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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.

Free Download Fergus Cannan Braniff, Seán Ó’Brógáin, "Galloglass 1250-1600: Gaelic Mercenary Warrior"
English | 2010 | pages: 64 | ISBN: 1846035775 | PDF | 26,8 mb
Galloglass, from the Gaelic gallóglaigh meaning ‘foreign warriors’ from the Hebrides, were fearsome axe-wielding mercenaries from the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland who fought in the retinues of Irish magnates from the mid-13th century until the early 17th century. This work, written by Gaelic historian Fergus Cannan, looks at the clan and family structures of the galloglass, their performance in battle, their weapons and armour, and way of life in time of peace and war. The unique fighting skills and tactics of the galloglass are also examined in this pioneering study, as well as how galloglass were organized on the battlefield, and their command structures and systems of rank.

Free Download The Strad – Issue 1600 – August 2023
English | 102 pages | PDF | 95 MB

Free Download James E. Kelly, "The English Convents in Exile, 1600-1800: Communities, Culture and Identity "
English | ISBN: 1409450732 | 2013 | 336 pages | PDF | 10 MB
In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France with more than 4,000 women entering them over a 200-year period. In theory they were cut off from the outside world; however, in practice the nuns were not isolated and their contacts and networks spread widely, and their communal culture was sophisticated. Not only were the nuns influenced by continental intellectual culture but they in turn contributed to a developing English Catholic identity moulded by their experience in exile. During this time, these nuns and the Mary Ward sisters found outlets for female expression often unavailable to their secular counterparts, until the French Revolution and its associated violence forced the convents back to England. This interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the cultural importance of the English convents in exile from 1600 to 1800 and is the first collection to focus solely on the English convents.

Free Download Andrea Griesebner, "Gender and Divorce in Europe: 1600 – 1900 "
English | ISBN: 1032369329 | 2023 | 250 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still echoes religious marriage law, which for centuries determined which persons could enter into marriage with each other and how validly contracted marriages could be ended.