16th Century

The Oxford History of Anglicanism is a major new and unprecedented international study of the identity and historical influence of one of the world's largest versions of Christianity. This global study of Anglicanism from the sixteenth century looks at...

The reign of Elizabeth I was one of the most important periods of expansion and growth in British history, the so-called 'Golden Age'. This celebrated and influential study of Elizabeth reconsiders how she achieved this and the ways in which she...

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...

This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information you'll need to travel back in time to Elizabethan London - a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. Find out the...

Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe: Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940322660Author Robert BurtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 1424Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Newly revised and updated, the second edition of English Catholicism 1558-1642 explores the position of Catholics in early modern English society, their political significance, and the internal politics of the Catholic community.The Elizabethan religious...

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

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...

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...

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...

'Black but Human' is the first study to focus on the visual representations of African slaves and ex-slaves in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. The Afro-Hispanic proverb 'Black but Human' is the main thread of the six chapters and serves as a lens...

The Witchcraft Reader offers a wide range of historical perspectives on the subject of witchcraft in a single, accessible volume, exploring the enduring hold that it has on human imagination. The witch trials of the late Middle Ages and the sixteenth and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912390106Author Michael Fredholm von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The people and publications at the root of a national obsession In the century between the accession of Elizabeth I and the restoration of Charles II, a horticultural revolution took place in England, making it a leading player in the European...

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of plague Plague remains the paradigm against which reactions to many epidemics are often judged. Here, John...

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...

Now back in print, this comprehensive collection of essays by Simon Adams brings to life the most enigmatic of Elizabethans--Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Adams, famous for the unique depth and breadth of his research, has gathered here his most...

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...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594163920Author John M HutchinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm)...

Offers an insider's view of the literary world of the Ottoman sultanate at its heyday, from the 1540s to the 1570s.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783525573259Author Gianmarco BraghiFormat HardbackPage Count 283Imprint Vandenhoeck & RuprechtPublisher Vandenhoeck & RuprechtWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765115909Author Mehrdad KiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The fact that elements of the tangible and intangible heritage of Byzantine Constantinople were preserved as the city's urban layout was gradually transformed during the decades after the Ottoman conquest of 1453, is well known to international...

A vivid exploration of how Catholicism endured far longer into the Elizabethan era and continued to shape the very identity of early modern England. This compelling study delves into the complexities of religious and political power during Elizabeth...

For the first time during the Early Modern period, ships regularly traveled between and among all of basins that comprise the World Ocean. During this period European mariners ventured into new waters, where they encountered new trading partners,...

Hamlet stands as a high water mark of canonical art, yet it has equally attracted rebels and experimenters, those avant-garde writers, dramatists, performers, and filmmakers who, in their adaptations and appropriations, seek new ways of expressing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190056728Author Senior Research Fellow Noel MalcolmFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)...

The Age of Beloveds offers a rich introduction to early modern Ottoman culture through a study of its beautiful lyric love poetry. At the same time, it suggests provocative cross-cultural parallels in the sociology and spirituality of love in Europe-from...

A representative selection of the best poetry of Spain's Golden Age.Book InformationISBN 9780802010186Author Milton Alexander BuchananFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 1g

Six leading experts have contributed their insights into the 16th century in this volume. The economy, politics, society, and secular and religious thought all receive careful thematic treatment and analysis. Many history textbook cliches emerge...

Through an examination of Dutch Reformed church records and theological texts, Kyle Dieleman explores the local dynamics of religious life in the early modern Dutch Republic. The book argues that within the religiously plural setting of the Dutch...

Confessionalisation and Erudition in Early Modern Europe examines the consequences of the sixteenth-century Reformation for the study of ancient texts and of the past in general. The volume offers the most comprehensive account thus far of the...

Exploring what the early English Protestants came to believe about the afterlife, and how they arrived at their positions, this much-needed book fills a gap in the scholarly literature. In surveying the authorised doctrinal works of the English church...

The European World 1500-1800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It presents early modern Europe not as a mere transition phase, but a dynamic period worth studying in its own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447108614Author Getatchew HaileFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 170mm *...

In An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain, Patricia W. Manning offers a survey of the Society of Jesus in Spain from its origins in Ignatius of Loyola's early preaching to the aftereffects of its expulsion. Rather than nurture the...