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Gerhild Scholz Williams
How magic influenced people’s lives and thought in early modern Europe
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Reviews key discourses in eight of Praetorius’s works. The author attempts to introduce the modern reader to the kinds of subjects, the intellectual and spiritual approaches to them, and the…
A fascinating and exciting reevaluation of the 17th-century novels of Eberhard Happel
Explores the variety of cultural and commercial conversations between Europe and Ottoman Eurasia as they negotiated their competing economic and hegemonic interests. Brought about by travel, trade, diplomacy, and wars…
Presents twelve essays by distinguished scholars on newly emerging epistemologies regarding the transcendent nature of the Divine, the natural world, the body, sexuality, intellectual property, aesthetics, demons, and witches.
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A dozen selected history-of-science papers from the October 1999 incarnation of the annual 16th-Century Studies Conference, held in St. Louis, explore the work and legacy of Paracelsus (1493-1541), seen today…
Rethinking Europe offers a selection of essays that reevaluate the Thirty Years’ War by contextualizing it within the broader history of the Reformation, military conflicts, peace initiatives, and negotiations of…
Pathbreaking volume providing a detailed, state-of-the-art overview of the literature of this 350-year period and its cultural and historical background.
