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“peter fane saunders”

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  • Pliny the Elder and the Emergence of Renaissance Architecture

    by Peter Fane-Saunders ...
    The Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder provided Renaissance scholars, artists and architects with details of ancient architectural practice and long-lost architectural wonders - material that was often unavailable elsewhere in classical literature. Pliny's descriptions frequently included the dimensions of these buildings, as well as details of their unusual construction materials and ornament. ... Read more

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  • Catherine Howard

    The Queen Whose Adulteries Made a Fool of Henry VIII

    by Lacey Baldwin Smith ...
    At seven oclock on the morning of 13 February 1542, Catherine Howard stepped out into the cold of the great courtyard of the Tower of London. Slowly she was escorted across the yard and carefully helped up the steps of the wooden scaffold. Only a small group of sightseers had gathered to watch the death of a queen; there was no weeping, no remorse, only chilly curiosity. The axe rose and fell, a ... Read more

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  • Mary Tudor

    by David Loades ...
    Mary Tudor was the first female English sovereign a ruling queen who was not simply the consort of the king. Yet little is known about this complex woman, whose reputation for ruthlessness belied her emotional fragility and who, like her half-sister Elizabeth, had to survive from childhood in the turbulent Tudor court.David Loades explores the twisting path whereby Princess Mary, daughter of a ... Read more

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  • Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Lorenzo de' Medici

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes pictures of Lorenzo and important people and places in his life.*Discusses Lorenzo's relationships with other famous Renaissance legends, including Leonardo and Michelangelo.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "How beautiful is youth that is always slipping away. Lorenzo de' MediciA lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of historys most ... Read more

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  • The Life and Legacy of Ferdinand Magellan

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes descriptions of the voyage from crew member Antonio Pigafetta's journal. *Includes maps and pictures of important people and places in Magellan's life.*Includes a Table of Contents. Most versed in nautical charts, he knew better than any other the true art of navigation, of which it is certain proof that he by his genius, and his intrepidity, without anyone having given him the example, ... Read more

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  • Britain and the Dutch Revolt, 1560–1700

    by Hugh Dunthorne ...
    England's response to the Revolt of the Netherlands (1568–1648) has been studied hitherto mainly in terms of government policy, yet the Dutch struggle with Habsburg Spain affected a much wider community than just the English political elite. It attracted attention across Britain and drew not just statesmen and diplomats but also soldiers, merchants, religious refugees, journalists, travellers and ... Read more

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  • On the Seven Seas

    Wargames Rules for the Age of Piracy and Adventure c.1500–1730

    by Chris Peers ...
    Series Book 7 - Osprey Wargames
    On the Seven Seas is a set of wargames rules covering the high adventure and low morals of the world of the pirate. The rules cover licensed privateers such as da Gama and Drake, ruthless pirates of the Spanish Main, Blackbeard, the Barbary corsairs, the wako of the Far East, not to mention the anti-pirate squadrons, Spanish garrisons and native warriors from around the world that found themselves ... Read more

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  • Armies of the Aztec and Inca Empires, Other Native Peoples of The Americas, and the Conquistadores

    by Ian Heath ...
    Series series Armies of the Sixteenth Century
    There has probably never been a single volume with such extensive information on the uniforms and costumes of the European conquest of the Americas. Ian Heath has assembled 247 drawings and other illustrations to depict the native peoples of South America and the eastern parts of North America as well as Spanish, English, French and even German adventurers and explorers. The accompanying text also ... Read more

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  • Queen Margaret Tudor

    The Story of a Courageous but Forgotten Monarch

    by Stuart McCabe ...
    Queen Margaret II of Scotland (1489-1541) has been all but forgotten in the story of the Tudor dynasty established by her father, Henry VII. Misunderstood and underestimated by many historians, she has been seen as a spectator to history, her motivations described as foolish, self-seeking, corrupt or treacherous. Yet the truth is rather different. After her husband, James IV of Scotland, was ... Read more

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  • Henry VII

    The Maligned Tudor King

    by Terry Breverton ...
    Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and by 1485, the familial bloodbath of the Wars of the Roses left Henry as the sole adult Lancastrian claimant to the throne. The hunchback usurper Richard III desperately wanted him dead, and in his exile Henry Tudor was left with no choice. He either ... Read more

    $9.39 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