Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700 books

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Autel Contre Autel - France-Angleterre, Xvie Et Xviie Siecles: France-Angleterre, Xvie Et Xviie Siecles

Autel Contre Autel - France-Angleterre, Xvie Et Xviie...

Author: Clement Scotto Di Clemente
ISBN: 9782406146704
Format: Hardback
$319.44

This book considers the competition between the theater and religious institutions, in the French and English polemics...  Read More >>

The Hundred Years War: 1337–1453

The Hundred Years War: 1337–1453

Author: Emeritus Professor Anne Curry (University of Southampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781472857064
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Updated and revised, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a detailed overview of the most long-standing,...  Read More >>

Salem Witch Trials: A Captivating Guide to the Hunt and Trials of People (An Account of People Accused of Witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts)

Salem Witch Trials: A Captivating Guide to the Hunt...

Author: Gerald Collins
ISBN: 9780993808807
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Salem, Massachusetts, has built a thriving industry of tourism on the foundations of its dark past. But, beneath...  Read More >>

Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time

Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time

Author: Gavin Francis (GP and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of General Practitioner)
ISBN: 9780192858177
Format: Hardback
$44.95

In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as medic in reading the work of early modern polymath...  Read More >>

The Great Defiance: How the world took on the British Empire

The Great Defiance: How the world took on the British...

Author: David Veevers
ISBN: 9781529109955
Format: Hardback
$69.99

A fascinating new history of the early days of the British Empire, told through the stories of the forgotten international...  Read More >>

Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Feeling and Practice

Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Feeling...

Author: Kristine Steenbergh (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) ,  Katherine Ibbett (University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9781108818025
Format: Paperback
$59.49

For readers interested in exploring the history of emotional responses to suffering, this volume describes the theory...  Read More >>

The Lost Rose

The Lost Rose

Author: Abby Gordon
ISBN: 9798399407111
Format: Paperback
$67.32

A decade after the Madness of Catalan, the echoes continue to reverberate. And secrets continue to be revealed that...  Read More >>

Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy

Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy

Author: Chriscinda Henry ,  Tim Shephard (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9780367465391
Format: Hardback
$263.00

The essays in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in the Italian Renaissance across the long...  Read More >>

Escaping Matrimony: A Documentary History of Eloping Spouses in Colonial America

Escaping Matrimony: A Documentary History of Eloping...

Author: Antonio T. Bly
ISBN: 9781666910902
Format: Hardback
$215.00

This study is a collection of elopement advertisements printed in newspapers throughout British North America.  Read More >>

Civil Conversation: Book III - The manner of conversation to be observed all within the home.

Civil Conversation: Book III - The manner of conversation...

Author: Stefano Guazo ,  George Pettie
ISBN: 9798399137100
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Civil Conversation Book III The manner of conversation to be observed all within the home. This is a revival...  Read More >>

This Incurable Evil: Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement, 1598–1687

This Incurable Evil: Mapuche Resistance to Spanish Enslavement,...

Author: Eugene C. Berger
ISBN: 9780817321581
Format: Hardback
$303.60

The history of Spanish presence in the Americas is usually viewed as a one-sided conquest. Eugene Berger provides...  Read More >>

A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice Spencer in Tudor England

A Woman of Influence: The Spectacular Rise of Alice...

Author: Vanessa Wilkie
ISBN: 9781982154288
Format: Hardback
$49.14

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Skepticism’s Pictures: Figuring Descartes’s Natural Philosophy

Skepticism’s Pictures: Figuring Descartes’s Natural...

Author: Melissa Lo (Getty Foundation)
ISBN: 9780271094823
Format: Hardback
$248.00

""Explores the visual idioms that made, sustained, revised, and resisted Cartesian philosophy. Locates Descartes's...  Read More >>

Catholic Reformation and the Council of Trent: History or Historiographical Myth?

Catholic Reformation and the Council of Trent: History...

Author: Massimo Firpo
ISBN: 9791254693841
Format: Paperback
$97.68

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The Galileo Gambit

The Galileo Gambit

Author: Gary McAvoy ,  Ronald L Moore
ISBN: 9781954123328
Format: Hardback
$73.89

Father Michael Dominic, prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive in Rome, is entrusted with the mission of transporting...  Read More >>

Die Karriere Des Deutschen Renegaten Hans Caspar in Ofen (1627-1660) Im Politischen Und Kulturellen Kontext

Die Karriere Des Deutschen Renegaten Hans Caspar in...

Author: Janos Szabados
ISBN: 9783700192787
Format: Hardback
$203.28

The author examines 17th-century Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy, with a focus on the frontier. This work centres on...  Read More >>

Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil

Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil

Author: Stephan Conermann ,  Mariana Dias Paes
ISBN: 9783111026107
Format: Hardback
$154.35

Slavery Studies are one of the most consolidated fields in Brazilian historiography with various discussions on...  Read More >>

The Prisoner of Paradise: A Dual-Timeline Thriller Set in Venice

The Prisoner of Paradise: A Dual-Timeline Thriller Set...

Author: Rob Samborn
ISBN: 9781959194149
Format: Paperback
$44.85

A speculative thriller that moves between contemporary and Renaissance Venice, as an American man gets pulled into...  Read More >>

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Forever Changed British History

Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who...

Author: Tracy Borman
ISBN: 9780802162069
Format: Hardback
$76.56

Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts...  Read More >>

Introduction a la Langue Francaise Suivie d'Une Grammaire

Introduction a la Langue Francaise Suivie d'Une Grammaire...

Author: Jacques DuBois Dit Sylvius
ISBN: 9782406151999
Format: Paperback
$150.48

"Jacques Dubois, better known as Sylvius, was a pioneer in the theorization of the French language. Published in...  Read More >>

Entre La Lumiere Et Les Tenebres: Aspects Du Moyen Age Et de la Renaissance Dans La Culture Des Xixe Et Xxe Siecles

Entre La Lumiere Et Les Tenebres: Aspects Du Moyen Age...

Author: Brenda Dunn-Lardeau
ISBN: 9782406088813
Format: Paperback
$97.68

This collection examines the presence of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the literature, music, architecture,...  Read More >>

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