17Th Century category: 857 books
Friars on the Frontier
Catholic Renewal and the Dominican Order in Southeastern Poland, 1594–1648
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Focusing on the Dominican Order's activities in southeastern Poland from the canonisation of the Polish Dominican St Hyacinth (1594) to the outbreak of Bogdan Chmielnicki's Cossack revolt (1648-54) this book reveals the renovation and popularity of the pre-existing Mendicant culture of piety in the...
Richard Hakluyt and his Successors
A Volume Issued to Commemorate the Centenary of the Hakluyt Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Containing: (i) 'Richard Hakluyt, by J. A. Williamson, D.Lit.', (ii) 'Samuel Purchas, by Sir William Foster, C.I.E.' (iii) 'English Collections of Voyages and Travels 1625-1846, by G. R. Crone and R. A. Skelton', (iv) 'The Hakluyt Society. A Retrospect 1846-1946, by Sir William Foster, C.I.E.' [on...
Spaces for Feeling
Emotions and Sociabilities in Britain, 1650-1850
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Spaces for Feeling explores how English and Scottish people experienced sociabilities and socialities from 1650 to 1850, and investigates their operation through emotional practices and particular spaces. The collection highlights the forms, practices, and memberships of these varied spaces for feeling...
Female Patients in Early Modern Britain
Gender, Diagnosis, and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
This investigation contributes to the existing scholarship on women and medicine in early modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of female patients by male professional medical practitioners from 1590 to 1740. In order to obtain a clearer understanding of female illness and medicine...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Edited with introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 77) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1935.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Transcripts of certain surviving records of the voyage for Cathay sponsored by the Privy Council and intended to establish the first English trading base in the Far East. Includes Fenton's own sea journal and extracts from the official narrative of Richard Madox, for which see also Second Series 147. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1959.
The Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter, 1606-1609
Documents relating to the Foundation of Jamestown and the History of the Jamestown Colony up to the Departure of Captain John Smith, last President of the Council in Virginia under the First Charter, early in October, 1609
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In December 1606, 120 emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which they called Jamestown. Thus the first permanent English colony was established in America. During the first few years, the colony was beset by extreme...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Saris's journal, with two of his reports to the East India Company, a letter, and extracts from Purchas. Contents: Introduction.-The journal from Bantam to Japan and back to England.-App. A: Two letters written by Saris on his return. I. From the Cape, June 1, 1614. II. From Plymouth, October 17,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Stories of True Crime in Tudor and Stuart England is an original collection of thirty stories of true crime during the period 1580-1700. Published in short books known as chapbooks, these stories proliferated in early modern popular literature. The chapbooks included in this collection describe serious,...
George Goring (1608–1657)
Caroline Courtier and Royalist General
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
George Goring was in many ways the archetypal cavalier, often portrayed as possessing all the worst characteristics associated with the followers of King Charles I. He drank copiously, dressed and entertained lavishly, gambled excessively, abandoned his wife frequently, and was quick to resort to...
by John Sealey, Ric Gannon
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Terrorism is not new for it has been around since the beginning of recorded history. Terrorism has been described variously as a tactic, a strategy, a crime, a holy duty.One autumn morning, a group of dedicated terrorists set in motion an earth-shattering strike against the very foundations of the...
Storia del tabacco nell'Italia moderna
Secoli XVII-XIX
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 22, 2017
La diffusione del tabacco nel corso del XVII secolo rappresentò una grande novità per la popolazione della penisola italiana, e introdusse non solo nuovi consumi ma anche nuove pratiche sociali. La rapida e massiccia estensione dell’uso della foglia americana attirò immediatamente l’attenzione...
La guerra di Candia vol. 2
Le campagne sul mare
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 11, 2017
La guerra di Candia fu il luogo di confronto di due diversi modelli militari, quello occidentale e quello ottomano, fino ad assurgere nelle corti di tutta Europa a 'Campo di Marte' del continente. A noi contemporanei queste campagne mostrano una specifica peculiarità, in quanto rappresentano la prima...
La battaglia di Tornavento (1636)
Mantova, Genova e la guerra dei 30 anni in Italia
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Il 22 giugno 1636, nei dintorni di Tornavento, tra gli Spagnoli che occupavano il Milanese, capitanati dal marchese di Leganes, e l'esercito invasore dei francesi, alleato deiPiemontesi e comandati dal maresciallo di Crequi, fu combattuta nell'ambito della Guerra dei Trent'Anni una sanguinosa battaglia...