17Th Century category: 857 books
The Tragic Daughters of Charles I
Mary, Elizabeth & Henrietta Anne
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Mary, Elizabeth and Henrietta Anne, the daughters of King Charles I and his queen, Henrietta Maria, would be brought up against the background of the English Civil War. Mary would marry William, Prince of Orange, and be sent to live in the Netherlands. Elizabeth would remain in England under Parliamentary...
by Keith Wrightson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study looks in detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man who stayed as others fled: the scrivener Ralph Tailor.As a scrivener Tailor was responsible for many of...
by Mark Brown
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This study explores all of Auster's artistic output - both published and unpublished - for the first time, and considers, in considerable depth, his major themes of New York life, identity, community, writing and storytelling.
More than a game
The computer game as fictional form
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The first academic work dedicated to the study of computer games in terms of the stories they tell and the manner of their telling. Applies practices of reading texts from literary and cultural studies to consider the computer game as an emerging mode of contemporary storytelling in an accessible,...
by Stephen Lacey
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Tony Garnett is the first book-length study of one of the most respected and prolific producers working in British television. From ground-breaking dramas from the 1960s such as Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home to the 'must see' series in the 1990s and 2000s such as This Life and The Cops, Garnett...
Almshouses in Early Modern England
Charitable Housing in the Mixed Economy of Welfare, 1550-1725
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Almshouses providing accommodation for poor people are a common feature of the towns and villages of England, visible representations of historic attitudes towards the poor. The period after the Reformation saw not only the survival of many medieval institutions but also a remarkable number of new...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Gender and Political Culture in Early Modern Europe investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationship between gender, power, and political authority and influence. This collection offers a rethinking of what constituted ‘politics’ and...
Las cuatro partes del mundo
Historia de una mundialización
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 9, 2016
Dominar "las cuatro partes del mundo" siempre fue la ambición de la monarquía católica. En los albores de los tiempos modernos los nuevos amos del planeta transformaron no sólo los modos de vida, las técnicas y la economía, sino también las creencias y los imaginarios. Serge Gruzinski...
Travels of Fray Sebastien Manrique 1629-1643
A Translation of the Itinerario de las Missiones Orientales. Volume II: China, India etc.
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Continued from Second Series 59. This is a the ebook edition of the volume first published in 1927.
by The Levellers
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history.
Evolving from Oliver Cromwell’s New Model army in Parliament’s struggle against King Charles I, the Levellers pushed for the removal of corruption...
by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: March 2, 2018
À la fois d’authentiques corsaires commissionnés pour défendre le commerce des colonies de leurs pays, mais aussi ouvertement pirates, les boucaniers étaient pour la plupart des aventuriers d’origines françaises, anglaises et hollandaises. Ils pillèrent sans vergogne la mer des Caraïbes...
1664. Un anno della Chiesa universale
Saggio sull’italianità del papato in età moderna
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 9, 2014
La quasi totalità degli interventi delle Congregazioni pontificie che nel Seicento si occuparono del governo effettivo della Chiesa universale riguardò l’Italia, e soprattutto l’Italia meridionale. Perché si verificava questo? Perché il resto del mondo cattolico per tante, rilevanti istanze...
Attraverso la Sublime Porta
La Turchia nei resoconti dei viaggiatori italiani del Settecento
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 17, 2015
In un secolo quale fu il Settecento, secolo dei lumi, l’Europa attraversata da una nuova cultura, si volgeva verso l’Oriente islamico con una rinnovata attenzione; non più terra di misteri, luogo di orrore e quindi di continue incomprensioni con l’Occidente cristiano, bensì ora un mondo...
Der Hexenstein
Absturz ins Reich der dämonischen Finsternis
Language: German
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Anno 1699 in Süddeutschland. Auf fürstbischöflichem Territorium tut sich ein Abgrund auf: "Teufelsbuhlinnen" brauen die verbotene Schwarze Salbe, treffen sich nachts bei einem Monolithen aus grauer Vorzeit, beschwören Dämonen und feiern Orgien über verschollenen Gräbern. Ihnen steht...