Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700 books

The book contains seven essays on the Reformation written by world-renowned authors. As much as they are widely...  Read More >>

This revisionist history of the transfer of the tsar's power in early modern Russia, from the Moscow princes of...  Read More >>

Focused on the Escorial and the Vatican, the book delves into the essential political and cultural role of 16th-century...  Read More >>

The type of coquette emerging in the 17th century enjoyed unparalleled success in the 18th century thanks to the...  Read More >>

"""Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual...  Read More >>

"""Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual...  Read More >>

"""Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual...  Read More >>

"""Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual...  Read More >>

First published in 1935, Queen Elizabeth and Her Subjects presents a comprehensive history of the Elizabethan Age....  Read More >>

The intriguing questions of cleanliness and health in seventeenth-century England.  Read More >>

These are elite women, all connected to country houses or from noble families throughout the UK, and this book explores...  Read More >>

Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivaled...  Read More >>

On the eve of the American Revolution, the British army considered the case of a chaplain, Robert Newburgh, who...  Read More >>

'Beautifully written . . . a unique tale told in a unique voice' --S. G. Maclean Summer, 1522. In a wave of pomp,...  Read More >>

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Herzog Moritz aus Sachsen-Lauenburg fuhrte in Buxtehude ein skandaltrachtiges Leben zwischen amourosen Dreiecksbeziehungen...  Read More >>

2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro: Casa de M�dici Casa de Borja  Read More >>

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The George Spangler Farm in Gettysburg is a place of reverence. Nurses held the hands of dying soldiers and prayed...  Read More >>

This volume investigates the history of the representative assemblies of Sweden (the Riksdag), Poland (the sejm)...  Read More >>

Cultural Histories of Law, Media and Emotion: Public Justice explores how the legal history of a long-eighteenth-century...  Read More >>

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo...  Read More >>

Muslims, Christians, and Jews throughout the Mediterranean but especially in medieval Iberia engaged in polemic...  Read More >>

This book argues that the Protestant Reformation was an existential threat to the Catholic Habsburg monarchy of...  Read More >>

Drawing on Falloppia's Observationes anatomicae of 1561 and on dozens of handwritten and published sets of student...  Read More >>