Renaissance category: 1000 books
by Germano Maifreda
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Established in 1542, the Roman Inquisition operated through a network of almost fifty tribunals to combat heretical and heterodox threats within the papal territories. Whilst its theological, institutional and political aspects have been well-studied, until now no sustained work has been undertaken...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Italians became fascinated by the New World in the early modern period. While Atlantic World scholarship has traditionally tended to focus on the acts of conquest and the politics of colonialism, these essays consider the reception of ideas, images and goods from the Americas in the non-colonial states...
The King's Pearl
Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Mary Tudor has always been known as ‘Bloody Mary’, the name given to her by later Protestant chroniclers who vilified her for attempting to re-impose Roman Catholicism in England. Although a more nuanced picture of the first queen regnant has since emerged, she is still stereotyped, depicted as...
by Dominic Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
At the heart of the English Civil War stands the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria. She came to England in 1625 at the age of fifteen, undermined by her greedy French entourage, blocked by the forceful Duke of Buckingham and weighed down by instructions from the Pope to protect the Catholics of England....
by Friedrich Naumann
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Adam Ries (1492 - 1559) zählt zu den bedeutenden deutschen Rechenmeistern, vermochte er doch wie kein anderer die als schwierig geltende Mathematik dem 'gemeinen Mann' verständlich zu machen, so dass 'ein jeder die Rechenkunst mit Lust und Fröhlichkeit begreifen' konnte. Sein bekanntes in Deutsch...
Dogs of God
Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2006
From the acclaimed author of Warriors of God comes a riveting account of the pivotal events of 1492, when towering political ambitions, horrific religious excesses, and a drive toward international conquest changed the world forever.James Reston, Jr., brings to life the epic story of Spain’s effort...
by Lacey Baldwin-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
The Henry VIII of popular legend and historical fiction is a bacchanalian figure of gargantuan proportions. Historical fact, however, is another matter. A deeply insecure man constantly in need of reassurance, a ritualist, a prude unsure of his prowess and easily embarrassed by sex - these are the...
Tudor Lives
Success and Failure of an Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
The triumphs of the Tudor age are well known; less apparent is the pain that went hand-in-hand with success. This book considers the cost of great achievement. Michael Foss, author of The World of Camelot and The Search for Cleopatra, holds a microscope up to the lives of key Tudor figures. He paints...
by W. J. Sheils
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
The changes brought about during the English Reformation clearly reflected the desire of the Crown, government and landed classes to reduce the political power and landed wealth of the late medieval Church. This book covers the background to the Reformation, the processes which brought about these major changes and the impact on the clergy and the general population.
The Protestant Revolution
From Martin Luther to Martin Luther King Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
When Martin Luther nailed 95 criticisms of the Catholic Church to the door of his local church in 1517 he sparked not just a religious Reformation, but an unending cycle of political, social and economic change that continues to this day.
By challenging the authority of the Pope, Luther inadvertently...
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Advocate of a New Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2013
This book provides the first analysis of the development of Erasmus’ historical methodology and its impact on Roman Catholic and Protestant theologians. Combining a biography of Erasmus with the larger theological debates and the intellectual history of his time, Christine Christ-von Wedel reveals...
The Arras Witch Treatises
Johannes Tinctor's Invectives contre la secte de vauderie and the Recollectio casus, status et condicionis Valdensium ydolatrarum by the Anonymous of Arras (1460)
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
This is the first complete and accessible English translation of two major source texts—Tinctor’s Invectives and the anonymous Recollectio—that arose from the notorious Arras witch hunts and trials in the mid-fifteenth century in France. These writings, by the “Anonymous of Arras” (believed...
The Negotiated Reformation
Imperial Cities and the Politics of Urban Reform, 1525–1550
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2009
Utilizing evidence from numerous imperial cities, this book offers an explanation for the spread and survival of urban reform during the sixteenth century. By analyzing the operation of regional political constellations, it reveals a common process of negotiation that shaped the Reformation in the...
by John Morrill
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Morrill's Very Short Introduction to Stuart Britain sets the Revolution into its political, religious, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural contexts. It thus seeks to integrate what most other surveys...