In accessible language supported by prolific illustrations and primary sources, Wiesner-Hanks covers the age of exploration from Europe into Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. Quotes from leaders, philosophers, merchants, and voyagers draw readers into the time period. Told through the words and experiences of the people who lived it- kings, queens, and commoners, priests and lay people, explorers, scientists, artists, and world travelers- this is a world history for a new generation.

An Age of Voyages, 1350-1600 (Medieval & Early Modern World)

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E.

Children's Books

Oxford University Press

This book tells the extraordinary story of three sixteenth-century sisters who, along with their father and brothers, were afflicted with an extremely rare genetic condition that made them unusually hairy. Amazingly, the Gonzales sisters were not mocked or shunned, but were welcomed in the courts of Europe, spending much of their lives among nobles, musicians, and artists. Their double identity as humans and beasts made them intriguing, and the girls and their father were the subjects not only of medical investigations but also of a considerable number of portraits, some of which still hang in European castles today.
Using the Gonzales family as a lens, historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks examines their varied and wondrous times. The story of this family connects with every important change of their era—political and religious violence, colonial conquest, new forms of scholarship and science—and also provides insights into the complex relationships between beastliness, monstrosity, and gender in early modern life.

The Marvelous Hairy Girls: The Gonzales Sisters and Their Worlds

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Yale University Press

Women and the Reformations: A Global History

History

Europe

Explore and analyze the varied transformations in the religious and intellectual life of peoples across the globe as Religious Transformations in the Early Modern World looks at reasons why leaders and thinkers from all over sought to reform existing religions, develop new spiritual practices, promote innovative texts, and, on occasion, even create new religions.Explore and analyze the varied transformations in the religious and intellectual life of peoples across the globe as Religious Transformations in the Early Modern World looks at reasons why leaders and thinkers from all over sought to reform existing religions, develop new spiritual practices, promote innovative texts, and, on occasion, even create new religions.

Religious Transformations in the Early Modern World: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Bedford/St.Martin's

History of World Societies 8e Volume A & Sources of World Societies V1 & Historical Atlas of the World

Crowston, Clare Haru

McKay, John P.

Hill, Bennett D.

Buckler, John

Buckley Ebrey, Patricia

Beck, Roger B.

World

History of Western Society 10e & Sources of Western Society V1 & V2

History of Western Society 10e V1 & Atlas of Western Civilization

History of Western Society 10e V1 & Sources of Western Society V1

History of Western Society 10e V2 & Bedford Glossary of European History

History of Western Society 10e V2 & Sources of Western Society 10e V2

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