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Dynasty And Diplomacy In The Court Of Savoy - Political Culture And The Thirty Years' War

by Toby (University Of Durham) Osborne

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 This book is a major study in English of the duchy of Savoy during the period of the Thirty Years War, examining the varied and powerful dynastic aspirations of the House of Savoy through the career of its leading ambassador, Alessandro Scaglia (1592â€"1641).
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Church, Censorship And Culture In Early Modern Italy

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 Drawing upon a wealth of archival material, this 2001 book deals with one of the most controversial subjects in Italian historiography, namely the success or failure of the Church's policy during the counter-Reformation to exert rigorous control not just over theology but over all branches of knowledge.
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Court And Politics In Papal Rome, 1492â€“1700

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 This 2002 book describes power and politics in Rome and the role of the papacy in early modern European politics. It attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the papacy during this period by focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court - political, personal, spiritual and ceremonial.
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Politics And Diplomacy In Early Modern Italy - The Structure Of Diplomatic Practice, 1450â€“1800

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 This 2000 volume was the first attempt at a comparative reconstruction of the foreign policy and diplomacy of the major Italian states during the early modern period. The discussion includes Venice, the Papal States, the duchy of Savoy, Florence, Mantua, Modena, and the kingdom of Naples.
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Italian Culture In Northern Europe In The Eighteenth Century

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 A large number of Italian artists, singers, musicians and other performers travelled throughout Europe during the eighteenth century and made an important impact on taste and fashion. This multi-disciplinary 1999 book examines the importance of their influence outside Italy in locations as diverse as London, St Petersburg, Dresden, Stockholm and Vienna.
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War, Diplomacy And The Rise Of Savoy, 1690â€“1720

by Christopher (University Of Dundee) Storrs

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 This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe by examining the participation of Savoy in the Nine Years War (1688â€"97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701â€"14) under Duke Victor Amadeus II.
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Railways And The Formation Of The Italian State In The Nineteenth Century

by Albert (Researcher, Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica) Schram

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 This book relates the history of Italian railways and their relation with the Italian state from the 1840s, when the first lines were constructed, until nationalization in 1905. During the nineteenth century and the process of unification, it is argued that railways had a pernicious and divisive influence on Italian political life.
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Convent Theatre In Early Modern Italy - Spiritual Fun And Learning For Women

by Elissa B. (University Of Chicago) Weaver

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 A pioneering study of convent theatre in early modern Italy, an all-female dramatic tradition popular in its time but now virtually forgotten. It reveals much about convent authors, convent education, the high level of the nuns' literacy, and surprisingly close relationship between the convent and secular culture.
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The Politics Of Ritual Kinship - Confraternities And Social Order In Early Modern Italy

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 An examination of how lay religious confraternities in Italy shaped early ritual kinship. This 1999 book discusses how sixteenth-century social change and religious reform transformed confraternities, and how these altered groups became key agents in achieving the more rigid social order of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Dynasty And Diplomacy In The Court Of Savoy - Political Culture And The Thirty Years' War

by Toby (University Of Durham) Osborne

74,35€ + 10% CARD

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 This book is a major study in English of the duchy of Savoy during the period of the Thirty Years War, examining the varied and powerful dynastic aspirations of the House of Savoy through the career of its leading ambassador, Alessandro Scaglia (1592â€"1641).
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War, Diplomacy And The Rise Of Savoy, 1690â€“1720

by Christopher (University Of Dundee) Storrs

39,20€ + 10% CARD

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 This book deals with the crucial relationship between war and state formation in early modern Europe by examining the participation of Savoy in the Nine Years War (1688â€"97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701â€"14) under Duke Victor Amadeus II.
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Naples In The Eighteenth Century - The Birth And Death Of A Nation State

