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Martin Luther Lyndal Roper 9781784703448
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.74SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE 2017'A magnificent study of one of history's most compelling and divisive figures' Richard J. EvansWhen... -
The Witch in the Western Imagination by Lyndal Roper 9780813953786
Booksplease Price: €32.03Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper 9780812986051
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €18.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986051Author Lyndal RoperFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Random House Trade... -
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War by Lyndal Roper 9781541647053
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €26.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541647053Author Lyndal RoperFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books -
The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg by Lyndal Roper 9780198202806
RRP: €82.11Booksplease Price: €62.97This is a fascinating study of the impact of the Reformation idea of `civic righteousness' on the position of women in Augsburg. Lyndal Roper argues that its development, both as a religious credo... -
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War Lyndal Roper 9781399818025
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €25.41From a preeminent historian, the definitive history of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe.The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before... -
Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Religion and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe by Lyndal Roper
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. Amongst other subjects, Lyndal Roper deals with the nature... -
Living I Was Your Plague: Martin Luther's World and Legacy by Lyndal Roper
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.09From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life imageMartin Luther was a controversial figure... -
The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary Andrew Drummond 9781839768958
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.40'The princes are nothing but tyrants who flay the people; they fritter away our blood and sweat on their pomp and whoring and knavery.' These were the words of Thomas Muntzer at the head of the... -
The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer: The Life and Times of an Early German Revolutionary by Andrew Drummond 9781839768941
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €20.77'The princes are nothing but tyrants who flay the people; they fritter away our blood and sweat on their pomp and whoring and knavery.' These were the words of Thomas Muntzer at the head of the... -
The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew by Yair Mintzker 9780691192734
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €21.90New historical insights into one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-SemitismJoseph Suss Oppenheimer-"Jew Suss"-is one of the most iconic figures in the history of anti-Semitism. In... -
The Many Deaths of Jew Suss: The Notorious Trial and Execution of an Eighteenth-Century Court Jew by Yair Mintzker 9780691172323
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €46.22A groundbreaking historical reexamination of one of the most infamous episodes in the history of anti-Semitism Joseph Suss Oppenheimer--"Jew Suss"--is one of the most iconic figures in the history... -
Disciplines of Faith: Studies in Religion, Politics and Patriarchy James Obelkevich 9780710207500
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €43.55First Published in 1987. This volume has its remote origins in the 'Religion and Society' group - one of the feeders for 'History Workshop' - which began meeting at Nuffield College Oxford in 1965... -
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability Annette Kehnel 9781800816275
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.96WINNER OF THE 2021 NDR BOOK PRIZE IN GERMANY 'A must-read' Lyndal Roper, Regius Professor of History at Oriel College, Oxford Fishing quotas on Lake Constance. Common lands in the UK. The... -
Historians by Daniel Snowman 9781403988058
Booksplease Price: €51.57History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever. History programmes on television can attract audiences in the millions, as do top heritage sites, while growing numbers of people pursue... -
Historians by Daniel Snowman 9781137587312
Booksplease Price: €31.65History in all its forms is more popular nowadays than ever. History programmes on television can attract audiences in the millions, as do top heritage sites, while growing numbers of people pursue... -
Dreams and History: The Interpretation of Dreams from Ancient Greece to Modern Psychoanalysis Daniel Pick 9781583912836
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €40.14What is a dream?Dreams are universal, but their perceived significance and conceptual framework change over time. This book provides new perspectives on the history of dreams and dream interpretation... -
The Enemy Within: A Short History of Witch-hunting by John Demos 9780143116332
Booksplease Price: €22.96With the vision of an historian and the voice of a novelist, prize-winning author John Demos explores the social, cultural and psychological roots of the scourge that is witch-hunting, both in the... -
History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past by S. Alexander 9780230113367
