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  • The Emblem in Early Modern Europe

    Contributions to the Theory of the Emblem

    by Peter M. Daly ...
    The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symbolic visual image and texts, an emblem is a hybrid composed of words and picture. However, as this book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • The Astronomer and the Witch

    Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother

    by Ulinka Rublack ...
    Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus´ s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Countess

    by Chris Laoutaris ...
    In November 1596, a countess signed a document that would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare. Who was this woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare's life? Never far from controversy when she was alive—she sparked numerous riots and indulged in acts of bribery, breaking-and-entering, and kidnapping—Lady Elizabeth Russell has been edited out of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Life of General George Monck

    For King & Cromwell

    by Peter Reese ...
    General George Monck is famous for the key role he played in the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. His actions changed the course of British history, but his statesmanship in the dangerous time between the death of Cromwell and the bloodless return of Charles II distracts attention from his extraordinary career as a soldier and general, admiral, governor and administrator. During the confused, ... Read more

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  • Edgehill 1642

    The Battle Reinterpreted

    by Christopher L. Scott, Alan Turton, Eric Gruber von Arni ...
    This seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work of three outstanding military historians. Each is an expert in the areas of battlefield interpretation, military equipment and organization, and battle casualties and care. Their unique blend of knowledge gives a fascinating insight into one of ... Read more

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  • Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe

    The Iconography of Power

    Edited by J.R. Mulryne, Maria Ines Aliverti, Anna Maria Testaverde ...
    Series series European Festival Studies: 1450-1700
    The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that ’voiced’ the social, political and cultural messages incorporated in processional entries in the countries of early modern Europe. The volume also includes a ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Thomas Dekker and the Culture of Pamphleteering in Early Modern London

    by Anna Bayman ...
    Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632) was a prolific playwright and pamphleteer chiefly remembered for his vivid and witty portrayals of everyday London life. This book uses Dekker’s prose pamphlets (published between 1613 and 1628) as a way in to a crucial and relatively neglected period of the history of pamphleteering. Under James I, after the aggressive Elizabethan exploitation of the new media, ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto

    by Jo Ann Cavallo ...
    This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516). Comparing the narratological strategies used to depict non-European characters in these stories, Jo ... Read more

    $77.79 USD

  • 'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700

    by Frances Timbers ...
    'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material (quarter ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • An Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature

    by Nathaniel Culverwell ...
    Series series Heritage
    Composed in a period of religious and political upheaval, Culverwell's Discourse of the Light of Nature is an imaginative statement of the teachings of Christian humanism concerning the nature and limits of human reason and the related concepts of natural and divine law. The lengthy introduction to this new critical edition throws light on the evolution of English rationalism in the seventeenth ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • French Encounters with the Ottomans, 1510-1560

    by Pascale Barthe ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    Focusing on early Renaissance Franco-Ottoman relations, this book fills a gap in studies of Ottoman representations by early modern European powers by addressing the Franco-Ottoman bond. In French Encounters with the Ottomans, Pascale Barthe examines the birth of the Franco-Ottoman rapprochement and the enthusiasm with which, before the age of absolutism, French kings and their subjects pursued ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Poets, Players, and Preachers

    Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England

    by Anne James ...
    On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance. The failure of the plot is celebrated to this day and is known as Guy Fawkes Day.In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the ... Read more

    $74.19 USD