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Mix of religious and political factors make many contemporary conflicts difficult to resolve. Using concrete examples from his practical experience, the author offers an explanation of conflicts with both political and religious dimensions. Bitter...
The present collection of articles examines the place of vocal and instrumental dimunition in sixteenth-century polyphonic music, centered on Palestrina works, bridging the gap between the musical sources and contemporary artists and musicians...
This sixth book of the romance of Perceforest tells of the Christianisation of Great Britain. Connecting the heroes of Antiquity – Alexander, Perceforest, and Gadifer – with Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table...
F. BARBIER, « Où en est l'histoire des bibliothèques ? » ; G. BISCHOFF, « Un printemps du livre. Strasbourg et le Rhin supérieur, du Concile de Bâle à Sébastien Brant » ; G. PETRELLA, « Una biblioteca nobiliare ai piedi delle Alpi...
The literature and arts of the Renaissance fully exploited the ambiguous and complex character of David. The biblical king was particularly emblematic of the intersection between the sacred and the profane, between religion and politics...
Early seventeenth-century France witnessed an outpouring of collections of libertine verse, with more than 150 authors publishing around 1500 such poems. This outrageous and pornographic poetry was also satirical...
In his study of the seventeenth-century churchman and scholar Pierre-Daniel Huet, Alphonse Dupront explores the unease of the period...
This third and final volume volume of François Bonivard’s history of Calvinist Geneva presents a first-hand account of the tumultuous years of internal and external struggles, ending in victory for Calvin and a period of peace...
This is the first critical edition of a hitherto unpublished sixteenth-century Venetian trial for heresy. The defendant was a young noblewoman in the northeastern area of the Republic of Venice. Her two-year trial is very interesting, for several reasons...