17Th Century category: 857 books

Cover of Le guerre polacco-ottomane (1593-1699), vol. 1
by Vincenzo Mistrini, Luca Stefano Cristini
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 16, 2016

“Guerre polacco-ottomane” (en. Polish-ottoman wars) è la nomenclatura anglosassone indicante una serie di conflitti che opposero, nel corso XVII secolo, l’Impero ottomano e la Confederazione polacco-lituana, lo Stato europeo allora più esteso e più popoloso. Fu uno scontro armato molto diverso...
Cover of La battaglia di Breitenfeld (1631)

La battaglia di Breitenfeld (1631)

Il superbo capolavoro tattico di Gustavo Adolfo

by Luca Stefano Cristini
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 20, 2017

La brulla mattina del 17 settembre 1631, due imponenti eserciti si affrontarono sui campi di Breitenfeld, un oscuro villaggio sassone non distante da Lipsia, il cui nome tradotto vuol dire grande campo. L'incontro fu in qualche modo casuale, ma le due armate stavano guerreggiando da diversi mesi nella...
Cover of Le guerre polacco-ottomane (1593-1699), vol. 2
by Vincenzo Mistrini, Luca Stefano Cristini
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 17, 2016

“Guerre polacco-ottomane” (en. Polish-ottoman wars) è la nomenclatura anglosassone indicante una serie di conflitti che opposero, nel corso XVII secolo, l’Impero ottomano e la Confederazione polacco-lituana, lo Stato europeo allora più esteso e più popoloso. Fu uno scontro armato molto diverso...
Cover of I monasteri femminili a Roma tra XVI e XVII secolo
by Alessia Lirosi, Gabriella Zarri
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 25, 2015

Tra il Cinquecento e il Seicento la città di Roma fu teatro di una notevole espansione numerica delle istituzioni monastiche femminili, che si concretizzò sia nella rifondazione di antichi chiostri sia nella fondazione di insediamenti completamente nuovi. A ciò si accompagnarono gli effetti della...
Cover of Redefining William III

Redefining William III

The Impact of the King-Stadholder in International Context

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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016

William III (1650-1702) was Stadholder in the United Provinces and King of England, Scotland and Ireland. His reign has always intrigued historians, as it encompassed such defining events as the Dutch year of Disaster (1672), the Glorious Revolution (1688) and the ensuing wars against France. Although...
Cover of Europe During the Thirty Years War
by A. Ward
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

IT was not till five months after the death of the unhappy Emperor Rudolf II that, on June 13, 1612, his brother Matthias reached the height of his ambition by being elected to the Imperial throne. His candidature had been approved by all the other Archdukes; but the Spiritual Electors had caused...
Cover of A true Description of three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and China, undertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595, and 1596, by Gerrit de Veer
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

With an appendix of documents printed by Hakluyt and Purchas. Revised in First Series 54. The plates are taken from the German edition of De Bry, 1599, and are copies of the original Amsterdam edition. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1853.
Cover of The Elizabethan Underworld - a collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

The Elizabethan Underworld collects together sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of thieves, rogues, and tricksters. For the most part the original authors were men of experience - watchmen, constables and those...
Cover of A Social History of Western Europe, 1450-1720

A Social History of Western Europe, 1450-1720

Tensions and Solidarities among Rural People

by Sheldon J. Watts
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017

This thoroughly readable and stimulating social history of Western Europe, first published in 1984, explores the family, religion and the supernatural, and the social structure and social controls of rural society. This title will be of interest not only to students, but to anyone who is anxious to...
Cover of The Voyage of Thomas Best to the East Indies, 1612-14
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017

Journals, extracts from journals, and narratives, written on board the Dragon and Hosiander by Best and various other persons, including Ralph Standish and Ralph Croft, with Best's correspondence and extracts from the Court minutes of the East India Company. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1934.
Cover of Sir Henry Lee (1533-1611): Elizabethan Courtier
by Sue Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

A favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Henry Lee was known as ’the most accomplished cavaliero’ in England. This handsome, entertaining and highly convivial gentleman was an important participant in life at court as Elizabeth’s tournament champion. He created the spectacular Accession Day tournaments...
Cover of General Percy Kirke and the Later Stuart Army
by Professor John Childs
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014

General Percy Kirke (c. 1647-91) is remembered in Somerset as a cruel, vicious thug who deluged the region in blood after the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685. He is equally notorious in Northern Ireland. Appointed to command the expedition to raise the Siege of Londonderry in 1689, his assumed treachery...
Cover of Medieval and Early Modern Representations of Authority in Scotland and the British Isles
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016

What use is it to be given authority over men and lands if others do not know about it? Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know about it do not respect it or recognise its jurisdiction? And what strategies and 'language' -written and spoken, visual and auditory, material, cultural...
Cover of The European Wars of Religion

The European Wars of Religion

An Interdisciplinary Reassessment of Sources, Interpretations, and Myths

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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of religious change, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period....
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