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Landsknecht Woodcuts: Kriegsvolker Im Zeitalter Der Landsknechte by Marion McNealy 9780615919942
£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615919942Author Marion McNealyFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Nadel Und Faden PressPublisher Nadel Und Faden PressWeight(grams) 449g -
Henry VII's New Men and the Making of Tudor England by Steven Gunn
RRP: £32.49£29.81The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the strong governments of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Yet his style of rule was unconventional and at times oppressive. At the heart of his... -
Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 by Matt Carr
RRP: £14.99£13.64In 1609, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory or else be killed. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families were forced to abandon the homes and villages where they had lived for generations. In... -
Tudor Fashion by Eleri Lynn
RRP: £27.50£23.89The paperback edition of this captivating story of Tudor dress, and the people who made and wore it The Tudors are some of the best-known figures in history. They continue, even today, to spark our curiosity and imagination. Their enduring popularity is... -
The Death of Lorenzo De' Medici: Two Letters & Vital Impulses by Leon Roger Hunt 9781090848949
RRP: £10.00£8.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781090848949Author Leon Roger HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry 9781848311756
RRP: £8.99£4.04Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to... -
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Renaissance by Gordon Campbell
RRP: £23.49£17.61The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views... -
Titian's Touch: Art, Magic and Philosophy by Maria Loh 9781789140828
RRP: £17.95£13.32At the end of his long, prolific life, Titian was rumored to paint directly on the canvas with his bare hands. He would slide his fingers across bright ridges of oil paint, loosening the colors, blending, blurring, and then bringing them together again... -
The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger by Greg Steinmetz
RRP: £12.99£8.18In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history. Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time... -
Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell 9780691154695
RRP: £30.00£23.69A groundbreaking biography of Milton’s formative years that provides a new account of the poet’s political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608–1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual history as the author of both Paradise Lost, the greatest... -
In the Footsteps of Anne Boleyn by Sarah Morris
RRP: £18.99£12.71Follow in the footsteps of Anne Boleyn from Hever Castle, to Richmond Palace and ultimately to the Tower of London. On the morning of 19 May 1536, a French blade stilled the heart of an English queen. Her name was Anne Boleyn and her story has made an... -
The Florentine Renaissance by Vincent Cronin 9780712698740 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99£2.23Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance. Its legacy is apparent today in every aspect of human endeavour. Our art and science, our learning and literature, our Christianity and our civic liberties, even our... -
Making the Renaissance Man: Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy by Timothy McCall 9781789147858
RRP: £25.00£17.62Making the Renaissance Man explores the images, objects and experiences that fashioned men and masculinity in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy. Across the peninsula, Italian princes fought each other in fierce battles and spectacular jousts; they... -
Tudor Roses: From Margaret Beaufort to Elizabeth I by Amy Licence
RRP: £25.00£16.83A dynasty is defined by its men: by their personalities, their wars and reigns, their laws and decisions. Their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are often depicted as mere foils, shadowy figures whose value lies in the inheritance they brought, or... -
A Sword for Christ: The Republican Era in Great Britain and Ireland by Jonathan Cobb
RRP: £30.00£19.70The fifteen-year period between 1645 and 1660 was one of the most dynamic in British history, during which the republican Commonwealth and Cromwellian Protectorate attempted to create a new type of 'Godly' state after the execution of Charles I. ... -
Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300-1550 by John M. Najemy 9780198700401
RRP: £35.99£30.15Italy in the Age of Renaissance offers a new introduction to the most celebrated period of Italian history in twelve essays by leading and innovative scholars. Recent scholarship has enriched our understanding of Renaissance Italy by adding new themes... -
The Tudors by Richard Rex
RRP: £10.99£7.25The Tudor Age began in August 1485 when Henry Tudor landed with a small force at Milford Haven intent on snatching the English throne from Richard III. For more than a hundred years England was to be dominated by the personalities of the five Tudor... -
The Ugly Renaissance by Alexander Lee
RRP: £12.99£9.09Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of... -
By Permission Of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London by Adrian Tinniswood
RRP: £12.99£9.09There had, of course, been other fires, Four Hundred and fifty years before, the city had almost burned to the ground. Yet the signs from the heavens in 1666 were ominous: comets, pyramids of flame, monsters born in city slums. Then, in the early hours... -
Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman
RRP: £14.99£10.95It would be easy for the modern reader to conclude that women had no place in the world of early modern espionage, with a few seventeenth-century women spies identified and then relegated to the footnotes of history. If even the espionage carried out by... -
Iberian Swordplay: Domingo Luis Godinho's Art of Fencing (1599) by Domingo Luis Godhinho
