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  • The Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509-1580)

    Between Council and Inquisition

    by Adam Patrick Robinson ...
    Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509-80) remains one of the most intriguing characters in the history of the sixteenth century Catholic Church - with neither his contemporaries nor subsequent scholars being able to agree on his motivations, theology or his legacy. Appointed Bishop of Modena in 1529 and created Cardinal in 1542 by Pope Paul III, his glittering career appeared to be in ruins following his ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • Ronin

    Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai

    by Craig Woodfield ...
    Series Book 4 - Osprey Wargames
    Set in an age of feuding samurai, wandering swordsmen and fearless warrior monks, Ronin is a skirmish wargame that captures the flavour and excitement of such Akira Kurosawa films as Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Whether they prefer the loyal samurai retainers of a feudal lord or a horde of desperate bandits, players choose from one of several factions and build forces to battle for dominance and ... Read more

    $14.49 USD

  • The Trial of Galileo, 1612-1633

    Edited by Thomas F. Mayer ...
    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, transcripts, and excerpts from Galileo's work to give students the opportunity to critically analyze ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • English Civil War Fortifications 1642–51

    by Peter Harrington ...
    Series Book 9 - Fortress
    The techniques of European warfare were transformed during the 15th and 16th centuries by the use of gunpowder and by substantial progress in the effectiveness and destructive power of artillery.The series of conflicts in the 1640s, known collectively as the English Civil War, was the first in the British Isles that reflected this new reality. Sieges that aimed at isolating and reducing fortified ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Fortifications of Gibraltar 1068–1945

    by Darren Fa, Prof. Clive Finlayson ...
    Series Book 52 - Fortress
    Gibraltar, located at the meeting points of Europe and Africa, preserves within its fortifications a rich testament to human conflict spanning 600 years.In 1068 the ruling Spanish Muslims built a large fort there. Between 1309 and 1374 Gibraltar underwent a period of intensive building and fortification, and following the Spanish reconquest of 1462 the inhabitants carried out further works. In ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715

    Seditious Frivolity

    by Allison Stedman ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850
    Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution from the late 1500s to the early 1700s, and exploring its radicalization during the 1670s, '80s, and ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • The Fall of the Stuarts

    by Edward Hale ...
    THE history of western Europe in the seventeenth century is a history of wars. "Wars destroy the morals of mankind by habituating them to refer everything to force, and by necessitating them so often to dispense with the ordinary suggestions of sympathy and justice." This is true of wars in general; but the demoralizing effect is much greater if wars are civil wars; or religious wars--wars, that ... Read more

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  • Dreams in Early Modern England

    by Janine Riviere ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Modern History
    Dreams in Early Modern England offers an in-depth exploration of the variety of different ways in which early modern people understood and interpreted dreams, from medical explanations to political, religious or supernatural associations.Through examining how dreams were discussed and presented in a range of diffrerent texts, including both published works and private notes and diaries, this book ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The 17th Century (Serapis Classics)

    by Henry Wakeman ...
    THE seventeenth century is the period when Europe, shattered in its political and religious ideas by the Reformation, reconstructed its political system upon the principle of territorialism under the rule of absolute monarchs. It opens with Henry IV., it closes with Peter the Great. It reaches its climax in Louis XIV. and the Great Elector. It is therefore the century in which the principal ... Read more

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  • The Murder of King James I

    by Alastair Bellany, Thomas Cogswell ...
    A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Warrior Generals: Winning the British Civil Wars

    by Malcolm Wanklyn ...

    $49.49 USD

  • Andrew Melville (1545-1622)

    Writings, Reception, and Reputation

    by Steven J. Reid ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Andrew Melville is chiefly remembered today as a defiant leader of radical Protestantism in Scotland, John Knox’s heir and successor, the architect of a distinctive Scottish Presbyterian kirk and a visionary reformer of the Scottish university system. While this view of Melville’s contribution to the shaping of Protestant Scotland has been criticised and revised in recent scholarship, his broader ... Read more

    $56.99 USD