Agentes del Imperio

caballeros, corsarios, jesuítas y espías en el Mediterráneo del siglo XVI

En la segunda mitad del siglo XVI, la mayoría de los estados cristianos de Europa occidental estaban permanentemente a la defensiva contra una superpotencia musulmana, el Imperio de los sultanes otomanos. Había enfrentamientos violentos, desde ataques e incursiones de corsarios hasta guerras, pero también otras ...

Agents of Empire

knights, corsairs, jesuits and spies in the Sixteenth-Century mediterranean world

In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also ...

Agents of empire

knights, corsairs, jesuits and spies in the Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World

In the second half of the sixteenth century, most of the Christian states of Western Europe were on the defensive against a Muslim superpower - the Empire of the Ottoman sultans. There was violent conflict, from raiding and corsairing to large-scale warfare, but there were also ...

Reason of State, propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War

an unknown translation by Thomas Hobbes

Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating ...

Aspects of Hobbes

Aspects of Hobbes is a major event in the study of Thomas Hobbes (1588- 1679), one of the giants of early modern thought. These essays are the fruit of many years' research by one of the world's leading Hobbes scholars. Noel Malcolm offers not ...