This book is situated at the crossroads of two recurring themes in rural history: agrarian contracts and property rights. Emphyteusis is at the heart of agrarian history in that it brings together agricultural history and the nature of social...

Property is without doubt the most powerful and the most opaque institution of modernity. Its ever-changing manifestations continually adapt to and support the great transformations of production systems, commercial trade, environments and social...

Property is without doubt the most powerful and the most opaque institution of modernity. Its ever-changing manifestations continually adapt to and support the great transformations of production systems, commercial trade, environments and social...

At the height of the Second World War, Switzerland decriminalised homosexuality. At the same time, France chose to introduce a law punishing homosexual relationships in certain circumstances. These two examples illustrate contradictory attitudes...

Property is without doubt the most powerful and the most opaque institution of modernity. Its ever-changing manifestations continually adapt to and support the great transformations of production systems, commercial trade, environments and social...

Property is without doubt the most powerful and the most opaque institution of modernity. Its ever-changing manifestations continually adapt to and support the great transformations of production systems, commercial trade, environments and social...

This volume presents twelve original essays, by an international team of scholars, on the relation of John Locke's thought to Descartes and to Cartesian philosophers such as Malebranche, Clauberg, and the Port-Royal authors. The essays, preceded by...

Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress. And yet it often suffers from the same Eurocentrism that plagues national history, accepting Western...

El equipo de investigación Investir dans le sacré/Invertir en lo sagrado se propone indagar sobre la intervención de los seglares en la fundación, el financiamiento y la gestión de instituciones religiosas. El objetivo es compensar una carencia de...

The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World is a collection of fourteen articles focusing on debates concerning the nature of “rites” raging in intellectual circles of Europe, Asia and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The...

Michelangelo Merisi, detto il Caravaggio (1571-1610), è una figura fondamentale nella storia dell’arte, un precursore della modernità. Al pittore lombardo, il cui realismo spinse Poussin ad affermare che era nato per «distruggere la pittura», si...

I sentimenti morali sono diventati uno strumento politico fondamentale per rispondere ai disordini del mondo. Che si tratti di gestire poveri e rifugiati, di soccorrere le vittime di catastrofi o di giustificare interventi militari, a dispiegarsi è...