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Johann Sebastian Bach: A Very Brief History by Andrew Gant
RRP: $27.28$19.01Part One: The History (What do we know?) This brief historical introduction to Bach explores the social, political and religious factors that formed the original context of his life and work, and considers how those factors affected the way he was... -
Hell or Some Worse Place: Kinsale 1601 by Des Ekin 9781847179593
RRP: $31.18$24.12Kinsale, Ireland: Christmas Eve, 1601 As thunder crashes and lightning rakes the sky, three very different commanders line up for a battle that will decide the fate of a nation. General Juan del Aguila has been sprung from a prison cell to command... -
An Explorer's Guide to Julian of Norwich by Veronica Mary Rolf 9780830850884
RRP: $35.08$28.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830850884Author Veronica Mary RolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 282gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm... -
The History of Llanthony Priory by Robert Bartlett 9780192866493
$217.48The 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... -
Hamlet's Choice: Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies by Peter Lake
RRP: $73.13$70.65An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays Conspiracies and revolts simmered beneath the surface of Queen Elizabeth's reign. England was riven with tensions created by... -
Life of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. Oration by Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola
RRP: $58.40$46.14The Oration by philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), to which later editors added the subtitle On the Dignity of Man, is the most famous text written in Italy at the height of the Renaissance. The Life of Giovanni by Gianfrancesco Pico,... -
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History by Tracy Borman 9781399705073
RRP: $37.03$21.72'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir 'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its best.' - Nicola Tallis'(A) thought-provoking, impeccably researched, and... -
Teutonic Knights: A Military History by Urban William 9781848326200
$37.38The Teutonic Knights were powerful and ferocious advocates of holy war. Their history is suffused with crusading, campaigning and struggle. Feared by their enemies but respected by medieval Christendom, the knights and their Order maintained a firm... -
Isabella and Leonardo: The Artistic Relationship between Isabella d'Este and Leonardo da Vinci, 1500-1506 by Francis Ames-Lewis 9780300121247
RRP: $92.63$78.08Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is charted through the letters... -
Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and its Empire, 1600-1850 by Mark Knights 9780198796244
RRP: $77.98$66.75Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal not only to historians, but also to political and social scientists. Mark Knights paints a picture of the... -
Silver: Transformational Matter by Helen Hills 9780197267547
$176.05Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersection of forces and dynamics - philosophical, religious, material, telluric, economic, colonialist, social, cultural, and courtly -... -
The Prince (Royal Collector's Edition) (Annotated) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket) by Niccolo Machiavelli 9781774378588
$59.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774378588Author Niccolo MachiavelliFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Royal ClassicsPublisher Royal ClassicsWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing by Carole Collier Frick
RRP: $54.60$47.85As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period... -
Pascal's Pensees: Thoughts on God, Religion, and Wagers by Blaise Pascal 9780979127670
$22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979127670Author Blaise PascalFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Suzeteo EnterprisesPublisher Suzeteo EnterprisesWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe by Sophie Page
RRP: $70.10$62.50During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine's in Canterbury. The... -
Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World by Jerry Brotton 9781780239293
RRP: $31.18$30.38Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and... -
Alexander III, 1249-1286: First Among Equals by Norman H. Reid 9781910900222
RRP: $117.00$81.35Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 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... -
The Renaissance in Italy: A History by Kenneth Bartlett
RRP: $52.63$42.53The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the period-Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli, Lorenzo the Magnificent, Pope Julius II, Isabella... -
Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty by Terry Breverton
RRP: $19.48$12.95'The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing madness ... from the sayings of the prophet Merlin they still hope to recover their land. Hence, they frequently rebel ... but because they do not know the appointed time, they are often... -
Sir Thomas Browne: The Opium of Time by Gavin Francis
RRP: $37.03$31.82In this book, Gavin Francis writes about the resonance for him as a medic in reading the work of early modern polymath Sir Thomas Browne. Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English physician, wordsmith, and polymath who contributed hundreds of words... -
The Ottoman Centuries: The Rise and Fall of the Turkish Empire by Patrick Balfour Kinross 9780688080938
RRP: $38.98$27.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688080938Author Patrick Balfour KinrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 638Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850 by Prasannan Parthasarathi
RRP: $52.63$39.96Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that... -
Becoming Leonardo by Mike Lankford
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612197159Author Mike LankfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing -
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Discovery of the Renaissance by Joseph Luzzi
RRP: $44.83$36.35Some 500 years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created work of unearthly beauty. An intimate associate of Florence's unofficial rulers, the Medici, he was commissioned by a member of their family to execute a near-impossible project:... -
Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective by Carlo Ginzburg
RRP: $46.80$44.91In 1691, a Livonian peasant known as Old Thiess boldly announced before a district court that he was a werewolf. Yet far from being a diabolical monster, he insisted, he was one of the "hounds of God," fierce guardians who battled sorcerers, witches, and... -
Isabella de'Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess by Caroline P. Murphy
RRP: $25.33$16.69Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. Beautiful and liberated, she not only matched the intellectual accomplishments of her male contemporaries, but sought sexual parity also, engaging in an adulterous affair... -
The Glorious Revolution by John Miller 9780582292222
RRP: $72.13$69.69First published in 1983, John Miller's Glorious Revolution established itself as the standard introduction to the subject. It examines the dramatic events themselves and demonstrates the profound impact the Revolution had on subsequent British history... -
The Deadly Sisterhood: A story of Women, Power and Intrigue in the Italian Renaissance by Leonie Frieda
RRP: $25.33$16.77The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.This book is one of drama on a grand scale, a Renaissance epic, as Christendom emerged from the shadows of the calamitous 14th century. The sweeping... -
The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal Society (1667) by Michael Hunter 9781032402277
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book is about a single image - the frontispiece to Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal-Society of London (1667). Designed by John Evelyn, and etched by Wenceslaus Hollar, it is arguably the best-known representation of seventeenth-century English... -
Mary Tudor by David Loades 9781445608181 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33$4.47Mary Tudor was the first female English sovereign - a ruling queen who was not simply the consort of the king. Yet little is known about this complex woman, whose reputation for ruthlessness belied her emotional fragility and who, like her half-sister... -
Mary Tudor by David Loades
RRP: $25.33$16.54Mary Tudor was the first female English sovereign - a ruling queen who was not simply the consort of the king. Yet little is known about this complex woman, whose reputation for ruthlessness belied her emotional fragility and who, like her half-sister... -
Silvae by Angelo Poliziano
RRP: $58.40$46.14Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in the circle of Lorenzo de'Medici "il Magnifico" in Florence. His "Silvae" are poetical introductions to his courses in literature at the University... -
Iconoclasm by David Freedberg
RRP: $68.25$58.44With new surges of activity from religious, political, and military extremists, the destruction of images has become increasingly relevant on a global scale. A founder of the study of early modern and contemporary iconoclasm, David Freedberg has... -
Renaissance: History for kids: A Captivating Guide to a Remarkable Period in European History by Dinobibi Publishing 9781082577932
RRP: $16.58$13.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781082577932Author Dinobibi PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)... -
Scandinavia in the Middle Ages 900-1550: Between two Oceans by Kirsi Salonen
RRP: $66.28$58.50Medieval Scandinavia went through momentous changes. Regional power centres merged and gave birth to the three strong kingdoms of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. At the end of the Middle Ages, they together formed the enormous Kalmar Union comprising almost... -
Catherine Howard: The Adulterous Wife of Henry VIII by David Loades
RRP: $19.48$12.95Henry'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: $54.58$49.59Beginning 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: $64.25$57.60In 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: $44.83$33.60This 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: $29.23$21.35Tudor 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...