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Rabb, Theodore K. was born on March 5, 1937 in Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia. Son of Oskar Kwasnik and Rose (Oliner) Rabinowicz. came to the United States, 1956, naturalized, 1978.
(This book is designed to accompany the nationally televis...)
This book is designed to accompany the nationally televised PBS series of six films, entitled THE RENAISSANCE. For instructors using the films, the text will be indispensable, as there is no alternative available so specifically geared to their needs. The book integrates the film series into a history course in a way that makes the subject comprehensible within a broad context. In addition to the historical chapters and the chronological overview, all related to the subjects of the film, the book includes illustrations, maps, and primary documents which can be used for teaching.
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( With Renaissance Lives, Theodore K. Rabb revives a trad...)
With Renaissance Lives, Theodore K. Rabb revives a tradition of writing that was often practiced by the historians of that astounding era: to tell the story of an age by examining the lives of those who lived it. Rabb’s subjects are all people who felt change gather speed around them: from Titian and Galileo to Catherine de’ Medici and John Milton. In their stories we see, above all, the powers of ideas to liberate, to enthrall, to provoke, and to resolve conflict.Renaissance Lives shows us the struggle with its grave disappointments but also its extraordinary achievements that accompanied the creation of the world we recognize as our own.
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(First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Marriage and Fertility: Studies in Interdisciplinary History (Studies in Interdisciplinary History) Marriage and Fertility: Studies in Interdisciplinary History (Studies in Interdisciplinary History) by Rabb, Theodore K ( Author ) Paperback Jul- 2014 Paperback Jul- 14- 2014
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( Theodore K. Rabb, one of the leading historians of earl...)
Theodore K. Rabb, one of the leading historians of early modern Europe, presents here the first full-scale biography of the influential English parliamentarian, colonizer, and religious thinker Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629). Rabb has studied Sandys's life and work for more than thirty years and shows that he played a vital role in the Jacobean Age's two most distinctive achievements: the early development of England's constitutional structure and the overseas expansion that began the British empire. Sandys made his contributions, Rabb demonstrates, in the course of an extraordinarily diverse career. Sandys sat in the House of Commons from the 1580s to the mid-1620s, becoming its elder statesman and most influential voice on economic affairs, constitutional issues, and parliamentary procedure. He was a leader of the Virginia Company and the Bermuda Company, which established and settled these two early English colonies, and was also a director of the East India Company. And in an age beset by religious extremism, Sandys wrote a book on religious toleration that was widely read and discussed throughout Europe. reassessment of parliamentary politics on the eve of the English Civil War. Rabb shows that Sandys helped shape gentry positions, independent of Crown or Court, on major political issues, which in turn gave the House of Commons a new prominence in English affairs. This long-needed work will prompt a reexamination of vital aspects of the constitutional, colonial, and religious history of the Stuart period.
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(Theodore K Rabb's contemplative book offers a new interpr...)
Theodore K Rabb's contemplative book offers a new interpretation of the seventeenth century Europe, focusing on a crucial transition from turmoil to relative tranquility. The book shows, in splendid illustrations, how painters, like writers and scientists, reflected the change that is his main theme - the shift from belligerence to restraint, from upheaval to calm.
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( There is little debate that the Renaissance began at th...)
There is little debate that the Renaissance began at the end of the fourteenth century. Its end, though, is much more difficult to pin down. Here, for the first time, renowned classicist Theodore Rabb defines the changes that marked the shift away from the Renaissance to Modernity, and explains why these changes took place. The European Renaissance is usually characterized by the belief that a distinct antique civilization represented the ideal for all human endeavors. But there were other unities that defined the era: a shift in the role of the aristocracy from a warrior class to a cultural elite, a growth in education, a more thoughtful probing into the sciences, and the use of the arts for nonreligious purposes.By the dawn of the seventeenth century, four developments had swept over the world, altering these unities and ending the Renaissance: a break with the period's obsession with the past, which invited openness to innovation; a quest for central political control to cure increasing instability; a change in direction of people's passion and enthusiasm; and a new commitment to reason. With thoughtful, wide-lens scholarship and close, detailed looks throughout at the significant moments of change, Rabb offers us a radically new understanding of one of the most pivotal shifts in modern history.
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(This book is designed to accompany the nationally televis...)
This book is designed to accompany the nationally televised PBS series of six films, entitled THE RENAISSANCE. For instructors using the films, the text will be indispensable, as there is no alternative available so specifically geared to their needs. The book integrates the film series into a history course in a way that makes the subject comprehensible within a broad context. In addition to the historical chapters and the chronological overview, all related to the subjects of the film, the book includes illustrations, maps, and primary documents which can be used for teaching.
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Rabb, Theodore K. was born on March 5, 1937 in Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia. Son of Oskar Kwasnik and Rose (Oliner) Rabinowicz. came to the United States, 1956, naturalized, 1978.
Bachelor of Arts, Queen's College University of Oxford, England, 1958; Master of Arts, Queen's College University of Oxford, 1962; Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1961.
Instructor Stanford University, California, 1961—1962. Instructor Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 1962—1963. Assistant professor Harvard University, Cambridge, 1963—1967.
Member faculty Princeton University, 1967—2007, professor history, 1976—2007. Professor emeritus, 2007. Visiting associate professor Johns Hopkins University, 1969, State University of New York-Binghamton, 1973-1974.
Visitor Institute Advanced Studies, Princeton, 1973, 82. Member national board consultant National Endowment of the Humanities, National Council History Education (chair). New Jersey Committee for Humanities (chair).
Chief historian Renaissance Television Series. Board directors Humanities West, Save Venice, Inc. Juror Rome Prize; consultant in field.
(Marriage and Fertility: Studies in Interdisciplinary Hist...)
(With the publication of The Population History of England...)
(Theodore K Rabb's contemplative book offers a new interpr...)
(This book is designed to accompany the nationally televis...)
(This book is designed to accompany the nationally televis...)
( There is little debate that the Renaissance began at th...)
(study of the end of the renaissance)
( With Renaissance Lives, Theodore K. Rabb revives a trad...)
(First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
( Theodore K. Rabb, one of the leading historians of earl...)
( Theodore K. Rabb, one of the leading historians of earl...)
Board Governors Hebrew U. Member American History Association (chairman committee quantitative research history, chairman nominating committee), Social Science History Association (Executive Committee, treasurer), American Association Advancement Humanities (director, secretary-treasurer), National Council History Studies, Community College Humanities Association (steering committee), Royal History Society, International Commission History Parliamentary and Republican Institutions, Renaissance Society American, Hakluyt Society, National Council History Education (chair), Historians Early Modern Europe, Conference British Studies.
Married Tamar Miriam Janowsky, June 7, 1959. Children: Susannah Rabb Bailin, Jonathan Richard, Jeremy David.