Booksplease Price: €108.12Today, a widening range of historical phenomena are being examined through the psychoanalytic lens, while the psychoanalytic tradition itself is coming in for unprecedented historical scrutiny. This... -
A History of Private Life, Volume III: Passions of the Renaissance by Roger Chartier
RRP: €54.68Booksplease Price: €46.08Readers interested in history, and in the development of the modern sensibility, will relish this large-scale yet intimately detailed examination of the blossoming of the ordinary and extraordinary... -
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability Annette Kehnel 9781800816251
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €21.86'[It] reminds us that history can be a treasure trove - if one looks in the right places and asks the right questions' Peter Frankopan, author of Silk Roads 'A must-read' Lyndal Roper, Regius... -
The Saved and the Damned: A History of the Reformation by Prof Thomas Kaufmann 9780198841043
Booksplease Price: €47.14Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself. The Reformation began far from Europe's... -
The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere by Caroline P. Murphy 9780195312010
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €17.30The illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Now, Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold... -
Brainwashed: A New History of Thought Control Daniel Pick 9781781257906
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26'A frankly brilliant book' - GUARDIAN 'An absorbing exploration ... Pick does not stumble' - TORTOISE 'An extraordinarily engrossing and wide-ranging analysis of a word and a concept. I fell... -
The German Peasants’ War of 1525: A Conflict Powered by Print Prof Dr Thomas Kaufmann 9781350468931
Booksplease Price: €114.37An exploration of the 1525 German Peasants' War which emphasises the crucial role of media and the printing press in the conflict and its legacy.Why did German agrarian protests, normally very local... -
Laughing Histories: From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit Joy Wiltenburg 9781032162072
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €44.65Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and social power."I dearly love a laugh," declared Jane... -
Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720 by Sara Mendelson 9780198208129
RRP: €67.83Booksplease Price: €61.88What was life like for women who lived in Tudor and Stuart England? This fascinating book provides a colourful and comprehensive account of the daily experiences of these women, using first-hand... -
Tambora and the Year without a Summer: How a Volcano Plunged the World into Crisis Wolfgang Behringer (University of York) 9781509525492
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.53In 1816, the climate went berserk. The winter brought extreme cold, and torrential rains unleashed massive flooding in Asia. Western Europe and North America experienced a 'year without a summer',... -
The Reformation of Feeling: Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany by Susan C. Karant-Nunn 9780195399738
RRP: €127.93Booksplease Price: €100.23Susan Karant-Nunn argues that the 16th-century Reformation movement sought not only to modify people's doctrinal convictions and their behavior but to root these changes in altered sentiment. She... -
Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet by F. Bruce Gordon
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.82A major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli-the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was the most significant early reformer after Martin Luther. As the... -
German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650 by Thomas A. Brady 9780521889094
RRP: €120.19Booksplease Price: €114.47This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic... -
The European Witch-Hunt by Julian Goodare 9780415254533
RRP: €61.87Booksplease Price: €55.68The European Witch-Hunt seeks to explain why thousands of people, mostly lower-class women, were deliberately tortured and killed in the name of religion and morality during three centuries of... -
Women and the Reformations: A Global History Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks 9780300268232
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.92A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as... -
The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil by Jan Machielsen 9781138571815
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €136.48Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the... -
The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil Jan Machielsen (Cardiff University, UK) 9781138571839
RRP: €40.45Booksplease Price: €37.12Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the... -
Emperor: A New Life of Charles V by Geoffrey Parker 9780300254860
Booksplease Price: €22.82Drawing on vital new evidence, a top historian dramatically reinterprets the life and reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, ruler of the world's first transatlantic empire "Masterly."-William... -
The Black Death: A Global History by Thomas Asbridge 9780241399408
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €33.49Thomas Asbridge's remarkable new book reveals the global impact of humanity's greatest natural disaster, and the terrible human cost of this calamity.'An up-to-the-hour work of scholarship that is at... -
Women on the Margins: Three Seventeenth-Century Lives by Natalie Zemon Davis
RRP: €33.26Booksplease Price: €28.80As she did in The Return of Martin Guerre, Natalie Zemon Davis here retrieves individual lives from historical obscurity to give us a window onto the early modern world. As women living in the...