17Th Century category: 857 books
by Alec Ryrie
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Scholars increasingly recognise that understanding the history of religion means understanding worship and devotion as well as doctrines and polemics. Early modern Christianity consisted of its lived experience. This collection and its companion volume (Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern...
Treasure, Treason and the Tower
El Dorado and the Murder of Sir Walter Raleigh
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In this remarkable book, the oft-told narrative of Sir Walter Raleigh is blown apart through the chance discovery of hitherto neglected Dutch correspondence found in a Swedish archive. Following an exciting paper-trail through Jacobean history to modern-day Venezuela, Professor Sellin makes a convincing...
The Book of Duarte Barbosa: An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants
Written by Duarte Barbosa, and Completed about the year 1518 A.D. Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
'Translated from the Portuguese Text First Published in 1812 A.D. by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon, in Vol. II of its Collection of Documents regarding the History and Geography of the Nations beyond the Seas', edited and annotated. Continued from Second Series 44. With translated extracts...
Select Letters of Christopher Columbus with other Original Documents relating to this Four Voyages to the New World
With other Original Documents relating to this Four Voyages to the New World. Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A revised translation of the documents in First Series 2, with the editor's reply to J. A. Froude's strictures on the earlier edition in the Westminster Review (1852) and in his Short Studies on Great Subjects, vol. 2. Contains the following: Introduction.--Dati, G. La lettera dellisole che ha trovato...
by Sarah Apetrei
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The essays contained in this volume examine the particular religious experiences of women within a remarkably vibrant and formative era in British religious history. Scholars from the disciplines of history, literary studies and theology assess women's contributions to renewal, change and reform;...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A collection of documents, chiefly from English sources, including a few relating to Ireland, edited with introduction and notes. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 84) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1940.
The Book of Duarte Barbosa, An Account of the Countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and their Inhabitants
Written by Duarte Barbosa, and Completed about the year 1518 A.D. Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
'Translated from the Portuguese Text First Published in 1812 A.D. by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon, in Vol. II of its Collection of Documents regarding the History and Geography of the Nations beyond the Seas', edited and annotated. With a translation of chapter 2, the history of Rander,...
The Tragic History of the Sea, 1589-1622
Narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen São Thomé (1589), Santo Alberto (1593), São João Baptista (1622) and the journeys of the survivors in South East Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Edited from the original Portuguese and translated. The narratives by Diogo do Couto, João Baptista Lavanha and Francisco Vaz d'Almada, translated from the original editions of accounts which were subsequently included in the 'História Trágico-Marítima' edited by Bernardo Gomes de Brito at Lisbon...
Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Germany
Courts and Adjudicatory Practices in Frankfurt am Main, 1562–1696
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Frankfurt am Main, in common with other imperial German cities, enjoyed a large degree of legal autonomy during the early modern period, and produced a unique and rich body of criminal archives. In particular, Frankfurt’s Strafenbuch, which records all criminal sentences between 1562 and 1696, provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Narratives, translated and edited, with a preface, introduction and notes, of the second voyage through the strait, commanded by the Comendador Loaysa and Sebastián del Cano, 1524-6, the third voyage, under the command of Simón de Alcazaba, 1534-5, and the reconnaissance by Bartolomé and Gonzalo...
Travels of Fray Sebastien Manrique 1629-1643
A Translation of the Itinerario de las Missiones Orientales. Volume I: Arakan
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Continued in Second Series 61. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1927.
by Richard F. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated from the 1557 Marburg edition of the author's Warhafftige Historia und Beschreiburg ejner Landtschallte der wilden, nacketen, grimmigen Menschfresser Leuthen in der Newnwelt America gelegen. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1874.
Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World
Convicts, Sailors and a Dissonant Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
*** Danish Historical Society Award Winner (2018) "Historical research result of the year†? ***
Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World discusses how the storytelling of the lower classes shaped antagonisms and struggles for agency in the early modern Atlantic. It takes a mutiny carried...
Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615-1622, with Correspondence
Diary of Richard Cocks, Cape-Merchant in the English Factory in Japan 1615-1622, with Correspondence
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Ends December 1617. Continued to 1622 in the following volume (First Series 67). This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1883.