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The collection of essays that comprise this study was produced by historians, cultural critics and literary scholars. They examine a variety of political, social and cultural forces at work during the English Renaissance and beyond.
This book explores the rich philosophical content of the writings of Jonathan Swift. It discusses these philosophical topics against their ideengeschichtliche background and... Læs mere
This study provides a comprehensive intellectual biography of Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia. The author highlights Elisabeth’s place in the Western intellectual tradition and contextualizes her contributions within the social and cultural landscape of seventeenth-century Europe.
it brings to life the petty jealousies that formed an integral part of both the building world and scientific milieu of the Royal Society. Above all, His Invention So Fertile... Læs mere
Providing a full-length investigations of Pierre de Fermat's life and work, this title provides rare insight into the mathematical... Læs mere
The first full biography of one of the giants of philosophy and science for a century -- by one of our most eminent writers and thinkers.
18th century literary salon hostessLively debauched youth, would even shock modern societyWitty correspondence with key thinkers of the time: Voltaire and Horace Walpole
This book re-examines conflict resolution, and partcualry problem-solving conflict resolution, from a new... Læs mere
In 1659, Luis de Haro met with Cardinal Jules Mazarin to conclude a peace treaty that would end over twenty years of war. The hitherto unpublished letters sent by Haro to Philip... Læs mere
This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (1611–93) and Miscellaneous... Læs mere
Archpriest Avvakum’s autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and ’70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar.