17Th Century category: 857 books
by Laura Lisy-Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Unlike many narratives about the Czech lands, which place them on the periphery of their own history, this study considers Czechs as central characters, looking both east and west to find their place in the early modern world. Islam, Christianity and the Making of Czech Identity, 1453-1683 works through...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration on plantation slavery in the context of European colonial expansion would suggest. Slavery and slave trading, though little researched, were common across wide stretches of Eurasia,...
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies
Gender, Race, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women’s Collaborative Book Prize 2017
Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies is a volume of essays by leading scholars in the field of early modern studies on the history, present state, and future possibilities of feminist criticism...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular culture in the early modern era. For the first time a detailed yet wide-ranging consideration of the breadth and scope of early modern popular...
Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain
Literary and Historical Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches,...
by Elizabeth Ketner, Allison Kavey
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Contains the following items, translated with notes and an introduction: Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to a 'magnificent lord' - Letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo Pietro F. di Medici - Evidence of Alonzo de Hojeda respecting his voyage of 1499 - Account of the voyage of Hojeda, 1499-1500, by Navarrete...
The Journal of Christopher Columbus (during his First Voyage, 1492-93)
And Documents relating to the Voyages of John Cabot and Gaspar Corte Real
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated, with Notes and an Introduction, and including Paolo Toscanelli's sailing directions in letters to Columbus, and documents relating to Sebastian Cabot. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1893.
by Claire Jowitt
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
New edition, with introduction and notes; for the previous edition, by Sir Clements Markham, see First Series 56 (1877). Contains three additional narratives and other documents and omits certain supplementary matter. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1940.
Affectionate Authorities
Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval Basel
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
In one of his sermons, the medieval preacher Bernardino of Siena listed seven ’fathers’ to whom one owed obedience: God, one’s natural father, godfather, confessor, benefactor, a government official, and any elderly man. This book seeks to answer the question of why medieval Europeans saw the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A revised edition of First Series1 above, edited, with an Introduction, along with narratives of the voyages of Sir Richard Hawkins' grandfather William, of his father Sir John, and of his cousin William Hawkins, from manuscripts and printed editions. The supplementary material consists of the 1878...
An Alchemical Quest for Universal Knowledge
The ‘Christian Philosophy’ of Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644)
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
History of science credits the Flemish physician, alchemist and philosopher Jan Baptist Van Helmont (1579-1644) for his contributions to the development of chemistry and medicine. Yet, as this book makes clear, focussing on Van Helmont's impact on modern science does not do justice to the complexity...
Sir Francis Drake his Voyage, 1595, by Thomas Maynarde
Together with the Spanish Account of Drake's Attack on Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This is edited from the original manuscripts, along with a translation of the Spanish document 'Relacion de lo sucedido en San Juan de Puerto Rico de las Yudias, con la armada ynglesa del cargo de Francis Draque y Juan Aquines, a los 23rd [!] de noviembre de 1595'. The volume is the first to include...