Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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Galileo Reappraised
University of California PressCurrent price €79.24Original price €88.04This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the ...
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Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome
Pamela O LongCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the engineering pope Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transforme...
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Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions
G.W. BernardCurrent price €16.14Original price €18.99A new look at Henry VIII's second wife, Anne BoleynWill certainly make readers think again about what we really know about Henry VIII's most contro...
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Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America''s Founders
Dennis C. RasmussenCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation th...
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The Boleyns: From the Tudors to the Windsors
Amanda Harvey PurseCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed on 19 May 1536. Her sister Mary, rumoured mistress to the monarch, lived on and survived t...
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Siena: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval City
Jane StevensonCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy. Occu...
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Reviving the Eternal City: Rome and the Papal Court, 1420-1447
Elizabeth M. McCahillCurrent price €60.29Original price €66.99In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopula...
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The British Civil Wars at Sea, 1638-1653
Elaine MurphyCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99A comprehensive overview of the subject, demonstrating that the maritime aspects of the civil wars were much more important than has hitherto been ...
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Household Inventories of Helmingham Hall, 1597-1741
Moira ColemanCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Edition of extremely rich household inventories provides a wealth of information about life at the time. It is rare to find a sequence of househol...
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An Elite Family in Early Modern England: The Temples of Stowe and Burton Dassett, 1570-1656
Rosemary O'DayCurrent price €125.09Original price €138.99Provides a full, detailed picture of the life of an aristocratic family in early modern England. The Temples of Stowe were a leading Midland lande...
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The Spanish Disquiet: The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano
Maria M. PortuondoCurrent price €62.50Original price €69.44In this book, historian Mar a M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblic...
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Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton
Nicholas McDowellCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99A groundbreaking biography of Miltons formative years that provides a new account of the poets political radicalizationJohn Milton (16081674) has a...
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Rome Measured and Imagined
Jessica MaierCurrent price €49.05Original price €54.50At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed ...
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Polycentric Monarchies: How Did Early Modern Spain and Portugal Achieve and Maintain a Global Hegemony?
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Having succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early 16th century Spain and Portugal became the first...
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Women in Disputes: A History of European Women in Mediation and Arbitration
Derek RoebuckCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50From Homer to Jane Austen, storytellers have entertained their audiences with tales of women in disputes, as parties and peacemakers. This is our a...
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Sawney Bean: Dissecting the Legend of Scotland''s Infamous Cannibal Killer Family
Blaine Lee PardoeCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Legend has it that Scotland's most heinous crimes were committed by Sawney Bean and his murderous clan of cannibals-an incestuous cave dwelling tri...
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Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland: Volume 1
Cora L. ScofieldCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. In...
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Ireland''s Huguenots and Their Refuge, 1662-1745: An Unlikely Haven
Raymond HyltonCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99This book explores this question and attempts to reveal precisely who these Huguenots were, what they contributed to and received from their adopte...
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Life and Reign of Edward the Fourth: King of England and France and Lord of Ireland: Volume 2
Cora L. ScofoieldCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. In...
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British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 15601800: Conventuals, Mendicants and Monastics in Motion
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religi...
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The World Hunt: An Environmental History of the Commodification of Animals
John F. RichardsCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and world economy. A comprehensive d...
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Orpheus in the Marketplace: Jacopo Peri and the Economy of Late Renaissance Florence
Richard A. GoldthwaiteCurrent price €58.49Original price €64.99The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridi...
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The History of Akbar: Volume 2
Abu'l-FazlCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnma, or The Histo...
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Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens
John Robert ChristiansonCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his no...
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