Coinage and currency—abstract and socially created units of value and power—were basic to early modern society. By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France, Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal Cour des Monnaies centralized monetary administration, expanding its role in the emerging modern state during the sixteenth century and assuming new powers as an often controversial repository of theoretical and administrative expertise.The Cour des Monnaies, Parsons shows, played an important role in developing the contemporary understanding of money, as a source of both danger and opportunity at the center of economic and political life. More practically, the Monnaies led generally successful responses to the endemic inflation of the era and the monetary chaos of a period of civil war. Its work investigating and prosecuting counterfeiters shone light into a picaresque world of those who used the abstract and artificial nature of money for their own ends. Parsons's broad, multidimensional portrait of money in early modern France also encompasses the literature of the age, in which money's arbitrary and dangerous power was a major theme.
Описание: Presents an exmination of printed representations of monstrous births in German-speaking Europe from the end of the fifteenth century and through the sixteenth century, beginning with a seminal series of broadsheets from the late 1490s by humanist Sebastian Brant, and including prints by Albrecht Durer and Hans Burgkmair.
Автор: Rhodes, Neil (professor Of English Literature And Cultural History, University Of St Andrews) Название: Common: the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century england ISBN: 0198704100 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198704102 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 10613.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship between the Reformation and literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period through the exploration of the theme of the `common`.
Автор: Laurie Stras Название: Women and Music in Sixteenth-Century Ferrara ISBN: 1108815480 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108815482 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4594.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: With new information on four generations of women musicians, this book expands and alters the narratives that scholars and musicians have told about music in sixteenth-century Ferrara. A radical perspective on a familiar repertoire, it proposes a new way of thinking with consequences for music history and performance practice.
Описание: Presents an exmination of printed representations of monstrous births in German-speaking Europe from the end of the fifteenth century and through the sixteenth century, beginning with a seminal series of broadsheets from the late 1490s by humanist Sebastian Brant, and including prints by Albrecht Durer and Hans Burgkmair.
Описание: A detailed study of changing patterns of consumption, showing how these related to wider political, social and economic developments.
Автор: Ranzato, Irene Название: Translating culture specific references on television ISBN: 1138499137 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138499133 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7654.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Translating Culture Specific References on Television provides a model for investigating the problems posed by culture specific references in translation, drawing on case studies that explore the translational norms of contemporary Italian dubbing practices and exploring the sociocultural, pragmatic and ideological implications of audiovisual translation for the small screen.
Описание: Planting the Cross exposes the challenges that French convents and monasteries faced as they struggled to survive the civil wars that reduced the country to near anarchy in the sixteenth century and then to raise standards and instill a new piety in their members in the wake of the wars.
Автор: Broomhall, Susan Название: Women and religion in sixteenth-century france ISBN: 1403936811 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781403936813 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Challenging the view of religious reforms and ideas imposed by male authorities upon women, this study argues instead that women, Catholic and Calvinist, lay and monastic, were deeply involved in the culture, meanings and development of contemporary religious practices.
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