Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This book is the result of two scientific encounters hosted by the University of Évora in 2012, with the theme Muslims and Jews in Portugal and the...

Seventeenth-century English news writers knew there was a market for news about that there is no doubt. Right from the very first decade, there wa...

Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak....

The political and military history of the sixteenth century is well known, and much written about, but what of the thousands of women who have, for...

This volume presents the first extensive census of the surviving copies of the treatise Historia Naturalis Brasiliae in libraries worldwide and exa...

In its telos, this book is about debt, a debt to a martyr of Ecumenical Romanity: Mehmed the Conqueror. From the point of view of wholistic compreh...

The first male missionary religious order, the Franciscans, arrived in Nueva España (Mexico) in 1524, and were followed by others. The male mission...

Investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600. The five-movement polypho...

Courage and Grief illuminates in a nuanced fashion Swedens involvement in Europes destructive Thirty Years War (161848). Focusing on the various ro...

In the late eighteenth century, planters in the Caribbean and the American South insisted that only Black people could labor on plantations, arguin...

Since the cultural turn of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has been radically transformed, with older narratives stood on their he...

Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: History Two books i...