17Th Century category: 857 books
Defending the Revolution
The Church of Scotland 1689–1716
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-90 played a fundamental role in re-shaping the political, religious and cultural map of the British Isles. Yet, as this book demonstrates, many key elements of the history of the period between the landing of William of Orange and the establishment of the Union between...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Featuring contributions from thirty-eight international scholars, the book takes a thematic approach to a period which saw the defeat of the Spanish...
by SirCharles Fawcett
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Translated from the manuscript journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett, and edited by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. The main pagination of the volumes is continuous, but each has its own Introduction. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1947and 1948.
by Stephen Cory
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval period - could fall completely under Western hegemony in the modern age? Many Western writers answer this question by referencing European ingenuity, initiative, and transformative...
Creolization and Contraband
Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
When Curaçao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America’s northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Curaçao emerged as a major hub within Caribbean and wider Atlantic networks....
by H.G. Koenigsberger
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Opening at the height of the Renaissance, the book chronicles the dawning of a new age on the European continent. Koenigsberger paints a detailed picture of the Reformation and its significance as increasingly powerful nations began to intrude on their subjects’ public and private lives. He gives...
The Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespin's Livre des Martyrs
All The True Christians
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Between 1554 and 1570, the Genevan printer Jean Crespin compiled seven French-language editions of his martyrology. In The Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespin’s Livre des Martyrs, Jameson Tucker explores how this martyrology helped to shape a distinct Reformed identity for its Protestant...
Appello al Turco
I confini infranti del Rinascimento
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Per molto tempo i poteri pubblici, i singoli individui e le autorità religiose del mondo cristiano fecero di nascosto la cosa innominabile che questo libro riporta alla luce: si appellarono ai turchi per risolvere i loro più disparati problemi personali o politici. Ciò accadde soprattutto nell’Italia...
Celebrazione e autocritica
La Serenissima e la ricerca dell’identità veneziana nel tardo Cinquecento
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 14, 2016
L’ostentazione autocelebrativa è sintomo di crisi. Negli ultimi decenni del XVI secolo Venezia reagì a quella che fu una devastante combinazione di guerre, carestie, disastri naturali, pestilenze con splendide feste pubbliche, giochi e libelli, nuove opere edilizie nonché cicli decorativi, allo...
The Early Modern Papacy
From the Council of Trent to the French Revolution 1564-1789
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
A history of the Papacy covering the vital period from the Renaissance through the Counter Reformation to the period of the French Revolution. Its a broad survey analysing the influence of Papal power not only across Europe but the wider world also.
by Grace E. Coolidge
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that rather trying to impose obedience or enclosure on women of their own rank and status, noblemen in early modern Spain depended on the active collaboration of noblewomen to maintain and expand their authority, wealth, and influence....
Two Early Modern Marriage Sermons
Henry Smith’s A Preparative to Marriage (1591) and William Whately’s A Bride-Bush (1623)
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This critical edition of two early modern marriage sermons provides an important resource for students and scholars of early modern literature and history, allowing them to experience firsthand the competing and historically layered ideas about marriage that circulated in the wake of the English Reformation....
Notes upon Russia: Being a Translation of the earliest Account of that Country, entitled Rerum Muscoviticarum commentarii, by the Baron Sigismund von Herberstein
Ambassador from the Court of Germany to the Grand Psrince Vasiley Ivanovich, in the years 1517 and 1526
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction. The first edition of the Commentarii appeared in Vienna in 1549, but it is not clear which edition was used for this translation. Continued in First Series 12. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1851.
Carved in Stone, Etched in Memory
Death, Tombstones and Commemoration in Bosnian Islam since c.1500
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Despite the recent history of violence and destruction, Bosnia-Herzegovina holds a positive place in history, marked by a continuous interweaving of different religious cultures. The most expansive period in that regard is the Ottoman rule that lasted here nearly five centuries. As many Bosnians accepted...