17Th Century category: 857 books
The Papers of Thomas Bowrey, 1669-1713
Discovered in 1913 by John Humphreys, M.A., F.S.A., and now in the possession of Lieut.-Colonel Henry Howard, F.S.A..
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Part I. Diary of a Six Weeks' Tour in 1698 in Holland and Flanders. Part II. The Story of the Mary Galley, 1704-1710 This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1927. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce "Map 4: Charts of the...
Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance
Essays in Honour of J.R. Mulryne
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
As the first book-length study of waterborne festivities in Renaissance and early modern Europe, this collection of essays draws on a rich array of sources, many previously un-researched, to explore aspects of scenography, choreography, music, fashion, painting, sculpture, architecture, stage-and...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Bringing to bear the latest developments across various areas of research and disciplines, this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia. The volume covers the transpacific period--after...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Devout laywomen raise a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. How did some groups or individuals evade the Tridentine legislation that required third order women to take solemn vows and observe active and passive enclosure? How did their attempts to exercise...
Europe's Rich Fabric
The Consumption, Commercialisation, and Production of Luxury Textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and Neighbouring Territories (Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term 'luxury' is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption, commercialisation and production...
The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia
Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, together with the Manners and Customes of the People. Gathered and observed as well by those who went first thither as collected by William Strachey, Gent., the first Secretary of the Colony
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This work is edited, from the original manuscript, then in the British Museum, now From British Library, Sloane MS 1622. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1849.
by Grace E. Coolidge
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Drawing on history, literature, and art to explore childhood in early modern Spain, the contributors to this collection argue that early modern Spaniards conceptualized childhood as a distinct and discrete stage in life which necessitated special care and concern. The volume contrasts the didactic...
by Lord Stanley of Alderley
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated from the Portuguese, and edited, with notes and an introduction. For a revised edition, see Second Series 114, 115. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1881.
Death Comes to the Maiden
Sex and Execution 1431-1933
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In 1791, the French femme de lettres Olympe de Gouges wrote that 'as women have the right to take their places on the scaffold, they must also have the right to take their seats in government'. This book explores the issues of female emancipation through the history of female execution, from the burning...
Renaissance Truths
Humanism, Scholasticism and the Search for the Perfect Language
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals. After locating the two traditions within the early modern search for the perfect language, this study re-defines the...
Yudisher Theriak
An Early Modern Yiddish Defense of Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The Yudisher Theriak [Jewish Theriac] by Zalman Zvi of Aufhausen, first published in Hanau, in 1615, was a response to an anti-Jewish work titled Jüdischer abgestreiffter Schlangenbalg [Jewish Shed Snakeskin], written by a Jewish convert to Chistianity, Samuel Friedrich Brenz, and published in Nürnberg...
Historiografische Werke: Geschichte des dreißigjährigen Kriegs + Zustands von Europa zur Zeit des ersten Kreuzzugs + Die Sendung Moses und mehr
Die Gesetzgebung des Lykurgus und Solon + Geschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande + Universalhistorische Übersicht der merkwürdigsten Staatsbegebenheiten und mehr
Language: German
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Dieses eBook: "Historiografische Werke: Geschichte des dreißigjährigen Kriegs + Zustands von Europa zur Zeit des ersten Kreuzzugs + Die Sendung Moses und mehr" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Friedrich Schiller...
Ipswich Witch
Mary Lackland and the Suffolk Witch Hunts
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Against the backdrop of the largest witch hunt in English history, this book is both an investigation of a miscarriage of justice over 350 years old and a recreation of East Anglia as it once was. Ipswich, faced by the extreme challenges of war, religious dissent, poverty, sickness, and the threat...
Early Modern Emotions
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Early Modern Emotions is a student-friendly introduction to the concepts, approaches and sources used to study emotions in early modern Europe, and to the perspectives that analysis of the history of emotions can offer early modern studies more broadly.
The volume is divided into four sections...