17Th Century category: 857 books
The Post-Reformation
Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 1603-1714
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The 17th century was a dynamic period characterized by huge political and social changes, including the Civil War, the execution of Charles I, the Commonwealth and the Restoration. The Britain of 1714 was recognizably more modern than it was in 1603. At the heart of these changes was religion and...
En Garde!
Swashbuckling Skirmish Wargames Rules
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or riches. Rather than just rolling a few dice, the rules allow players to make tactical decisions about how the models that they control will fight – offensively,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Friar Domingo Navarrete, A Dominican missionary, travelled round the world and spent the best part of his life (1658-69) in China, where he became a determined opponent of the evangelical methods of the 'Jesuit mandarins'. This edition of his travels is based on all his writings, published and manuscript,...
Encountering Islam
Joseph Pitts: An English Slave in 17th-century Algiers and Mecca
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2012
Long before European empires came to dominate the Middle East, Britain was brought face to face with Islam through the activities of the Barbary corsairs. For three centuries after 1500, Muslim ships based in North African ports terrorized European shipping, capturing thousands of vessels and enslaving...
by Holly Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
“Excellent. . . . Tucker’s chronicle of the world of 17th-century science in London and Paris is fascinating.”—The Economist
In December 1667, maverick physician Jean Denis transfused calf’s blood into one of Paris’s most notorious madmen. Days later, the madman was dead and Denis...
Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640
Turning the World Upside Down
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides revealing insights into early modern English society.
Susan D. Amussen and David E. Underdown examine political scandals and familiar characters-including...
by Keith Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2012
Throughout the 17th century large parts of Europe were depopulated during the wide-ranging and savage wars of religion and dynasty, involving all of the major powers. This was therefore a key period in the development of 'modern' infantry tactics, such as the use of pole-arms and muskets together...
Narratives from the Sephardic Atlantic
Blood and Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Identity, family, and community unite three autobiographical texts by New World crypto-Jews, or descendants of Jews who were forced to convert to Christianity in 17th-century Iberia and Spanish America. Ronnie Perelis presents the fascinating stories of three men who were caught within the matrix...
Reformations Old and New
The Socio-Economic Impact of Religious Change, c.1470–1630
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This collection of essays examines the practical impact of religious change in Central and North Western Europe from the 15th to the 17th century. It focuses on the effects of reform on clergy, church resources, ecclesiastical patronage, education and poor relief. The title reflects the elementary...
The Trial of Tempel Anneke
Records of a Witchcraft Trial in Brunswick, Germany, 1663
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
The accused was Anna Roleffes, known as Tempel Anneke. She was arrested on the charge of witchcraft in June of 1663. She was found guilty and was executed on December 30th that same year. Her trial was long and involved, with many witnesses from several towns and villages. Consisting of direct...
Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
Intimate, Intellectual and Public Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation...
Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China
Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren is a full-length study of chuanqi (romance) drama, a sophisticated form with substantial literary and meta-theatrical value that reigned in Chinese theater from the sixteenth...
by David P. LaGuardia, Cathy Yandell
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France engages the question of remembering from a number of different perspectives. It examines the formation of communities within diverse cultural, religious, and geographical contexts, especially in relation to the material conditions for producing texts...
by Philipp Blom
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
An illuminating work of environmental history that chronicles the great climate crisis of the 1600s, which transformed the social and political fabric of Europe.
Although hints of a crisis appeared as early as the 1570s, the temperature by the end of the sixteenth century plummeted so drastically...