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  • Shakespeare's Bastard

    The Life of Sir William Davenant

    by Simon Stirling ...
    Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) – Poet Laureate and Civil War hero – is one of the most influential and neglected figures in the history of British theatre. He introduced 'opera', actresses, scenes and the proscenium arch to the English stage. Narrowly escaping execution for his Royalist activities during the Civil War, he revived theatrical performances in London, right under Oliver Cromwell's ... Read more

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  • Who Killed William Shakespeare?

    The Murderer, the Motive, the Means

    by Simon Stirling ...
    William Shakespeare lived in violent times; his death passed without comment. By the time he was adopted as the national poet of England the details of his life had been concealed. He had become an invisible man, the humble Warwickshire lad who entertained royalty and then faded into obscurity. But his story has been carefully manipulated. In reality, he was a dissident whose works were highly ... Read more

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  • The King Arthur Conspiracy

    How a Scottish Prince Became a Mythical Hero

    by Simon Stirling ...
    Arthur led the Britons to the brink of victory but was cut down by treachery and betrayal. Arthurian legends have since been corrupted, leading to popular but false assumptions about the king and the belief that his grave could never be found. Drawing on a vast range of sources and new translations of early British and Gaelic poetry, Arthur explodes these myths and exposes the shocking truth.In ... Read more

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  • The Crisis of the European Mind

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    Paul Hazard’s magisterial, widely influential, and beloved intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and uncertain glory. Beginning his story in the latter half of the seventeenth century, while also looking back to the Renaissance and forward to the future, Hazard traces the process by which new developmentsin the ... Read more

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  • The Man Who Invented Fiction

    How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World

    by William Egginton ...
    In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain's wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain addled from reading too many books of chivalry, who deludes himself that he is a knight errant and sets off on hilarious adventures. That book, Don Quixote, went on to sell more copies than any other book beside ... Read more

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  • Marlborough

    by Gerald Nicholson ...
    As to the Duke of Marlborough . . . it was allowed by all men, nay even by France itself, that he was more than a match for all the generals of that nation. This he made appear beyond contradiction in the ten campaigns he made against them; during all which time it cannot be said that he ever slipped an opportunity of fighting when there was any probability of his coming at his enemy. And upon all ... Read more

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  • Queen Anne

    Patroness of Arts

    by James Anderson Winn ...
    As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the guitar and the harpsichord, danced regularly, and took a connoisseur's interest in all the arts. In this comprehensive interdisciplinary biography ... Read more

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  • Women, Education, and Agency, 1600–2000

    Edited by Jean Spence, Sarah Aiston, Maureen M. Meikle ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and History
    This collection of essays brings together an international roster of contributors to provide historical insight into women’s agency and activism in education throughout from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Topics discussed range from the strategies adopted by individual women to achieve a personal education and the influence of educated women upon their social environment, to the ... Read more

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  • The Development of Modern Europe Volume II

    by James Robinson, Charles Beard ...
    When, in 1792, the Austrian and Prussian armies had advanced toward Paris with the object of freeing Louis XVI from the restrictions placed upon him by the National Assembly, the French, roused to fury, had deposed and executed a ruler who was convicted of plotting with foreign powers to maintain his authority. In 1814 the allies placed on the throne the brother of Louis XVI, a veteran emigre, who ... Read more

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  • The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

    With a Critical Edition of 'O Vernicle'

    Edited by Lisa H. Cooper, Andrea Denny-Brown ...
    The Arma Christi, the cluster of objects associated with Christ’s Passion, was one of the most familiar iconographic devices of European medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives, intense lyric poems, striking visual images ... Read more

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  • Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer

    Edited by Joan-Lluis Palos, Magdalena S. Sanchez ...
    Series series Transculturalisms, 1400-1700
    Toward the end of the fifteenth century, the Habsburg family began to rely on dynastic marriage to unite an array of territories, eventually creating an empire as had not been seen in Europe since the Romans. Other European rulers followed the Habsburgs' lead in forging ties through dynastic marriages. Because of these marriages, many more aristocrats (especially women) left their homelands to ... Read more

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