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  • Mary and Philip

    The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain

    by Alexander Samson ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern European History
    The co-monarchy of Mary I and Philip II put England at the heart of early modern Europe. This positive reassessment of their joint reign counters a series of parochial, misogynist and anti-Catholic assumptions, correcting the many myths that have grown up around the marriage and explaining the reasons for its persistent marginalisation in the historiography of sixteenth-century England. Using new ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Spanish Match

    Prince Charles's Journey to Madrid, 1623

    Edited by Alexander Samson ...
    In the spring of 1623 Charles, Prince of Wales, the young heir to the English and Scottish thrones donned a false wig and beard and slipped out of England under the assumed name of John Smith in order to journey to Madrid and secure for himself the hand of the King of Spain's daughter. His father James I and VI had been toying with the idea of a Spanish match for his son since as early as 1605, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Locus Amoenus

    Gardens and Horticulture in the Renaissance

    Edited by Alexander Samson ...
    Series Book 10 - Renaissance Studies Special Issues
    Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment.A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on garden historyEssays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

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    The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History

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    A re-evaluation of the meeting between the Spanish adventurer and the Aztec ruler that challenges history's perspective about the conquest of the Americas.On November eight, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec emperor, at the entrance to the capital city of Tenochtitlan. This introduction—the prelude to the Spanish seizure of Mexico City and to European ... Read more

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  • Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature

    A Course on English Literature

    by Jorge Luis Borges ...
    Translated by Katherine Silver ...
    In English at last, Borges’s erudite and entertaining lectures on English literature from Beowulf to Oscar WildeWriting for Harper’s Magazine, Edgardo Krebs describes Professor Borges:“A compilation of the twenty-five lectures Borges gave in 1966 at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught English literature. Starting with the Vikings’ kennings and Beowulf and ending with Stevenson and ... Read more

    $15.69 USD

  • Imprudent King

    A New Life of Philip II

    by Geoffrey Parker ...
    Philip II is not only the most famous king in Spanish history, but one of the most famous monarchs in English history: the man who married Mary Tudor and later launched the Spanish Armada against her sister Elizabeth I. This compelling biography of the most powerful European monarch of his day begins with his conception (1526) and ends with his ascent to Paradise (1603), two occurrences ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • This Gulf of Fire

    The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason

    by Mark Molesky ...
    Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book AwardFinalist: Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe captivating and definitive account of the most consequential natural disaster of modern times.On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring perhaps 9.0 (or higher) on the moment magnitude scale swept furiously from their origin along the Atlantic seabed toward the Iberian and African ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance

    by Henry Kamen ...

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  • Katharine of Aragon

    The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's First Unfortunate Wife

    by Patrick Williams ...
    Katharine of Aragon was a central figure in one of the most dramatic and formative events of Tudor history – England’s breach with Rome after a thousand years of fidelity. She lived through traumatic and revolutionary times and her personal drama was played out against dramas of European significance. The heroic and dignified first wife of Henry VIII, Katharine was cast aside for reasons of ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind

    Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe

    by Roger Chartier ...
    In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Philip of Spain, King of England

    The Forgotten Sovereign

    by Harry Kelsey ...
    The Spanish Armada conjures up images of age-old rivalries, bravery and treachery. However the same Spanish monarch who sent the Armada to invade England in 1588 was, just a few years previously, the King of England and husband of Mary Tudor. This important new book sheds new light on Philip II of Spain, England's forgotten sovereign. Previous accounts of Mary's brief reign have focused on the ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • The She-Apostle

    The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal

    by Glyn Redworth ...
    Before dawn one morning in June 1612, an elderly Frenchman took charge of a carriage carrying a precious cargo near Tyburn Fields, London's notorious place of execution. It was heading for a house in Spitalfields, where a wizened Spanish woman was waiting to receive the mortal remains of freshly-martyred Catholic priests. Her name was Luisa de Carvajal and this book tells her story. Born into a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD