16th Century

The documents calendared in this volume consist of Petty Custom recordings of general imports and exports (other than wine, wool and hides) by alien merchants, and of cloth exports by alien and denizen merchants, in the port of London from Michaelmas...

A revealing collection of archive material on two lay assessments for Tudor London, shedding light on the makeup of the city The documents collected in this volume reveal the makeup of sixteenth century London, through the assessments carried out in...

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.Book InformationISBN 9780900952067Author Pauline CroftFormat HardbackPage Count 195Imprint London Record SocietyPublisher London Record Society

Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.Book InformationISBN 9780900952197Author G. G. HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint London Record SocietyPublisher London Record SocietyWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900952203Author Betty R. MastersFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint London Record SocietyPublisher London Record SocietyWeight(grams) 572g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900952166Author C J KitchingFormat HardbackPage Count 153Imprint London Record SocietyPublisher London Record SocietyWeight(grams) 1g

In this study, the author discusses the influence of the seventeenth-century sheriff of England on the local political institutions of the American colonies he has chosen for study, with particular attention to Virginia and Maryland. He has used...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503527253Author Michael LimbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503524665Author Badeloch NoldusFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

This volume brings together two important contemporary accounts of the life of Martin Luther in a confrontation that had been postponed for more than four hundred and fifty years. The first of these is written after Luther's death, when it was rumoured...

This is a book about the theory of the city or commonwealth, what would come to be called the state, in early modern natural law discourse. Annabel Brett takes a fresh approach by looking at this political entity from the perspective of its boundaries...

A papal advisor and sixteenth-century power broker, Francesco Guicciardini wrote voluminously throughout his time in service to the Medici. The texts in this volume chart his career chronologically, revealing an intellectual whose philosophy of...

Feature film has done more than any other medium to shape the image of Martin Luther held by the common public in the 20th century. Luther films have always a apart from the very earliest a been ambitious undertakings, staffed by personnel that includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515093293Author Ian BlanchardFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783447059268Author Almut BuesFormat HardbackPage Count 403Imprint HarrassowitzPublisher HarrassowitzWeight(grams) 1701g

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...

Elizabethan survey of the state of religion after Marian reverses in the dioceses of York, Durham, Carlisle and Chester. Introduction covers Royal Visitations of 1535, 1547 and 1559, with details of visitation procedure for both clergy and laity. ...

On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France's Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution of the Protestant leaders on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899715354Author Arthur GroosFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint V&R unipress GmbHPublisher V&R unipress GmbHWeight(grams) 584g

How does John Calvin view the church? And how does the pivotal event of Pentecost influence his view on the church? In his commentary on the Acts of the Apostles Calvin shows how Pentecost and the preaching of the Gospel gives rise to the church. For...

Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete...

Villamar examines the role of Portuguese merchants in the formation of the Manila Galleon as a system of trade founded at the end of the sixteenth century. The rise of Manila as a crucial transshipment port was not a spontaneous incident. Instead, it...

"Here at last is the text that many college teachers of Chinese, Asian, and world history have been waiting for: an accessible collection of primary sources on the life of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci and the Catholic mission that he helped establish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925612745Author Mariano DelgadoFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 340g

Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"-yet this period, torn apart by religious...

Childhood is not only a biological age, it is also a social construct. The essays in this collection range chronologically from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, and geographically across England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. They chart the...

Significant Others explores the transformative possibilities of alterity or otherness and offers concrete case studies that provide a greater understanding and nuance with regard to aspects of deviance and difference in premodern court cultures. Both...

This study explores the conflicting perceptions that Christians held of the meaning and significance of Jewish books at the beginning of the 16th century ? a time when, following their general expulsion from many countries and territories, there were...

In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474432689Author Ayfer Karakaya-StumpFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Contrary to the historiographical commonplace "no Reformation without print" Cultures of Communication examines media in the early modern world through the lens of the period's religious history. Looking beyond the emergence of print, this collection of...

As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local, regional or national scale. Its study therefore affords opportunities for the reassessment of many aspects...

Available in paperback for the first time, this study examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous later years of James I's reign. It investigates how the flow of information was managed and suppressed at the...

This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers - England's most important trading company of the sixteenth century - in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation. Over this period, the Company's main trade, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812972955Author Patrick CollinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm)...

Facing persecution in early modern England, some Catholics chose exile over conformity. Some even cast their lot with foreign monarchs rather than wait for their own rulers to have a change of heart. This book studies the relationship forged by English...

All Hail to the Archpriest revisits the debates and disputes known collectively in the literature on late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England as the 'Archpriest controversy'. Peter Lake and Michael Questier argue that this was an...

This volume explores how Martin Luther’s life and teachings reshaped and redefined masculinity during the Reformation, offering a more nuanced portrayal of him as a man grappling with the complexities of fatherhood, marriage, and the battlegrounds of...

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A vivid exploration of how Catholicism endured far longer into the Elizabethan era and continued to shape the very identity of early modern England.