They Were Moved with Compassion' (Alma 27:4; 53:13): Toponymic Wordplay on Zarahemla and Jershon," and "Onomastic Wordplay on Joseph and Benjamin and Gezera Shawa in the Book of Mormon."
