Book on Games of Chance: The 16th Century Treatise on Probability
Gambling led Cardano to the study of probability, and he formulated some basic ideas more than a...
EAN: 9780486797939
Cultures of Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Europe
EAN: 9781472411556
Alexander Scott, Montgomerie, and Drummond of Hawthornden as Lyric Poets
Originally published in 1915, this innovative essay gained the Lord Rector's Prize in Edinburgh...
EAN: 9781316509555
Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing
This book offers a novel interpretation of the relationship between Castellanos’s poems and...
EAN: 9781611487183
Unruly Women
In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial...
EAN: 9781487520267
Lead Books of Granada
Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the...
EAN: 9781137581778
Faith and Magic in Early Modern Finland
Early modern Finland is rarely the focus of attention in the study of European history, but it...
EAN: 9781137547262
John Maitland of Thirlestane and the Foundation of the Stewart Despotism in Scotland
When John Maitland accepted the office of Secretary of State to James VI of Scotland in 1584, he...
EAN: 9780691626338
Shaping of the Elizabethan Regime
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EAN: 9780691622231
Court Comedies of John Lyly
The nature of Renaissance allegory has been the subject of much investigation, notably by...
EAN: 9780691621852
Reading and Writing during the Dissolution
This book presents detailed biographical case studies of English religious men and women, and...
EAN: 9781316601938
Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650
To counter Eurocentric notions of long-term historical change, Wet Rice Cultivation and the...
EAN: 9781137542199
Language of Space in Court Performance, 1400–1625
Analysing a range of spectacular historical events between 1400 and 1625, including the trial of...
EAN: 9781316505328
Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition
This book explores the activities of early modern Irish migrants in Spain, particularly their...
EAN: 9781137465894
Ming China and Vietnam
Traditional studies of Sino-Viet relations focused on outmoded debates about Chinese aggression...
EAN: 9781107124240
Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human
Surekha Davies examines how Renaissance illustrated maps shaped ideas about peoples of the...
EAN: 9781107036673
Marriage and Its Dissolution in Early Modern England, Volume 4
Addresses Early Modern representations of chastity and adultery, as well as matrimony and its...
EAN: 9781138754980
Marriage and Its Dissolution in Early Modern England, Volume 1
Addresses Early Modern representations of chastity and adultery, as well as matrimony and its...
EAN: 9781138754959
Commedia dell' Arte and the Mediterranean
EAN: 9781472418142
Model of Poesy
This recently discovered treatise on poetics from 1599, the end of the most revolutionary decade...
EAN: 9781316505588
Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England
Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer – as a 'woman's...
EAN: 9781137569196
