Renaissance category: 1000 books
The Reluctant Ambassador
The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Chaloner, Tudor Diplomat
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Sir Thomas Chaloner achieved much during his short life. As someone at the heart of four Tudor courts, his experience is fascinating. Serving in the household of Thomas Cromwell after university, he later was entrusted with delicate diplomatic missions in France, Scotland, Flanders and finally Spain,...
by Martyn Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The English Civil War (1642-53) is one of the most crucial periods in British history. Martyn Bennett introduces the reader to the main debates surrounding the Civil War which continue to be debated by historians. He considers the repercussions both on government and religion, of Parliament's failure...
by Juan Eslava Galán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 27, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 27, 2019
A pesar de ser uno de los personajes que más ha influido en la Historia, hay muchos detalles de la vida de Cristóbal Colón que continúan velados por el misterio. ¿Cuál fue su verdadera patria? ¿En qué pruebas se basan los investigadores que lo hacen gallego, extremeño, catalán o balear?...
by Juan Eslava Galán
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 15, 2019
Los Reyes Católicos, Isabel I de Castilla (1451-1504) y Fernando II de Aragón (1452-1516), han pasado a la posteridad como los fundadores de la España moderna y origen de uno de los períodos más brillantes de nuestra historia. Encontraron un país débil y dividido que pacificaron y fortalecieron...
Laudian and Royalist polemic in seventeenth-century England
The career and writings of Peter Heylyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This is the first full-length study of one of the most prolific and controversial polemical authors of the seventeenth century. Newly available in paperback, it provides a detailed analysis of the ways in which Laudian and royalist polemical literature was created, tracing continuities and changes...
New Worlds?
Transformations in the Culture of International Relations Around the Peace of Utrecht
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
The Peace of Utrecht (1713) was perhaps the first political treaty that had a global impact. It not only ended a European-wide conflict, but also led to a cessation of hostilities on the American continent and Indian subcontinent, as well as naval warfare worldwide. More than this, however - as the...
by Charlotte-Rose Millar
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a rereading of English witchcraft, one which moves away from an older historiography which underplays...
by Dr Helen L. Parish
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Superstition and Magic in Early Modern Europe brings together a rich selection of essays which represent the most important historical research on religion, magic and superstition in early modern Europe. Each essay makes a significant contribution to the history of magic and religion in its own right,...
Imperial Ambition in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Genoese Merchants and the Spanish Crown
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
This book examines the alliance between the Spanish Crown and Genoese merchant bankers in southern Italy throughout the early modern era, when Spain and Genoa developed a symbiotic economic relationship, undergirded by a cultural and spiritual alliance. Analyzing early modern imperialism, migration,...
by Sten F. Vedi
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This book challenges the general assumption that William Shakespeare was the sole author of Hamlet. It is maintained that the plot line and the characters were drawn up by someone else. This someone is thought to have been a person of high rank, a feudal prince, in the Elizabethan society. Being a...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Scandinavia provides a comprehensive and authoritative account of the Scandinavian countries from the close of the Middle Ages through to the formation of the nation states in the mid-nineteenth century. Beginning in 1520, the opening chapters of the volume discuss...
Queen Margaret Tudor
The Story of a Courageous but Forgotten Monarch
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Queen Margaret II of Scotland (1489-1541) has been all but forgotten in the story of the Tudor dynasty established by her father, Henry VII. Misunderstood and underestimated by many historians, she has been seen as a spectator to history, her motivations described as foolish, self-seeking, corrupt or...
Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance
Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
How did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian...
Mary Magdalene, Princess of Orange
Mary founded the Dutch Prince of Orange
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Mary Magdalene - Princess of the Dutch House of Orange.
Did Mary Magdalene travel to Provence, in France? Ralph Ellis follows the trail of mythology and reveals compelling circumstantial evidence that she did, and that her presence there has left its mark on the history of the region. In addition,...