RRP: £29.50£28.06In 1599, during the period when the Portuguese crown was united to the crowns of Castile and Aragon, the Portuguese master-at-arms Domingo Luis Godinho wrote a manuscript in Spanish entitled Arte de Esgrima (The Art of Fencing). Although his life is... -
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's True Love by Elizabeth Norton 9781848685277
RRP: £11.99£7.86The first ever biography of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife, who died in childbirth giving the king what he craved most - a son and heir. Jane Seymour is often portrayed as meek and mild and as the most successful, but one of the least significant,... -
Armies of Early Colonial North America 1607 - 1713: History, Organization and Uniforms by Gabriele Esposito
RRP: £19.99£14.68Gabriele Esposito presents a detailed overview of the military history of Colonial North America during its earliest period, from the first colonial settlement in Jamestown to the end of the first continental war fought in the Americas. He follows the... -
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Young Columbus and the Quest for a Universal Library by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: £12.99£8.48WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE The fascinating history of Christopher Columbus's illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father's flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the... -
On Exile by Francesco Filelfo 9780674066366
RRP: £29.95£24.06Francesco Filelfo's philosophical dialogue On Exile (ca. 1440) depicts a prominent group of Florentine noblemen and humanists, driven from their city by Cosimo de' Medici, discussing the sufferings imposed by exile such as poverty and loss of reputation,... -
African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic by Herman L. Bennett 9780812250633
RRP: £63.00£54.40A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they... -
Humanology: A Scientist's Guide to our Amazing Existence by Luke O'Neill
RRP: £27.99£20.61Taking us on an incredible journey across centuries and galaxies, accompanied by his characteristic wit, Professor Luke O'Neill explains how it all began, how it all will end and everything in between. Readers will benefit from Luke's insatiable... -
1520: The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Amy Licence
RRP: £20.00£13.101520 explores the characters of two larger-than-life kings, whose rivalry and love-hate relations added a feisty edge to European relations in the early sixteenth century. What propelled them to meet, and how did each vie to outdo the other in feats of... -
Conclave 1559: The Story of a Papal Election by Mary Hollingsworth 9781800244733 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£7.22Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman 'A highly enjoyable and thrilling read... Hollingsworth has peeled back the veil of secrecy... -
Conclave 1559: The Story of a Papal Election by Mary Hollingsworth
RRP: £25.00£21.79Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. 'A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular and religious power' New Statesman 'A highly enjoyable and thrilling read... Hollingsworth has peeled back the veil of secrecy... -
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes by Philip Steadman 9781787359178
RRP: £50.00£43.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787359178Author Philip SteadmanFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 970g -
Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633 by Suor Maria Celeste
RRP: £16.00£11.25Apologies 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)... -
Arms and Armour of the Renaissance Joust by Tobias Capwell 9780948092992
RRP: £12.99£8.99The Renaissance is best known as an age of artists - Michelangelo, da Vinci, Titian and Holbein - but it is also the age of the noble patrons who challenged their painters and sculptors to create great art. These patrons were knights, military leaders... -
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present by David S. Landes 9780521534024
RRP: £30.99£26.03For over thirty years David S. Landes's The Unbound Prometheus has offered an unrivalled history of industrial revolution and economic development in Europe. Now, in this updated edition, the author reframes and reasserts his original arguments in the... -
The History of Llanthony Priory by Robert Bartlett 9780192866493
RRP: £99.00£98.74The text edited and translated in this volume recounts the first century of the history of the Augustinian priory of Llanthony in Monmouthshire, from its origin around 1100 as an isolated hermitage, through the introduction of the Augustinian Order and... -
The Floods of the Tiber: With Additional Documents on the Tiber Flood of 1530 by Luis Gomez 9781599104539
RRP: £20.00£17.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599104539Author Luis GomezFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 10mm -
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume II: The New World by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: £25.99£24.16"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of... -
A Narrow Sea: The Irish-Scottish Connection in 120 Episodes - as heard on BBC Radio by Jonathan Bardon 9780717180592
RRP: £26.99£19.34The first history of the special relationship between Ireland and Scotland from acclaimed historian Jonathan Bardon, based on his BBC Radio series Based on the popular BBC Ulster radio series of the same name, A Narrow Sea traces the epic sweep of... -
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis 9780571234790
RRP: £12.99£8.56Acclaimed historian Natalie Zemon Davis's accessible and dramatic biography was widely hailed as a masterpiece and tells the story of Leo Africanus, a sixteenth-century Moroccan who embodies the rich and complex exchanges between Europe and Africa during... -
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing
RRP: £24.99£16.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063143432Author Michael MassingFormat PaperbackPage Count 1008Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 226mm...