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  • Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe

    Rulers, Aristocrats and the Formation of Identities

    Edited by Liesbeth Geevers, Mirella Marini ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750
    Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government. Yet recent work by political historians has increasingly questioned the dominant role of ruling families in state formation, underlining instead the continued importance and independence of individuals. In order to take a fresh look at the subject, this volume provides a broad ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Love and Louis XIV

    The Women in the Life of the Sun King

    by Antonia Fraser ...
    Louis XIV, the highly-feted “Sun King”, was renowned for his political and cultural influence and for raising France to a new level of prominence in seventeenth-century Europe. And yet, as Antonia Fraser keenly describes, he was equally legendary in the domestic sphere. Indeed, a panoply of women—his mother, Anne; mistresses such as Louise de la Vallière, Athénaïs de Montespan, and the puritanical ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Pepyss London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Samuel Pepyss London was a turbulent, boisterous city, enduring the strains caused by foreign wars, the Great Plague and the Great Fire, yet growing and prospering. The Restoration in 1660 brought the reopening of the theatres, with women appearing on the stage for the first time, and the period saw the development of English opera and the first public concerts. Pepys lived through a time of ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • A History of County Wexford

    A comprehensive study of Wexford's history, culture and people

    by Nicholas Furlong ...
    Brimming with vitality and information, Nicholas Furlong's comprehensive A History of County Wexford is an indispensable guide to Wexford's history, culture and people. Furlong starts with Wexford's first settlement and tells the story of Wexford up to the present day, looking at its Gaelic origins, its turbulence during Cromwellian times and its pivotal role in 1798. County Wexford lies in the ... Read more

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  • The First Century of Welfare

    Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730

    by Jonathan Healey ...
    The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national wealth and productivity. The First Century of Welfare, which focusses on the poor, but developing, county of Lancashire, provides the first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros 1595 to 1606

    by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros ...
    TO COMMANDER ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, R.N., M.V.O., F.R.G.S.; LEADER OF THE NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION, 1901 TO 1904. My Dear Scott, Believe me to be ever, my dear Scott, Your attached friend and well-wisher ... Read more

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  • Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of History

    by Alexandra Kess ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    One of the major challenges faced by the emergent Protestant faith was how to establish itself in a hitherto Catholic world. A key way it found to achieve this was to create a common identity through the fashioning of history, emphasising Protestantism's legitimacy and authority. In this study, the life and works of one of the earliest and most influential Protestant historians, Johann Sleidan ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities

    Edited by Karel Davids, Bert De Munck ...
    Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and in seventeenth and eighteenth-century northwestern Europe are the most obvious cases in point. But, how did this come about? Why did cities rather than rural environments produce new artistic genres, new products and new techniques? How did ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Aspiration, Representation and Memory

    The Guise in Europe, 1506–1688

    Edited by Jessica Munns, Penny Richards, Jonathan W. Spangler ...
    Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish themselves as dominant political players in France and indeed Europe, marrying within royal and princely circles and occupying the most important ecclesiastical and military positions. Propelled by ambitions derived from their position as cadets of a minor sovereign ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A Cloister on Trial

    Religious Culture and Everyday Life in Late Medieval Hungary

    by Gabriella Erdélyi ...
    Series series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
    In 1517, the usually tranquil friary in the Hungarian town of Körmend found itself at the centre of controversy when its Augustinian friars, charged with drunkenness, sexual abuses and liturgical negligence, were driven out and replaced with observant Franciscans. The agent of change in this conflict, cardinal Thomas Bakócz, claimed to be acting in the name of ’cloister reform’ motivated by a ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Alchemical Belief

    Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England

    by Bruce Janacek ...
    Series series Magic in History
    What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective, Janacek presents it as integrated into the broader political, philosophical, and religious ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Medieval and Renaissance Lactations

    Images, Rhetorics, Practices

    Edited by Jutta Gisela Sperling ...
    The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore some of the ambiguities and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD