17Th Century category: 857 books
Restoration
Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2006
The late seventeenth century was a period of extraordinary turbulence and political violence in Britain, the like of which has never been seen since. Beginning with the Restoration of the monarchy after the Civil War, this book traces the fate of the monarchy from Charles II's triumphant accession...
by Thomas S. Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many guises - model Renaissance prince, Defender of the Faith, rapacious plunderer of the Church, obese Bluebeard-- he has featured...
Rebranding Rule
The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, 1660-1714
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well as political, cultural, and social history to show how this preoccupation...
Menasseh ben Israel
Rabbi of Amsterdam
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century
Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He...
by A.Rupert Hall
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615
A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The union of the two royal houses - the Habsburgs and the Bourbons - in the early seventeenth century illustrates the extent to which marriage was a tool of government in Renaissance Europe, and festivals a manifestation of power and cultural superiority. With contributions from scholars representing...
Atheism and Deism Revalued
Heterodox Religious Identities in Britain, 1650-1800
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Given the central role played by religion in early-modern Britain, it is perhaps surprising that historians have not always paid close attention to the shifting and nuanced subtleties of terms used in religious controversies. In this collection particular attention is focussed upon two of the most...
by René Chartrand
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013
The works of French novelist Alexandre Dumas have been reproduced time and again on stage and screen. Based on a genuine memoir by an officer named D'Artagnan, Dumas published The Three Musketeers. The King's Musketeers were formed in 1622 and were populated by young men of noble birth, but often...
Samson’s Cords
Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
In seventeenth-century Britain every debate about loyalty oaths invoked the biblical Samson. Samson’s Cords argues that these loyalty tests became an unprecedentedly pervasive feature of life in Restoration England and that writers of satire and epic had no choice but to respond.
Alex Garganigo...
Renaissance in Japan
A Cultural Survey of the Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Renaissance in Japan is a superb survey of Japan's literary giants-forerunners of today's modern Japanese writers.
Called the "Kyoto epoch," the age in which these writers lived was the period in which Japanese cultural development made many of its greatest advances. In these years...
A Cloister on Trial
Religious Culture and Everyday Life in Late Medieval Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In 1517, the usually tranquil friary in the Hungarian town of Körmend found itself at the centre of controversy when its Augustinian friars, charged with drunkenness, sexual abuses and liturgical negligence, were driven out and replaced with observant Franciscans. The agent of change in this conflict,...
The Stuart Secret Army
The Hidden History of the English Jacobites
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book is unique in bringing together all strands of English Jacobism in an accessible chronological framework, highlighting key individuals, providing a biographical dictionary of less well known English Jacobites, an account of the major primary source material, and a gazetteer of places to visit....
Rumors That Changed the World
A History of Violence and Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The aim of the book is to explore the social and cultural impact of rumor from Antiquity to the mid-1990s, examining it as one of the most important contributing factors to violence and discrimination. Usually defined as an unverified account that circulates from one person to another and refers to...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This unique reader allows students to examine Galileo's trial as a legal event and, in so doing, to learn about seventeenth-century European religion, politics, diplomacy, bureaucracy, culture, and science. Noted scholar of the trial Thomas F. Mayer has translated correspondence, legal documents,...