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Representations of Flemish Immigrants on the Early Modern Stage by Peter Matthew McCluskey 9780367733254
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Immigrants from the Low Countries constituted the largest population of resident aliens in early modern England. Possessing superior technology in a number of fields and enjoying governmental... -
Holbein: Capturing Character Anne T. Woollett 9781606067475
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £42.10Nobles, ladies, scholars, and merchants were the subjects of Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98-1543), an inventive German artist best known for his dazzling portraits. Holbein developed his signature... -
Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century Naomi Baker 9781836391197
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and beliefs of more than a dozen seventeenth-century radical Protestant women, including a Colchester woman who feared that her four children would starve to... -
Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624661112
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.66By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows... -
Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624661129
RRP: £63.99Booksplease Price: £45.60By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows... -
Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture Jonathan Lethem 9798988670001
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Many know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novels-Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, among many others-play with genres and... -
Hermogenes and the Renaissance: Seven Ideas of Style by Annabel M. Patterson 9780691620848
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European... -
Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton by Hilary Gatti 9780691176116
Booksplease Price: £24.18Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious... -
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation by Johan Huizinga 9780691640204
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £89.94Johan Huizinga had a special sympathy for the complex, withdrawn personality of Erasmus and for his advocacy of intellectual and spiritual balance in a quarrelsome age. This biography is a classic... -
Ideas of Liberty in Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton by Hilary Gatti 9780691163833
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Europe's long sixteenth century--a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in the 1490s to the English Civil War in the 1640s--was an era of power struggles between avaricious... -
The Six Wives Of Henry VIII Lady Antonia Fraser 9781842126332
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The six wives of Henry VIII- Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and catherine Parr- have become defined in popular sense not so much by their lives but... -
The Georgic Revolution by Anthony Low 9780691611532
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.84Low discusses the courtly or aristocratic ideal as the great enemy of the georgic spirit, and shows that georgic powerfully invaded English poetry in the years from 1590 to 1700. Originally... -
The Western Literary Tradition: Volume 1: The Hebrew Bible to John Milton by Margaret L. King
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £21.92This compact anthology provides a thorough introduction to the major works of the Western literary tradition from Antiquity to 1700. It includes excerpts from seventy texts composed in eight ancient... -
Renaissance Perspectives in Literature and the Visual Arts by Murray Roston 9780691602981
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37Roston demonstrates that what emerges is not a fixed or monolithic pattern for each generation but a dynamic series of responses to shared challenges. The book relates leading English writers and... -
Emigres: French Words That Turned English by Richard Scholar
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has... -
Emigres: French Words That Turned English by Richard Scholar 9780691234007
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has... -
Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance by Elaine V. Beilin 9780691608037
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54An introduction to women writers of the English Renaissance which takes up 44 works, many as thumbnail sketches; shows how women's writing was hampered by the assumption that poets were male, by... -
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 7: March 1784 to February 1785 by Thomas Jefferson 9780691045399
RRP: £146.00Booksplease Price: £119.30The description for this book, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 7: March 1784 to February 1785, will be forthcoming.Book InformationISBN 9780691045399Author Thomas JeffersonFormat HardbackPage -
Epigram in the English Renaissance by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson 9780691653556
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £68.92Favorite Renaissance condiment at "the great feast of language," the epigram is here presented full-flavored and various in a brilliant study by the late Hoyt Hopewell Hudson. He considers its... -
Medwin's Conversations of Lord Byron by Ernest J. Lovell 9780691624136
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63One of the most racy, entertaining, and valuable contemporary accounts of Byron, Medwin's Conversations created a furor among Byron's many friends and enemies, especially those who appear in it. In... -
The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume II, Part B: 1885-1888 by William Morris 9780691607641
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £69.68These volumes continue the only complete edition of the surviving correspondence of William Morris (1834- 1896), a protean figure who exerted a major influence as poet, craftsman, master printer, and... -
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148459
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As the predominant faith of the people, Christianity has been the reflection,... -
The English Soul: Faith of a Nation Peter Ackroyd 9781836390947
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836390947Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint -
Chuck Noll: His Life's Work by Michael MacCambridge
Booksplease Price: £25.79Chuck Noll won four Super Bowls and presided over one of the greatest football dynasties in history, the Pittsburgh Steelers of the '70s. Later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, his... -
Ideal Commonwealths by More 9780946626267
RRP: £7.95Booksplease Price: £6.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946626267Author Saint Thomas MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint -
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt 9780573012600
Booksplease Price: £13.26A play that charts the dramatic events leading to the execution of Sir Thomas More in 1535.Book InformationISBN 9780573012600Author Robert BoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint!["A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/175820/175538/9780413703804__16667.1686794982.jpg?c=1 ""A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt")
"A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.68A Man for All Seasons dramatises the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. It depicts the confrontation between church and state, theology and politics, absolute power and individual...
Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch by Caitriona Dhuill 9781906540418
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This book provides the reader with a representative picture of modern utopian imagination in its negotiations with questions of sex and gender, discussing the utopian philosophy of Thomas More and...
Sex in Imagined Spaces: Gender and Utopia from More to Bloch Caitriona Dhuill 9780367603311
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book provides the reader with a representative picture of modern utopian imagination in its negotiations with questions of sex and gender, discussing the utopian philosophy of Thomas More and...
Man For All Seasons Bolt Hereford by Robert Bolt
Booksplease Price: £14.40This series presents a wide choice of 20th-century drama. The books offer scene-by-scene analysis, structured questions and assignment suggestions for GCSE. This play portrays Sir Thomas More as a...
Urban Fiction: Urban Utopias from the Antiquity until Today Gunther Feuerstein 9783930698264
RRP: £10.90Booksplease Price: £10.63Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since time immemorial for two opposing topoi: the peaceful garden -- a carefree paradise -- the New City -- a harmonious community. Utopia...
The Meaning of More's Utopia by George M. Logan 9780691613710
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Examining its relation to ancient and Renaissance political thought, George M. Logan sees Thomas More's Utopia whole, in all its ironic complexity. He finds that the book is not primarily a...
The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998) by Mike Pincombe
Booksplease Price: £26.09This title was first published in 2001. Is there such a thing as "Tudor literature"? The question is the theme that binds the essays in this collection. Scholars from around the world address the...
A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
Booksplease Price: £21.23When Henry VIII set up his own Church of England with himself at its head, one of the few men who opposed him was Sir Thomas More. The play contrasts More's virtue of 'selfhood' with the cynical...![A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773527331 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6583678/6660599/9780773527331__21892.1738899916.jpg?c=1 "A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773527331 [USED COPY]")
A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773527331 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £8.18Examines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarExamines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarAbout the AuthorBohdan S. Kordan is professor of international...
A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress by Bohdan S. Kordan 9780773526945
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £51.83Examines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarExamines the internment of Ukrainian Canadians during the Great WarAbout the AuthorBohdan S. Kordan is professor of international...
Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present: The Art and Ethics of Gaining Favor by Jeff Diamond 9781498548892
Booksplease Price: £103.11Ingratiation from the Renaissance to the Present explores a common ethical problem for intellectuals of the Renaissance: How does one win the favor and patronage of the wealthy and powerful and yet...
John Henry Newman: Theology & by 9781138873339
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.49This collection of papers grew out of a concern of several at Creighton University for the perduring nature of the thought of John Henry Cardinal Newman. Although Cardinal Newman died some one...
Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.19Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential...
Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature: Stylistic Explorations Israel A. C. Noletto 9781032688930
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary...