Renaissance category: 1000 books
Henry VIII (Penguin Monarchs)
The Quest for Fame
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Charismatic, insatiable and cruel, Henry VIII was, as John Guy shows, a king who became mesmerized by his own legend - and in the process destroyed and remade England.
Said to be a 'pillager of the commonwealth', this most instantly recognizable of kings remains a figure of extreme contradictions:...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
*Includes descriptions of the voyage from crew member Antonio Pigafetta's journal. *Includes maps and pictures of important people and places in Magellan's life.*Includes a Table of Contents. Most versed in nautical charts, he knew better than any other the true art of navigation, of which it is certain...
The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior
The Intersecting Lives of Da Vinci, Machiavelli, and Borgia and the World They Shaped
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia—three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events that transpired when...
Leonardo's Brain
Understanding Da Vinci's Creative Genius
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal...
Print Culture in Early Modern France
Abraham Bosse and the Purposes of Print
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century France through a study of the career of Abraham Bosse, a well-known printmaker, book illustrator, and author of books and pamphlets on a variety of technical subjects. The consummate print professional, Bosse persistently...
by Anna Abraham
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Christopher Columbus did more than discover a new world. He changed the Old World. Through his adventures, he launched Europe's most powerful nations into an era of exploration and colonization - and, in the process, touched off a brutal period of genocide and slavery that would continue for centuries....
Dracula's Wars
Vlad The Impaler and His Rivals
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
According to Stoker novel, Dracula was a cultured man. In reality he was a Romanian warlord of the 15th century. He gained his name, Vlad the Impaler, because his favored execution method was to run a spear through his victim's lower body, then stand them upright so the spear pierced the vital organs....
by Peter Ackroyd
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's most acclaimed writers, brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life in this monumental book in his The History of England series, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I.
Rich in detail...
Margaret Beaufort
Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The extraordinary true story of the 'Red Queen'. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying four times and enduring imprisonment before passing her claim to the crown of England to her son, Henry VII,...
Through the Darkness
Glimpses into the History of Western Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
The fascinating history of medicine in Europe is filled with curious, often bizarre, strange, and gruesome cures, enthusiastically espoused by physicians and other medical practitioners of the times. Repulsive and disgusting examples of ‘medications’ often dominated treatment directives and many...
by Lauro Martines
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
The great Italian city-states: Venice, Florence, Milan, and the others. The particular nature of their history and culture through the five centuries of their emergence, magnificent flowering, and twilight is brilliantly explored in terms of the internal shifts of economic, social, and political power—by...
The Virgin and the Conqueror
The Kings and Queens of England 1066-1603
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
An introductory history of England in the medieval and early modern periods, consisting primarily of biographies of England's kings and queens from 1066 to 1603. The book is intended to provide a readable and enjoyable introduction to the period for readers with no prior knowledge. It would also...
A More Perfect Heaven
How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
By 1514, the reclusive cleric Nicolaus Copernicus had written and hand-copied an initial outline of his heliocentric theory-in which he defied common sense and received wisdom to place the sun, not the earth, at the center of our universe, and set the earth spinning among the other planets. Over the...
Cecily Neville
Mother of Kings
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Known to be proud, regal and beautiful, Cecily Neville was born in the year of the great English victory at Agincourt and survived long enough to witness the arrival of the future Henry VIII, her great-grandson. Her life spanned most of the fifteenth century. Cecily’s marriage to Richard, Duke of...