Renaissance category: 1000 books
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2204-2356 (August 1529-July 1530)
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The letters in this volume reflect Erasmus’ anxiety about the endemic warfare in Western Europe, the advance of the Ottoman Turks into Europe, and the increasing threat of armed conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Germany. Unable and unwilling to attend the Diet of Augsburg (June–November...
The New Testament Scholarship of Erasmus
An introduction with Erasmus' Preface and Ancillary Writings
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Erasmus produced his five editions of the New Testament in Greek and Latin and his Paraphrases on the Gospels and Epistles almost contemporaneously with the tumultuous events that accompanied the beginnings of the Reformation in Europe. At the same time, his scholarship was a signal illustration of...
Literary and Educational Writings, 1 and 2
Volume 1: Antibarbari / Parabolae. Volume 2: De copia / De ratione studii
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
These volumes are the first in a series containing works by Erasmus 'that concern literature and education': interests which to him were scarcely separable. The aim of Erasmian education was a civilized life, expressed in Christian piety and the fulfilment of public and private duties and embellished...
The Sinews of Habsburg Power
Lower Austria in a Fiscal-Military State 1650-1820
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017
The Sinews of Habsburg Power explores the domestic foundations of the immense growth of central European Habsburg power from the rise of a permanent standing army after the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Napoleonic wars. With a force that grew irregularly in size from around 25,000 soldiers to...
Broken Lights and Mended Lives
Theology and Common Life in the Early Church
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
A discussion by a broadly respected authority of the complicated relationship between theology and ordinary life in the early church. The first section of the book scrutinizes theology with a view to understanding its bearing upon Christian understandings of life (the theological “stories” of...
Dynasties
A Global History of Power, 1300–1800
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
For thousands of years, societies have fallen under the reign of a single leader, ruling as chief, king, or emperor. In this fascinating global history of medieval and early modern dynastic power, Jeroen Duindam charts the rise and fall of dynasties, the rituals of rulership, and the contested presence...
Early Modern China and Northeast Asia
Cross-Border Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
In this revisionist history of early modern China, Evelyn Rawski challenges the notion of Chinese history as a linear narrative of dynasties dominated by the Central Plains and Hans Chinese culture from a unique, peripheral perspective. Rawski argues that China has been shaped by its relations with...
by Robert Hutchinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
The gripping story of one of the most enigmatic and alluring figures in British history: a dangerous double agent and Irish rogue in King Charles II's court.
One morning in May 1671, a man disguised as a parson daringly attempted to seize the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Astonishingly,...
The Common Freedom of the People
John Lilburne and the English Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was shot through...
by Ronald Huebert
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
For at least a generation, scholars have asserted that privacy barely existed in the early modern era. The divide between the public and private was vague, they say, and the concept, if it was acknowledged, was rarely valued. In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions...
If I Lose Mine Honour, I Lose Myself
Honour among the Early Modern English Elite
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Moving beyond the preoccupation of honour and its associations with violence and sexual reputation, Courtney Thomas offers an intriguing investigation of honour’s social meanings amongst early modern elites in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
If I Lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself...
by Charles H. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age is an interdisciplinary introduction to cross-cultural encounters in the early modern age (1400–1800) and their influences on the development of world societies. In the aftermath of Mongol expansion across Eurasia, the unprecedented rise of imperial states...
Beyond the Grand Tour
Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour, a journey undertaken by elite young males from northern Europe to the centres of the arts and antiquity in Italy. Taking a somewhat different perspective, this volume builds upon recent research...
by Patrick Cheney
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1993
In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that Spenser's idea of a literary career is not strictly the convential Virgilian pattern of pastoral to epic, but a Christian revision of that pattern in light...