Europæisk historie: renæssancen

Francis I was inconstant, amorous, hotheaded, and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king ever to rule France. This is his story.Leonie Frieda, the author of the bestselling Catherine de Medici, tells the extraordinary tale of King Francis of France, Catherine's father-in-law and the man who turned France into a great nation. Francis saw himself as the first Renaissance king. A man who was the exemplar of courtly and civilized behavior throughout France and Europe, he was also a courageous and heroic warrior, a keen aesthete, an accomplished diplomat, and an energetic ruler who transformed his country to be a force to be reckoned with.But he was also capricious, vain, and arrogant, taking hugely unnecessary risks, at least one of which nearly resulted in the end of his kingdom. His great feud with his nemesis Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, defined European diplomacy and sovereignty, but his notorious alliance with the great Ottoman ruler Suleiman threatened to destroy everything. With access to never-before-seen private archives, Leonie Frieda delivers a comprehensive and sympathetic account that explores the life of the man who was the most human of all the Renaissance monarchs?and the most enigmatic.

Francine Prose's life of Caravaggio evokes the genius of this great artist through a brilliant reading of his paintings. Caravaggio defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his use of ordinary people, realistically portrayed?street boys, prostitutes, the poor, the aged?was a profound and revolutionary innovation that left its mark on generations of artists. His insistence on painting from nature, on rendering the emotional truth of experience, whether religious or secular, makes him an artist who speaks across the centuries to our own time.Born in 1571 near Milan, Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) moved to Rome when he was twenty-one years old. He became a brilliant and successful artist, protected by the influential Cardinal del Monte and other patrons. But he was also a man of the streets who couldn't seem to free himself from its brawls and vendettas. In 1606 he fled Rome, apparently after killing another man in a dispute. He spent his last years in exile, in Naples, Malta, and Sicily, at once celebrated for his art and tormented by his enemies. Through it all, he produced masterpieces of astonishing complexity and power. Eventually he received a pardon from the Pope, only to die, in mysterious circumstances, on the way back to Rome in 1610.Francine Prose presents the brief but tumultuous life of one of the greatest of all painters with passion and acute sensitivity.

Cet ouvrage résume un itinéraire scientifique fondé sur une thématique originale, l¿évolution d¿une vallée et des villes riveraines de la Meuse en partant de l¿étude du fleuve. Celle-ci repose sur des échelles spatiales et chronologiques à la mesure de la nature, le temps long et de larges espaces. Elle s¿appuie sur les données de l¿archéologie et de la géographie, afin d¿envisager tous les sujets qui touchent à la rivière : le cours d¿eau lui-même, les bateaux, les techniques de navigation, les « infrastructures fluviales ». Ces analyses enrichissent des problématiques plus vastes les pouvoirs, des questions relatives à l¿économie ou à la vie sociale. Cet autre regard, sans cloisonnements, cette grande diversité de thématiques s¿éclairant l¿une l¿autre se nomme aujourd¿hui « Histoire connectée ». Cela a encouragé l¿auteur à élargir l¿espace envisagé à l¿ensemble des cours d¿eau entre les Pyrénées et le Rhin. L¿intérêt d¿une telle étude réside en effet dans les comparaisons ainsi permises.

Richly illustrated monograph (250 figures, 12 maps) showcasing castles and fortified towns of the Peloponnese garrisoned up to period of the Greek War of Independence (1820s). These castles were captured and retaken by the Venetians and their arch-enemies the Ottoman Turks during their centuries-long epic struggle for the domination of the southern Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean. Several of these seemingly impregnable fortresses (such as Mount Palamede at Nauplia, Modon and the New Castle of the Morea), designed by some of the most brilliant military engineers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, were state-of-the-art and to this day remain as a testament to their superb technical expertise. These strategic strongholds commanded the lands, on occasions providing safe havens, in other times forcing the local populations into submission. Newly-discovered material from the Venetian archives, with the addition of a large array of recently-published contributions for the Ottoman periods, combined with an updated examination of each of these fortresses will vastly add to the public's knowledge of Medieval and Early Modern southern Greece.

Delve into the dazzling world of the Tudor dynasty with this lavishly illustrated colouring book featuring Tudor kings, queens, and palace scenes. Colour your way to peace and inner harmony, while indulging your passion for Tudor history.

