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Elizabeth I and the Old Testament: Biblical Analogies and Providential Rule Aidan Norrie (University of Warwick) 9781641893817
RRP: €142.80€136.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641893817Author Aidan NorrieFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Burns, S.J., Robert Ignatius: The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia. Volume I by Robert Ignatius Burns 9780674731028
€65.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674731028Author Robert Ignatius BurnsFormat HardbackPage Count 323Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 644g -
Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc by James B. Given
RRP: €32.12€27.75James B. Given analyzes the inquisition in one French region in order to develop a sociology of medieval politics. Established in the early thirteenth century to combat widespread popular heresy, inquisitorial tribunals identified, prosecuted, and... -
Ionel Bratianu: Romania by Keith Hitchins 9781905791767
RRP: €15.46€10.70At the beginning of 1918 the British War Cabinet endorsed the view of the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, that after the war Austria-Hungary should be in a position to exercise a powerful influence in south-east Europe. These reassuring professions... -
Early Modern Aristotle: On the Making and Unmaking of Authority by Eva Del Soldato 9780812251968
RRP: €64.26€55.68A reassessment of how the legacy of ancient philosophy functioned in early modern Europe In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle affirms that despite his friendship with Plato, he was a better friend of the truth. With this statement, he rejected his... -
Weeds and the Carolingians: Empire, Culture, and Nature in Frankish Europe, AD 750-900 by Paolo Squatriti
RRP: €89.25€80.61Why did weeds matter in the Carolingian empire? What was their special significance for writers in eighth- and ninth-century Europe and how was this connected with the growth of real weeds? In early medieval Europe, unwanted plants that persistently... -
Household Servants in Early Modern England by R. Richardson 9780719068959
RRP: €23.79€17.28This lively socio-cultural history examines household service, one of the largest, multi-layered, mobile and most indispensable sectors of employment in early modern England. Drawing on a wide variety of cultural sources including literary depiction and... -
Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece by Anthony Kaldellis
RRP: €35.64€28.16Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history-when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration... -
The Story of Troilus by R. K. Gordon 9780802063687
RRP: €32.12€27.24Originally published by J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1934. In this volume Gordon presents the four great medieval versions of the love of Troilus and Criseida: Benoit de Sainte-Maure's Roman de Troie, written in approximately 1160 and the earliest... -
The Annals of Lampert of Hersfeld by I. Robinson
RRP: €23.79€17.28This is a translation of the eleventh-century Latin Annals of Lampert, monk of Hersfeld, with detailed commentary and introduction. No translation has hitherto been published in English, despite the fact that it is one of the best known of all the... -
Early Records of University College, Oxford Dr Robin Darwall-Smith (Author) 9780904107272
RRP: €41.65€40.83Edition - with English translation where appropriate - of crucial documents from the early history of Oxford's University College. University College claims to be the oldest College in Oxford, tracing its origins to an endowment of 1249. This book... -
Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture: Military Men in England and Ireland, 1558-1594 by Rory Rapple
RRP: €36.88€27.67This book studies the careers and political thinking of English martial men, left deeply frustrated as Elizabeth I's quietist foreign policy destroyed the ambitions that the wars of the mid-sixteenth century had excited in them. Until the mid 1580s,... -
Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World: Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c.1066-c.1250 Laura Cleaver 9781914049118
RRP: €30.93€29.55Who wrote about the past in the Middle Ages, who read about it, and how were these works disseminated and used? History was a subject popular with authors and readers in the Anglo-Norman world. The volume and richness of historical writing in the... -
Great War Britain Lancaster: Remembering 1914-18 by Ian Gregory 9780750968256
RRP: €15.46€11.45The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, including the deaths of over a thousand 'Men of Lancaster', and its legacy continues to be remembered today. This book looks at the impact that the loss of so many men had on the community and... -
Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England by Sujata Iyengar 9780812238327
RRP: €83.30€72.24Was there such a thing as a modern notion of race in the English Renaissance, and, if so, was skin color its necessary marker? In fact, early modern texts described human beings of various national origins-including English-as turning white, brown,... -
Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy by Steven A. Epstein 9781501725128
RRP: €29.74€25.79In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The author's findings about the... -
The Crisis of Calvinism in Revolutionary England, 1640-1660: Arminian Theologies of Predestination and Grace Dr Andrew Ollerton 9781783277735
RRP: €95.20€91.17This book investigates a puzzling and neglected phenomenon - the rise of English Arminianism during the decade of puritan rule. Throughout the 1650s, numerous publications, from scholarly folios to popular pamphlets, attacked the doctrinal... -
Very Different, But Much the Same: The Evolution of English Society Since 1714 by W. G. Runciman 9780198712428
€78.66Very Different, but Much the Same takes as its starting point the distribution of political, ideological, and economic power between English society's constituent roles from the time when Daniel Defoe was writing Robinson Crusoe, and argues that Defoe... -
Exploring History in and Around Derbyshire by Richard Stone 9781780911083
€18.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911083Author Richard StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing -
St Edmund, King and Martyr - Changing Images of a Medieval Saint by Anthony Bale
RRP: €95.20€87.68The cult of St Edmund was one of the most important in medieval England, and further afield, as the pieces here show. St Edmund, king and martyr, supposedly killed by Danes (or "Vikings") in 869, was one of the pre-eminent saints of the middle ages;... -
