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  • Biography and History in Film

    Edited by Thomas S. Freeman, David L. Smith ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
    The essays in this volume seek to analyze biographical films as representations of historical individuals and the times in which they lived. To do this, contributors examine the context in which certain biographical films were made, including the state of knowledge about their subjects at that moment, and what these films reveal about the values and purposes of those who created them. This is an ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Henry VIII and History

    by Thomas S. Freeman ...
    Henry VIII remains the most iconic and controversial of all English Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but rarely ignored. In his many guises - model Renaissance prince, Defender of the Faith, rapacious plunderer of the Church, obese Bluebeard-- he has featured in numerous works of fact and faction, in books, magazines, paintings, theatre, film and ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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  • The Crisis of the European Mind

    1680-1715

    by Paul Hazard ...
    Translated by J. Lewis May ...
    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

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $15.49 USD

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  • The Great Plague of London

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Plague has been the most feared disease across Europe since the Black Death in the 1340s. Dreaded because of the scale of the mortality and its sheer foulness, its periodic outbreaks had a devastating impact. London’s last and most destructive attack came in 1665, when, according to Bishop Gilbert Burnet, ‘a most terrible plague broke out, that depopulated the city of London, ruined the trade of ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Renaissance in Japan

    A Cultural Survey of the Seventeenth Century

    by Kenneth P. Kirkwood ...
    Renaissance in Japan is a superb survey of Japan's literary giants-forerunners of today's modern Japanese writers.Called the "Kyoto epoch," the age in which these writers lived was the period in which Japanese cultural development made many of its greatest advances. In these years of the early Tokugawa era, the old aristocratic culture was confronted with the new plebeian awakening, giving rise to ... Read more

    $5.39 USD

  • En Garde!

    Swashbuckling Skirmish Wargames Rules

    by Craig Woodfield ...
    Series Book 12 - Osprey Wargames
    En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or riches. Rather than just rolling a few dice, the rules allow players to make tactical decisions about how the models that they control will fight – offensively, defensively, or by applying special skills and abilities. En Garde! covers the conflicts of the ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Getting Along?

    Religious Identities and Confessional Relations in Early Modern England - Essays in Honour of Professor W.J. Sheils

    by Adam Morton ...
    Examining the impact of the English and European Reformations on social interaction and community harmony, this volume simultaneously highlights the tension and degree of accommodation amongst ordinary people when faced with religious and social upheaval. Building on previous literature which has characterised the progress of the Reformation as 'slow' and 'piecemeal', this volume furthers our ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel

    Eberhard Werner Happel, 1647-1690

    by Gerhild Scholz Williams ...
    Eberhard Happel, German Baroque author of an extensive body of work of fiction and nonfiction, has for many years been categorized as a “courtly-gallant” novelist. In Mediating Culture in the Seventeenth-Century German Novel, author Gerhild Scholz Williams argues that categorizing him thus is to seriously misread him and to miss out on a fascinating perspective on this dynamic period in German ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Aspiration, Representation and Memory

    The Guise in Europe, 1506–1688

    Edited by Jessica Munns, Penny Richards, Jonathan W. Spangler ...
    Exploiting the turbulence and strife of sixteenth-century France, the House of Guise arose from a provincial power base to establish themselves as dominant political players in France and indeed Europe, marrying within royal and princely circles and occupying the most important ecclesiastical and military positions. Propelled by ambitions derived from their position as cadets of a minor sovereign ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Limits of Matter

    Chemistry, Mining & Enlightenment

    by Hjalmar Fors ...
    During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic, and miraculous transformations and instead began looking elsewhere to explain the world around them. In The Limits of Matter, Hjalmar Fors ... Read more

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  • Juan de Valdés and the Italian Reformation

    by Massimo Firpo ...
    Series series Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
    Juan de Valdés played a pivotal role in the febrile atmosphere of sixteenth-century Italian religious debate. Fleeing his native Spain after the publication in 1529 of a book condemned by the Spanish Inquisition, he settled in Rome as a political agent of the emperor Charles V and then in Naples, where he was at the centre of a remarkable circle of literary and spiritual men and women involved in ... Read more

    $56.99 USD