Kei - 17th Century 1

A careful examination of the development of infantry tactics from the late sixteenth to middle seventeenth century. Throughout the 17th century large parts of Europe were depopulated during the wide……続きを見る

Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaul……続きを見る

Inspired by the ideas of the Dutch theologian Jacob Arminius, Arminianism was the subject of important theological controversies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and still today remains ……続きを見る

In Walter Scott's seminal work, 'Woodstock,' readers are taken on a historical journey set during the English Civil War. Originally published in 1826, the novel skillfully blends fact with fiction, ……続きを見る

Discover the “fascinating and outrageously readable” account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific in a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in Englandーperfect for ……続きを見る

This book discusses the impact of cameralism on the practices of governance, early modern state-building and economy in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. It argues that the cameralist conc……続きを見る

The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of ……続きを見る

The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study looks in detail at its impact on the city through the eyes of a man wh……続きを見る