Turin 1564 1680

Author : Martha D. Pollak
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226673424
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turin 1564-1680 written by Martha D. Pollak and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-10-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Turin's transformation is well told. . . . Pollak's account of the financial machinations of the Dukes in their efforts to acquire properties, and to pay for fortifications by taxing betterment on enclosed land, is one of the best parts of the book."—Simon Pepper, Times Literary Supplement

Author : Peter H. Wilson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674036345
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Thirty Years War written by Peter H. Wilson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly continental struggle, the Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. In a major reassessment, Wilson argues that religion was not the catalyst, but one element in a lethal stew of political, social, and dynastic forces that fed the conflict--a conflict that ultimately transformed the map of the modern world.

Author : Giles Worsley
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inigo Jones and the European Classicist Tradition written by Giles Worsley and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Inigo Jones's work within the context of the European early seventeenth century classicist movement. Includes a broad survey of contemporary architecture in Italy, Germany, France and the Netherlands, as well as a close examination of Jones's buildings.

Author : Andrew R. Casper
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271091088
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Artful Relic written by Andrew R. Casper and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference In 1578, a fourteen-foot linen sheet bearing the faint bloodstained imprint of a human corpse was presented to tens of thousands of worshippers in Turin, Italy, as one of the original shrouds used to prepare Jesus Christ’s body for entombment. From that year into the next century, the Shroud of Turin emerged as Christianity’s preeminent religious artifact. In an unprecedented new look, Andrew R. Casper sheds new light on one of the world’s most famous and controversial religious objects. Since the early twentieth century, scores of scientists and forensic investigators have attributed the Shroud’s mysterious images to painterly, natural, or even supernatural forces. Casper, however, shows that this modern opposition of artifice and authenticity does not align with the cloth’s historical conception as an object of religious devotion. Examining the period of the Shroud’s most enthusiastic following, from the late 1500s through the 1600s, he reveals how it came to be considered an artful relic—a divine painting attributed to God’s artistry that contains traces of Christ’s body. Through probing analyses of materials created to perpetuate the Shroud’s cult following—including devotional, historical, and theological treatises as well as printed and painted reproductions—Casper uncovers historicized connections to late Renaissance and Baroque artistic cultures that frame an understanding of the Shroud’s bloodied corporeal impressions as an alloy of material authenticity and divine artifice. This groundbreaking book introduces rich, new material about the Shroud’s emergence as a sacred artifact. It will appeal to art historians specializing in religious and material studies, historians of religion, and to general readers interested in the Shroud of Turin.

Author : Matthew Vester
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1612480950
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabaudian Studies written by Matthew Vester and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of interdisciplinary essays introduce the history and culture of the lands ruled by the sovereign house of Savoy during the late medieval and early modern periods, territories now part of France, Italy, and Switzerland. Because the Sabaudian realms were geographically, linguistically, and culturally diverse and did not evolve into a single modern nation-state, their early history has been overlooked by historians whose perspectives were often informed by a narrow, national framework. An international team of scholars offers new research that de-provincializes many of the existing rich scholarly assessments of the historical significance of these lands, which were important for rulers and subjects throughout early modern Europe. The volume explores the concept of “Sabaudian studies” and identifies historiographic developments and current trends in the field. Beginning with the geography and the history of the area, the essays examine Sabaudian political culture (diplomatic practice, judicial institutions, and political thought), dynastic representation (court festivals and celebrations, and the projection of dynastic prestige abroad, with attention to the sacred heritage of the house), and territorial domination (its fiscal, religious, feudal, and composite dimensions). Contributors include Eva Pibiri, Laurent Perrillat, Rebecca Boone, Alessandro Celi, Thalia Brero, Stéphane Gal and Preston Perluss, Michel Merle, Toby Osborne, Kristine Kolrud, Guido Alfani, Marco Battistoni, Matthew Vester, and Blythe Alice Raviola.

Author : Gregory Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429768400
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750 written by Gregory Hanlon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant examines more than 200 years of international rivalry across Western, Central, and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean rim. The book charts the increasing scale, expenditure and duration of early modern wars; the impact of modern fortification on strategy and the movement of armies; the incidence of guerrilla war and localized conflict typical of the French wars of religion; the recourse by warlords to private financing of troops and supplies; and the creation of disciplined standing armies and navies in the age of Absolutism, made possible by larger bureaucracies. In addition to discussing key events and personalities of military rivalry during this period, the book describes the operational mechanics of early modern warfare and the crucial role of taxation and state borrowing. The relationship between the Christian West and the Ottoman Empire is also extensively analysed. Drawing heavily upon international scholarship over the past half-century, European Military Rivalry, 1500–1750: Fierce Pageant will be of great use to undergraduate students studying military history and early modern Europe.

Author : Rosemary Sweet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020506
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and the Grand Tour written by Rosemary Sweet and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of how British travellers experienced, described and represented the cities they visited on the Grand Tour.

Author : Gregory Hanlon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135361436
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twilight Of A Military Tradition written by Gregory Hanlon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This work of military history integrates the Italian dimension into the wider political and military history of early modern Europe.

Author : Edward Chaney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857735314
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Jacobean Grand Tour written by Edward Chaney and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the eighteenth century is traditionally seen as the age of the Grand Tour, it was in fact the continental travel of Jacobean noblemen which really constituted the beginning of the Tour as an institutionalized phenomenon. James I's peace treaty with Spain in 1604 rendered travel to Catholic Europe both safer and more respectable than it had been under the Tudors and opened up the continent to a new generation of aristocratic explorers, enquirers and adventurers. This book examines the political and cultural significance of the encounters that resulted, focusing in particular on two of England's greatest, and newly united, families: the Cecils and the Howards. It also considers the ways in which Protestants and Catholics experienced the aesthetic and intellectual stimulus of European travel and how the cultural experiences of the travellers formed the essential ingredients in what became the Grand Tour.

Author : Paul E.J. Hammer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351873768
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450–1660 written by Paul E.J. Hammer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early modern period saw gunpowder weapons reach maturity and become a central feature of European warfare, on land and at sea. This exciting collection of essays brings together a distinguished and varied selection of modern scholarship on the transformation of war”often described as a ’military revolution’”during the period between 1450 and 1660.