El tiempo de los Habsburgo

La construcción artística de un linaje imperial en el Renacimiento

Entre el ocaso de la Edad Media y los albores de un tiempo nuevo, una familia pareció adueñarse del mundo. Maximiliano de Habsburgo, archiduque de Austria y Rey de Romanos, fue proclamado emperador del Sacro Imperio en 1508. Sólo doce años después, su joven nieto ...

El gran sitio de Malta

Desperta Ferro Historia Moderna, núm. 45, junio 2020

Para una Europa dividida por la reforma protestante y con múltiples reinos inmersos en disputas seculares, el espíritu de cruzada propio de épocas previas era poco más que un glorioso recuerdo. Sin embargo, los últimos ecos de aquel mundo de guerreros juramentados por la fe ...

The field of cloth of gold

Glenn Richardson provides the first history in more than four decades of a major Tudor event: an extraordinary international gathering of Renaissance rulers unparalleled in its opulence, pageantry, controversy, and mystery. Throughout most of the late medieval period, from 1300 to 1500, England and France ...

The jews and the Reformation

In this rich, wide-ranging, and meticulously researched account, Kenneth Austin examines the attitudes of various Christian groups in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations towards Jews, the Hebrew language, and Jewish learning. Martin Luther’s writings are notorious, but Reformation attitudes were much more varied and ...

El sabio de occidente

Matteo Ricci, misionero en China

El Padre Mateo Ricci, S.J., fue enviado a China como misionero en 1582. Hasta su muerte -28 años después-, desarrolló un profundo conocimiento y amor por el país, su cultura y sus gentes, alcanzando la distinción de ser llamado 'Sabio' entre los más prominentes ...

Sons of the waves

the common seaman in the heroic age of sail

British maritime history in the age of sail is full of the deeds of officers like Nelson but has given little voice to plain, "illiterate" seamen. Now Stephen Taylor draws on published and unpublished memoirs, letters, and naval records, including court-martials and petitions, to present ...

Historia de la caricatura en la Edad Media y el Renacimiento

En las tesis que mantiene Champfleury sobre la caricatura y las imágenes satíricas del periodo estudiado, se muestra muy combativo contra todo exagerado simbolismo, aproximándose, como un claro precedente, a las que casi un siglo después mantendría Mijail Bajtin (La cultura popular en la Edad ...

The Cabinet

George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution

On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries—Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph—for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet? Because the U.S. Constitution ...

The end of the Habsburgs

the decline and fall of the Austrian monarchy

In 1806, the Holy Roman Empire ceased to exist as Francis II proclaimed himself Emperor of Austria. The Habsburg empire came to an end 112 years later after defeat in the First World War. The Austrian monarchy, later the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, had survived several tribulations ...

The club

Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age

In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk’s Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among ...

El Batavia

Traición, naufragio, asesinatos, esclavitud sexual, valor...

La aventura del Batavia combina en una sola historia el nacimiento de la primera multinacional, la brutalidad de la colonización, el combate entre el bien y el mal, un motín, un primer encuentro entre civilizaciones, amor, barro, sangre, una dictadura de corte fascista, asesinatos, esclavitud ...

Fe y castigo

inquisiciones y consistorios calvinistass en el mundo moderno

El mundo europeo de los siglos XVIy XVII estuvo marcado por el ascenso de los Estados Modernos y los procesos de confesionalización religiosa y disciplina social en el marco de la fractura entre católicos y protestantes. Europa y sus territorios coloniales se cubrieron de tribunales ...

The Hussite

The Hussite movement was a historical watershed, in which popular and scholastic theology combined with a nascent Czech nationalism to produce a full-scale social revolution that presaged the Protestant Reformation and the birth of the modern nation state. The Hussites defeated the forces of the ...

The Dutch and English East India Companies

Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia

The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organisations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, raise armies and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these ...

Gracia y desgracia del Imperio Romano Germánico

Montgelas: el liberalismo incipiente

La historia del Sacro Imperio es la del enfrentamiento entre el Kaiser y los príncipes territoriales más el condimento de las ambiciones eclesiásticas. Por si todo ello contuviera pocas emociones, la Reforma añadiría, como guinda, una despiadada lucha confesional. Nació con la pretensión de renovar ...

Cultura política en Occidente. Arte, Religión y Ciencia

Tomo II. Los Estados-Leviatán (siglos XV a 1789)

Este Tomo II trata de uno de los períodos más convulsos, creativos y fascinantes de la historia de Occidente, el que va del Renacimiento a 1789. La unidad de las dos totalidades, el Imperio y la Iglesia, se desmoronó; el hombre, decía Lutero, era libre ...

Genoa's Freedom

Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic

This book investigates the economic, intellectual and political history of late medieval and early modern Genoa and the historical origins of the Genoese presence in the Spanish Atlantic. Salonia describes Genoa’s late medieval economic expansion and commercial networks through several case studies, from the ...

The Global Refuge

Huguenots in an Age of Empire

Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. French Protestant exiles fleeing persecution following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, they scattered around Europe, North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The ...

The Republic of Arabic Letters

Islam and the European Enlightenment

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the branches of the Islamic arts ...

Eating the Empire

food and society in Eighteenth-Century britain

When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? In ...