‎Gary Tinterow‎
‎Modern Europe‎

‎Public Buildings in Early Modern Europe,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 Paperback, XIV+408 pages ., 300 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm. FINE ISBN 9782503533544.‎

‎In the early modern European city, public buildings were the main pillars of the political, mercantile and social infrastructure. In a first attempt to create a preliminary overview of current knowledge in various European countries, the IIIe and Ve Rencontres d'Architecture Europeenne, held in 2006 and 2008 at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, in cooperation with the Centre Andre Chastel, Paris, were dedicated to this subject. In these two meetings, architectural historians from all over Europe discussed the results of their research on the development of various types of public building in the various European regions between the late fifteenth and mid-eighteenth century. New.‎

‎At the Table. Metaphorical and Material Cultures of Food in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2007 Hardback, XX+228 p., 1 b/w ill., 150 x 230 mm. ISBN 9782503523989.‎

‎This volume surveys recent studies of the metaphorical and material facets of food in medieval and early modern Europe. Ranging from literary, historical, and political analyses to archaeological and botanical ones, this collection explores food as a nexus of pre-modern European culture. Food and feasting are understood not simply as the consumption of material goods but also as the figurative and symbolic representations of culture, which Mauss has termed a 'total social fact'. To understand the myriad ways in which discourses about food and feasting are mobilized during this period is to better understand the fundamental role food and feasting played in the development of Europeans' habitual patterns of behaviour and of thought. New.‎

‎Senobos S. Political History of Modern Europe. The Evolution of Parties and Poli‎

‎"Senobos S. Political History of Modern Europe. The Evolution of Parties and Political Institutions. 1814-1896/Sen'obos Sh. Politicheskaya istoriya sovremennoy Evropy. Evolyutsiya partiy i politicheskikh uchrezhdeniy. 1814-1896 Per. s fr. V 2 ch. SPb.: Tip. A.S. Suvorina, 1897. Short description: The Political History of Modern Europe: The Evolution of Parties and Political Institutions. 1814-1896, Part 1-2. St. Petersburg: Type A.S. Suvorin, 1897. Part 1: XII, 362 p.; Part 2: 4, 363-792 p.; 22.3-16 cm. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUbd-8c162e5798feaa06"‎

‎Sociability and its Discontents. Civil Society, Social Capital, and their Alternatives in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 Hardback, VII+326 p., 3 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503524733.‎

‎This volume advances our knowledge of continuing trends over the longue duree of European history. It also exposes many differences separating contemporaries from their medieval and early modern ancestors. In putting the concept of social capital to the test, the authors also expose the strengths, weaknesses, and limits of the 'Putnam thesis'. The essays address fourteenth-century English fears of old-age neglect; childhood, friendship, scandal, and rivalry in Renaissance Florence; rebellion in an Italian village; social capital and seigneurial power in southern and north-central Italy; guild violence in Calvinist Ghent; civil society in early-modern Bologna, Naples and the Papal State; gender in High Renaissance Rome; and critical analyses of the transition from religious to secular sensibilities that scholars (following Jurgen Habermas) have identified in eighteenth-century Europe. In each case, the topic is considered in relation to recent theories of 'social capital': the informal, intangible bonds of trust upon which, social scientist Robert Putnam argues, every human community depends. The result is a series of highly original case-studies which reveal the workings of late medieval and early modern European society from new and often unexpected angles. Languages : English.‎

‎Rituals, Images, and Words The Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2006 Hardback, XX+440 p., 73 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503509075.‎

‎This collection of essays by Australian scholars offers a wealth of contemporary perspectives on cultural communication amongst men and women in late medieval and early modern Europe. Essays dealing with Florence and Venice, with Rome, Lucca, Ferrara, and Bologna, as well as with Germany, England, and Lorraine, draw attention to the array of cultural expressions which competed for space and influence across European societies. These rich studies demonstrate the vitality of cultural production during a period of rapid and often violent transition. Variously focussed on formal religious rites, on painting, sculpture, and woodcuts, on sermons, poetry, and letters, the contributors pursue cultural meaning as a matter of social identity and social context - as a performance that can be shown to affirm and also exclude particular topical values. Rituals, Images and Words highlights the complex and subtle power of rhetorical forms in the history and historiography of late medieval and early modern Europe. Languages : English. ‎