17Th Century category: 857 books

Nati in Germania, da un'idea dell'imperatore Massimiliano I° che istituì; queste milizie nel 1487, sul modello dei mercenari svizzeri, di cui diventarono presto feroci antagonisti. Soldati mercenari provenienti prevalentemente dalle regioni tedesche del Sacro Romano Impero, che combatterono tra...

A revised edition of the First Edition Edited by Charles T. Beke, Phil.D., F.S.A. (First Series 13, 1853), with a new introduction. With a 'Postscript' of five unnumbered pages at the beginning of the text. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1876.

A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups...

Con balas de plata III. 1640-50. Cataluña y Rosellón de nuevo trae documentos (Biblioteca Nacional) de la Casa de Austria para informar sobre la guerra de Cataluña y Rosellón, cuando la monarquía perdió el Rosellón y Cerdanya. Solo habían fuentes contrarias y mucho vacío, baste el ejemplo...

Dieses eBook: "Geschichte des dreißigjährigen Kriegs" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Friedrich Schiller (1759-11805) war ein deutscher Dichter, Philosoph und Historiker. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten...

Der Dreißigjährige Krieg von 1618 bis 1648 war ein Konflikt um die Hegemonie im Heiligen Römischen Reich Deutscher Nation und in Europa und zugleich ein Religionskrieg. In ihm entluden sich auf europäischer Ebene der habsburgisch-französische Gegensatz und auf Reichsebene derjenige zwischen Kaiser...

            FOR NEARLY TWO CENTURIES CROMWELL’S name and fame were to suffer detraction, then Carlyle was to come forward and proclaim him with trumpet-blast a man of truth, the hero as King. “A brave bad man,” a hypocrite and fanatic—so he was judged by those whose vision was clouded...

Elizabeth Lorentz was a young maid servant in early modern Germany who believed herself to be tormented by the devil, and who was eventually brought to trial in 1667. The trial grappled with the question of whether Lorentz was a willing accomplice of the devil or suffering from melancholy as a result...

La guerre de Candie est aujourd’hui bien oubliée. Ce conflit suscita pourtant un intérêt constant dans l’Europe du xviie siècle, tenue en haleine par les péripéties de ce siège interminable qui aboutit, en 1669, à la prise par les Ottomans de la capitale du Regno di Candia (aujourd’hui...

WHEN in the last months of 1648 was signed the great peace which brought to an end the Thirty Years' War and with it the mediaeval polity which it finally destroyed; as the army of diplomats whose work it was dispersed to their respective governments, the awe-inspiring mass of documents which formed...

Les destins de l'Espagne et de la France paraissent opposés aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. La première, la Reconquête achevée, se trouve propulsée au premier rang grâce aux Découvertes et à une politique matrimoniale chanceuse. La seconde, de construcrion plus ancienne, de maturation plus lente,...

Alexandre-Olivier œxmelin est né vers 1645 dans les Flandres, ou plus certainement en Normandie. Fuyant la pauvreté ou les persécutions contre les protestants, il s’engage dans la marine hollandaise et, lors d’un voyage vers les Antilles, il est fait prisonnier et vendu à un habitant de l’île...

Containing the translated Books I-V of the Suma Oriental: An Account of the East, from the Red Sea to Japan, written in Malacca and India in 1512-1515, and The Book of Francisco Rodrigues, Rutter of a Voyage in the Red Sea, Nautical Rules, Almanack and Maps, Written and Drawn in the East before 1515....

Questo è un libro singolare sull'arte dolciaria alla corte di papa Alessandro VII (1655-1667). Vi si invita a un affascinante viaggio storico-culturale intorno al credenziere Girolamo Mei e al suo manoscritto inedito, che contiene ben 211 ricette. Massimo Montanari nella sua presentazione ne parla...