Missionary Men in the Early Modern World: German Jesuits and Pacific Journeys (Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World) Author(s): Ulrike Strasser (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: November 3, 2020 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 274 pages ISBN-10: 9462986304 ISBN-13: 9789462986305 Book Description How did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary ...
Amsterdam Anatomy Lessons Dissected Author(s): Frank IJpma (Author), Thomas Gulik (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: November 1, 2024 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 256 pages ISBN-10: 9048568285 ISBN-13: 9789048568284 Book Description This book gives the historical perspective of 17th century Dutch paintings for ‘Anatomy lessons’ using pairning that were created for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, to aid surgeons in teaching and knowledge. The iamges sh...
Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020 (North East Asian Studies) Author(s): Phillip Marzluf (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: August 25, 2023 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 218 pages ISBN-10: 9463726268 ISBN-13: 9789463726269 Book Description Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860-2020 invites readers to explore Mongolia as an important cultural space for Western travelers and their audiences over three historical eras. Tr...
European Coasts of Bohemia: Negotiating the Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal in a Troubled Twentieth Century (Technology and European History Series) Author(s): Jirí Janác (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: November 12, 2012 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 274 pages ISBN-10: 9089645012 ISBN-13: 9789089645012 Book Description The Danube–Oder–Elbe Canal attracted a great deal of attention throughout the twentieth century. Its promoters, The Danube–Oder–Elbe Canal, att...
The Frisian Popular Militias between 1480 and 1560 Author(s): Hans Mol (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: December 1, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 242 pages ISBN-10: 1041187920 ISBN-13: 9781041187929 Book Description In the late Middle Ages and early modern times, able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty years of age were called upon all over Europe to participate in raids, sieges and battles, for the defense of home and hearth. Because these men ...
The Making of the Humanities: Volume 1 – Early Modern Europe Author(s): Rens Bod (Editor), Jaap Maat (Editor), Thijs Weststeijn (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: October 15, 2010 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 400 pages ISBN-10: 9089642692 ISBN-13: 9789089642691 Book Description This book is the first step towards the development of a comparative history of the humanities. Specialists in philology, musicology, art history, linguistics, literary the...
The Making of the Humanities: Volume II – From Early Modern to Modern Disciplines Author(s): Rens Bod (Editor), Jaap Maat (Editor), Thijs Weststeijn (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: October 1, 2012 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 428 pages ISBN-10: 9089644555 ISBN-13: 9789089644558 Book Description This much-awaited second volume investigates the changes in subject, method and institutional context of the humanistic disciplines around 1800, offerin...
Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750: Uncovering the Female Presence (Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700) Author(s): Tracy Cooper (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: September 12, 2024 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 292 pages ISBN-10: 9048559715 ISBN-13: 9789048559718 Book Description This book of essays highlights the lives, careers, and works of art of women artists and artisans in Venice and its territories from the fourtee...
New Germans, New Dutch: Literary Interventions (Palimpsest: Disorientations) Author(s): Liesbeth Minnaard (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: January 9, 2009 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 364 pages ISBN-10: 9089640282 ISBN-13: 9789089640284 Book Description In the globalised world of today, traditional definitions of national Self and national Other no longer hold. The unmistakable transformation of German and Dutch societies demands a thorough rethinking...
War of Words: Dutch Pro-Boer Propaganda and the South African War (1899-1902) Author(s): Vincent Kuitenbrouwer (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: May 11, 2012 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 404 pages ISBN-10: 9089644121 ISBN-13: 9789089644121 Book Description Between 1899 and 1902 the Dutch public was captivated by the war raging in South Africa between the Boer republics and the British Empire. Dutch popular opinion was on the side of the Boers: these de...
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