17Th Century category: 857 books
Le guerre polacco-ottomane (1593-1699), vol. 1
Le forze in campo
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 16, 2016
“Guerre polacco-ottomane” (en. Polish-ottoman wars) è la nomenclatura anglosassone indicante una serie di conflitti che opposero, nel corso XVII secolo, l’Impero ottomano e la Confederazione polacco-lituana, lo Stato europeo allora più esteso e più popoloso. Fu uno scontro armato molto diverso...
La battaglia di Breitenfeld (1631)
Il superbo capolavoro tattico di Gustavo Adolfo
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 20, 2017
La brulla mattina del 17 settembre 1631, due imponenti eserciti si affrontarono sui campi di Breitenfeld, un oscuro villaggio sassone non distante da Lipsia, il cui nome tradotto vuol dire grande campo. L'incontro fu in qualche modo casuale, ma le due armate stavano guerreggiando da diversi mesi nella...
Le guerre polacco-ottomane (1593-1699), vol. 2
Gli scontri armati
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 17, 2016
“Guerre polacco-ottomane” (en. Polish-ottoman wars) è la nomenclatura anglosassone indicante una serie di conflitti che opposero, nel corso XVII secolo, l’Impero ottomano e la Confederazione polacco-lituana, lo Stato europeo allora più esteso e più popoloso. Fu uno scontro armato molto diverso...
by Alessia Lirosi, Gabriella Zarri
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Tra il Cinquecento e il Seicento la città di Roma fu teatro di una notevole espansione numerica delle istituzioni monastiche femminili, che si concretizzò sia nella rifondazione di antichi chiostri sia nella fondazione di insediamenti completamente nuovi. A ciò si accompagnarono gli effetti della...
Redefining William III
The Impact of the King-Stadholder in International Context
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
William III (1650-1702) was Stadholder in the United Provinces and King of England, Scotland and Ireland. His reign has always intrigued historians, as it encompassed such defining events as the Dutch year of Disaster (1672), the Glorious Revolution (1688) and the ensuing wars against France. Although...
by A. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
IT was not till five months after the death of the unhappy Emperor Rudolf II that, on June 13, 1612, his brother Matthias reached the height of his ambition by being elected to the Imperial throne. His candidature had been approved by all the other Archdukes; but the Spiritual Electors had caused...
A true Description of three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and China, undertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595, and 1596, by Gerrit de Veer
Published at Amsterdam in the Year 1598, and in 1609 translated into English by William Phillip
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
With an appendix of documents printed by Hakluyt and Purchas. Revised in First Series 54. The plates are taken from the German edition of De Bry, 1599, and are copies of the original Amsterdam edition. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1853.
The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads
Previously published 1930 and 1965
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
The Elizabethan Underworld collects together sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of thieves, rogues, and tricksters. For the most part the original authors were men of experience - watchmen, constables and those...
A Social History of Western Europe, 1450-1720
Tensions and Solidarities among Rural People
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This thoroughly readable and stimulating social history of Western Europe, first published in 1984, explores the family, religion and the supernatural, and the social structure and social controls of rural society. This title will be of interest not only to students, but to anyone who is anxious to...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Journals, extracts from journals, and narratives, written on board the Dragon and Hosiander by Best and various other persons, including Ralph Standish and Ralph Croft, with Best's correspondence and extracts from the Court minutes of the East India Company. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934.
by Sue Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Henry Lee was known as ’the most accomplished cavaliero’ in England. This handsome, entertaining and highly convivial gentleman was an important participant in life at court as Elizabeth’s tournament champion. He created the spectacular Accession Day tournaments...
by Professor John Childs
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a cruel, vicious thug who deluged the region in blood after the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He is equally notorious in Northern Ireland. Appointed to command the expedition to raise the Siege of Londonderry in 1689, his assumed treachery...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
What use is it to be given authority over men and lands if others do not know about it? Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know about it do not respect it or recognise its jurisdiction? And what strategies and 'language' -written and spoken, visual and auditory, material, cultural...
The European Wars of Religion
An Interdisciplinary Reassessment of Sources, Interpretations, and Myths
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of religious change, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period....