Author: Braden Frieder
Publisher: Truman State University Pre
Keywords: sixteenth, century, essays, studies, court, habsburg, spanish, prince, perfect, tournaments, art, armor, chivalry
Number of Pages: 236
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 193111269X
ISBN-13: 9781931112697
Chivalry and the Perfect Prince is a survey of the ceremonial armor crafted for the Spanish Habsburg monarchs of the sixteenth century. It examines notable tournaments and pageantry held at the courts of Charles V and Philip II, and the artworks associated with them. Braden Frieder guides the reader through these tournaments, jousting, and other knightly exercises as part of a larger aristocratic culture that included arms and armor, paintings, tapestries, medals, and sculptures with chivalric themes. Frieder presents Habsburg tournaments in their proper historical context as an extension of i
Author: Oxford University Pre
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: sixteenth, world, atlas
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-10-01
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0195393287
ISBN-13: 9780195393286
The sixteenth edition of the Oxford Atlas of the World is chock-full of page-turning information, including new census data, dozens of city maps, updated country profiles, the latest statistics on climate change, gorgeous satellite images of Earth, and an instructive 48-page Introduction to World Geography--beautifully illustrated with tables and graphs. Providing the finest global coverage available, the Oxford Atlas of the World is not only the best-selling volume of its size and price, but also the benchmark by which all other atlases are measured. Take a Look at the Stunning Illustrations
Author: Frances A. Yate
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: century, sixteenth, academies, french
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1989-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0415002214
ISBN-13: 9780415002219
Shows how Florentine Neo-Platonism with its aim of reconciling not only philosophy and religion but religious factions and religions themselves, was transmitted to France.
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Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Keywords: sixteenth, horror, fantasy, year
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2003-08-23
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0312314256
ISBN-13: 9780312314255
For more than a decade, readers have turned to The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror to find the most rewarding fantastic short stories. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling continue their critically acclaimed and award-winning tradition with another stunning collection of stories. The fiction and poetry here is culled from an exhaustive survey of the field, nearly four dozen stories ranging from fairy tales to gothic horror, from magical realism to dark tales in the Grand Guignol style. Rounding out the volume are the editors’ invaluable overviews of the year in fantasy and horror, new Ye
Author: C Marshall Matlock
Publisher: Society Of Newspaper Design
Keywords: sixteenth, design, newspaper
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1995
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1878107054
ISBN-13: 9781878107053
Author: H. C. Midelfort
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: germany, century, sixteenth, madness, history
Number of Pages: 456
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0804741697
ISBN-13: 9780804741699
This magisterial work explores how Renaissance Germans understood and experienced madness. It focuses on the insanity of the world in general but also on specific disorders; examines the thinking on madness of theologians, jurists, and physicians; and analyzes the vernacular ideas that propelled sufferers to seek help in pilgrimage or newly founded hospitals for the helplessly disordered. In the process, the author uses the history of madness as a lens to illuminate the history of the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the history of poverty and social welfare, and the histo
Author: Henry Osborn Taylor
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: century, sixteenth, expression, thought
Number of Pages: 444
Published: 2009-10-04
List price: $36.75
ISBN-10: 1116206935
ISBN-13: 9781116206937
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XX LOLLARDY AND PECOCK AND GASCOIGNE It may have been, as Milton says, that Wyclif’s preaching " was to his countrymen but a short blaze, soon damped and stifled." Yet we shall find his true succession not merely in such lights of the subsequent reformation as Larimer and Hooper, but in the English people themselves, as in the stirrings of the Puritan movement, with its hatred of prelacy and " Judaiz
