It still takes a major effort of historical imagination to enter the minds of those who lived during the Reformation Era, who were willing to suffer martyrdom or martyr others for what we would regard as minor doctrinal differences. These 36 lectures are designed to take you ins…
During the Thirty Years’ War (1618–48), the Habsburg family struggled to consolidate their power and exert control over the Holy Roman Empire. The Habsburgs used the Catholic faith as a method to centralize their public image and political power despite military defeats. Focusin…
Organists and scholars have traditionally explained the stylistic characteristics and standard genres of French Baroque organ music as consequences of the timbral and technical capabilities of the organs for which it was written. In 2011, David Ponsford began an important reappr…
Leonardo and the Commentators: Seeing Things Hidden in the Earliest Essay on the Work of Art, Naples, ca. 1562, is the first detailed study of the rise of hermeneutical concerns in the literature on visual art that took place in Italy during the sixteenth century. The study cent…
This thesis explores Spanish narratives of coexistence in Muslim and Native American lands, collected around the issue of captivity, through a corpus that covers the period of the intellectual history of Spain marked by the struggle against Islam, the Counterreformation and the …
Teter casts new light on the most infamous type of sacrilege, the accusation against Jews for desecrating the eucharistic wafer. The book recounts dramatic stories of torture, trial, and punishment.