Renaissance category: 1000 books
by Stefan Winter
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule provides an original perspective on the history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. Winter presents a history of the community before the 19th century, based primarily on Ottoman Turkish documents. From these, he examines how local Shiites...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2003
This work poses a straightforward - yet at the same time perplexing - question about World War I: Why did it happen? Several of the oft-cited causes are reviewed and discussed. The argument of the alliance systems is inadequate, lacking relevance or compelling force. The arguments of mass demands,...
The Protestant Whore
Courtesan Narrative and Religious Controversy in England, 1680-1750
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2010
After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses. Nell Gwyn, actress and royal mistress, stood apart by virtue of her...
Impostures in early modern England
Representations and perceptions of fraudulent identities
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Impostors and impostures featured prominently in the political, social and religious life of early modern England. Who was likely to be perceived as impostor, and why? This book offers the first full-scale analysis of an important and multifaceted phenomenon. Tobias B. Hug examines a wide range of...
Jasper Tudor
Dynasty Maker
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The Wars of the Roses were a bitter and bloody dispute between the rival Plantagenet Houses of York and Lancaster. Only one man, Jasper Tudor, the Lancastrian half-brother to Henry VI, fought from the first battle at St Albans in 1455 to the last at Stoke Field in 1487 and lived to forge a new dynasty...
Owen Tudor
Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
‘The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing madness … from the sayings of the prophet Merlin they still hope to recover their land. Hence, they frequently rebel … but because they do not know the appointed time, they are often deceived and their labour is in vain.’ (Vita...
by Peter C. Mancall
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
In the sixteenth-century Atlantic world, nature and culture swirled in people's minds to produce fantastic images. In the South of France, a cloister's painted wooden panels greeted parishioners with vivid depictions of unicorns, dragons, and centaurs, while Mayans in the Yucatan created openings...
by Lauren Mackay
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
The reports and despatches of Eustace Chapuys, Spanish Ambassador to Henry VIII’s court from 1529 to 1545, have been instrumental in shaping our modern interpretations of Henry VIII and his wives. As a result of his personal relationships with several of Henry’s queens, and Henry himself, his...
Carnal Knowledge
Regulating Sex in England, 1470–1600
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study reveals that - contrary to what historians have often supposed - in pre-Reformation England both ecclesiastical and secular (especially urban) courts were already...
by John Lord
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Among the wonders of the sixteenth century was the appearance of a new star in the northern horizon, which, shining at first with a feeble light, gradually surpassed the brightness of the planet Jupiter; and then changing its color from white to yellow and from yellow to red, after seventeen months,...
The Chevalier Bayard
A Study in Fading Chivalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
A Study in Fading Chivalry by a Professor of History at Princeton University.
Pierre Bayard belonged to a generation of men so fully absorbed in the sport of war that decades of their lives were often spent in battle following the whims of kings whom they believed acted on their behalf...
Fabrication of Empire
The British and the Uganda Kingdoms, 1890–1902
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
During the 1890s, the Scramble for Africa created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British agents first encompassed some 20–30 African kingdoms. In his magisterial study, Anthony Low examines how and why the British were able to dominate these rulerships and establish...
The Modern Spain Sourcebook
A Cultural History from 1600 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Incorporating a wide range of visual and translated written sources, The Modern Spain Sourcebookdocuments Spain's history from the Enlightenment to the present.
The book is thematically arranged and includes six key primary sources on ten significant areas of Spanish history, including the...
by Sten F. Vedi
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 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...