books about: sixteenth-century

books about: sixteenth-century

books:

Sixteenth-century

The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and ...

Margaret F. Rosenthal

University Of Chicago Press, 1993

Excellent, but a little slow
I greatly enjoyed this book, but I found that wading through 16th century Venetian dialect was difficult. If you are looking for an entertaining story biography, look elsewhere, but if you want a dissertation-style biography, you will enjoy this, as I did.

Counterpoint: The Polyphonic Vocal Style of the Sixteenth Century

Knud Jeppesen

Dover Publications, 1992

A classic text now in an inexpensive and durable reprint!
I am delighted that this classic work is back in print and available in such an affordable and durable edition from Dover. There are many Dover editions of books and music in my library and every one of them has served me durably and well. You can buy this book more ...

Tudor Tailor: reconstructing sixteenth- century dress

Ninya Mikhaila

Costume & Fashion Press, 2006

Love the Patterns!
If you are looking for a great book about Tudor clothing it doesn't get any better than this book. The illustrations and the patterns are really wonderful. I love this book.

The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century

Carlo Ginzburg

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

Ian Myles Slater: on Popular Belief and Official Doctrine
Whether or not Carlo Ginzburg actually discovered evidence of shamanism in sixteenth-century Italy, in this or later books, is in part a matter of how one defines shamanism. What he undeniably found, in the seemingly unpromising records of the Inquisition, was evidence ...

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume B: The Sixteenth Century/The Early Seventeenth Century

W. W. Norton, 2005

Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published. Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies?thorough and helpful introductory matter, ...

Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds

Natalie Zemon Davis

Hill and Wang, 2007

The charged politics and turmoil of his life and times brings history to life
TRICKSTER TRAVELS: A SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MUSLIM BETWEEN WORLDS could also have been featured in our 'travel' section for its fascinating travelogue entries; but is reviewed here for its value to any studying 1500s history. Al-Wazzan trveled widely as an ambassador and ...

The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller

Carlo Ginzburg

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

Microhistory of the masses
Borne of the microhistory genre, "The Cheese and the Worms" provides a glimpse into the life of a miller in medieval Italy. No ordinary miller is 'Menocchio', however, as he is inquisitioned for his radical religious philosophies. In a time and place where ...

Christianity's Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution--A History from the Sixteenth Century to the ...

Alister Mcgrath

HarperOne, 2007

The implications!
What is the most basic, fundamental, revolutionary idea to come out of the Protestant Reformation? Alistair McGrath contends that it is the idea that individuals can read and decide on their own, without a centralized authority, what the bible means. Tracing this ...

The Mystic Fable: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
Michel de Certeau

University Of Chicago Press, 1995

The culmination of de Certeau's lifelong engagement with the human sciences, this volume is both an analysis of Christian mysticism during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and an application of this influential scholar's transdisciplinary historiography.

Sources of Korean Tradition, Vol. 2: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

Ch', Yôngho oe

Columbia University Press, 2000

Nice collection of primary sources in English
This is a nice book to get for anyone serious about studying early Korean History (pre-Yi dynasty). It gives you a taste of the Samguk Sagi, Samguk Yusa, The Chronicles of Koryo as well as early Wei China accounts and the controversial inscription on King Kwanggetto's ...

Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France

Natalie Davis

Stanford University Press, 1990

A Lucid Foundational Study for Any New Historian
Natalie Davis' study probes the Pardon letters of sixteenth century France in an attempt to discern the fundamental attitudes of sixteenth-century society regarding violence, religion, crime and other matters. She points out that while the pardon letters are not ...

The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century Anabaptism

William Roscoe Estep

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1996

Good historical review of the early Anabaptists.
Gives the historical background, foundation, and progress of the "re-baptizers" as their critics called them. The ministries of the early Anabaptist leaders are followed in detail in both Switzerland, Germany, and Holland. After a historical review of each leader's ...

The Burgermeister's Daughter: Scandal in a Sixteenth-Century German Town

Steven Ozment

Harper Perennial, 1997

Love, Religion, Sex, Greed, and Germans--Can't Be Beat!!
There are few stretches of the imagination by which Anna Büschler can be called typical of her time and place. First, she was a member of the embryonic bürger urban middle class in a society that was overwhelmingly rural and peasant. Secondly, she had the audacity ...

Lucrecia's Dreams: Politics and Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Spain

Richard L. Kagan

University of California Press, 1995

What dreams may cause
Story of Lucrecia De Leon whose `dreams' embarrassed Phillip II and caused her to stand before the Inquisition as a heretic. Based on transcripts of her trial and other first hand documents, Lucrecia's Dreams is an important part of Early Modern Spanish history. ...

The Time of Troubles: A Historical Study of the Internal Crisis and Social Struggle in Sixteenth- and ...

S. F. Platonov

University Press of Kansas, 1970

Platonov presents the complete context for the development of "The Time of Troubles"
From the death of Ivan IV (the terrible) in 1584 until the election of Mikhail Romanov as Tsar in 1613, the Russian nation was in a state of continuous war and chaos. At times, there was no authority beyond what local control could be asserted. Bands of brigands roamed ...