Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
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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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Royal Renegades: The Children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
Linda PorterCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known, as is the restoration of his eldest son a...
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A Sword for Christ: The Republican Era in Great Britain and Ireland
Jonathan CobbCurrent price €33.29Original price €36.99The fifteen-year period between 1645 and 1660 was one of the most dynamic in British history, during which the republican Commonwealth and Cromwell...
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The Boleyn Women: The Tudor Femmes Fatales Who Changed English History
Elizabeth NortonCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50EIGHT GENERATIONS OF BOLEYN WOMEN FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO 1603 The Boleyn family appeared from nowhere at the end of the fourteenth century...
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Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me
Matthew LewisCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99King Richard III remains one of the most controversial figures in British history. Matthew Lewiss new biography aims to become a definitive account...
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The Boleyns: The Rise & Fall of a Tudor Family
David LoadesCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50A magnificent tale of family rivalry and intrigue set against Henry VIII's court. The fall of Anne Boleyn and her brother George is the classic dra...
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The Six Wives & Many Mistresses of Henry VIII: The Women''s Stories
Amy LicenceCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99For a King renowned for his love life, Henry VIII has traditionally been depicted as something of a prude, but the story may have been different fo...
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Louis XIV: The Real King of Versailles
Josephine WilkinsonCurrent price €22.05Original price €24.50Intelligent, authoritative, and often surprising, a biography of the most famous of French monarchs, by an acclaimed biographer and historian. L...
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Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty
Terry BrevertonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing madness from the sayings of the prophet Merlin they still hope to recover their l...
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Charles Brandon: Henry VIII''s Closest Friend
Dr Steven GunnCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99We dont really consider Henry VIII to have had friends. Subjects, cronies, dutiful wives and ministers of state, perhaps, but not friends. In truth...
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So Great a Prince: England and the Accession of Henry VIII
Lauren JohnsonCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The King is dead: long live the King. In 1509, Henry VII was succeeded by his son Henry VIII, second monarch of the house of Tudor. But this is not...
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