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Utopia by Sir Thomas More 9789391316624
Booksplease Price: $18.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789391316624Author Thomas MoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint -
Holbein's Sir Thomas More by Hilary Mantel
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $18.41Hans Holbein's famous portrayal of Sir Thomas More is one of the artist's greatest and most popular portraits. In the opening piece of this appealing new volume, "A Letter to Thomas More, Knight",... -
Martyrs of Henry VIII: Repression, Defiance, Sacrifice by John Matusiak 9780750987950
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $19.83When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman in her mid-twenties named Elizabeth Barton, widely revered as a visionary and prophetess, burst into his presence and warned him that... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780141442327
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80'It remains astonishingly radical ... one of Utopia's most striking aspects is its contemporaniety' Terry EagletonIn Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly-discovered island... -
Utopia by Saint Thomas More 9780241382684
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfilment is open to all... -
Tudor Survivor: The Life and Times of Courtier William Paulet by Margaret Scard 9780752470108
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48William Paulet was the ultimate courtier. For an astonishing 46 years he served at the courts of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth and was one of the men responsible for introducing the... -
Emigres: French Words That Turned English by Richard Scholar 9780691234007
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.75The 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... -
"A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $12.97A 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... -
The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 by Gerald Eades Bentley 9780691612669
RRP: $64.32Booksplease Price: $61.71This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular... -
Man For All Seasons Bolt Hereford by Robert Bolt
Booksplease Price: $19.30This 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... -
Utopia: The Influential Classic Thomas More 9781119754381
RRP: $14.67Booksplease Price: $10.18What we can learn from a Renaissance nowhere In 1516, a book was published in Latin with the enigmatic Greek-derived word as its title. Utopia-which could mean either "good-place" or "no-place"-gives... -
Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn Stephen Porter 9781398122529
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life. The thriving metropolis had a strong royal presence, at the long established Tower of London and... -
Saint Thomas's Eve: (Tudor Saga) by Jean Plaidy 9780099493235 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.88Step back in time with multi-million copy and international bestselling author Jean Plaidy as she expertly paints a picture of Tudor England and its capricious and fickle King and court. This... -
Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.31Erasmus 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... -
Culture and Belief in Europe 1450 - 1600: An Anthology of Sources by David Englander 9780631169918 [USED COPY]
RRP: $66.93Booksplease Price: $3.22This open university reader is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collection of material from primary sources, illustrating the relationship between cultural change and religious belief in... -
Selected Writings: William Tyndale by William Tyndale
RRP: $17.35Booksplease Price: $12.86William Tyndale (c.1494-1536) gave the English people their first printed New Testament which he translated from the orginal Greek, and half of the Old Testament, which he translated from the orginal... -
Sweet Mystery: A Book of Remembering by Judith Hillman Paterson 9780817359607
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.07An exquisitely written memoir-combining sorrow and joy, anger and forgiveness, suffering and healing-that affirms the resilience and strength that imbue the human spirit. Judith Paterson was just... -
London: the Autobiography by Jon Lewis 9781845299422 [USED COPY]
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $3.34In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand. From Roman times to the 21st century, Londoners and visitors to the... -
Of Judgement Fallen: An Anthony Blanke Tudor Mystery by Steven Veerapen
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Spring, 1523. Henry VIII readies England for war with France. The King's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey, prepares to open Parliament at Blackfriars. The eyes of the country turn towards London. But... -
Rosalba Carriera's Man in Pilgrim's Costume by Nicolas Party 9781913875510
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $18.41This pastel belongs to a small number of works of art at the Frick by a female artist. Rosalba Carriera (Italian, 1673 1757) spent most of her life in Venice, then a popular destination for young... -
Thomas More: A Very Brief History by John Guy 9780281076178
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'If the English people were to be set a test to justify their history and civilization by the example of one man, then it is Sir Thomas More whom they would perhaps choose.' So commented The Times in... -
The Dance of Death by Hans Holbein
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.64'The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let that be a... -
A People’s Tragedy: Studies in Reformation by Professor Eamon Duffy
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $21.35As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Professor Eamon Duffy is preeminent. In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy opened up new areas of... -
Everyday Life in Tudor London: Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn by Stephen Porter 9781445682846
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $10.30Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life. The thriving metropolis had a strong royal presence, at the long established Tower of London and... -
As You Like It by William Shakespeare 9780143130239
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $9.76The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with... -
The Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker 9780713668131
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.47This Jacobean city comedy is a curiosity in that it presents a real-life character, the notorious cross-dresser Moll Frith, who probably was among the first audiences of 'her' play before she was... -
God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert by Terry Lindvall
RRP: $48.24Booksplease Price: $41.31Winner of the 2016 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award In God Mocks, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and dangerous realm of religious satire, chronicling its evolution...