Foundation Dedication and Consecration in Early Modern Europe Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 54,9 Mb
• Release Date : 09 December 2011

Bringing together contributions from art history, architectural history, historiography and history of law, this volume is the first comprehensive exploration of the manifold meanings of foundation, dedication and consecration rituals

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 06 May 2024

Both in our time and in the past, death was one of the most important aspects of anyone’s life. The early modern period saw drastic changes in rites of

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 14 June 2018

Using a three-part structure focused on the major historical subjects of the Inquisition, the Reformation and witchcraft, Christopher Kissane examines the relationship between food and religion in early modern Europe.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 20 August 2019

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge and the city and how these changed in

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 20 June 2019

Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 09 March 2016

In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of critical importance in understanding the

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 05 December 2016

Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the rituals performed there marked the

• Publisher : Vernon Press
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• Release Date : 07 September 2021

'Topos in Utopia' examines early modern literary utopias' and intentional communities' social and cultural conception of space. Starting from Thomas More's seminal work, published in 1516, and covering a period of

• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
• File Size : 36,6 Mb
• Release Date : 23 September 2019

This anthology discusses different aspects of Protestantism, past and present. Professor Tarald Rasmussen has written both on medieval and modern theologians, but his primary interest has remained the reformation and 16

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
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• Release Date : 20 May 2021

The most famous monument of the Dutch Golden Age is undoubtedly the Amsterdam Town Hall by architect Jacob van Campen inaugurated in 1655. Today we stand in awe confronted with the