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 This volume of essays offers a series of insights into the 'age of the Enlightenment', not only in Italy but throughout Europe. In its political reforms, Naples was influenced by European culture. However, Naples also exercised a strong influence upon European culture and helped shape modern, enlightened European culture.
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The Politics Of Exile In Renaissance Italy

by Christine (University Of Warwick) Shaw

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 This book, first published in 2000, provides a systematic analysis of the role of exiles in the political life of fifteenth-century Italy. It also provides alternative perspectives on the nature and power of governments during this period, and on ideas about the legitimacy of political authority and political action.
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The Italian Garden - Art, Design And Culture

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 This volume of interdisciplinary essays explores the history and the diversity of the Italian garden from medieval times to the modern period, showing how different types of garden developed throughout the peninsula, depending on climate, situation and culture.
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Lay Confraternities And Civic Religion In Renaissance Bologna

by Nicholas (University Of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada) Terpstra

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 This 1995 book examines the confraternities, lay groups through which Italians of the Renaissance expressed their individual and collective religious beliefs. Intensely local and predominantly artisanal, the confraternities shaped the civic religious cult through charitable activities, public shrines and processions.
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Naples In The Eighteenth Century - The Birth And Death Of A Nation State

152,76€ + 10% CARD

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 This volume of essays offers a series of insights into the 'age of the Enlightenment', not only in Italy but throughout Europe. In its political reforms, Naples was influenced by European culture. However, Naples also exercised a strong influence upon European culture and helped shape modern, enlightened European culture.
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Florentine Tuscany - Structures And Practices Of Power

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 The book collects the best recent research on the important dominion that was created by the Republic of Florence in Tuscany during the Renaissance. The essays include studies of state-building, fiscal policy, and the personal and political relations of Florentines with the inhabitants of subject communities.
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Florentine Tuscany - Structures And Practices Of Power

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 The book collects the best recent research on the important dominion that was created by the Republic of Florence in Tuscany during the Renaissance. The essays include studies of state-building, fiscal policy, and the personal and political relations of Florentines with the inhabitants of subject communities.
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Convent Theatre In Early Modern Italy - Spiritual Fun And Learning For Women

by Elissa B. (University Of Chicago) Weaver

133,84€ + 10% CARD

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 A pioneering study of convent theatre in early modern Italy, an all-female dramatic tradition popular in its time but now virtually forgotten. It reveals much about convent authors, convent education, the high level of the nuns' literacy, and surprisingly close relationship between the convent and secular culture.
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Politics And Diplomacy In Early Modern Italy - The Structure Of Diplomatic Practice, 1450â€“1800

129,78€ + 10% CARD

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 This 2000 volume was the first attempt at a comparative reconstruction of the foreign policy and diplomacy of the major Italian states during the early modern period. The discussion includes Venice, the Papal States, the duchy of Savoy, Florence, Mantua, Modena, and the kingdom of Naples.
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Society And The Professions In Italy, 1860â€“1914

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 This is the first social and cultural study of the principal 'free' professions in Italy between unification and the First World War. It is a major contribution both to the history of the bourgeoisie in Italy and to our understanding of the developing role of professions in modern European society.
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English Merchants In Seventeenth-Century Italy

by Gigliola Pagano (Universita Di Reggio Calabria, Italy) De Divitiis

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 This book shows how England's conquest of Mediterranean trade proved to be the first step in building its future economic and commercial hegemony, and how Italy lay at the heart of that process. The author looks well beyond Braudel's influential picture of a Spanish-dominated Mediterranean world and sheds fresh light on Italy's gradual commercial decline.
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Italian Culture In Northern Europe In The Eighteenth Century

154,11€ + 10% CARD

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 A large number of Italian artists, singers, musicians and other performers travelled throughout Europe during the eighteenth century and made an important impact on taste and fashion. This multi-disciplinary 1999 book examines the importance of their influence outside Italy in locations as diverse as London, St Petersburg, Dresden, Stockholm and Vienna.
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Liturgy, Sanctity And History In Tridentine Italy - Pietro Maria Campi And The Preservation Of The Particular

by Simon (University Of York) Ditchfield

141,95€ + 10% CARD

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 This book offers a new interpretation of what the Catholic Reform meant at local diocesan level in the face of attempts by Rome to regularise worship c.1550â€"1700.
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