17Th Century category: 857 books
The Counts of Laval
Culture, Patronage and Religion in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The Lavals were one of the most important families in late medieval France, rising to a position of unsurpassed eminence by the mid sixteenth century. Yet, at the very point where they reached this position of unrivalled importance, all was put at risk by the dual challenges of dynastic failure and...
Radical voices, radical ways
Articulating and disseminating radicalism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
This collection of essays studies the expression and diffusion of radical ideas in Britain from the period of the English Revolution in the mid-seventeenth century to the Romantic Revolution in the early nineteenth century. The essays included in the volume explore the modes of articulation and dissemination...
Royalists and Patriots
Politics and Ideology in England, 1603-1640
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This well-known book reasserts the central importance of political and religious ideology in the origins of the English Civil War. Recent historiography has concentrated on its social and economic causes: Sommerville reminds us what the people of the time thought they were fighting about. Examining...
The Discontented
Betrayal, Love and War in Habsburg Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
The Discontented tells the heroic story of the Hungarian uprisings against the Habsburgs in 17th and 18th centuries.
Led by the charismatic trio of Imre Thököly, Helena Zrinyi and Ferenc Rákóczi II, there were moments when the rebels nearly succeeded in securing the independence of Hungary...
The Verneys
A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents.
"To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes in this brilliant book. The Verney family's centuries-long...
Rococo Fiction in France, 1600–1715
Seditious Frivolity
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Rococo Fiction in France reconfigures the history of the “long eighteenth century” by revealing the rococo as a literary phenomenon that characterized a range of experimental texts from the end of the French Renaissance to the eve of the French Revolution. Tracing the literary rococo’s evolution...
An Imperial Concubine's Tale
Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the emperor's principal consort. Among these noblewomen was an...
Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England
The Subtle Art of Division
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, Britain witnessed...
The Century of Revolution
1603–1714
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
There is an immense range of books about the English Civil War, but one historian stands head and shoulders above all others for the quality of his work on the subject. In 1961 Christopher Hill first published what has come to be acknowledged as the best concise history of the period, Century of Revolution....
by Frances Timbers
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
'The Damned Fraternitie': Constructing Gypsy Identity in Early Modern England, 1500–1700 examines the construction of gypsy identity in England between the early sixteenth century and the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including...
by George Edmundson
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
The varying fortunes of the obstinate and fiercely contested struggles with the Dutch for maritime and commercial supremacy in the days of the Commonwealth and the Restoration are familiar to all readers of English history, and especially of English naval history. Never did English seamen fight better...
The First Century of Welfare
Poverty and Poor Relief in Lancashire, 1620-1730
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2014
The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national wealth and productivity. The First Century of Welfare, which focusses on the poor, but developing, county...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Anne Clifford (1590–1676) was a prominent noble woman in the seventeenth century. During her long life she experienced the courts of Elizabeth, James and Charles I. She fought a decades long battle to secure her inheritance of the Clifford lands of the north, providing a spirited and legally robust...
by Gesa Stedman
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Gesa Stedman's ambitious new study is a comprehensive account of cross-channel cultural exchanges between seventeenth-century France and England, and includes discussion of a wide range of sources and topics. Literary texts, garden design, fashion, music, dance, food, the book market, and the theatre...