17Th Century category: 857 books
by Robert Wynn Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
In 1666 London was devastated by the Great Fire, which gutted over 13,000 houses, over eighty parish churches and St Paul’s Cathedral. Robert Wynn Jones has set out to discover the original structures and streets that survived the Great Fire and can still be seen today. This book maps, describes...
by Greig Parker
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Probate inventories provide an unparalleled and intimate glimpse into the lives of the inhabitants of early modern England. After death, the items within the deceased’s home would frequently be itemised and valued room-by-room. As well as providing invaluable information about the rich diversity...
Castiglione's Allegory
Veiled Policy in The Book of the Courtier (1528)
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano, 1528), a dialogue in which the interlocutors attempt to describe the perfect courtier, was one of the most influential books of the Renaissance. In recent decades a number of postmodern readings of this work have appeared, emphasizing...
Rampjaar 1672
hoe de Republiek aan de ondergang ontsnapte
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 10, 2016
1672 staat in de Nederlandse geschiedenis gegrift als het Rampjaar. In dat jaar werd de Republiek overrompeld door een gecombineerde aanval van de Franse koning, de Engelse koning en de bisschoppen van Münster en Keulen. Sinds de Romeinen had Europa geen groter leger aanschouwd; het laatste uur voor...
Henry Hudson
Doomed Navigator and Explorer
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
From the era of wooden sailing ships and Europe’s golden age of exploration, the story of famed British navigator Henry Hudson tells a classic tale of courage, ambition, and treachery on the high seas. As the leader of four Arctic voyages in 1607, 1608, 1609, and 1610, Hudson searched in vain for...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major political and religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. At the same time, the universities of Europe became increasingly orientated towards...
by Stella Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This new Companion is the ideal reference guide. It fills a gap by providing an authoritative but accessible reference on political, economic, religious, social, as well as cultural developments in this crucial period. It contains information on all major topics including the church, war and diplomacy,...
by Chris Laoutaris
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The colorful story of the creation of the Globe Theatre—as a result of the dramatic confrontation between Lady Elizabeth Russell and William Shakespeare.
In November 1596, a woman signed a document that would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare . . .
Who was this woman...
Medieval and Renaissance Lactations
Images, Rhetorics, Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal...
Further English Voyages to Spanish America, 1583-1594
Documents from the Archives of the Indies at Seville illustrating English Voyages to the Caribbean, the Spanish Main, Florida, and Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated and edited. For other selections, see Second Series 62, 71, 111. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1951.
The Voyage of John Huyghen van Linschoten to the East Indies
From the Old English Translation of 1598. The First Book, containing his Description of the East. In Two Volumes Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The English translation is that of William Phillip. For the second volume, see First Series 71. The supplementary material consists of the 1884 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1885.
by Stephen Porter, Simon Marsh
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
The story of the battle of Turnham Green and how 'the sack of London' was prevented by Londoners. As Charles I's army marched on the capital in the autumn of 1642, Nehemiah Wallington, a wood-turner living near London Bridge, wrote in his journal, 'those cruel cavilers doe so plonder & pillage...
A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland
Comprising a translation from F. Martens' Voyage to Spitzbergen: a Translation from Isaac de la Peyrère's Histoire du Groenland: and God's Power and Providence in the Preservation of Eight Men in Greenland Nine Months and Twelve Days
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The first text is from an English collection published in 1694; the second from the Relation du Groenland, Paris, 1663; the third is the text of Edward Pelham's tract, London, 1631. The supplementary material consists of the 1855 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1855.
by Nancy Cox
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The first half of the book focuses on these labels and on mercantile language more broadly; how it was used in trade and how lexicographers and others approached...