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Copertina de Ian Campbell & Floris Verhaart: Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin

Ian Campbell & Floris Verhaart: Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin

The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, …

Copertina de Zuzanna (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Bogumil & Yuliya (Umea University, Sweden) Yurchuk: Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective

Zuzanna (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Bogumil & Yuliya (Umea University, Sweden) Yurchuk: Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective

The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory. The editors call for a postsecular turn …

Copertina de Rita (University of Brasilia, Brazil) Segato: The Critique of Coloniality

Rita (University of Brasilia, Brazil) Segato: The Critique of Coloniality

This translation of Rita Segato’s seminal book La crítica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on the coloniality of power as theorized by the Peruvia …

Copertina de Paulo Henrique (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) Martins: Critical Theory of Coloniality

Paulo Henrique (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil) Martins: Critical Theory of Coloniality

This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue …

Copertina de Bruce (US Naval Academy, USA) Fleming: Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor

Bruce (US Naval Academy, USA) Fleming: Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor

Drawing on the thought of Norbert Elias and using as a thread a purposely apolitical example of cruelty to animals to focus on changes in attitudes, this book explores the ways in which we deal with …

Copertina de Paolo Malanima: The Economy of Renaissance Italy

Paolo Malanima: The Economy of Renaissance Italy

Drawing on a wide range of literature and adopting a macroeconomic approach, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the Italian economy during the Renaissance, focusing on the period between …

Copertina de Marina Caffiero: The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy

Marina Caffiero: The History of the Jews in Early Modern Italy

Challenging traditional historiographical approaches, this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the early modern age. The fortunes of the Jewish communities of Italy in their various aspects …

Copertina de Kaarlo Havu: Juan Luis Vives: Politics, Rhetoric, and Emotions

Kaarlo Havu: Juan Luis Vives: Politics, Rhetoric, and Emotions

By looking at rhetoric and politics, this book offers a novel account of Juan Luis Vives intellectual oeuvre. It argues that Vives adjusted rhetorical theory to a monarchical context in which direct …

Copertina de Joy Wiltenburg: Laughing Histories

Joy Wiltenburg: Laughing Histories

Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and social power. "I dearly love a laugh, " …

Copertina de Nick (Columbia University, USA) Cohen & Ayana (Columbia University, USA) Dootalieva: European Integration and Disintegration

Nick (Columbia University, USA) Cohen & Ayana (Columbia University, USA) Dootalieva: European Integration and Disintegration

European integration is an ambitious goal that attempts to reconcile grandiose visions for the future of Europe with complicated national attitudes toward unity. The added complexity of political …

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