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  • 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

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  • A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes – Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know About Irish History

    Fascinating Snippets of Irish History from the Ice Age to the Peace Process

    de Jonathan Bardon ...
    THE ONLY BOOK ON IRISH HISTORY YOU'LL EVER NEED!From invasions to rebellions, heroic martyrs to pragmatic politicians, industrial development to mass emigration, A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes by renowned Irish historian Jonathan Bardon will take you on a sweeping journey through Irish history, getting behind the historical headlines to reveal the lived experience of Irish people.Written in ... Leer más

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  • Solomon's Secret Arts

    The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment

    de Professor Paul Kleber Monod ...
    The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational thought and empiricism also embraced the spiritual, the magical, and the occult. Although public acceptance of occult and magical practices waxed and ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga

    Power Sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court

    de Sarah D.P. Cockram ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    In the first book systematically to give evidence of conjugal co-rule at an Italian Renaissance court, and the first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram shows their relationship in an entirely new light. The book draws on (and presents) a large amount of unpublished archival material, including almost unprecedented surviving correspondence between ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • The Holy Boys

    A History of the Royal Norfolk Regiment and the Royal East Anglian Regiment 1685–2010

    de Jon Sutherland, Diane Canwell ...
    The Royal Norfolk Regiment is one of the oldest and most distinguished fighting forces in the British army. Its line of descent can be traced back for over three centuries, all the way from modern Afghanistan to Monmouths rebellion in 1685.Throughout these years, and many campaigns, the regiment has maintained a marked local loyalty and tradition which remain strong today. This sense of local ... Leer más

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  • Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-1950: Essays in honour of W.H. Crawford

    de Brenda Collins, Philip Ollerenshaw, Trevor Parkhill ...
    Bill Crawford (W.H. Crawford) had played a key role in the development of Irish economic, social and regional history for over forty years. The essays in Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-1950 are testimony to his many spheres of influence - as teacher, archivist, curator, researcher and writer - and focus on the themes in which Bill himself has been most interested: the relations ... Leer más

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  • The 17th Century

    de Henry Wakeman ...
    THE seventeenth century is the period when Europe, shattered in its political and religious ideas by the Reformation, reconstructed its political system upon the principle of territorialism under the rule of absolute monarchs. It opens with Henry IV., it closes with Peter the Great. It reaches its climax in Louis XIV. and the Great Elector. It is therefore the century in which the principal ... Leer más

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  • Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture

    New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion

    Edición de Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Angela Schattner ...
    It is often assumed that a recognisably modern sporting culture did not emerge until the eighteenth century. The plethora of physical training and games that existed before 1700 tend to fall victim to rigid historical boundaries drawn between "modern" and "pre-modern" sports, which are concerned primarily with levels of regulation, organization and competitiveness. Adopting a much broader and ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Andrew Melville (1545-1622)

    Writings, Reception, and Reputation

    de Steven J. Reid ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Andrew Melville is chiefly remembered today as a defiant leader of radical Protestantism in Scotland, John Knox’s heir and successor, the architect of a distinctive Scottish Presbyterian kirk and a visionary reformer of the Scottish university system. While this view of Melville’s contribution to the shaping of Protestant Scotland has been criticised and revised in recent scholarship, his broader ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Sleep in Early Modern England

    de Sasha Handley ...
    A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society Drawing on diverse archival sources and material artifacts, Handley reveals that the way we sleep is as dependent on culture as it is on biological and environmental factors. After 1660 the accepted notion that sleepers lay at the mercy of natural forces and supernatural agents was ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe

    de Claire Jowitt ...
    Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing in Early Modern Europe is an interdisciplinary collection of 24 essays which brings together leading international scholarship on Hakluyt and his work. Best known as editor of The Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598-1600), Hakluyt was a key figure in promoting English colonial and commercial expansion in the early modern period. He also translated major ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Women, Crime, and Forgiveness in Early Modern Portugal

    de Darlene Abreu-Ferreira ...
    Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which judicial and quasi-judicial records can be used to examine the implications of crime in women’s lives, whether as victims or culprits. The foundational basis for this study is two sets of manuscript sources that highlight two distinct yet connected ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD