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  • Later Medieval Europe

    1250-1520

    by Daniel Waley, Peter Denley ...
    From the divine right of kings to the political philosophies of writers such as Machiavelli, the medieval city-states to the unification of Spain, Daniel Waley and Peter Denley focus on the growing power of the state to illuminate changing political ideas in Europe between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. Spanning the entire continent and beyond, and using contemporary voices wherever ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    The extraordinary story of a renaissance-era executioner and his world, based on a rare and overlooked journal.In a dusty German bookshop, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington stumbled upon a remarkable document: the journal of a sixteenth-century executioner. The journal gave an account of the 394 people Meister Frantz Schmidt executed, and the hundreds more he tortured, flogged, or disfigured ... Read more

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  • Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard: The Causes for Their Downfalls

    The Tudor Dynasty, #3

    by Alexandria Ingham ...
    Series Book 3 - The Tudor Dynasty
    Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard were cousins, although they probably didn't know each other. They were also wives of Henry VIII and the only two to be beheaded for the same crimes - treason and adultery.The two were shrouded in a conspiracy to remove them from power for different reasons and there was one person in common - Jane Boleyn.This book is a continuation from my previous history books ... Read more

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    How a European Slave Girl Became Queen of the Ottoman Empire

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  • The Conquistador

    1492–1550

    by John Pohl ...
    Series Book 40 - Warrior
    Many accounts portray the conquest of the New World as a remarkable military achievement, with Cortés' vastly outnumbered but better armed Spaniards defeating hordes of superstitious savages. However, the reality of these events is far more complex and no less significant. The first Conquistadors who had sailed in search of prosperity, inspired by dreams of unlimited riches, soon became ... Read more

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  • Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

    by Professor William D. Rubinstein ...
    From an obscure family in a small provincial town, Shakespeare had no formal education after the age of thirteen. His surviving handwriting consists of six signatures on legal documents. His will makes no mention of his books or manuscripts. His two daughters were illiterate. There is, in other words, a seemingly enormous gap between the meagreness of Shakespeare's background and his achievements ... Read more

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  • Aztec Warrior

    AD 1325–1521

    by John Pohl ...
    Series Book 32 - Warrior
    According to one popular image, the Aztec army was a ruthless and efficient war machine, that established an empire by convincingly overwhelming its neighbors, sacrificing thousands to bloodthirsty gods along the way. From a contrasting perspective, its native warriors were no match for the modern warring methods of Cortés' greatly outnumbered Spaniards, who decisively defeated them. The reality ... Read more

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  • Oliver Cromwell

    by Martyn Bennett ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Biographies
    In this concise and accessible biography, Martyn Bennett examines the life of Oliver Cromwell – one of the most controversial figures in world history. This study challenges long-held perceptions of Cromwell and the Commonwealth, arguing that they need to be placed at the core of early Modern British and Irish history.Charting his early career, the origins of his political and religious thought, ... Read more

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  • Germany under the Old Regime 1600-1790

    by John G. Gagliardo ...
    German history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is notoriously inaccessible to non-specialists. When other European countries were well on the way to becoming nation states, Germany remained frozen as a territorially-fragmented, politically and religiously-divided society. The achievement of this major contribution to the new History of Germany is to do justice to the variety and ... Read more

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  • The Middle Ages

    Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 2

    Edited by Frank N. Magill ...
    Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD