17Th Century category: 857 books
British Politics and Foreign Policy, 1744-57
Mid-Century Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The years between 1744 and 1757 were a testing time for the British government as political unrest at home exploded into armed rebellion, whilst on the continent French armies were repeatedly victorious. Providing an analytical narrative, supported by thematic chapters, this book examines the relationship...
The Magical Adventures of Mary Parish
The Occult World of Seventeenth-Century London
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Mary Parish wasn’t your ordinary seventeenth-century woman. She was a “cunning woman," who spent her time in the realm of magic, interacting with fairies, hunting for buried treasures, and communicating with the spirit world, along with her partner, the young aristocrat Goodwin Wharton. Drawing...
Fear, Exclusion and Revolution
Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Between the years 1677 and 1691 the Puritan minister Roger Morrice compiled an astonishingly detailed record of public affairs in Britain. Running to almost a million words his 'Entring Book' provides a unique record of late seventeenth-century political and religious history. It charts the rise of...
The Afterlife of Pope Joan
Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Amid the religious tumult of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English scholars, preachers, and dramatists examined, debated, and refashioned tales concerning Pope Joan, a ninth-century woman who, as legend has it, cross-dressed her way to the papacy only to have her imposture exposed when...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for answering crucial questions central to the future histories of the political and literary culture of early-modern...
The Seventeenth-Century Customs Service Surveyed
William Culliford's Investigation of the Western Ports, 1682-84
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In January 1682, William Culliford, a loyal and experienced officer in the King's customs service, began an extraordinary journey under Treasury orders to investigate the integrity and efficiency of the customs establishments of southwest England and south Wales as part of a drive to maximize the...
The Burdens of Sister Margaret
Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent; Abridged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Based on a treasure trove of letters, this fascinating book tells the history of a seventeenth-century nun in a convent in Leuven and how her complaints-of sexual harassment, fears of demonic possession, alliances among the other sisters against her-led to her banishment from the convent on two occasions....
South China in the Sixteenth Century (1550-1575)
Being the narratives of Galeote Pereira, Fr. Gaspar da Cruz, O.P. , Fr. Martin de Rada, O.E.S.A., (1550-1575)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translations, the first based largely on that in Richard Willes, History of Travayle in the West and East Indies (1577), the second derived from Purchas his Pilgrimes (1624), the third by the editor from three sixteenth-century Spanish versions. With appendices on various matters, including a Chinese...
by Mark Fortier
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Drawing on politics, religion, law, literature, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary study is a sequel to Mark Fortier’s bookThe Culture of Equity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2006). The earlier volume traced the meanings and usage of equity in broad cultural terms (including but not limited...
Pain, Pleasure and Perversity
Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Luther’s 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows his creations to suffer remains one of the central issues of religious thought. In order to chart the processes by which religious discourse relating to pain and suffering became marginalized...
by Max Beloff
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
The end of eighteenth century is often regarded as the watershed between the feudal Europe of the Middle Ages and the modern Europe of the nineteenth century and beyond. The chronology covered in this title, first published in 1954, is vast, but covers an intellectually stimulating and exciting period...
Restoration Ireland
Always Settling and Never Settled
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In recent decades, the historiography of early modern Ireland in general, and of the seventeenth century in particular, has been revitalised. However, whilst much of this new work has focused either on the critical decades of the 1640s or the Williamite wars, the Restoration period still remains largely...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
European Contexts for English Republicanism offers new perspectives on early modern English republicanism through its focus on the Continental reception of and engagement with seventeenth-century English thinkers and political events. Looking both at political ideas and at the people that shaped them,...
Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century
Comprising the Treatise 'Of the Russe Common Wealth,' by Dr Giles Fletcher; and The Travels of Sir Jerome Horsey, Knight, now for the first time printed entire from his own Manuscript
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
The first text is a reprint of the London, 1591, edition; the second relates to the late sixteenth century. With additional documents descriptive of Russia and the missions of the two writers. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1856.