17Th Century category: 857 books
Renaissance Mad Voyages
Experiments in Early Modern English Travel
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
A vogue for travel ’stunts’ flourished in England between 1590 and the 1620s: playful imitations or burlesques of maritime enterprise and overland travel that collectively appear to be a response to particular innovations and developments in English culture. This study is the first full length...
History of the Incas, by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, and the Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru, by Captain Baltasar de Ocampo
With a Supplement: A Narrative of the Vice-Regal Embassy to Vilcabamba, 1571, and of the Execution of the Inca Tupac Amaru, December 1571, by Friar Gabriel de Oviedo, of Cuzco. 1573
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated from the original manuscript in the Library of the University at Goettingen (Col. ms. hist. 809) as published by R. Pietschmann in Abhandlungen d. K. Gesellschaft d. Wiss. zu Goettingen. Philol. Hist. Kl., N.F., Bd. VI, no. 4 (1906). The second part of the author's Historia indica; a first...
by Steve Pincus
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
The Invention of Scotland (Routledge Revivals)
The Stuart Myth and the Scottish Identity, 1638 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
A dynasty of high ability and great charm, the Stuarts exerted a compelling fascination over their supporters and enemies alike. First published in 1991, this title assesses the influence of the Stuart mystique on the modern political and cultural identity of Scotland. Murray Pittock traces the Stuart...
by Kathryn A. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
While pre-modern Europe is often seen as having an 'enchanted' or 'magical' worldview, the full implications of such labels remain inconsistently explored. Witchcraft, demonology, and debates over pious practices have provided the main avenues for treating those themes, but integrating them with other...
Polemic
Language as Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then ’polemic’ is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevitable result of religious controversy and the rise of print media. Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together specialists on...
The Chancery of God
Protestant Print, Polemic and Propaganda against the Empire, Magdeburg 1546–1551
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The disastrous protestant defeat in the Schmalkaldic War (1546-47) and the promulgation of the Ausburg Interim (1548) left the fate of German Protestantism in doubt. In the wake of these events, a single protestant town, Magdeburg, offered organized, sustained resistance to Emperor Charles V's drive...
Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts
Ramism in Britain and the Wider World
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new collection of essays analyses the impact of the logician, rhetorician and pedagogical innovator across a variety of countries and intellectual disciplines,...
by Susan Broomhall
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
States of emotion were vital as a foundation to society in the premodern period, employed as a force of order to structure diplomatic transactions, shape dynastic and familial relationships, and align religious beliefs, practices and communities. At the same time, societies understood that affective...
by Brian P. Levack
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written by one of the leading names in the field. For those starting out in their studies of witch-beliefs and witchcraft trials, Brian Levack provides a concise...
by Feike Dietz, Adam Morton, Lien Roggen
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
In recent years many historians have argued that the Reformation did not - as previously thought - hamper the development of Northern European visual culture, but rather gave new impetus to the production, diffusion and reception of visual materials in both Catholic and Protestant milieus. This book...
by Judith Pollmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
For early modern Europeans, the past was a measure of most things, good and bad. For that reason it was also hotly contested, manipulated, and far too important to be left to historians alone. Memory in Early Modern Europe offers a lively and accessible introduction to the many ways in which Europeans...
Dynastic Colonialism
Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force...
The Voyage of Pedro Álvares Cabral to Brazil and India
From Contemporary Documents and Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Letters, narratives, and extracts from diaries, etc. of 1500-01, chiefly of Portuguese and Venetian origin, translated, with introduction and notes. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1938.