Renaissance Armies in Italy 1450-1550 (Esposito Gabriele)(Paperback)

Armies of the Great Northern War 1700-1720 (Esposito Gabriele)(Paperback)

This detailed study explains and illustrates the Russian, Scandinavian, Polish, and German armies of the crucial series of wars that saw Russia's arrival as a great military power in Northern Europe, displacing Sweden's 60-year hegemony. The Great Northern War was a long series of campaigns in

Japanese Armies 1868-1877: The Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion (Esposito Gabriele)(Paperback)

This title explains and illustrates the 19th-century transition of Japanese armies from traditional Samurai equipment and tactics to those of the Western world, and the armed clashes between the two cultures.The restoration of the Meiji Imperial dynasty in 1868, after 250 years of the Tokugawa

Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607-1713: History, Organization and Uniforms (Esposito Gabriele)(Pevná vazba)

Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the development of organization and uniforms not

Renaissance in Italy - A History (Bartlett Kenneth)(Paperback / softback)

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy (Murray Jacqueline)(Paperback)

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject.In this interdisciplinary volume,

Art in Renaissance Italy: 1350-1500 (Welch Evelyn)(Paperback)

The Italian Renaissance was a pivotal period in the history of Western culture during which artists such as Masaccio, Donatello, Fra Angelico, and Leonardo created some of the world's most influential and exciting works in a variety of artistic fields. Here, Evelyn Welch presents a fresh picture of

Early Modern Military History, 1450-1815 (Mortimer G.)(Paperback)

Key military developments occurred in the Early Modern period, during which armies evolved from troops of medieval knights to Napoleon's mass levies. Firearms impelled change, necessitating new battlefield tactics and fundamentally altering siege and naval warfare. The size and cost of military

The Renaissance in Italy (Ruggiero Guido)(Paperback)

This book offers a rich and exciting new way of thinking about the Italian Renaissance as both a historical period and a historical movement. Guido Ruggiero's work is based on archival research and new insights of social and cultural history and literary criticism, with a special emphasis on

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Burckhardt Jacob)(Paperback)

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world in which flourishing individualism and the competition for fame radically transformed science, the arts, and politics. In this landmark work he depicts

Allied Armies in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1945 (Forty Simon)(Paperback)

Photographic history of the Allied armies of the Italian campaign.The Italian campaign was one of the most debated of the Second World War, splitting the American and British allies, and causing great disharmony. After the fall of Rome and the surrender of Italy, the invasion of Normandy led to the

Abortion in Early Modern Italy (Christopoulos John)(Pevná vazba)

A comprehensive history of abortion in Renaissance Italy.In this authoritative history, John Christopoulos provides a provocative and far-reaching account of abortion in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy. Drawing on portraits of women who terminated--or were forced to terminate--pregnancies,

Renaissance 1420-1600 - Daniel Kiecol, Uta Hasekamp, Kristina Menzel

During the origin of Renaissance painting in Italy, a world view was revived that enabled man to determine his own existence. In painting, new themes developed along with an orientation toward representing reality. This naturalism was influenced by Dutch painting from around 1450, and as the

Mercenaries and Their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy (Mallett Michael)(Paperback)

Classic study of the condottiere of fifteenth-century

The Normans in Italy 1016-1194 (D'Amato Raffaele)(Paperback)

This title covers the history and armies of the powerful military kingdom founded by the Normans in southern Italy and Sicily, which were contemporary to William the Conqueror's invasion of England. Preceding and simultaneously with the conquest of England by Duke William, other ambitious and

Monte Cassino - Ten Armies in Hell (Caddick-Adams Peter)(Paperback / softback)

The five-month Monte Cassino campaign in central Italy is one of the best-known European land battles of World War Two, alongside D-Day and Stalingrad. It has a particular resonance now, because Cassino, with its multitude of participating armies - most notably the American 5th Army under the

Italian Renaissance - Culture and Society in Italy (Burke Peter)(Paperback / softback)

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian

The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy - Third Edition (Burke Peter)(Paperback)

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions that existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and he analyses the ways of thinking and seeing that

Titian's Icons: Tradition, Charisma, and Devotion in Renaissance Italy (Nygren Christopher J.)(Pevná vazba)

A reexamination of the career of Titian, the only Renaissance artist credited by contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image. Argues that a major part of the artist's legacy is to be found in his charismatic entrance into the tradition of Christian icon

King Philip's War 1675-76: America's Deadliest Colonial Conflict (Esposito Gabriele)(Paperback)

A superbly illustrated study of a major conflict between the southern New England colonists and the area's indigenous Native Americans, which comprised the Native Americans' last major effort to drive the English colonists out of New England.King Philip's War was the result of over 50 years'

Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance (Wind Edgar)(Paperback)

An exploration of philosophical and mystical sources of iconography in Renaissance

Bolt Action: Armies of Great Britain (Games Warlord)(Paperback)

From Hitler's Blitzkriegs to the North African desert, Singapore, New Guinea, Burma, India, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Arnhem, Ardennes, and the Ruhr, Churchill's Commonwealth, composed of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and many colonies, fought World War II

Sacred Hearts (Dunant Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

From our greatest novelist of Renaissance Italy comes Sacred Hearts, a stunning tale of passion, betrayal and music set in an enclosed convent in

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Lewis C. S.)(Paperback)

C. S. Lewis's Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature is a collection of fourteen fascinating essays, half of which were never published in Lewis's lifetime. The first three provide a general introduction to medieval literature whilst the remaining essays turn to the works of major writers

Black Africans in Renaissance Europe (Earle T. F.)(Paperback)