Renaissance category: 1000 books
by Stephan Weaver
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book provides an easy to understand overview of British History in 50 Events.
Inside you will learn about…
- The Foundation of London
- The Great Viking Invasion
- The Battle of Hastings
- The Black Death
- The Battle of Waterloo
- The Last Public Hanging
And much more!
Holocaust Survivor Accounts: True Stories of Prisoners Surviving the Holocaust: Holocaust Survivor Stories and Heroes of Auschwitz
Holocaust Survivor Accounts, #2
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
The Holocaust, (called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the state sponsored murder and persecution of about six million Jews by the German Nazi regime and its collaborators, leading into and during the Second World War. The word itself means, "Sacrifice by fire".
The Holocaust has no...
Sea Monsters
A Voyage around the World's Most Beguiling Map
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Smart phones and GPS give us many possible routes to navigate our daily commute, warn us of traffic and delays, and tell us where to find a cup of coffee. But what if there were sea serpents and giant man-eating lobsters waiting just off course if we were to lose our way? Would there be an app for...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This unique reader allows students to examine Galileo's trial as a legal event and, in so doing, to learn about seventeenth-century European religion, politics, diplomacy, bureaucracy, culture, and science. Noted scholar of the trial Thomas F. Mayer has translated correspondence, legal documents,...
Galileo's Mistake
A New Look at the Epic Confrontation between Galileo and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
A provocative reexamination of Galileo’s prosecution by the Catholic Church—one of the great turning points in the history of science.
The modern understanding of the notorious 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei is that of Science and Reason persecuted by Ignorance and Superstition—of Galileo...
The Forbidden Universe
The Occult Origins of Science and the Search for the Mind of God
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Were the first scientists hermetic philosophers? What do these occult origins of modern science tell us about the universe today? The Forbidden Universe reveals the secret brotherhood that defined the world, and perhaps discovered the mind of God.
All the pioneers of science, from Copernicus...
Georgius Agricola
Berggelehrter, Naturforscher, Humanist
Language: German
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Georgius Agricola (1494 - 1555) gilt als herausragender europäischer Renaissancegelehrter und Humanist. In aller Welt bekannt wurde vor allem sein Lebenswerk De re metallica libri XII, das als systematische Darstellung des gesamten Berg- und Hüttenwesens jener Zeit die Herausbildung der Montanwissenschaften...
by Ruth MacKay
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops to slaughter and was himself slain. Sixteen years later, King Sebastian rose again. In one of the most famous of European impostures, Gabriel de Espinosa,...
The Body of the Conquistador
Food, Race and the Colonial Experience in Spanish America, 1492–1700
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish America and reconceptualises the role of European colonial expansion in shaping the emergence of ideas...
On Fire for Christ
Stories of Anabaptist Martyrs
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
These stories of 15 Anabaptist martyrs represent thousands of men and women who witnessed to their faith with their lives during the sixteenth century.
These accounts are based the court records, letters, and personal diaries compiled in MARTYRS MIRROR by Thieleman J. van Braght and first...
A Nearly Infallible History of the Reformation
Commemorating 500 years of Popes, Protestants, Reformers, Radicals and Other Assorted Irritants
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
500 years ago, Martin Luther nailed his ideas to a church door - and the Reformation began. Or maybe it was a little more complicated than that.
Nick Page brings his skills as an unlicensed historian to bear on this key period in European (and world) history in order to uncover everything you...
The Sultan and the Queen
The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The fascinating story of Queen Elizabeth’s secret outreach to the Muslim world, which set England on the path to empire, by The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps
We think of England as a great power whose empire once stretched from India to the Americas,...
The Roman Inquisition
A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
While the Spanish Inquisition has laid the greatest claim to both scholarly attention and the popular imagination, the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542 and a key instrument of papal authority, was more powerful, important, and long-lived. Founded by Paul III and originally aimed to eradicate...
Reformation Theology
A Reader of Primary Sources with Introductions
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Few episodes in Western history have so shaped our world as the Protestant Reformation and the counter-Reformations which accompanied it. The Reformation tore the seamless garment of Western Christendom in two, pitting king and pope, laity and clergy, Protestant and Catholic against one another. But...