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Catherine Howard: The Adulterous Wife of Henry VIII by David Loades
RRP: £9.99£6.64Henry's fifth queen is best known to history as the stupid adolescent who got herself fatally entangled with lovers and ended up on the block. However, there was more to her than that. She was a symptom of the power struggle that was going on in the... -
The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople by Susan Wise Bauer 9780393059762
RRP: £27.99£25.43Beginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume-the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World-chronicles the contradictions of a world in transition. Popes continue to... -
A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575 by John M. Najemy
RRP: £32.95£29.54In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state,... -
The Atlantic Slave Trade by Herbert S. Klein 9780521182508
RRP: £22.99£17.23This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares... -
Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn by Stephen Porter 9781445682846
RRP: £14.99£10.95Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life. The thriving metropolis had a strong royal presence, at the long established Tower of London and Westminster, and later at the palaces of Whitehall, Bridewell... -
Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester: A New Edition: Volume I: The Codex by Domenico Laurenza 9780198832874
RRP: £28.99£20.68Leonardo's greatest work of science beautifully reproduced for the 500th anniversary of his death. This edition offers a high-quality facsimile reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Leicester, a collection of his scientific writings. Named after... -
Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa 1880-1995 by Patrick Manning 9780521642552
RRP: £75.00£57.67This edition of Patrick Manning's established text includes two new chapters that discuss developments in the region since 1985, emphasising the democratisation movements of the 1980s and 1990s, the Francophone movement, and the crises in Rwanda and... -
Deadly Dreams: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China by J. Y. Wong 9780521526197
RRP: £37.99£34.83The Arrow War (1856-60) involved all the world's major powers, and could almost be called a world war because of the global economic and diplomatic issues driving it. For twenty-five years Dr John Wong has been trying to discover the true origins of the... -
How to Do it: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians by Rudolph M. Bell 9780226042008
RRP: £23.00£22.13Hope to conceive a boy? Tie a tourniquet around your husband's left testicle. Pregnant and fear a weak or malformed baby? Frequent hearty laughter should reduce the risk. And if you're a teenager of good repute, avoid dancing at all costs and stay away... -
Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England by Charlotte-Rose Millar 9780367204549
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a rereading of English witchcraft, one which moves away... -
The Cambridge History of Japan by John Whitney Hall 9780521223553
RRP: £74.99£64.30This is the fourth of six volumes designed to explore the history of Japan from prehistoric to modern times. Volume 4 covers the years from 1550 to 1800, a short but surprisingly eventful period in Japanese history commonly referred to as Japan's Early... -
The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions by William M. Reddy 9780521004725
RRP: £30.99£23.80In The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions, William M. Reddy offers a theory of emotions which both critiques and expands upon recent research in the fields of anthropology and psychology. Exploring the links between emotion... -
La Reine Blanche: Mary Tudor, A Life in Letters by Sarah Bryson 9781398103375
RRP: £9.99£6.64Mary Tudor's childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne, and Henry VIII. These men and the beliefs held about women at the time helped to shape Mary's life. She was trained... -
Platonic Theology: v. 4: Books 12-14 by Marsilio Ficino 9780674014824
RRP: £29.95£23.66The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of... -
Writing Early Modern History by Garthine Walker 9780340807798
£30.33This volume of the Writing History series examines how theory has contributed, both explicitly and implicitly, to the writing of early modern history. It focuses upon neither abstract theory nor historiography per se, but upon the practical application... -
The Renaissance Bazaar: from the Silk Road to Michelangelo by Jerry Brotton 9780192802651
£38.75More than ever before, the Renaissance stands as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself emerged in ways that continue to affect not only Europe but... -
Erasmus on Literature: His Ratio or ‘System' of 1518/1519 by Mark Vessey
RRP: £29.99£27.38None of the works included among Erasmus' 'Literary and Educational Writings' in the Collected Works of Erasmus captures his most adventurous thinking about how texts signify in - and thereby make or remake - worlds of thought, feeling, and action. The... -
Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 by Suor Maria Celeste
RRP: £16.00£11.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437155Author Suor Maria CelesteFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 142gDimensions(mm)... -
Tudor Networks of Power by Prof Ruth Ahnert 9780198858973
£35.39Tudor Networks of Power is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between an early modern book historian and a physicist specializing in complex networks. Together they have reconstructed and computationally analysed the networks of intelligence,... -
Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London by Patrick O'Brien 9780521088879
RRP: £43.99£37.16This innovative work in comparative urban history explores why outstanding achievements in material and intellectual culture in early modern Europe tended to cluster in certain maritime cities. Patrick O'Brien and his co-editors have assembled a team of... -
