17Th Century category: 857 books
Following Zwingli
Applying the Past in Reformation Zurich
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Following Zwingli explores history, scholarship, and memory in Reformation Zurich. The humanist culture of this city was shaped by a remarkable sodality of scholars, many of whom had been associated with Erasmus. In creating a new Christian order, Zwingli and his colleagues sought biblical, historical,...
by Bert De Munck, Dries Lyna
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything from a loaf of bread to a work of art to a simple haircut, value is expressed in monetary terms and seen as determined primarily by the 'objective' interplay...
by Pinar Emiralioglu
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Exploring the reasons for a flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, this study analyzes how cartographers, travellers, astrologers, historians and naval captains promoted their vision of the world and the centrality of the Ottoman Empire in it. It proposes a new...
Ronin
Skirmish Wargames in the Age of the Samurai
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Set in an age of feuding samurai, wandering swordsmen and fearless warrior monks, Ronin is a skirmish wargame that captures the flavour and excitement of such Akira Kurosawa films as Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Whether they prefer the loyal samurai retainers of a feudal lord or a horde of desperate...
Early Voyages to Terra Australis, now called Australia
A Collection of Documents, and Extracts from early Manuscript Maps, illustrative of the History of Discovery on the Coasts of that vast Island, from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century to the Time of Captain Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
From Spanish and Dutch sources and relating to Spanish and Dutch enterprises, edited, with an introduction - a separate pamphlet dated 1861 and containing an article by Major on the discovery of Australia by the Portuguese in 1601. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1859.
by Bjørn Okholm Skaarup
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within universities in sixteenth-century Spain, focussing particularly on primary sources from 1550 to 1600. In doing so, it both clarifies the Spanish contribution...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
James VI and Noble Power in Scotland explores how Scotland was governed in the late sixteenth century by examining the dynamic between King James and his nobles from the end of his formal minority in 1578 until his accession to the English throne in 1603.
The collection assesses...
Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics
The Space Between
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. The poet and his work have generally proven enigmatic to scholars because both refuse to fit into normal categories and expectations....
by Tim Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
John Owen (1616-1683) and Richard Baxter (1615-1691) were both pivotal figures in shaping the nonconformist landscape of Restoration England. Yet despite having much in common, they found themselves taking opposite sides in several important debates, and their relationship was marked by acute strain...
On the Origins of Global History
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 28 November 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
How does one think of history on a world scale? Should one turn to the intellectuals of the past or the historians of the present? Universal history as it was practised from Antiquity started to change from the sixteenth century in varied contexts, from East Asia to Spanish America. Applying his extensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how the modernisation of healthcare resulted in a wide variety of changing social arrangements in both public and private spheres.
This book...
Governing Masculinities in the Early Modern Period
Regulating Selves and Others
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Documenting lived experiences of men in charge of others, this collection creates a social and cultural history of early modern governing masculinities. It examines the tensions between normative discourses and lived experiences and their manifestations in a range of different sources; and explores...
by Sir Clements R. Markham
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Text written in the seventeenth century, translated and edited by Philip Ainsworth Means, with an Introduction by the late Sir Clements R. Markham. The translation is from the Spanish edition of Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, published Madrid, 1882. Also includes 'Eight chronological tables ... compiled...
by Jayne E.E. Boys
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
London's News Press shows that seventeenth-century England was very much part of a European-wide news community. The book presents a new print history that looks across Europe and the interconnecting political and religious groups with international networks. It tells the story of the printers and...