17Th Century category: 857 books
Huguenot Networks, 1560–1780
The Interactions and Impact of a Protestant Minority in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
These chapters explore how a religious minority not only gained a toehold in countries of exile, but also wove itself into their political, social, and religious fabric. The way for the refugees’ departure from France was prepared through correspondence and the cultivation of commercial, military,...
by David Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2003
The 1640s were one of the most exciting and bloody decades in British and Irish history. This book interweaves the narrative threads in each theatre of conflict to provide an holistic account and analysis of the wars in and between England, Scotland and Ireland, from the Covenanter Rebellion to the...
A King Translated
The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries, 1593–1603
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
King James is well known as the most prolific writer of all the Stuart monarchs, publishing works on numerous topics and issues. These works were widely read, not only in Scotland and England but also on the Continent, where they appeared in several translations. In this book, Dr Stilma looks both...
by Linda Phyllis Austern, Kari Boyd McBride
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Psalms in the Early Modern World is the first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation, and influence of the Psalms in the Atlantic world, 1400-1800. In the age of Reformation, when religious concerns drove political, social, cultural, economic, and scientific discourse, the...
by Lynda Garland
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared regularly in the past decade, similar studies of Byzantium have lagged behind. Masculine and feminine roles were not always as clearly defined as in the West,...
The Ashgate Research Companion to The Sidneys, 1500–1700
Volume 1: Lives
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Few families have contributed as much to English history and literature-indeed, to the arts generally-as the Sidney family. This two-volume Ashgate Research Companion assesses the current state of scholarship on family members and their impact, as historical and literary figures, in the period 1500-1700....
by Leona J. Skelton
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book challenges this deeply entrenched stereotypical image as the majority of urban inhabitants and their local governors alike valued clean outdoor public...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Originally published in 1990, this book met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of scholars with diverse and wide-ranging interests; experts in social and medical history, demography, women’s studies, and the history of the family, whose...
Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607–1713
History, Organization and Uniforms
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2018
Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the development of organization and uniforms not only...
Thomas Harriot and His World
Mathematics, Exploration, and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This second volume of papers on Thomas Harriot edited by Professor Robert Fox is based on the annual Harriot lectures delivered at Oriel College, Oxford between 2000 and 2009. It complements the previous volume, published as Thomas Harriot: An Elizabethan Man of Science in 2000. The focus in several...
by Colin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
The vivid story of the creation, renovation, and enduring legacy of the most famous building in France: the palace of Versailles
Nothing represents the glorious and fraught history of France quite like the Palace of Versailles. Made famous by the absolutist king Louis XIV, Versailles became...
by Olaf Asbach, Peter Schröder
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) remains a puzzling and complex subject for students and scholars alike. This is hardly surprising since it is often contested among historians whether it is actually appropriate to speak of a single war or a series of conflicts. Similarly emphasis is also put on...
Archeologies of Confession
Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Stepfamilies were as common in the European past as they are today*. Stepfamilies in Europe, 1400*–1800 is the first in-depth study to chart four centuries of continuity and change for these complex families created by the death of a parent and the remarriage of the survivor. With geographic coverage...