Katherine Parr: Opportunist, Queen, Reformer: A Theological Perspective by Don Matzat 9781445696867
RRP: £20.00£13.34Don Matzat here provides a new perspective on the life of Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of the infamous Henry VIII. While most biographers suggest that Katherine chose to marry the obese, irascible monarch in order to further some reformation... -
Forgers and Critics, New Edition: Creativity and Duplicity in Western Scholarship by Anthony Grafton 9780691191836
RRP: £17.99£15.52The close links between forgery and criticism throughout historyIn Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the "criminal sibling" of criticism, Grafton... -
On Human Worth and Excellence by Giannozzo Manetti
RRP: £29.95£23.66Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated diplomat, historian, philosopher, and humanist scholar of the early Renaissance who mastered ancient Greek and Hebrew as well as classical Latin. In this treatise, dedicated to Alfonso of Aragon, King of... -
Thomas More's Vocation by Frank Mitjans 9780813236100
RRP: £75.00£64.98The book considers Thomas More's early life-choices. An early letter is cited by biographers but most miss More's reference to the market place. More's great-grandson, Cresacre, a Londoner, understood it correctly, and that gives reason to trust him on... -
Born to Die: Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650 by Noble David Cook 9780521627306
RRP: £22.99£18.59The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: it led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent... -
Christian Identity, Piety, and Politics in Early Modern England by Robert E. Stillman
RRP: £79.00£68.71This book challenges the adequacy of identifying religious identity with confessional identity. The Reformation complicated the issue of religious identity, especially among Christians for whom confessional violence at home and religious wars on the... -
The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 by John Thornton 9780521596497
RRP: £19.99£15.84This book tells the story of the Christian religious movement led by Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita in the Kingdom of Kongo from 1704 until her death, by burning at the stake, in 1706. Beatriz, a young woman, claimed to be possessed by St Anthony, argued that... -
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt 9781481829236
RRP: £12.95£12.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781481829236Author Jacob BurckhardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Slavery, Family, and Gentry Capitalism in the British Atlantic: The World of the Lascelles, 1648-1834 by S. D. Smith 9780521143004
RRP: £44.99£37.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena by James Hankins
RRP: £45.95£36.69The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi-the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli-who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and equality in the service of good governance.At the heart of... -
The Bonds of Humanity: Cicero's Legacies in European Social and Political Thought, ca. 1100-ca. 1550 by Cary J. Nederman
RRP: £29.95£26.91Of the great philosophers of pagan antiquity, Marcus Tullius Cicero is the only one whose ideas were continuously accessible to the Christian West following the collapse of the Roman Empire. Yet, in marked contrast with other ancient philosophers, Cicero... -
The Origins of World War I by Richard F. Hamilton
RRP: £29.99£27.80This work poses a straightforward - yet at the same time perplexing - question about World War I: Why did it happen? Several of the oft-cited causes are reviewed and discussed. The argument of the alliance systems is inadequate, lacking relevance or... -
The Old World and the New: 1492-1650 by J. H. Elliott 9780521427098 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£1.97The impact of Europe on a newly-discovered world of America has long been a subject of historical fascination. Yet the impact of that discovery and conquest for the European conquering powers has traditionally received less attention. In this pioneering... -
The Old World and the New: 1492-1650 by J. H. Elliott 9780521427098
RRP: £15.99£12.78The impact of Europe on a newly-discovered world of America has long been a subject of historical fascination. Yet the impact of that discovery and conquest for the European conquering powers has traditionally received less attention. In this pioneering... -
Inventing Exoticism: Geography, Globalism, and Europe's Early Modern World by Benjamin Schmidt 9780812246469
RRP: £103.00£90.14As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process... -
Political Violence in Twentieth-Century Europe by Donald Bloxham 9780521182041
RRP: £26.99£22.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The King's Chamberlain: William Sandys of the Vyne, Chamberlain to Henry VIII by John Jenkins
RRP: £20.00£13.34This book looks at the life, activities and achievements of William, 1st Baron Sandys, Knight of the Garter. It is the story of a Hampshire man who, during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, achieved prominence from a relatively modest but... -
Influences: Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance by Mary Quinlan-McGrath
RRP: £80.00£77.01Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light... -
The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary by Melita Thomas 9781445661254 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00£3.10Mary Tudor has always been known as 'Bloody Mary', the name given to her by later Protestant chroniclers who vilified her for attempting to re-impose Roman Catholicism in England. Although a more nuanced picture of the first queen regnant has since... -
The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary by Melita Thomas 9781445661254
RRP: £20.00£13.74Mary Tudor has always been known as 'Bloody Mary', the name given to her by later Protestant chroniclers who vilified her for attempting to re-impose Roman Catholicism in England. Although a more nuanced picture of the first queen regnant has since...