- Adultery and Divorce in Calvin's Geneva
- In Calvin's Geneva, the changes associated with the Reformation were particularly abrupt and far-reaching, in large part owing to John Calvin himself. This book makes two major contributions to our understanding of this time: the first is to the history of divorce itself; the second is in illustrating the operations of the Consistory of Geneva.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1995
- Conquest and Agrarian Change
- The colonial society and economy of Latin America were based on local communities of three principal types: Spanish towns, Indian villages, and landed estates or haciendas. Of these, it was the latter that provided the economic foundations for the aristocratic social system. This book tells how and why the Spaniards who settled the Peruvian coastal valleys originally came to establish their estates.
- Hardcover 1971
- Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan, 1467-1680
- An institution in decline, possessing little power or authority in a warrior-dominated age, or a still potent symbol of social and political legitimacy? Emperor and Aristocracy in Japan traces the fate of the imperial Japanese court from the lowest point in terms of influence and prosperity in the turbulent sengoku period to its more stable position in the Tokugawa period. In showing how the court adapted and survived, the author examines internal court politics and protocols, external court relations, court finances, court structure, and ceremonial observances. Emperor and courtiers, he concludes, adjusted to the warrior elite, while retaining the ideological advantage bestowed by culture, tradition, and birth.
- Hardcover 2002
- Exeter, 1540-1640
- During this period, Exeter was characterized by its self-sufficiency and by an oligarchical control over every aspect of its civic life. MacCaffrey describes a semi-autonomous world in itself, in which a small interlocked group of merchant families, related by marriage, kept tight control over the economy, politics, religion, education and social activities.
- Hardcover 1973
- Hideyoshi
Hideyoshi—peasant turned general, military genius, and imperial regent of Japan—is the subject of an immense legendary literature. He is best known for the conquest of Japan's sixteenth–century warlords and the invasion of Korea. But his lasting contribution is as governor whose policies shaped the course of Japanese politics for almost three hundred years.
- Paperback
- The Hustyn' Chronicle
- The early seventeenth century's Hustyn' Chronicle represents the first attempt of early modern chroniclers to write a systematic history of Ukraine. This publication marks the first time that this work has appeared in a scholarly edition. An introduction by Ukrainian historian Dr. Oleksiy Tolochko, given in the original and in an English translation, provides a detailed description and history.
- Hardcover
- Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- Journey to the East
- It was one of the great encounters of world history: highly educated European priests confronting Chinese culture for the first time in the modern era. This “journey to the East” is explored by Brockey as he retraces the path of the Jesuit missionaries who sailed from Portugal to China.
- Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008
- Memorias
- This is the first printed edition of the sixteenth-century autograph manuscript by the Castilian Sancho Cota, secretary to Eleanor, sister of the Spanish Emperor Charles V, and later Queen of Portugal and France. The language of the original, typical of Toledan speech in the early sixteenth century, is preserved without change. An informative introduction discusses the language and the work, and provides the reader with a brief biography of the author.
- Hardcover 1964
- Myths about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres, 1572-1576
- Kingdon writes about the reactions to the massacres that were published at the time, showing how the relatively new medium of print was used by the Protestants to shape reaction to the catastrophe an early example of the printing press as an agent of social and political change. The book contributes to an understanding of the history of printed propaganda and the role of myths in historical events, and illuminates important aspects of international diplomacy and political thought during the period of the later Reformation.
- Hardcover 1988
- Queen of Navarre
- Hardcover 1968
- The Religions of the People in Sixteenth-Century Champagne
- This study in religious anthropology explores the social history of popular belief. In addition to the historical geography and quantitative material that are hallmarks of the French tradition, the author studies the rich artistic evidence that still graces the provincial churches. He charts the paths of antipathy that converged in civil war, and concludes with a discussion of the late-sixteenth-century atmosphere of revivalism, which mimicked the earlier spiritual climate.
- Hardcover 1976
- The Return of Martin Guerre
- The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost won his case, when a man with a wooden leg swaggered into the French courtroom, denounced du TiIh, and reestablished his claim to the identity, property, and wife of Martin Guerre. This book, by the noted historian who served as a consultant for the film, adds new dimensions to this famous legend.
- Hardcover 1983 / Paperback
- When Fathers Ruled
- Here is a lively study of marriage and the family during the Reformation, primarily in Gemany and Switzerland, that dispels the commonly held notion of fathers as tyrannical and families as loveless.
- Hardcover 1983 / Paperback