Bücher der Reihe The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science

Through analyses of Inquisition trials, biblical translations, treatises on witchcraft, and tracts on the episcopate and penance, Homza illuminates the intellectual autonomy and energy of Spain's ecclesiastics, exploring the flexibility and inconsistency in their preferences for humanism or scholasticism, preferences which have long been thought to be steadfast.

By the turn of the century, the author demonstrates, new conceptions of human nature adn heightened sensitivity even to the plight of lower life-forms were contributing to a new understanding of man's place in nature.

By incorporating women into informal political networks, this work breaks new ground in the study of early modern European politics.

In a massive sample of seventy widely dispersed towns, lists of towns, lists of town and provincial officeholders, biographical data, church records, town meeting records, and tax lists provide a core of material for analysis.

French historians and scholars of the Reformation and the European Wars of Religion will find Warrior Pursuits engaging and insightful.

Genoa's transformations offer insight into the significant and sweeping changes that were taking place all over Europe.

Dressing Renaissance Florence enables us to better understand the social and cultural milieu of Renaissance Italy.

The most sensitive treatment of Irish culture... [and] the most complete history we have of the Irish female experience. -- Labor History

Moving beyond the 'clash of civilizations' model that surveys the relationship between Islam and Christianity from a geopolitical perch, the author focuses on a localized microcosm: the Venetian merchant and diplomatic community in Muslim Constantinople.

Even as the Protestant Reformation became a permanent feature of European culture, a Catholic reformation was under way in Spain. This title presents the social history of the Spanish Counter Reformation. It explores how the people and clergy of Cuenca learned to conform to the standards of modern Catholicism.