Renaissance category: 1000 books
The Shaping of Western Civilization, Volume I
From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Michael Burger's goal in this inexpensive overview is to provide a brief, historical narrative of Western civilization. Not only does its length and price separate this text from the competition, but its no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-authored approach make it a valuable asset...
Marriage and Violence
The Early Modern Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what—or who—must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? We have inherited a model of marriage so flawed, Frances E. Dolan contends, that its logical consequence is conflict.
Dolan ranges over sixteenth- and seventeenth-century...
The Tudor Cookbook
From Gilded Peacock to Calves Feet Pie
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Have you ever wondered what the Tudors ate? What was served at the courtly feasts of Henry VIII, or what kept peasants alive through the harsh winters of the sixteenth century? The Tudor Cookbook provides over 250 recipes from authentic period manuals for starters, mains, desserts and drinks, from...
by John Patrick Montaño
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
This book is a major study of the cultural foundations of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism more generally. John Patrick Montaño traces the roots of colonialism in the key relationship of cultivation and civility in Tudor England and shows the central role this played...
Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture
Military Men in England and Ireland, 1558–1594
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2009
This book studies the careers and political thinking of English martial men, left deeply frustrated as Elizabeth I's quietist foreign policy destroyed the ambitions that the wars of the mid-sixteenth century had excited in them. Until the mid 1580s, unemployment, official disparagement and downward...
The Age of Elizabeth
England Under the Later Tudors
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This famous book was the first up-to-date survey of its field for a generation; even today, when work on early modern social history proliferates, it remains the only general economic history of the age. This second edition, substantially revised and expanded, is clear in outline, rich in detail,...
Conquest and Union
Fashioning a British State 1485-1725
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The British Isles is a multi-national arena, but its history has traditionally been studied from a distinctively English -- often, indeed, London -- perspective. Now, however, the interweaving of the distinct but mutually-dependent histories of the four nations is at the heart of some of the liveliest...
by Richard Cust
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
This is a major study of Charles I's relationship with the English aristocracy. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on the 'Crisis of the Aristocracy', Professor Richard Cust highlights instead the effectiveness of the King and the Earl of Arundel's policies to promote and strengthen the nobility....
The Tudor and Stuart Town 1530 - 1688
A Reader in English Urban History
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The Tudor and Stuart Town brings together many of the most important articles in the field of urban history.
The Memory of the People
Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis of customary law in the medieval period; the politics...
by Christopher Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
This paperback edition of this seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work of three outstanding military historians. Each is an expert in the areas of battlefield interpretation, military equipment...
by Jerzy Lukowski, Hubert Zawadzki
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2006
The second edition of this guide to Poland has been updated to take account of the years from 1989–2005. This period marked its liberation from the Soviet Union, the birth of Poland's 'Third Republic' and, recently, its accession to the European Union in 2004. Poland's history has been marked by...
by Geraldine Heng
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
In The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('Gypsies'), from the 12th...
Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee
Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014
Tulips and coffee are defining cultural products of the Ottoman eighteenth century, along with their related institutions of palace and coffeehouse. These cultural products hold multiple meanings in the history and historiography of the period. For example, scholars argue that the janissary coffee...