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The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe by Maren Elisabeth Schwab
RRP: €33.32€25.94A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a... -
The Brothers York: A Royal Tragedy by Thomas Penn 9781451694178
RRP: €41.65€26.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451694178Author Thomas PennFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 170mm... -
The 'Malleus Maleficarum' and the Construction of Witchcraft: Theology and Popular Belief by Hans Peter Broedel 9780719064418
RRP: €23.79€20.96The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines. Yet it also presents serious difficulties: it is difficult to understand out of context, and is not generally representative of late... -
The Great Siege of Chester by John Barratt 9780752423456
RRP: €29.75€22.06The appalling effects of civil war are often suffered most horrifically by the ordinary men, women and children involuntarily caught up in it, as it tears asunder the very fabric of their lives. Such was the fate of the citizens of Chester, who for... -
Dosso's Fate - Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy by Luisa Ciammitti 9780892365050
RRP: €53.55€45.97Arising from the proceedings of two symposia, this text is composed of contributions by scholars who examine the social, intellectual and historical contexts of the work of the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni di Lutero, who used the name Dosso.Book... -
Gilded City: Tour Medieval and Renaissance London by Duncan Smith 9781914414848
RRP: €29.75€21.06Throughout London's two-thousand-year history, architecture has expressed the identity of the city's diverse communities. From Franciscan friars to merchant bankers, royal dynasties to grocers and tailors, the ideals and wealth of these groups have been... -
Renaissance Combat: Joerg Wilhalm's Fightbook, 1522-1523 by Joerg Wilhalm
RRP: €41.65€30.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784386566Author Joerg WilhalmFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Greenhill BooksPublisher Greenhill Books -
The Last Knight - The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I by Pierre Terjanian 9781588396747
RRP: €59.50€54.50A detailed look at the ambition and artistic legacy of Emperor Maximilian I and his passion for armor and chivalry Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) crafted a public persona and personal mythology that earned him the romantic sobriquet the... -
D rer's Fight Book: The Genius of the German Renaissance and His Combat Treatise by Hagedorn, Dierk 9781784387037
RRP: €35.70€24.93Albrecht Durer is probably the most famous German artist of the Renaissance, if not of all time. His works are world-famous and he was a master in numerous artistic disciplines such as woodcut, copperplate engraving, drawing and painting. What is less... -
The Mongol Empire in Global History and Art History by Anne Dunlop 9780674279162
RRP: €45.16€36.31With the rise of projects to create global histories and art histories, the Mongol Empire is now widely taken as a fundamental watershed. In the later thirteenth century, the Mongol states reconfigured the basic zones of Eurasian trade and contact. For... -
Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World by Londa Schiebinger
RRP: €33.31€28.73In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of... -
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tudors but Were Afraid to Ask by Terry Breverton
RRP: €22.60€15.12The Tudor Family is the most intriguing royal dynasty in British history. Their era took us out of the Middle Ages through the Renaissance, founded the British Empire and made Britain a world power for the first time. The flowering of literature and... -
Sansovino's Venice by Vaughan Hart
RRP: €32.73€27.72This is the first English translation of Francesco Sansovino's (1521-1586) celebrated guide to Venice, which was first published in 1561. One of the earliest books to describe the monuments of Venice for inquisitive travelers, Sansovino's guide was... -
Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: Introduction to Knowledge and Practice by Nancy G. Siraisi
RRP: €35.70€34.81Western Europe supported a highly developed and diverse medical community in the late medieval and early Renaissance periods. In her absorbing history of this complex era in medicine, Siraisi explores the inner workings of the medical community and... -
Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914 by Professor J. R. McNeill 9780521459105
RRP: €29.74€23.74This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes... -
Between Scholarship and Church Politics: The Lives of John Prideaux, 1578-1650 by John Maddicott 9780192896100
RRP: €121.98€110.81Between Scholarship and Church Politics describes the life and career of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter College, Oxford, 1612-1642, regius professor of divinity, 1615-1642, and bishop of Worcester, 1641-1646. Prideaux was the leading representative of... -
1520: The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Amy Licence
RRP: €23.80€15.591520 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... -
16th Century Single Sword Combat: Bolognese Fencing by Rhys M Wilson 9781503214293
RRP: €14.86€12.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781503214293Author Rhys M WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: €35.64€28.63After the composition of the Decameron, and under the influence of Petrarch's humanism, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of... -
My Secret Book by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: €35.64€28.16Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book (Secretum)... -
The Family Medici: The Hidden History of the Medici Dynasty by Mary Hollingsworth
