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  • Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles

    Edición de Kate Buchanan, Lucinda H.S. Dean ...
    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 and political - did those in authority throughout the medieval and early modern era use to project ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

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  • City of Light, City of Poison

    Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

    de Holly Tucker ...
    "An artful reconstruction of seventeenth-century Paris with riveting storytelling." —The New YorkerIn the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners, and priests whose reach extends all the way to the king’s court at Versailles. Based on court ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Reformations

    The Early Modern World, 1450-1650

    de Carlos M. N. Eire ...
    This fast-paced survey of Western civilization’s transition from the Middle Ages to modernity brings that tumultuous period vividly to life. Carlos Eire, popular professor and gifted writer, chronicles the two-hundred-year era of the Renaissance and Reformation with particular attention to issues that persist as concerns in the present day. Eire connects the Protestant and Catholic Reformations in ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason

    Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason

    de John V. Fleming ...
    Why spiritual and supernatural yearnings, even investigations into the occult, flourished in the era of rationalist philosophy.In The Dark Side of the Enlightenment, John V. Fleming shows how the impulses of the European Enlightenment—generally associated with great strides in the liberation of human thought from superstition and traditional religion—were challenged by tenacious religious ideas or ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe

    Edición de Kenneth Borris, George S. Rousseau ...
    The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe investigates early modern scientific accounts of same-sex desires and the shapes they assumed in everyday life. It explores the significance of those representations and interpretations from around 1450 to 1750, long before the term homosexuality was coined and accrued its current range of cultural meanings.This collection establishes that ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • The First Century of Welfare

    Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • William the Third

    Unraveling the Reign of a Monarch: A Scholarly Account of British History and Political Intrigue in the 17th Century

    de H. D. Traill ...
    In "William the Third," H. D. Traill masterfully chronicles the life and reign of one of England's most intriguing monarchs, William of Orange. Traill employs a meticulously researched narrative style, weaving historical analysis with biographical details to paint a comprehensive portrait of William's ascent to power and his impact on England'Äôs political landscape. The book situates William ... Leer más

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  • A Military History of the English Civil War

    1642-1649

    de Malcolm Wanklyn, Frank Jones ...
    A Military History of the English Civil War examines how the civil war was won, who fought for whom, and why it ended. With a straightforward style and clear chronology that enables readers to make their own judgements and pursue their own interests further, this original history provides a thorough critique of the reasons that have been cited for Parliament's victory and the King's defeat in 1645 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Secret: Edward Wilson And The Government Conspiracy

    de Netta Murray Goldsmith ...
    This book suggests a solution to an episode that has remained a mystery to this day. It is a story involving a king, his mistress, one of Princess Diana's ancestors and a financial genius.The solution offered here is a hypothesis, but as will be shown, a more plausible one than two published well after Wilson's death. These earlier accounts written anonymously by authors with a political axe to ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Rebranding Rule

    The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714

    de Kevin Sharpe ...
    In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how this preoccupation with public representation met the challenge of dealing with the aftermath of Cromwell ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Literacy in Early Modern Europe

    de R.A. Houston ...
    The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples for all over the continent; and concentrates on the experience of ordinary men and women, ... Leer más

    $111.99 USD

  • Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain

    Literary and Historical Explorations

    de Richard Hillman, Pauline Ruberry-Blanc ...
    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, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD