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His Invention So Fertile by Adrian Tinniswood 9780712673648
RRP: $58.50$41.63Christopher Wren (1632-1723) was the greatest architect Britain has ever known. But he was more than that. A founder of the Royal Society, he mapped the moon and the stars, investigated the problem of longitude and the rings of Saturn, and carried out... -
Conclave 1559: Ippolito d'Este and the Papal Election of 1559 by Mary Hollingsworth
RRP: $21.43$15.15Intrigue, 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... -
The Commotion Time: Tudor Rebellions of 1549 by E.T. Fox
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118792Author E.T. FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
The Boleyns: From the Tudors to the Windsors by Amanda Harvey Purse
RRP: $44.83$29.60Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed on 19 May 1536. Her sister Mary, rumoured mistress to the monarch, lived on and survived the king's wrath. But this is not the end of the tale of the Boleyns and the British Royal family - their... -
Death by Migration: Europe's Encounter with the Tropical World in the Nineteenth Century by Philip D. Curtin 9780521389228
RRP: $44.83$40.29This book is a quantitative study of relocation costs among European soldiers in the tropics between about 1815 and 1914. This study, however, has broader implications. For Europe itself, this was the crucial century of the 'mortality revolution', with... -
The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance by J. V. Field 9780198523949
$221.97Renaissance craftsmen, such as painters, were educated in `practical mathematics'. This book tells us the fascintating story of how the artisan tradition made important contributions not only to art but also to `proper' mathematics. Beautiful works of... -
The Awakening: A History of the Western Mind AD 500 - AD 1700 by Charles Freeman
RRP: $58.50$40.85A monumental and exhilarating history of European thought, from the fall of Rome in the fifth century AD to the Scientific Revolution thirteen centuries later. The Awakening traces the recovery and refashioning of Europe's classical heritage from the... -
In the Footsteps of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: The visitor's companion to the palaces, castles & houses associated with Henry VIII's iconic queens by Sarah Morris
RRP: $39.00$28.65This book provides a fresh perspective on the lives of Henry VIII's six wives by embarking on a journey through the manors, castles and palaces in which their lives were played out. This journey traces their steps to the Alhambra in Spain, childhood home... -
Trickster Travels: A Sixteenth-Century Muslim Between Worlds by Natalie Zemon Davis 9780571234790
RRP: $25.33$16.69Acclaimed 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... -
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer by Christopher S. Celenza
RRP: $29.15$21.29Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspired the Humanist movement and, subsequently, the Renaissance, but few figures are as complex or as... -
Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing
RRP: $48.73$30.81Apologies 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... -
Anne Boleyn: Adultery, Heresy, Desire by Amy Licence 9781445677279
RRP: $37.03$27.32Anne Boleyn's unconventional beauty inspired poets - and she so entranced Henry VIII with her wit, allure and style that he was prepared to set aside his wife of over twenty years and risk his immortal soul. Her sister had already been the king's... -
Mercenaries and Their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy by Michael Mallett
RRP: $29.23$21.35Michael Mallett's classic study of Renaissance warfare in Italy is as relevant today as it was when it was first published a generation ago. His lucid account of the age of the condottieri - the mercenary captains of fortune - and of the soldiers who... -
The Renaissance Pupil's Book by Rose Barling
$49.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780719551864Author Rose BarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Hodder MurrayPublisher Hodder EducationWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 282mm * 228mm *... -
April Blood by Lauro Martines 9780712667876 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$4.47In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of... -
April Blood by Lauro Martines
RRP: $25.33$17.73In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried. The younger of the two brothers was killed, but Lorenzo the Magnificent, the brilliant poet and connoisseur escaped. A bloodbath followed and all of... -
Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 by Richard H. Grove 9780521565134
RRP: $58.48$54.21This is the first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, concentrating especially on its hitherto unexplained colonial and global aspects. It highlights the significance of Utopian, physiocratic and medical thinking in the... -
Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence by Andrew Butterfield 9780691233086
RRP: $136.50$105.89A comprehensive survey of the work of this most influential Florentine artist and teacherAndrea del Verrocchio (c. 1435-1488) was one of the most versatile and inventive artists of the Italian Renaissance. He created art across media, from his... -
The Italian Wars: Volume 4 - The Battle of Ceresole 1544 - The Crushing Defeat of the Imperial Army by Massimo Predonzani
RRP: $48.75$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070296Author Massimo PredonzaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Tudor and Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation, 1485-1707 by James Davey
RRP: $48.75$38.77Tudor and Stuart Seafarers tells the compelling story of how a small island positioned on the edge of Europe transformed itself into the world's leading maritime power. In 1485, England was an inward-looking country, its priorities largely domestic and... -
