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  • The Thirty Years' War 1618–1648

    de Richard Bonney ...
    Series series Guide to...
    More than three and a half centuries have passed since the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War (1618-48), but this most devastating of wars in the early modern period continues to capture the imagination of readers. This book reveals why.In this accessible, concise guide, Richard Bonney explains one of the first wars where contemporaries stressed the importance of atrocities, the ... Leer más

    $10.99 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

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Pepyss London: Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    Everyday Life in London 1650-1703

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Restoration London

    Everyday Life in the 1660s

    de Liza Picard ...
    Series Libro 2 - Life of London
    How did you clean your teeth in the 1660s? What make-up did you wear? What pets did you keep?Making use of every possible contemporary source, Liza Picard presents an engrossing picture of how life in London was really lived in an age of Samuel Pepys, the libertine court of Charles II and the Great Fire of London. The topics covered include houses and streets, gardens and parks, cooking, clothes ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of History

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain

    de Alec Ryrie ...
    The Parish Church was the primary site of religious practice throughout the early modern period. This was particularly so for the silent majority of the English population, who conformed outwardly to the successive religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. What such public conformity might have meant has attracted less attention - and, ironically, is sometimes less well ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Catholic Renewal and Protestant Resistance in Marian England

    Edición de Vivienne Westbrook, Elizabeth Evenden ...
    Series series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
    Mary Tudor's reign is regarded as a period where, within a short space of time, an early modern European state attempted to reverse the religious policy of preceding governments. This required the use of persuasion and coercion, of propaganda and censorship, as well as the controversial decision to revive an old statute against heresy. The efforts to renew Catholic worship and to revive Catholic ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800

    de Feike Dietz, Adam Morton, Lien Roggen ...
    In recent years many historians have argued that the Reformation did not - as previously thought - hamper the development of Northern European visual culture, but rather gave new impetus to the production, diffusion and reception of visual materials in both Catholic and Protestant milieus. This book investigates the crosscurrents of exchange in the realm of illustrated religious literature within ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • The Wealth of Communities

    War, Resources and Cooperation in Renaissance Lombardy

    de Matteo Di Tullio ...
    The early decades of the sixteenth century were a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political control. Nowhere was this more true than the area contested by Milan and Venice, that was constantly crossed and occupied by rival armies. Investigating the impact of successive crises upon the inhabitants of the Po Valley, this book challenges many ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • The Emblem in Early Modern Europe

    Contributions to the Theory of the Emblem

    de Peter M. Daly ...
    The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symbolic visual image and texts, an emblem is a hybrid composed of words and picture. However, as this book ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • British Pirates and Society, 1680-1730

    de Margarette Lincoln ...
    This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newspaper accounts. It examines how attitudes towards them changed with Britain’s growing imperial power, exploring the interface between political ambition and personal greed, between civil liberties and the power of the state. It throws light on ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD