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E' un viaggio all'interno di un universo che Fumaroli rifiuta di ricondurre alla comoda ma generica etichetta di barocco: le tappe principali sono rappresentate da alcuni grandi, da Guido Reni a Caravaggio a Poussin, ma interessanti appaiono anche le soste di fronte alle incisioni delle scuole di Anversa e di Parigi, agli arazzi dei Gobelins. La loro lettura permette di ricostruire l'intero tessuto culturale del secolo, chiamando in causa tutte le arti e tutti i generi di discorso, dalla poesia frivola di Marino a quella dotta di Urbano VIII, dalle favole di La Fontaine alle ricerche in ambito musicale dettate dalle restrizioni del Concilio di Trento, dai trattati di eloquenza alle raccolte di prediche dei grandi artefici della riscossa cattolica.

Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture. Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals--the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de'' Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts.

The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of early medieval archaeology has also transformed our source-base, but this has not been adequately integrated into analyses of documentary history in almost any country. In Framing the Early Middle Ages Chris Wickham aims at integrating documentary and archaeological evidence together, and also, above all, at creating a comparative history of the period 400-800, by means of systematic comparative analyses of each of the regions of the latest Roman and immediately post-Roman world, from Denmark to Egypt (only the Slav areas are left out). The book concentrates on classic socio-economic themes, state finance, the wealth and identity of the aristocracy, estate management, peasant society, rural settlement, cities, and exchange. These are only a partial picture of the period, but they are intended as a framing for other developments, without which those other developments cannot be properly understood. Wickham argues that only a complex comparative analysis can act as the basis for a wider synthesis. Whilst earlier syntheses have taken the development of a single region as ''typical'', with divergent developments presented as exceptions, this book takes all different developments as typical, and aims to construct a synthesis based on a better understanding of difference and the reasons for it. This is the most ambitious and original survey of the period ever written. a tremendous achievement, demonstrating mastery over half a dozen fields of scholarship. David Abulafia, THES ''This is a book and a subject with a pedigree that demands the closest attention.... a tour de force.... Wickham''snds Framing the Early Middle Ages may be the last great historical work of the last century.''--The New Republic ''History doesn''t get any better.... More than almost any history I''ve read, Wickham''s manages to be at once grand and rigorous. In its adroit and confident treatment of an array of subjects

This is an open access book available under the terms of a CC BY NC ND 4 0 International licence It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations Following the centenary of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics this volume features contributions from leading science historians from around the world on the changing roles of the institution in international affairs from its foundation in 1922 to the present The case studies presented in this volume show the multitude of functions that IUPAP had and how these were related to the changing international political contexts The book is divided into three parts The first discusses the interwar period demonstrating how the exclusion of communities of the Central Powers from international scientific institutions imposed by victorious allied countries made IUPAP ineffective until the end of World War II The second part analyzes the changing roles assumed by IUPAP starting from its complete renovation after World War II Case studies covering the role of IUPAP in physics education in metrology in joint commissions with other unions and in defining the complex relations between pure and applied physics provide examples of IUPAP s

En esta obra han participado treinta y cinco especialistas europeos de quince países. El primer volumen es un largo recorrido desde los primeros pasos del hombre, por un espacio aún inacabado, hasta el siglo de las Luces. El segundo evoca la transicion demografica de los siglos XVIII y XIX y este tercer volumen trata de nuestro mundo contemporaneo y de las novedades radicales que presenta.En 1900, dominadora, rebosante de hombres y de vitalidad, Europa lo espera todo del nuevo siglo. El hombre europeo esta por doquier, allende los mares, en tierras que ha conquistado y poblado, en sociedades que domina con autoridad. El porvenir es radiante incluso si muchos, demasiado pobres, tiene que expatriarse, lo que no impide que la poblacion del continente siga creciendo: jamas Europa habia acogido una proporcion tan grande de la humanidad. Pero tal soberbia choca con la realidad de las guerras, las matanzas y las revoluciones. De manera paralela, los avances tecnicos y los progresos medicos prosiguen. Muertes dadas por un lado, vidas salvadas por el otro: tiempos inciertos.

Quest'opera va letta come un'impresa di sintesi che implica il giudizio su tutta un'epoca e si scosta dalle prospettive correnti quando il libro apparve nel 1929. Si pensi al capitolo sulla "decadenza" italiana nel Seicento e a quello sulla Controriforma. Lo stesso giudizio sul barocco va considerato non tanto nella sua specificita estetica quanto come tentativo di giungere, attraverso l'estetico, a un giudizio complessivo su un momento della civilta. Il primo obiettivo dell'indagine di Croce e quello di individuare con precisione l'origine di alcune croniche debolezze morali e politiche che affliggono la storia d'Italia in quell'epoca.

England 1783-1846Boyd HiltonThis was a transformative period in English history. In 1783 the country was at one of the lowest points in its fortunes, having just lost its American colonies in warfare. By 1846 it was once more a great imperial nation, as well as the world''s strongest power and dominant economy, having benefited from what has sometimes (if misleadingly) been called the ''first industrial revolution''. In the meantime it survived a decade of invasion fears, and emerged victorious from more than twenty years of ''war to the death'' against Napoleonic France. But if Britain''s external fortunes were in the ascendant, the situation at home remained fraught with peril. The country''s population was growing at a rate not experienced by any comparable former society, and its manufacturing towns especially were mushrooming into filthy, disease-ridden, gin-sodden hell-holes, in turn provoking the phantasmagoria of a mad, bad, and dangerous people. It is no wonder that these years should have experienced the most prolonged period of social unrest since the seventeenth century, or that the elite should have been in constant fear of a French-style revolution in England.The governing classes responded to these new challenges and by the mid-nineteenth century the seeds of a settled two-party system and of a more socially interventionist state were both in evidence, though it would have been far too soon to say at that stage whether those seeds would take permanent root. Another consequence of these tensions was the intellectual engagement with society, as for example in the Romantic Movement, a literary phenomenon that brought English culture to the forefront of European attention for the first time. At the same time the country experienced the great religious revival, loosely described under the heading ''evangelicalism''. Slowly but surely, the raffish and rakish style of eighteenth-century society, having reached a peak in the Regency, then succumbed to the new norms of respectability popularly known as ''Victorianism''.

The aim of the New Oxford History of England is to give an account of the development of the country over time. It is hard to treat that development as just the history which unfolds within the precise boundaries of England, and a mistake to suggest that this implies a neglect of the histories of the Scots, Irish, and Welsh. Yet the institutional core of the story which runs from Anglo-Saxon times to our own is the story of a state-structure built round the English monarchy and its effective successor, the Crown in Parliament. While the emphasis of individual volumes in the series will vary, the ultimate outcome is intended to be a set of standard and authoritative histories, embodying the scholarship of a generation.This absorbing narrative history brings into sharp and lively focus a period of immense energy, creativity, and turmoil. The book opens in 1886, as the Empire is poised to celebrate Victorias golden jubilee, and ends in 1918 at the close of the war to end all wars, with England knowing that an era has conclusively ended. It vividly portrays every aspect of the nations life - political, social, and cultural - carrying the reader from the wretched city slums to the bustling docks and factories, from the grand portals of Westminster to Blackpools new holiday beach, from the world of the leisured aristocracy to the trenches of the Western Front and the violent politics of the militant suffrage movement.