The Later Middle Ages by Isabella Lazzarini 9780198731634
RRP: $51.66$47.99Of all the sub-periods in which European medieval history has been divided over time, the later middle ages is possibly the one on which the burden of past and current grand narratives weighs the most. Its chronological and geopolitical boundaries are... -
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings in Detail by Alessandro Vezzosi
RRP: $126.75$93.35Shedding new light on the renowned Renaissance artist, this book examines all of da Vinci's known paintings using recent advances in technology and the latest art historical research. While Leonardo da Vinci is one of history's most studied and renowned... -
Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1500-1800: A Source Book by Peter Elmer 9780719067372
RRP: $38.98$35.53Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800 considers how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. It examines the provision of medical... -
The Deceived by Intronati of Siena 9781599103303
RRP: $39.00$34.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103303Author Intronati of SienaFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Out of Italy by Fernand Braudel
RRP: $25.33$16.69The city-states of fifteenth-century Italy exerted unprecedented cultural influence on Europe and the Mediterranean and acted as a bulwark against the imperial and bellicose designs of the empires that surrounded them. Acclaimed French historian, Fernand... -
The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom by Os Guinness
RRP: $40.93$29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830847150Author Os GuinnessFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 236mm... -
The Medici: Power, Money, and Ambition in the Italian Renaissance by Paul Strathern 9781681774084
RRP: $36.95$26.15A dazzling history of the modest family that rose to become one of the most powerful in Europe, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money, and ambition. Against the background of an age that saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning... -
Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The Life and Works of Leonora Bernardi by Virginia Cox 9781800084322
RRP: $107.25$93.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800084322Author Virginia CoxFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 1220g -
Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens by John Robert Christianson
RRP: $35.00$25.97The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his nose in a student duel, wrote Latin poetry and built one of the most astonishing villas of the period, as... -
1520: The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Amy Licence 9781398115415
RRP: $21.43$14.141520 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... -
Renaissance People: Lives that Shaped the Modern Age by Robert C. Davis
RRP: $21.43$14.43Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens of notable lives from between 1400 and 1600. They bring to life wily politicians, eccentric scientists, fiery rebels and stolid... -
Practices of Ephemera in Early Modern England by Callan Davies
RRP: $243.75$211.11This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers its relationship to time, matter, and place. It asks: how do we conceive of ephemera in a period before it was routinely employed (from... -
Early Modern Italy: 1550-1796 by John A. Marino 9780198700425
RRP: $85.78$71.64Early Modern Italian history has traditionally been presented in the context of the absence of a unified Italian state, foreign domination and of relative decline to former wealth and power. This new volume calls on a wealth of recent research to portray... -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals by Norman H. Reid
RRP: $58.50$40.95Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2019 Presiding over an age of relative peace and prosperity, Alexander III represented the zenith of Scottish medieval kingship. The events which followed his early and unexpected death... -
King James and the History of Homosexuality by Michael Young 9781781555439
RRP: $48.75$35.14James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in... -
The Butcher's Daughter by Victoria Glendinning
RRP: $17.53$11.95'Historical fiction at its finest' @MargaretAtwood (Twitter) It is 1535 and Agnes Peppin, daughter of a West-country butcher, has been banished, leaving her family home in disgrace to live out the rest of her life cloistered behind the walls of... -
Harry of England: The History of Eight Kings, From Henry I to Henry VIII by Teresa Cole
RRP: $39.00$26.01Eight kings of England were the named Henry, but only two of them were born as heirs to the throne and these - the third and sixth - proved to be the weakest. Two seized the crown by force of arms, one by craft and opportunistic speed, and one by skilful... -
Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Ioan P. Couliano 9780226123165
RRP: $54.60$53.41It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive and erroneous notions about nature. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance challenges this view, providing an... -
Jasper Tudor: Dynasty Maker by Terry Breverton
RRP: $19.48$12.95The Wars of the Roses were a bitter and bloody dispute between the rival Plantagenet Houses of York and Lancaster. Only one man, Jasper Tudor, the Lancastrian half-brother to Henry VI, fought from the first battle at St Albans in 1455 to the last at... -
Cyriac of Ancona: Later Travels by Edward W. Bodnar 9780674007581
RRP: $58.40$46.92Early Renaissance humanists discovered the culture of ancient Greece and Rome mostly through the study of classical manuscripts. Cyriac of Ancona (Ciriaco de' Pizzecolli, 1391-1452), a merchant and diplomat as well as a scholar, was among the first to...