17Th Century category: 857 books
by C.S. Knighton, David Loades
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeth’s navy. It is a companion to The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I (Vol.157 in the NRS Series), where the apparatus serving both volumes was printed, and it complements the other NRS volumes that deal...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Nueve estudios conforman el volumen que tiene como protagonista al obispo-virrey don Juan de Palafox, en su actividad como hombre de Estado e Iglesia, y que está en sintonía con la promoción artística, cultural y religiosa de los grandes prohombres de su tiempo. Con la excepción del primer artículo,...
by Donald Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and Annotated by William F. Sinclair, Bombay Civil Service (Retd.), with Further Notes and an Introduction by Donald Ferguson. The main text is a translation of: Relaciones de Pedro Teixeira d'el origen descendencia y svccession de los reyes de Persia, y de Harmuz, y de vn viage hecho por...
1619
Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
An extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand
Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course...
The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History
Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This volume, published in honor of historian Geoffrey Parker, explores the working of European empires in a global perspective, focusing on one of the most important themes of Parker’s work: the limits of empire, which is to say, the centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical,...
Select Documents illustrating the Four Voyages of Columbus
Including those contained in R.H. Major's Select Letters of Christopher Columbus. Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Continued from Second Series 65. Translated and edited, with additional material, and introduction and notes, and a Supplementary Introduction by E. G. R. Taylor. Enlarges on First Series 43 (1870). This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1933. Owing to technical...
Invisible Worlds
Death, Religion And The Supernatural In England, 1500-1700
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
How did traditional beliefs about the supernatural change as a result of the Reformation, and what were the intellectual and cultural consequences?
Following a masterly interpretative introduction, Peter Marshall traces the effects of the Reformers’ assaults on established beliefs about the...
Facing the Revocation
Huguenot Families, Faith, and the King's Will
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Winner- Best Scholarly Work, National Huguenot Society, 2018 The Edict of Nantes ended the civil wars of the Reformation in 1598 by making France a kingdom with two religions. Catholics could worship anywhere, while Protestants had specific locations where they were sanctioned to worship. Over the...
by Janine Riviere
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Dreams in Early Modern England offers an in-depth exploration of the variety of different ways in which early modern people understood and interpreted dreams, from medical explanations to political, religious or supernatural associations.
Through examining how dreams were discussed and presented...
The English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800
Communities, Culture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France with more than 4,000 women entering them over a 200-year period. In theory they were cut off from the outside world; however, in practice the nuns were...
The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain
Volume I Crisis, Renewal, and the Ministers' Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain examines the history of the French communities in Britain from the Civil War, which plunged them into turmoil, to the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, after which there was no realistic possibility that the Huguenots would be readmitted to France. There is a particular...
The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615-1619
As Narrated in his Journal and Correspondence. Volumes I-II
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Edited from Contemporary Records. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 2) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1899. Owing to technical constraints the portrait of Sir Thomas Roe is not included in the e-book edition of this work.
The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England, 1589-1597
Building the Faith of Saint Peter upon the King of Spain's Monarchy
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
English Catholic voices, once disregarded as merely confessional, are now acknowledged to provide important perspectives on Elizabethan society. Based on extensive archival research, this book builds on previous studies for the first thorough investigation of the Jesuit mission to England during a...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
By examining the spaces where authors, printers and readers interact, Negotiating the Jacobean Printed Book highlights the manner in which contemporary culture and canon not only co-existed but mutually nourished and affected one another. An international group of book history scholars look beyond...