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Cultures of Plague (Book)
Samuel K. Cohn (Author), Samuel K. Cohn Jr (Author), Samuel K. John (Author)
Cultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians, along with those outside the profession, questioned the foundations [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: June 2011 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
CHF 58.80
Cultures of Plague (Book)
Samuel K. Cohn (Author)
Cultures of Plague highlights this most feared epidemic, one that threatened Italy top to toe from 1575 to 1578 and unleashed an avalanche of plague writing. In the heartland of Counter-Reformation Italy, physicians along with those outside the profession questioned the [...]
English; Hardback
Released: 15.02.2010 / Delivery time: at least 4 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
CHF 130.90
Lust for Liberty (Book)
Samuel K. Cohn (Author), Samuel K. Cohn Jr. (Author)
Challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, this book analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts.
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 02.09.2008 / Delivery time: 1-3 weeks (not available at short notice)
CHF 29.40
Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Memory of David Herlihy (Book)
Samuel K. Cohn (Editor), Steven A. Epstein (Editor)
A social history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
English; Hardback
Released: 1996 / Delivery time: at least 4 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
CHF 118.80
Lust for Liberty (Book)
Samuel K. Cohn (Author), Samuel K. Cohn Jr. (Author)
Aims to challenge long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, this title analyses their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts.
English; Hardback
Released: 13.06.2006 / Delivery time: 1-3 weeks (not available at short notice)
CHF 82.80
The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death: Six Renaissance Cities in Central Italy (Book)
Samuel K. Cohn (Author)
In his award-winning study, Death and Property in Siena, historian Samuel K. Cohn, Jr., used close analysis of last wills to chart transformations in mentalities over a six-hundred-year history. Now, in The Cult of Remembrance and the Black Death, Cohn applies the same [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 1997 / Delivery time: at least 4 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
CHF 44.30
Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy (Book)
Samuel K. Cohn (Author)
"These seven essays on women, sex, violence, and piety in Renaissance Italy," writes historian Samuel Cohn Jr., "bespeak the darker side of the Renaissance and, in particular, the decline in Italian women's status from the late fourteenth century until the Counter [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 1996 / Delivery time: at least 4 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
CHF 33.00
Creating the Florentine State: Peasants and Rebellion, 1348 1434 (Book)
Jr. Cohn (Author), Samuel K. Cohn (Author), Samuel K. Cohn Jr (Author)
A new approach to the political history of the Renaissance, examining the mountainous periphery of the Florentine state.
English; Hardback
Released: 1999 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
CHF 141.30
Black Death and the Transformation of the West (Book)
David Herlihy (Author), David V. Herlihy (Author), Samuel K. Cohn (Editor)
The Black Death is considered by many to be the great watershed in medieval history, as it ravaged a continent, killed millions and decimated economies. The author sees in this catastrophe the birth of technologically advanced societies, struggling to create labour-saving [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 07.10.1997 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
CHF 27.50
The Black Death Transformed (Book)
Jr. Samuel K. Cohn (Author), Samuel K. Cohn (Author), Samuel K. Cohn Jr (Author)
Over its first hundred years, adaptation to the new microbial plague enemy cam with striking speed and success. In place of despondency came a new sense of confidence. From God and the stars, contemporaries turned to cures and socially grounded explanations. And in this [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 30.01.2003 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
CHF 45.00
Popular Protest in Late-Medieval Europe (Book)
Kline Jr. Cohn (Author), Samuel K. Cohn (Author), Samuel Kline Jr Cohn (Author), Samuel K. Cohn Jr (Editor)
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Notes to the reader; Maps; 1. Before the Black Death, 1245 to 1348; 2. From the Black Death to 1378; 3. The Jacquerie; 4. The Revolt of the Ciompi, 1378-1382; 5. The cluster north of the Alps, 1378-82; Epilogue: After the cluster, 1382 to [...]
English; Paperback / Softback
Released: 09.12.2004 / Delivery time: 3-5 weeks (title will be specially ordered)
CHF 41.40