17Th Century category: 857 books
Pirates of Barbary
Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
The stirring story of the seventeenth-century pirates of the Mediterranean-the forerunners of today's bandits of the seas-and how their conquests shaped the clash between Christianity and Islam.
It's easy to think of piracy as a romantic way of life long gone-if not for today's frightening...
Johann Arndt
A Prophet of Lutheran Pietism
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
This is the story of the most significant devotional author of the seventeenth century in his first full English language biography. Using previously unknown letters as a few of the resources, this story aims to recreate the theological, sometimes magical, and social worlds of Johann Arndt.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Translated from the Spanish, with Notes and a Preface, and a Letter from Luis Vaez de Torres describing his Voyage through the Torres Straits. The main text is from a transcription of the 1609 Mexico edition. The appendix includes a brief continuation of the history of the Philippines to 1868, particularly...
by Jennifer Clement
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Jennifer Clement argues here, it is central to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to early modern concepts of the self. As this study shows, early modern literary engagements...
The Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster
Describing the World in the Reformation
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia was an immensely influential book that attempted to describe the entire world across all of human history and analyse its constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, zoology and botany. First published in 1544 it went through thirty-five editions and...
by Jeremy Black
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Covering the period from the end of the Anglo-French alliance in 1731 to the declaration of war between the two powers in 1744, this book charts a turbulent period in British politics that witnessed the last decade of the Walpole ministry, the attempt to replace it by a Patriot government, and the...
Crossing the Sound
The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Long Island
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2004
In seventeenth-century North America, communities on eastern Long Island were an integral part of the tumultuous and dynamic New England region and the larger Atlantic American world. They were created and modified by ideas and traditions that were inherent to life in Atlantic America and were not...
The Red Sea and Adjacent Countries at the Close of the Seventeenth Century
As described by Joseph Pitts, William Daniel, and Charles Jacques Poncet
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
With additional documents. The first narrative is from Pitts' Religion and Manners of the Mahometans (Third Edition, 1731); Daniel's journal was printed in 1702, Poncet's in 1709. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1949.
Fashion beyond Versailles
Consumption and Design in Seventeenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
As the epicenters of style and innovation, the cities of Paris and Versailles dominate studies of consumerism in seventeenth-century France, but little scholarship exists on the material culture, fashion, and consumption patterns in the provinces. Donna J. Bohanan's Fashion beyond Versailles fills...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
William Methwold's 'Relation', reprinted from Purchas his Pilgrimes and two other 'relations', one by Antony Schorer, translated from the Dutch, the other anonymous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1931. Owing to technical constraints it has not been...
by Dirk Wiemann
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements and schools of thought that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn....
by John Lord
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
The period at which this History commences,—the beginning of the sixteenth century,—when compared with the ages which had preceded it, since the fall of the Roman empire, was one of unprecedented brilliancy and activity. It was a period very fruitful in great men and great events, and, though...
by Paul Willert
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2015
FRENCH historians, anxious to vindicate in all things the priority of their nation, point out that in 1512, five years before Luther denounced the sale of indulgences, Lefevre, a lecturer on theology and letters at Paris, published a commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul in which he taught the doctrine...
by Laurinda Abreu
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this book demonstrates, Portugal was among them and actively participated in such reforms. Providing the first English language monograph on this this topic,...