17Th Century category: 857 books
by Susan McClary
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Between the waning of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Enlightenment, many fundamental aspects of human behaviour - from expressions of gender to the experience of time - underwent radical changes. While some of these transformations were recorded in words, others have survived in non-verbal...
The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Images of Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
The sixteenth century was a critical period both for Spain’s formation and for the imperial dominance of her Crown. Spanish monarchs ruled far and wide, spreading agents and culture across Europe and the wider world. Yet in Italy they encountered another culture whose achievements were even prouder...
Jeremias Drexel's 'Christian Zodiac'
Seventeenth-Century Publishing Sensation. A Critical Edition, Translated and with an Introduction & Notes
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
First published in 1622, Jeremias Drexel's 'Zodiacus christianus' (or 'Christian Zodiac') was a remarkable work of religious iconography and spiritual self-help. Raised a Lutheran but converting to Catholicism in his youth, Drexel (1581-1638) was well placed to publish a book that appealed to Protestants...
Disability in Eighteenth-Century England
Imagining Physical Impairment
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This is the first book-length study of physical disability in eighteenth-century England. It assesses the ways in which meanings of physical difference were formed within different cultural contexts, and examines how disabled men and women used, appropriated, or rejected these representations in making...
by Donald Pennington
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
As before, the second edition of this widely-used survey is in two main parts. The first analyses the major themes of seventeenth-century European history on a continent-wide basis. The second part moves on to outline political, diplomatic and military events in the various states and nations of the...
Jesuit Civil Wars
Theology, Politics and Government under Tirso González (1687-1705)
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus quickly established itself as one of the most dynamic, influential but divisive orders within early-modern Catholicism. Yet whilst the order's role in combating Protestantism, reforming the Catholic Church and advising rulers during its first century has been...
Metatheater and Modernity
Baroque and Neobaroque
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Metatheater and Modernity: Baroque and Neobaroque is the first work to link the study of metatheater with the concepts of baroque and neobaroque. Arguing that the onset of European modernity in the early seventeenth century and both the modernist and the postmodernist periods of the twentieth century...
The Politics of Rape
Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
The Politics of Rape: Sexual Atrocity, Propaganda Wars, and the Restoration Stage is the first full-length study to examine representations of sexual violence on the Restoration stage. By reading theatrical depictions of sexual violence alongside political tracts, propaganda pamphlets, and circulating...
Matrimony in the True Church
The Seventeenth-Century Quaker Marriage Approbation Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Like many other denominations, seventeenth-century Quakers were keen to ensure that members married within their own religious community. In order to properly understand the ramification of such a policy, this book explores the early Quaker marriage approbation process and discipline as demonstrated...
by Hannah Barker
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This lively new study covers the dramatic expansion of the press from the seventeenth century to the mid nineteenth century. Hannah Barker explores the factors behind the rise of newspapers to a major force helping to reflect and shape public opinion and altering the way in which politics operated...
The Age of Reformation
The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The Age of Reformation charts how religion, politics and social change were always intimately interlinked in the sixteenth century, from the murderous politics of the Tudor court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identities in the parishes.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
The concept of the 'fiscal-military state', popularised by John Brewer in 1989, has become familiar, even commonplace, to many historians of eighteenth-century England. Yet even at the time of its publication the book caused controversy, and the essays in this volume demonstrate how recent work on...
Gated Communities?
Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Contrary to earlier views of preindustrial Europe as an essentially sedentary society, research over the past decades has amply demonstrated that migration was a pervasive characteristic of early modern Europe. In this volume, the theme of urban migration is explored through a series of historical...
Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century - Abridged Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker’s prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities—revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars,...