17Th Century category: 857 books
by Anne Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In May 1555, a broadsheet was produced in Rome depicting the torture and execution in London and York of the Carthusians of the Charterhouses of London, Axeholme, Beauvale and Sheen during the reign of Henry VIII. This single-page martyrology provides the basis for an in-depth exploration of several...
The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early Modern World
Studies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In the Early Modern period - as both reformed and Catholic churches strove to articulate orthodox belief and conduct through texts, sermons, rituals, and images - communities grappled frequently with the connection between sacred space and behavior. The Sacralization of Space and Behavior in the Early...
by Lucy Wooding
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This new edition of Lucy Wooding’s Henry VIII is fully revised and updated to provide an insightful and original portrait of one of England’s most unforgettable monarchs and the many paradoxes of his character and reign. Henry was a Renaissance prince whose Court dazzled with artistic display,...
by Carla Gardina Pestana
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Long before sugar and slaves made Jamaica Britain’s most valuable colony, its conquest sparked conflicts with European powers and opened vast tropical spaces to English exploitation. Carla Gardina Pestana captures the moment when Cromwell’s plan to take Spain’s American empire altered his revolutionary state’s engagement with the wider world.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Book III (1543-44) of Cieza's 'Civil Wars of Peru', translated and edited. The additional documents continue the narrative to c. 1568. For other sections of the same source, in volumes variously titled, see Second Series 42 and 54. Contents: Contents: Introductory note.-The war of Quito / Pedro de...
British Battlefields - Volume 3 - The Midlands
Battles That Changed The Course Of British History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Very few living men have taken part in a battle, and many must wonder how they would acquit themselves if ever they had to. A medieval battle was a very complex affair; it was far from being a simple kill or be killed. It could be won or lost at any stage; it could turn on the action of one man, and...
by Thomas Dyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
THE peace of Vervins was not very well observed on the part of France. The ruling idea which guided the foreign policy of Henry IV was to curb the power of the House of Austria: a plan incompatible with the letter of the treaty. In pursuance of this policy Henry became the supporter of Protestantism;...
by Brett Usher
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 examines the selection and promotion of bishops within the shifting sands of ecclesiastical politics at the Elizabethan court, drawing on the copious correspondence of leading politicians and clerical candidates as well as the Exchequer records of the financial...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Based on the most recent scholarship, this book provides students and interested lay readers with a basic introduction to key facts and current controversies concerning the Enlightenment.
• Provides the Enlightenment in various formats, thereby enabling students to better understand and fully...
English Privateering Voyages to the West Indies, 1588-1595
Documents relating to English voyages to the West Indies, from the defeat of the Armada to the last voyage of Sir Francis Drake, including Spanish documents contributed by Irene A. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Documents, some summarized entirely or in part, relating to twenty-five voyages, drawn mainly from the records of the High Court of Admiralty, with selections from narratives printed by Hakluyt and from a quantity of translations by I.A. Wright of originals (1593-5) in the Archivo General de Indias...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
'In the last two decades, the history of the Counter-Reformation has been stretched and re-shaped in numerous directions. Reflecting the variety and innovation that characterize studies of early modern Catholicism today, this volume incorporates topics as diverse as life cycle and community, science...
Corpi invasi e viaggi dell’anima
Santità, possessione, esorcismo dalla teologia barocca alla medicina illuminista
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Il Seicento fu, nella Chiesa italiana, un secolo enfatico e splendente, di fede militante, sovraccarica e sfarzosa. A celebrare e difendere le verità della fede concorsero suore e sante mistiche, dagli slanci ascetici e dai doni sovrannaturali. A denunziare la minaccia di diavoli, eretici e infedeli...
La Curia romana nell’età moderna
Istituzioni, cultura, carriere
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Il volume affronta alcuni aspetti del rapporto tra la Curia romana e le realtà ecclesiali e religiose, sociali e politiche, della Chiesa cattolica nell’età moderna: dalla fiscalità spirituale pontificia alle Congregazioni del Sant’Uffizio e dei Riti, fino alle riforme dello Stato e della Curia,...
Dynasty and Piety
Archduke Albert (1598-1621) and Habsburg Political Culture in an Age of Religious Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The youngest son of Emperor Maximilian II, and nephew of Philip II of Spain, Archduke Albert (1559-1621) was originally destined for the church. However, dynastic imperatives decided otherwise and in 1598, upon his marriage to Philip's daughter, the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, he found himself...