Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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The Great Siege - Malta 1565
Ernle BradfordCurrent price €9.59Original price €9.99Malta, then one of the easternmost bastions of Christendom, was attacked in 1565 by the Sultan of Turkey with 200 ships and 40,000 men. This book i...
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Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
Roger CrowleyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Empires of the Sea shows the Mediterranean as a majestic and bloody theatre of war. Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking s...
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Assedju 1565 - Ġrajja ta' qlubija
Vincent Zammit€15.00Għas-sajf tal-2015, fl-450 anniversarju tal-Assedju l-Kbir ta’ Malta, Vincent Zammit, ipprepara 90 kitba qasira dwar diversi aspetti ta’ dan l-asse...
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Malta: The Order of St John (PB)
Thomas Freller€25.00The urban, cultural and political profile of the Maltese islands is deeply marked by the presence for 268 years of the Knights of St John. The Orde...
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The Borgias: Power and Fortune
Paul StrathernCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50'A wickedly entertaining read' The TimesA Daily Mail Book of the WeekThe sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious famili...
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World History: From the Ancient World to the Information Age
DKCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99An essential gift for every history buff, this boldly illustrated book maps out the events that have shaped our world - from the dawn of human civi...
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Suleyman The Magnificent and Malta 1565
Arnold Cassola€13.00In his latest book on the topic, Arnold Cassola utilizes exclusively primary Ottoman sources (1564-1566), supplemented by contemporary evidence bas...
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Renaissance Art
Agenda BookshopCurrent price €12.45Original price €12.99Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Durer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as the Last Supper fresco, or the monumental mar...
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The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
AidaIroCurrent price €15.44Original price €16.99*A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness'...
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The Tudors: A Very Short Introduction
John GuyCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99The monarchs of the Tudor period are among some of the most well-known figures in British history. John Guy presents a compelling and fascinating e...
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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia FedericiCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA...
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The Maltese in Scicli and Capo Passero (1675-1777)
Arnold Cassola€15.00This book deals with the presence of Maltese people in the Sicilian town of Scicli in the course of the 17th century and with a number of Maltese b...
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The Medici
Mary HollingsworthCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to be...
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The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors
Dan JonesCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently f...
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Antwerp: The Glory Years
Michael PyeCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzling North Sea port at ...
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Admirals of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John
Michael Galea€25.00The Order of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem was from its very beginnings a Hospitaller Order. It was founded in Jerusalem in the mid-11th cent...
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The Habsburgs: The Rise and Fall of a World Power
Martyn RadyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50'This is probably the best book ever written on the Habsburgs in any language, certainly the best I have ever read ... Students, scholars and the g...
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Europe''s Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War
Peter H. WilsonCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99Winner of the Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award 2011The horrific series of conflicts known as the Thirty Years War (1618-48) to...
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Machiavelli: His Life and Times
Alexander LeeCurrent price €16.31Original price €16.99'A wonderfully assured and utterly riveting biography that captures not only the much-maligned Machiavelli, but also the spirit of his time and pla...
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Swords of the Religion
Franco Davies€42.86The third from a series of monographs published by Heritage Malta, it focuses on the practical and symbolic uses of swords during the Order of St J...
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The Medici
Mary HollingsworthCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99'This forensic study of the Renaissance banking dynasty conjures up a world of art, literature, philosophy and brutality' Telegraph 'Likely to be...
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Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World
Prof Jane OhlmeyerCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Irelandin a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campai...
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Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe
John GuyCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwa...
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