17Th Century category: 857 books

Cover of Quakers
by Peter Furtado
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013

Though there have never been many Quakers, these small numbers belie the sect's tremendous impact, both historical and contemporary. Quakerism has produced an astonishing and disproportionate number of eminent thinkers, scientists, industrialists and businessmen, who are united not only by their success...
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Oliver Cromwell

The Man Who Refused to be King

by 50MINUTES.COM
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017

Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Oliver Cromwell in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life of Oliver Cromwell. In 1642, the established order in England was overturned when Parliament raised an army against...
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Richelieu

Un cardinal à la tête de la France

by David Cusin, Ludivine Péchoux, 50Minutes.fr
Language: French
Release Date: July 23, 2015

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Richelieu en moins d’une heure ! Haï et critiqué par le peuple de son vivant, le cardinal de Richelieu est devenu, après sa mort, une sorte de légende. Considéré comme le modèle par excellence du ministre dévoué à l’État, il a préparé,...
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Isaac Newton

La théorie de la gravitation universelle

by Pierre Mettra, 50Minutes.fr
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2015

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Newton et la théorie de la gravitation universelle en moins d’une heure ! Figure incontournable de l'histoire des sciences, Isaac Newton bouleverse le monde avec sa théorie de la gravitation universelle. Secrètement passionné d'alchimie, il fait...
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Oliver Cromwell

Le lord-protecteur du Commonwealth

by Jonathan Bloch, Mathieu Beaud, 50Minutes.fr
Language: French
Release Date: January 5, 2016

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur Oliver Cromwell en moins d’une heure ! Olivier Cromwell est l’une des personnalités les plus complexes de l’histoire britannique. Persuadé d’être guidé par la volonté de Dieu, son destin bascule quand éclate la guerre entre le Parlement...
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Mazarin

Un cardinal au pouvoir

by Hadrien Nafilyan, 50Minutes.fr
Language: French
Release Date: August 9, 2017

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur Mazarin en moins d'une heure !D'origine modeste, Jules Mazarin a réussi à se hisser dans les hautes sphères du pouvoir et à préparer le jeune Louis XIV à sa fonction monarchique. Il s'est dévoué corps et âme pour son pays d'adoption afin que la...
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Louis XIV et l'apogée de l'absolutisme

Entre rayonnement européen et misère du peuple français

by Thomas Melchers, 50Minutes.fr
Language: French
Release Date: June 26, 2017

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le règne de Louis XIV en moins d'une heure ! Lorsque son père, Louis XIII, décède, le jeune Louis n'est alors âgé que de 4 ans. Sacré roi en 1654, il gouverne seul dès 1661, à la mort de son parrain et professeur, le cardinal Mazarin....
Cover of Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, dramatic performance, inscriptions and published festival books that ’voiced’ the social, political and cultural messages...
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by Fernando Checa Cremades, Laura Fernández–González
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in Early Modern Festivals. These spectacles articulated the self-image of ruling elites and played out the tensions of the diverse social strata. Responding to the growing academic interest in festivals this volume focuses on the early modern...
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Early Modern Habsburg Women

Transnational Contexts, Cultural Conflicts, Dynastic Continuities

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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016

As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, this interdisciplinary collection illuminates their complex and often contradictory political functions and their interrelations...
Cover of Le Coeur d'une Reine - Anne d'Autriche, Louis XIII et Mazarin
by Paul Robiquet
Language: French
Release Date: September 10, 2013

À la mort de Louis XIII, Mazarin, qui avait succédé à Richelieu comme principal ministre, poursuit ses fonctions auprès d’Anne, régente de France pendant la minorité de son fils Louis XIV. Jusqu'où est allée la liaison de la...
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The Emblem in Early Modern Europe

Contributions to the Theory of the Emblem

by Peter M. Daly
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016

The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symbolic...
Cover of The Story of France
by Benjamin Stanford
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018

Here is the dramatic story of France in fifteen events, the key turning points that over the course of centuries shaped the country's destiny: from the rise of Joan of Arc to the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, from the reigns of the Bourbon kings to the bloody days of the French Revolution, and from the victory of Napoleon Bonaparte to Charles de Gaulle's return to power.
Cover of The Story of Britain
by Benjamin Stanford
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019

Here is the dramatic story of Great Britain in the sixteen turning points that over the centuries shaped the country's destiny: from the Magna Carta, the crude bill of rights that became the "irrepealable fundamental statue" of England law, to the Hundred Years War, which saw the power and...
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