17Th Century category: 857 books
Le Mura di Bergamo
e la guarnigione veneta fra 500 e 600
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 13, 2015
Finalmente disponibile l'edizione digitale di un libro di successo. Ideale anche per conoscere la natura e i costumi dell'esercito veneto nel periodo! Correva l'Anno del Signore 1590. Così scriveva un soddisfatto e pago Alvise Grimani, l'allora comandante veneto della piazza di Bergamo, al...
La guerra di Candia vol. 1
Assedi e operazioni campali
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 11, 2017
La guerra di Candia fu il luogo di confronto di due diversi modelli militari, quello occidentale e quello ottomano, fino ad assurgere nelle corti di tutta Europa a 'Campo di Marte' del continente. A noi contemporanei queste campagne mostrano una specifica peculiarità, in quanto rappresentano la prima...
by Gerald Nicholson
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
As to the Duke of Marlborough . . . it was allowed by all men, nay even by France itself, that he was more than a match for all the generals of that nation. This he made appear beyond contradiction in the ten campaigns he made against them; during all which time it cannot be said that he ever slipped...
by Christopher Scott
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
This paperback edition of this seminal new study of a key battle of the Civil Wars re-examines one of England's most mysterious battlefields at Edgehill, and it combines the work of three outstanding military historians. Each is an expert in the areas of battlefield interpretation, military equipment...
The History and Description of Africa and of the Notable Things therein contained
Written by Al-Hassan Ibn-Mohammed Al-Wezaz Al-Fasi, a Moor, baptised as Giovanni Leone, but better known as Leo Africanus. Done into English in the Year 1600, by John Pory
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Containing Book I of the original, edited, with an introduction and notes. This and the following two volumes (First Series 93 and 94) have continuous pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1896.
by Lord Stanley of Alderley
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The text is translated 'from the Accounts of Pigafetta, and other Contemporary Writers. Accompanied by Original Documents, with Notes and an Introduction'. It includes the log-book of Francisco Alvo or Alvaro, Pigafetta's treatise on navigation and his account of the voyage, Gaspar Correa's account,...
by Pauline Croft
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
The accession of James VI of Scotland to the English throne in 1603 created a multiple monarchy covering the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland which endured until 1922. Clear and concise, Pauline Croft's study provides a compelling narrative of the king's reign in all of his dominions,...
by Malcolm Wanklyn, Frank Jones
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
*A Military History of the English Civil War *examines how the civil war was won, who fought for whom, and why it ended. With a straightforward style and clear chronology that enables readers to make their own judgements and pursue their own interests further, this original history provides a...
by Malcolm Wanklyn
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
To Walk in the Dark
Military Intelligence in the English Civil War, 1642-1646
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
During the bloody years of the First English Civil War, as the battles of Edgehill, Newbury, and Naseby raged, another war was being fought. Its combatants fought with cunning and deceit, a hidden conflict that nevertheless would steer the course of history. The story of the spies and intelligence-gatherers...
Religion and Royal Justice in Early Modern France
The Paris Chambre de l’Edit, 15981665
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Diane Margolf looks at the Paris Chambre de l’Edit in this well-researched study about the special royal law court that adjudicated disputes between French Huguenots and the Catholics. Using archival records of the court’s criminal cases, Margolf analyzes the connections to three major issues...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Early Modern era was a transformative period in the history of warfare. Armies became larger and increasingly professionalized, while gunpowder weaponry changed warfare forever with new firearms and artillery. The Early Modern Wars 15001775 the third volume in the Encyclopedia of Warfare Series...
by Anna French
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English Reformation became an issue of urgent interest. This book explores questions surrounding early modern childhood, focusing especially on some of the extreme religious experiences in which...
The East and West Indian Mirror
Being an Account of Joris van Speilbergen's Voyage Round the World (1614-1617), and the Australian Navigations of Jacob le Maire
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and Edited, with Notes and an Introduction from the Dutch edition of 1619, with its illustrations, many of them birds'eye 'maps'. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1906.