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Free Download Art & Visual Culture 1600-1850: Academy to Avant-Garde edited by Emma Barker
English | February 12, 2013 | ISBN: 1849760969 | True EPUB/PDF | 593 pages | 144/131 MB
An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods.

Free Download Art & Visual Culture 1100-1600: Medieval to Renaissance by Kim W. Woods
English | February 12, 2013 | ISBN: 1849760934 | True EPUB | 416 pages | 124 MB
This beautifully illustrated and authoritative volume, published in association with The Open University, is the first in a series offering an innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics it offers an illuminating overview of medieval and Renaissance art by engaging the reader in new ways of looking at historic artworks, questioning who the art is for and how it works, while at the same time setting it in the broader context of contemporary culture and society.

Free Download Medicine and Empire: 1600-1960 by Pratik Chakrabarti
English | January 23, 2014 | ISBN: 0230276350 | 280 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
The history of modern medicine is inseparable from the history of imperialism. Medicine and Empire provides an introduction to this shared history – spanning three centuries and covering British, French and Spanish imperial histories in Africa, Asia and America.

Free Download Mattias Kärrholm, "Swedish Dissertations and Their Subjects, 1600-1820 (Set Two Volumes): An Annotated Catalogue "
English | ISBN: 900455002X | 2024 | 1296 pages | PDF | 21 MB
This book challenges earlier understandings of early modern dissertations as unimaginative academic exercises. It argues for their continuous importance in scholarly and scientific discourse, and describes the richness and diversity of their subjects and themes. The book contains a complete catalogue of the almost 20,000 Swedish dissertations defended in Uppsala, Lund and Åbo, 1600 to 1820. The catalogue includes longer comments and descriptions of a few thousand of these dissertations, and also gives an analysis of how different subjects have evolved over time.

Free Download Patrick Tuck, "The East India Company, 1600-1858, Vol. 5: Warfare, Expansion and Resistance"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 0415155231 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 0.4 mb

Free Download Madi Williams, "Polynesia, 900-1600 "
English | ISBN: 1641892145 | 2021 | 104 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book provides a concise overview of the history of Polynesia, focusing on New Zealand and its outlying islands, during the period 900-1600. It provides a thematic examination of Polynesia to avoid placing the region’s history into an inaccurate, linear Western chronology. The themes of movement and migration, adaptation and change, and development and expansion offer the optimal means of understanding Polynesia during this time. Through this innovative and unique perspective on Polynesian history, which has not been previously undertaken, the reader is encouraged to think about regions outside Europe in relation to the premodern period.

Free Download Frédérique Renno, "Die deutschsprachige weltliche Liedkultur um 1600"
Deutsch | 2022 | ISBN: 3110738708 | EPUB | pages: 606 | 15.1 mb
Weitreichende Veränderungen in Dichtung und Musik zeichnen sich um 1600 ab. Lyrik und Lied lassen sich kaum trennen, da die Lyrik dieser Zeit meist sangbar ist und entscheidend durch das weltliche Lied beeinflusst wird. Der maßgebliche Beitrag, den das Lied zum ästhetischen Wandel, zur Modernisierung und Europäisierung der deutschsprachigen Lyrik leistet, wird anhand von etwa 5200 Liedern in 340 Lieddrucken zwischen 1567 und 1642 herausgearbeitet. Vor dem Hintergrund dieses Quellenkorpus werden in der interdisziplinären Studie Einzellieder und Liedsammlungen aus dem deutschsprachigen Raum musik- und literaturwissenschaftlich analysiert. Neben sozial- und gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Aspekten kommen Dimensionen der Novität ebenso zur Sprache wie das Verhältnis von Theorie, Poetik und Praxis, Kulturtransferprozesse sowie Fragen nach Kontinuitäten und Dynamiken literarischer und musikalischer Phänomene. Die Fallstudien sowie theoretische und poetische Äußerungen zum Lied erweisen, wie sich zwei Konzeptionen des Liedes profilieren: In der Verselbstständigung werden beide Liedkonzepte in Literatur und Musik aufgewertet. So trägt das weltliche deutschsprachige Lied zur Modernisierung und Europäisierung der deutschen Literatur bei.

Free Download L. Bosman, "The Basilica of Saint John Lateran to 1600 "
English | ISBN: 1108839762 | 2020 | 608 pages | PDF | 37 MB
The Archbasilica of St John Lateran is the world’s earliest cathedral. A Constantinian foundation pre-dating St Peter’s in the Vatican, it remains the seat of the Bishop of Rome, the Pope, to this day. This volume brings together scholars of topography, archaeology, architecture, art history, geophysical survey and liturgy to illuminate this profoundly important building. It takes the story of the site from the early imperial period, when it was occupied by elite housing, through its use as a barracks for the emperor’s horse guards to Constantine’s revolutionary project and its development over 1300 years. Richly illustrated throughout, this innovative volume includes both broad historical analysis and accessible explanations of the cutting-edge technological approaches to the site that allow us to visualise its original appearance.

Free Download John Norris – Gunpowder Artillery 1600-1700
The Crowood Press | 2005 | ISBN: 186126691X | English | 168 pages | PDF | 121.5 MB
In this follow-up to his successful ‘Early Gunpowder Artillery’, John Norris looks at artillery across the world in the early-modern period. Including weapons used during the English Civil War, the Austro-Turkish war and the Thirty Year’s War, among many other conflicts, this book describes the development of heavy, light and field artillery in this exciting period of history.

Free Download Producing Women’s Poetry, 1600-1730: Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print by Gillian Wright
English | June 10, 2013 | ISBN: 1107037921 | 286 pages | PDF | 5.96 Mb
Producing Women’s Poetry is the first specialist study to consider English-language poetry by women across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Gillian Wright explores not only the forms and topics favored by women, but also how their verse was enabled and shaped by their textual and biographical circumstances. She combines traditional literary and bibliographical approaches to address women’s complex use of manuscript and print and their relationships with the male-generated genres of the traditional literary canon, as well as the role of agents such as scribes, publishers and editors in helping to determine how women’s poetry was preserved, circulated and remembered. Wright focuses on key figures in the emerging canon of early modern women’s writing, Anne Bradstreet, Katherine Philips and Anne Finch, alongside the work of lesser-known poets Anne Southwell and Mary Monck, to create a new and compelling account of early modern women’s literary history.