17Th Century category: 857 books

Cover of Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary Culture, 1640-1680
by Rachel Adcock
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English Revolution, they have rarely had much to say about seventeenth-century Baptists, or, indeed, Baptist women. Baptist Women’s Writings in Revolutionary...
Cover of Renaissance Humanism, from the Middle Ages to Modern Times
by John Monfasani
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

Starting with an essay on the Renaissance as the concluding phase of the Middle Ages and ending with appreciations of Paul Oskar Kristeller, the great twentieth-century scholar of the Renaissance, this new volume by John Monfasani brings together seventeen articles that focus both on individuals,...
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The Formation of Turkey

The Seljukid Sultanate of Rum: Eleventh to Fourteenth Century

by Claude Cahen
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

From Byzantium to the Mongols to the Sultans of Rum, this acclaimed book offers an important insight into the evocative history of Turkey before the coming of Ottoman power. Turkey forms a historical bridge between Europe and Asia and as such has played a pivotal role throughout history. The...
Cover of The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509-1580)

The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509-1580)

Between Council and Inquisition

by Adam Patrick Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509-80) remains one of the most intriguing characters in the history of the sixteenth century Catholic Church - with neither his contemporaries nor subsequent scholars being able to agree on his motivations, theology or his legacy. Appointed Bishop of Modena in 1529 and...
Cover of Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation
by Massimo Firpo
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

Juan de Valdés played a pivotal role in the febrile atmosphere of sixteenth-century Italian religious debate. Fleeing his native Spain after the publication in 1529 of a book condemned by the Spanish Inquisition, he settled in Rome as a political agent of the emperor Charles V and then in Naples,...
Cover of Witches and Witchcraft
by Professor David Nash
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

Witchcraft haunts the Western imagination to this day, from Central Europe to Britain to North America. This book explores the development of witchcraft and of the belief in it (stressing the difference between the two), the sixteenthand seventeenth-century obsession that spawned witch-hunting, the...
Cover of Spain, 1469-1714

Spain, 1469-1714

A Society of Conflict

by Henry Kamen
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014

For nearly two centuries Spain was the world’s most influential nation, dominant in Europe and with authority over immense territories in America and the Pacific. Because none of this was achieved by its own economic or military resources, Henry Kamen sets out to explain how it achieved the unexpected...
Cover of Compendium Maleficarum

Compendium Maleficarum

The Montague Summers Edition

by Francesco Maria Guazzo
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012

This extraordinary document, considered one of the most important manuals ever compiled on witchcraft, offers striking insight into the early seventeenth-century mind and society's attempts to cope with the evils it saw manifested in sorcery. A collection of writings by the Ambrosian monk Francesco...
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Europe's Tragedy

A New History of the Thirty Years War

by Peter H. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009

The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) tore the heart out of Europe, killing perhaps a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to whole areas of Central Europe to such a degree that many towns and regions never recovered. All the major European powers apart from Russia...
Cover of The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068–1945
by Darren Fa, Prof. Clive Finlayson
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013

Gibraltar, located at the meeting points of Europe and Africa, preserves within its fortifications a rich testament to human conflict spanning 600 years. In 1068 the ruling Spanish Muslims built a large fort there. Between 1309 and 1374 Gibraltar underwent a period of intensive building and fortification,...
Cover of Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015

Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe examines the purposes for which specific forms of violence and particular emotional states functioned, how they operated in relation to each other, or indeed how one provoked, sustained or diminished the other. These twelve original essays demonstrate...
Cover of The Age of Louis XIV
by Arthur Hassall
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019

Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. Starting on 14 May 1643 when Louis was 4 years old, his reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign...
Cover of Making Ireland English
by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012

This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive study of the remaking of Ireland's aristocracy during the seventeenth century. It is a study of the Irish peerage and its role in the establishment of English control over Ireland. Jane Ohlmeyer's research in the archives of the era yields a major...
Cover of Devil Comes to Dartmoor

Devil Comes to Dartmoor

The Haunting True Story of Mary Howard, Devon's 'Demon Bride'

by Laura Quigley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

Many will have heard of the ghostly white lady haunting Tavistock—the notorious Mary Howard, accused of murdering her four husbands. A few may know the true story of her lover, George Cutteford, a Plymouth "cutty man" who became a Puritan lawyer. Cutteford was imprisoned in the horror...
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