Ulinka Rublack (Univers Professor of Early Modern European History

Gebundenes Buch

Astronomer & the Witch

Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother

Beschreibung

The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.

Autor

Ulinka Rublack is Professor at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on early modern European history as well as approaches to history. She has edited, most recently, the Oxford Concise Companion to History (2011), and her Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations is forthcoming. Her monographs include Reformation Europe (2005), The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (1999), and Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780198736776
• ISBN-10: 0198736770
• Artikelnr.: 42774799