RRP: €34.45€27.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643131504Author Mary HollingsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 930gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham 9781445671178 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89€6.50During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor, not Henry VIII. Had the first-born son of Henry VII lived into adulthood, his younger brother Henry would never have become King Henry VIII. The... -
Prince Arthur: The Tudor King Who Never Was by Sean Cunningham
RRP: €11.89€7.90During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor, not Henry VIII. Had the first-born son of Henry VII lived into adulthood, his younger brother Henry would never have become King Henry VIII. The... -
"A General Plague of Madness": The Civil Wars in Lancashire, 1640-1660 by Stephen Bull 9781859361917
RRP: €22.60€16.67Lord Derby, Lancashire's highest-ranked nobleman and its principal royalist, once offered the opinion that the English civil wars had been a 'general plague of madness'. Complex and bedevilling, the earl defied anyone to tell the complete story of 'so... -
Catherine of Aragon: Infanta of Spain, Queen of England by Theresa Earenfight
RRP: €35.64€32.02Catherine of Aragon is an elusive subject. Despite her status as a Spanish infanta, Princess of Wales, and Queen of England, few of her personal letters have survived, and she is obscured in the contemporary royal histories. In this evocative biography,... -
The Oxford Companion to British Railway History: From 1603 to the 1990s by Jack Simmons 9780192116970
€105.64Of all the products of the Industrial Revolution, none left its mark on the landscape of Britain, or changed the lives of the British people, more than the railway. The encyclopedic Oxford Companion to British Railway History reveals, for the first time,... -
Romans 1-8 by Gwenfair Walters Adams 9780830829705
RRP: €57.11€44.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830829705Author Gwenfair Walter AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 668Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1412gDimensions(mm) 262mm *... -
Thomas Cromwell: Servant to Henry VIII by David Loades
RRP: €11.89€7.90Thomas Cromwell was a self-made lawyer who served first Cardinal Wolsey and then Henry VIII. His time with Wolsey served him well in his work for the king after the cardinal's fall from power in 1529. Cromwell's time in office from 1530 until his... -
European Colonialism since 1700 by James R. Lehning
RRP: €29.74€25.92This masterful synthesis provides a much-needed, complete survey of European colonialism from 1700 to decolonization in the twentieth century. Written by an award-winning author, this advanced undergraduate and graduate level textbook bridges, for the... -
Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella by D.P. Walker
RRP: €41.59€37.12First published by the Warburg Institute in 1958, this book is considered a landmark in Renaissance studies. Whereas most scholars had tended to view magic as a marginal subject, Walker showed that magic was one of the most typical creations of the late... -
The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450-1600 by Jonathan J. G. Alexander
RRP: €65.45€57.23A comprehensive survey examining the vibrant and sumptuous art of illumination during a period of profound intellectual and cultural transformation Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance,... -
The Global Refuge: Huguenots in an Age of Empire by Owen Stanwood
RRP: €41.64€31.34Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. French Protestant exiles fleeing persecution following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, they scattered around Europe, North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote... -
Renaissance Florence, Updated edition by Gene A. Brucker
RRP: €29.75€23.31In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the city of Florence experienced the most creative period in her entire history. This book is an in-depth analysis of that dynamic community, focusing primarily on the years 1380-1450 in an examination of the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History, 1350-1750: Volume I: Peoples and Place by Hamish Scott
€48.90This Handbook re-examines the concept of early modern history in a European and global context. The term 'early modern' has been familiar, especially in Anglophone scholarship, for four decades and is securely established in teaching, research, and... -
Republics and Kingdoms Compared by Aurelio Lippo Brandolini
RRP: €35.64€28.16Aurelio Lippo Brandolini's Republics and Kingdoms Compared is the most fascinating and least-known work of humanist political theory before Machiavelli. A Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary (ca. 1490), the work depicts... -
Renaissance Fun: The Machines Behind the Scenes by Philip Steadman 9781787359178
RRP: €59.50€52.07Apologies 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 -
The Devil from over the Sea: Remembering and Forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland by Sarah Covington 9780198848318
RRP: €37.47€32.82In Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which... -
Margaret of York: The Diabolical Duchess by Christine Weightman
RRP: €15.46€10.82The amazing life of Margaret of York, the woman who tried to overthrow the Tudors. Reared in a dangerous and unpredictable world Margaret of York, sister of Richard III, would become the standard bearer of the House of York and 'the menace of the Tudors'... -
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe by Maureen Quilligan 9781324092377
RRP: €17.84€13.90Sixteenth-century Europe was a time of destabilisation of age-old norms and the waging of religious wars-yet it also witnessed the remarkable flowering of a pacific culture cultivated by a cohort of extraordinary women rulers who sat on Europe's thrones,... -
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror in Shakespeare's England by James Travers 9781445684673
RRP: €23.80€17.01The Gunpowder Plot is perhaps the most famous and well-documented event in British Early Modern history. This means the story can be told through original dialogue recorded at the time to a greater extent than any other of the period. James Travers' new...