Rob - 17th Century 1

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt des 16. Jahrhunderts durch die Augen eines unerschrockenen Entdeckers! Ulrich Schmidel von Robert Lehmann-Nitsche entführt Sie auf eine abenteuerliche Reise in d……続きを見る

Lhwyd, the illegitimate son of a father ruined by the Civil War, had to make his own way in the world. A competent botanist before going up to Oxford as a student, he spent much time there at the Bo……続きを見る

La légende veut qu’en réponse aux murmures de ses soldats qui lui reprochaient sa mollesse le sultan Mahomet II ait tranché la tête à une captive grecque qu’il aimait éperdument. Imaginée en 1554 pa……続きを見る

Oliver Cromwell stands at the gateway of modern history; his resolute Puritanism formative to concepts of political and religious liberty, the development of democracy, and the individual's duty to ……続きを見る

The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social,……続きを見る

In "An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies," Robert Knox offers a rich tapestry of observations and experiences drawn from his captivity in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) during the ……続きを見る

The reputation of Francis I, king of France (1515-47 ) has fluctuated over the centuries. Acclaimed as ’noble’ and ’great’ in the sixteenth century, he came to be unfairly denigrated under the Bourb……続きを見る

The fifteen articles republished here exemplify the many directions Robert Black's research in Renaissance studies has taken. The first five studies look at Renaissance humanism, in particular at it……続きを見る

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 structur……続きを見る

"The first comprehensive listing of these ships in English. . . . Profusely illustrated [and] impressively informative." ー Midwest Book Review The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be ……続きを見る

Slavery Hinterland explores a neglected aspect of transatlantic slavery: the implication of a continental European hinterland. It focuses on historical actors in territories that were not directly i……続きを見る

Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as drawings, photographs, documents and archives rela……続きを見る

Cardinal Giovanni Morone (1509-80) remains one of the most intriguing characters in the history of the sixteenth century Catholic Church - with neither his contemporaries nor subsequent scholars bei……続きを見る

Analysing the make-up and workings of the Royalist party in Scotland and Ireland during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century, Royalists at War is the first major study to explore who Royali……続きを見る

Horses played a major role in the military, economic, social and cultural history of early-modern England. This book uses the supply of horses to parliamentary armies during the English Civil War to……続きを見る

King Henry III of France has not suffered well at the hands of posterity. Generally depicted as at best a self-indulgent, ineffectual ruler, and at worst a debauched tyrant responsible for a series ……続きを見る

Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French men and women, members of their families, or their local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile physicians and surgeons seeking expert me……続きを見る

L'époque moderne a vu naître la pensée scientifique moderne, d'abord dans le champ des mathématiques et de l'astronomie. En même temps, la diffusion des techniques nées du développement des sciences……続きを見る

This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice during the period 1580 to 1750. The particular focus is on the nature of playing ……続きを見る

Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that c……続きを見る

In "An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies," Robert Knox offers a meticulously detailed account of his experiences as a captive in Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) during the 17……続きを見る

In "A Treatise of Witchcraft," Alexander Roberts presents a meticulous exploration of the sociocultural and theological underpinnings of witchcraft in early modern Europe. Written in a scholarly yet……続きを見る

"There must be a divine kindness directed towards our homeland, because most of our animals have a use for human life. We also lack those wild and savage ones of other regions. Wolves were common on……続きを見る

I saggi che compongono questo volume offrono uno spaccato vivo ed eloquente della Calabria novecentesca, scossa da plurisecolari conflitti sociali e solcata da movimenti e lotte dotati di una diromp……続きを見る

When, in 1792, the Austrian and Prussian armies had advanced toward Paris with the object of freeing Louis XVI from the restrictions placed upon him by the National Assembly, the French, roused to f……続きを見る

The nation which has unmistakably assumed the leading role in European affairs during the past two hundred years is France. At the opening of the eighteenth century she already enjoyed a commanding ……続きを見る

The legends that die hardest are those of the romantic outlaw, and those of swashbuckling pirates are surely among the most durable. Swift ships, snug inns, treasures buried by torchlight, palm-frin……続きを見る

Les Archives de l’Etat à Anvers possèdent de nombreux documents des plus précieux pour celui qui désirerait faire l’histoire de la Commanderie de Pitsembourg. Parmi ces documents, j’ai trouvé différ……続きを見る

Treasure Island is, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, 'the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green p……続きを見る

Before the time of Napoleon, the most ambitious effort to explore and map the Nile was undertaken by the Ottomans, as attested by two monumental documents: an elaborate map, with 475 rubrics, and a ……続きを見る