Northern Emporium: Vol. 2 the Networks of Viking-Age Ribe by Soren M Sindbaek 9788793423824
€70.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793423824Author Soren M SindbaekFormat HardbackPage Count 423Imprint Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabPublisher Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabWeight(grams) 340g -
Anatomy of a Duel in Jacobean England - Gentry Honour, Violence and the Law by Lloyd Bowen
RRP: €95.20€91.17Throws much new light on questions of gentry honour, the nature and prevalence of early modern elite violence, and the process of judicial investigation in Shakespeare's England This book offers an analysis of Jacobean duelling and gentry honour... -
Learning Empire: Globalization and the German Quest for World Status, 1875-1919 by Erik Grimmer-Solem 9781108483827
RRP: €53.54€49.48The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s, well before Germany acquired a colonial empire or extensive overseas commercial interests. Structured around the figures of five influential economists... -
Commerce and Politics in Hume`s History of England by Wei Jia
RRP: €95.20€91.64Illuminates the relationship between Hume the political thinker, Hume the historian, and Hume the political economist and highlights the social, economic and institutional changes which he wove into an innovative theory of causation David Hume's... -
After the Deportation: Memory Battles in Postwar France by Philip Nord
RRP: €41.64€36.28A total of 160,000 people, a mix of resistants and Jews, were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. In this compelling new study, Philip Nord addresses how the Deportation, as it came to be known, was... -
Living in the Tenth Century: Mentalities and Social Orders by Heinrich Fichtenau
RRP: €47.60€46.35"Fichtenau delivers a fascinating view of tenth-century Europe on the eve of the second millenium. He writes this hoping we, on the eve of the third millennium, will take time also to look at who we are and at our world. . . . This engaging book lucidly... -
Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928 by Tom Garvin 9780198201342
€63.40The present-day Irish Republic was created by a revolutionary elite which developed between 1858 and 1900. This book analyses the social origins of the revolutionaries who became rulers of Ireland after 1921, and examines their political ideologies and... -
Merchants of Medicines: The Commerce and Coercion of Health in Britain's Long Eighteenth Century by Zachary Dorner
RRP: €52.36€50.30The period from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century-the so-called long eighteenth century of English history-was a time of profound global change, marked by the expansion of intercontinental empires, long-distance trade, and human... -
Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays by Cormac O Grada 9781904558576
RRP: €28.56€27.69These essays by Ireland's leading economic historian range widely over topics associated with the Ireland's Great Famine of 1846-52. The famine was the defining event of nineteenth-century Irish history, and nineteenth-century Europe's greatest natural... -
Religion, Time and Memorial Culture in Late Medieval Ripon by Stephen Werronen
RRP: €95.20€87.20An examination of changes in religious practice over the course of the long fourteenth century. Ripon Minster was St Wilfrid's church, and its vast parish at the edge of the Yorkshire dales was his domain, his memory living on among the people of his... -
Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age by Éva Pócs 9789639116184
RRP: €55.93€51.43Examines the relics of European shamanism in early modern sources, and the techniques and belief-systems of mediators found in the records of witchcraft trials for the 16th to the 18th century.About the AuthorEva Pocs is Professor emeritus at the... -
Great War Britain Hull and the Humber: Remembering 1914-18 by Susanna O'Neill
RRP: €15.46€11.45The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today.Great War Britain Hull & the Humber offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. A... -
British Politics and the American Revolution Keith Perry 9780333404621
€38.60This new book looks at British Politics in the 1760's and 1770's during the American Revolution. Perry looks particularly at colonialism and the colonial administration, and at the general conduct of the war with America. He also surveys the development... -
Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821 by George Selgin
RRP: €30.88€23.13A fascinating story of the important yet virtually unknown episode in the history of money, this history chronicles the British manufacturers' challenge to the Crown's monopoly on coinage. In the 1780s, when the Industrial Revolution was gathering... -
Marriage and the Irish: a miscellany by Salvador Ryan 9781916492226
RRP: €47.60€27.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916492226Author Salvador RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell -
The Paris Commune 1871 Robert Tombs 9780582309036
RRP: €57.11€54.72The Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration... -
Plant Names of Medieval England by Tony Hunt
RRP: €130.90€100.85` Compiled with great care, cautious in its claims and rich with suggestions for further scholarship; will be of great value to lexicographers and all students of medieval medicine and botany.' PAULINE THOMPSON, NOTES AND QUERIES `...compiled with... -
Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c.900-1200 by Nora Berend
RRP: €57.11€50.50This 2007 text is a comparative, analysis of one of the most fundamental stages in the formation of Europe. Leading scholars explore the role of the spread of Christianity and the formation of new principalities in the birth of Denmark, Norway, Sweden,... -
Imperial Engineers: The Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill by Richard Hornsey 9781487506865
RRP: €73.78€61.18Established in 1871 on the outskirts of London, the Royal Indian Engineering College at Coopers Hill was arguably the first engineering school in Britain. For thirty-five years the college helped staff the government institutions of British India... -
The Italian Renaissance of Machines by Paolo Galluzzi
RRP: €42.78€34.94The Renaissance was not just a rebirth of the mind. It was also a new dawn for the machine.When we celebrate the achievements of the Renaissance, we instinctively refer, above all, to its artistic and literary masterpieces. During the fifteenth and...