16th Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852448496Author Tony ReynoldsFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint GracewingPublisher Gracewing

'a vital resource' TLS 'Compelling collection' Literary Review The Reformation was a seismic event in history whose consequences are still unfolding in Europe and across the world. Martin Luther's protests against the marketing of...

Inside the opulent, decadent world of the Mughal emperorsThe Mughal emperors were larger-than-life figures, men written on a supra-human scale who exercised absolute power. The three centuries of their rule, as laid out in Eraly's previous volume, THE...

Remembering the Jagiellonians is the first study of international memories of the Jagiellonians (1386-1596), one of the most powerful but lesser known royal dynasties of Renaissance Europe. It explores how the Jagiellonian dynasty has been remembered...

The raising of the _Mary Rose_ in 1982 was a remarkable feat of archaeology and her subsequent preservation and display at Portsmouth a triumph of technical skill and imagination. She is more than a relic, however. She has a story to tell, and her...

A detailed study of Tudor textiles, highlighting their extravagant beauty and their impact on the royal court, fashion, and taste At the Tudor Court, textiles were ubiquitous in decor and ceremony. Tapestries, embroideries, carpets, and hangings were...

'James Seay Dean is the noted authority on these voyages ... he provides a sympathetic treatment of life aboard ship in some of the most challenging circumstances these redoubtable sailors faced "beyond the line".' - Professor Barry Gough, maritime...

The Salvator Mundi is the first Leonardo painting to be discovered for over a century. Following its re-emergence, it played a leading role in the landmark Leonardo exhibition at the National Gallery in London in 2011, after which it was purchased by a...

'A captivating biography ... This rollicking story is packed with anecdotes' The Times'I can't suppose that there has been a better English biography of Francis, or indeed is likely to be one' Catholic HeraldFrancis I was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed...

For nearly two centuries Spain was the world's most influential nation, dominant in Europe and with authority over immense territories in America and the Pacific. Because none of this was achieved by its own economic or military resources, Henry Kamen...

This book examines England's plural and protracted Reformations through the novel prism of the generations. Approaching generation as a biological unit and a social cohort, it demonstrates that the tumultuous religious developments that stretched across...

Deniers and ducats, groats and guilders, crowns and cruzados: this fun, engaging and beautifully illustrated little book explores the role of money and medals in William Shakespeare's world and work. "A fascinating account of Shakespeare's cosmopolitan...

In the second half of the sixteenth century, France was racked by religious civil wars and peace was only restored when Henry of Navarre finally converted to Catholicism, deciding - in his immortal phrase - that 'Paris is worth a mass'. In this lucid...

This retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women, from queens to commoners, who navigated the patriarchal world in memorable and life-changing ways. Amy Licence has scoured the records from Europe and beyond to...

Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The six women at the heart of this study: Cornelia Teellinck,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513606Author Pauli KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A unique investigation of the political uses of different forms of communication - oral, manuscript, and printed - in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Venice. Today we take it for granted that communication and politics influence each other through...

The outbreaks and collective violence arising from the tensions existing within society have long been themes in the study of British social history. This book, first published in 1983, attempts to survey the whole range of these rural riots, to compare...

Between the 1460s and the 1630s Ireland was transformed from a medieval into a modern society. A poor society on the periphery of Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords- Irish and English- it later became a centralized political unit...

How did traditional beliefs about the supernatural change as a result of the Reformation, and what were the intellectual and cultural consequences? Following a masterly interpretative introduction, Peter Marshall traces the effects of the Reformers'...

While European civilization stagnated in the Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia's vast...

How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city's significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal...

Apologies 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...

The second edition of Steven Ellis's formidable work represents not only a survey, but also a critique of traditional perspectives on the making of modern Ireland. It explores Ireland both as a frontier society divided between English and Gaelic worlds,...

OPEN ACCESS To read the PDF of Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salesbury Family, 1450-1720 for free, follow the link below Gentility in Early Modern Wales: The Salesbury Family, 1450-1720 (uwp.co.uk) This book is freely available on a...

The Age of Reformation charts how religion, politics and social change were always intimately interlinked in the sixteenth century, from the murderous politics of the Tudor court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identities in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914059698Author Florin Nicolae ArdeleanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

This groundbreaking book examines the complex relationships between individuals and communities during the profound transitions of the early modern period. Historians have traditionally identified the origins of a modern individualist spirit in the...

A full life and times biography of Suleyman, the longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Suleyman, who ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1520 and 1566, was a globally recognized figure during his lifetime. His domain extended from Hungary to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101980019Author Eric MetaxasFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

For the best part of three centuries the 'corsairs' or pirates from the 'Barbary' coasts of North Africa dominated the Western and Central Mediterranean. They made forays far into the Atlantic, preying on the shipping and coastal settlements across...

The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire-from Manila to Acapulco and beyond-and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas.Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed...

Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scholarship of the past decade and separates nationalist myth-history from real historical processes. It is...

From one of our foremost church historians comes an overarching analysis of the three modern Catholic councils-an assessment of what Catholicism was and has become today.Catholic councils are meetings of bishops. In this unprecedented comparison of the...

Before William Shakespeare wrote world-famous plays on the themes of power and political turmoil, the Shakespeare family of Stratford-upon-Avon and their neighbors and friends were plagued by false accusations and feuds with the government - conflicts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142437070Author Alvar Nunez Cabeza de VacaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022 In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912866496Author Stephen TurnbullFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare's plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies,...

Incorporating original archival research and a series of critiques of recent accounts of economic development in pre-modern England, in The Origin of Capitalism in England 1400-1600, Spencer Dimmock has produced a challenging and multi-layered account of...