This book addresses Christendom's eastern frontier, the principality of Moldavia: its political, economic, and cultural history from its formation in 1359 to the early sixteenth century.

1532 reist der holländische Maler Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) von Haarlem nach Rom. Mit dem Zeichenstift in der Hand entdeckt er Antike und Renaissance. Seine faszinierenden Zeichnungen führen uns durch das Rom des 16. Jahrhunderts. Eine Reise in virtuosen Bildern durch die Zeit.Kolosseum - Forum Romanum - Kapitolsplatz: Er war überall. Als einer der ersten nordalpinen Künstler unternahm Maarten van Heemskerck eine reine Künstlerreise nach Italien. Seine Skizzen zeigen bewunderte antike Bau- und Bildwerke, aber auch die zeitgenössische Kunst Raffaels und Michelangelos. Der prächtige Band lädt ein, Van Heemskercks Zeichenpraxis, die römische Topographie und die sozialen Netzwerke des 16. Jahrhunderts sowie die spannende Restaurierungsgeschichte seines römischen Skizzenbuchs kennen zu lernen.

The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece—the Venetian mappa mundi—that revolutionized how we see the world.

Das Thema der Faulheit wird im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit anhand von Zeichnungen, Graphiken, Gemälden, Wandteppichen und Skulpturen behandelt, die zumeist im Zusammenhang der sieben Todsünden stehen. Sie entstammen der Hand von Künstlern wie Dürer, Cranach, Goltzius, Bruegel u.a. Oftmals handelt es sich dabei um Illustrationen zentraler Texte von Prudentius, Dante, Sebastian Brant und Christine de Pizan, die vor allem ein Ziel haben, nämlich die Trägen aufzuwecken. Damit steht Faulheit in einem sozialgeschichtlichen Kontext, welcher sowohl in der Analyse der Texte als auch durch die Deutung der Bilder herausgearbeitet wird. Letztere fügen den literarischen Vorlagen mit ihrem strengen didaktischen Impetus mitunter eine humorvoll-ironische Note hinzu. erstmalige monographische Beschreibung von Faulheit, Acedia und Müßiggang Darstellungen der Faulheit von bekannten und unbekannten Künstlern Analyse von bekannten und unbekannten Dichtungen zum Thema Faulheit

Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 investigates change and decline in military institutions during a period of protracted and destructive European warfare. Conceptual background is provided by the Military Revolution thesis, which argues that changes in military technology and tactics drove revolutionary transformation in the way states organised and waged war in the early modern era. This transformation of military institutions became evident during the long and destructive Thirty Years War in 1618-1648. The outcome of the Military Revolution was the centralised fiscal-military state that possessed a strong claim to the monopoly of violence within its territorial boundaries. The book examines how the Thirty Years War accelerated and even initiated transformation in four military institutions that defined land warfare: feudal cavalry services, militias, regular armies, and war commissariats. The regional scope of the investigation covers the Holy Roman Empire, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Denmark, and the Dutch Republic. The book combines military-historical inquiry with ancillary sciences of sociology and economics. It argues that the Military Revolution of the Thirty Years War stimulated institutions capable of increased complexification and specialisation while curtailing those that were locked in stasis and immutability. The institutional legacy of the Thirty Years War was the emergence of complex military organisations that are characteristic to the modern society and its self-renewing social subsystems. Previous scholarship on the Military Revolution has concentrated on military technicalities and the wider process of early modern state formation. This book proposes an alternative way of viewing early modern military transformations from the perspectives of institutions and systems. System-analytical survey of change and decline in the military institutions of the Thirty Years War introduces qualifications to the Military Revolution theory and offers a novel way of conceptualising early modern military history.Olli Bäckström (PhD) holds the title of docent in General History at the University of Eastern Finland. His research focuses on early modern warfare and the Thirty Years War.

A classic work of Renaissance literature, this influential text by the Spanish bishop and writer Antonio de Guevara offers a collection of moral and political maxims for rulers and princes. Drawing on a range of classical and contemporary sources, Guevara offers practical advice for leaders in a variety of contexts, from diplomacy to warfare.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.