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A Second Elizabethan Journl V2 - A Second Elizabethan Journal (Hardcover): G.B. Harrison A Second Elizabethan Journl V2 - A Second Elizabethan Journal (Hardcover)
G.B. Harrison
R1,686 Discovery Miles 16 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the second volume in a set that provides a detailed and intimate account of the Elizabethan and Jacobean world picture. The volumes convey life as it was in the days of Shakespeare, King James, the Gunpowder Plot, and the dicoveries of Galileo.

A Second Jacobean Journal   V5 - A Second Jacobean Journal (Hardcover): G.B. Harrison A Second Jacobean Journal V5 - A Second Jacobean Journal (Hardcover)
G.B. Harrison
R1,581 Discovery Miles 15 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the fifth volume in a set that provides a detailed and intimate account of the Elizabethan and Jacobean world picture. The volumes convey life as it was in the days of Shakespeare, King James, the Gunpowder Plot, and the dicoveries of Galileo.

Stuart England (Paperback): Angus Stroud Stuart England (Paperback)
Angus Stroud
R1,155 Discovery Miles 11 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Stuart England is an invaluable introduction to the political, religious and social history of seventeenth-century England. It provides a wide-ranging and lively account of core events, drawing on both contemporary sources and the latest interpretations by modern historians.
Starting with the legacy of Elizabeth I, and ending with the reign of William III and Mary. Stuart Englan covers all aspects of the monarchy, high and low politics and the culture of the people. Key topics include:
*English society and religion
*Ideas of monarchy and government
*Fiannce and Parliament
*Foreign policy
With comprehensive questions and analysis exercises, diagrams and maps,Stuart England provides an excellent and indispensible guide to English history of the seventeenth century.

Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New): Kenneth Charlton Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England (Hardcover, New)
Kenneth Charlton
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Women, Religion and Education in Early Modern England is a study of the nature and extent of the education of women in the context of both Protestant and Catholic ideological debates.
Examining the role of women both as recipients and agents of religious instruction, the author assesses the nature of power endowed in women through religious education, and the restraints and freedoms this brought.

Writing and Society - Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 (Hardcover): Nigel Wheale Writing and Society - Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 (Hardcover)
Nigel Wheale
R3,918 Discovery Miles 39 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production.
This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses:
* the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain
* structures of patronage and censorship
* the fundamental role of the publishing industry
* the relation between elite literary and popular cultures
* and the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.

Writing and Society - Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 (Paperback): Nigel Wheale Writing and Society - Literacy, Print and Politics in Britain 1590-1660 (Paperback)
Nigel Wheale
R1,241 Discovery Miles 12 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Writing and Society is a stunning exploration of the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them. It is the first single volume to provide a year-by-year chronology of political events in relation to cultural production.
This overview of debates in literary critical theory and historiography includes facsimile pages with commentary from the most influential books of the period. The author describes and analyses:
* the development of literacy by status, gender and region in Britain
* structures of patronage and censorship
* the fundamental role of the publishing industry
* the relation between elite literary and popular cultures
* the remarkable growth of female literacy and publication.

A Last Elizabethan Journal  V3 - A Last Elizabethan Journal (Hardcover): G.B. Harrison A Last Elizabethan Journal V3 - A Last Elizabethan Journal (Hardcover)
G.B. Harrison
R5,388 Discovery Miles 53 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is the third volume in a set that provides a detailed and intimate account of the Elizabethan and Jacobean world picture. The volumes convey life as it was in the days of Shakespeare, King James, the Gunpowder Plot, and the dicoveries of Galileo.

Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677 - Imprints of the Invisible (Paperback): Imtiaz Habib Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500-1677 - Imprints of the Invisible (Paperback)
Imtiaz Habib
R1,027 Discovery Miles 10 270 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Containing an urgently needed archival database of historical evidence, this volume includes both a consolidated presentation of the documentary records of black people in Tudor and Stuart England, and an interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly extends the insights of current theoretical excursus on race in early modern England. Here for the first time Imtiaz Habib collects the scattered references to black people-whether from Africa, India or America-in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and arranges them into a systematic, chronological descriptive index. He offers an extended historical and theoretical interpretation of the records in six chapters, which serve as an introductory guide to the index even as they articulate a specific argument about the meaning of the records. Both the archival information and interpretive scholarship provide a strong framework from which future historical debates on race in early modern England can proceed.

Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe (Paperback): Julian Goodare, Rita Voltmer, Liv Helene Willumsen Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
Julian Goodare, Rita Voltmer, Liv Helene Willumsen
R1,168 Discovery Miles 11 680 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Demonology - the intellectual study of demons and their powers - contributed to the prosecution of thousands of witches. But how exactly did intellectual ideas relate to prosecutions? Recent scholarship has shown that some of the demonologists' concerns remained at an abstract intellectual level, while some of the judges' concerns reflected popular culture. This book brings demonology and witch-hunting back together, while placing both topics in their specific regional cultures. The book's chapters, each written by a leading scholar, cover most regions of Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain through to Germany, France and Switzerland, and Italy and Spain. By focusing on various intellectual levels of demonology, from sophisticated demonological thought to the development of specific demonological ideas and ideas within the witch trial environment, the book offers a thorough examination of the relationship between demonology and witch-hunting. Demonology and Witch-Hunting in Early Modern Europe is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of demonology, witch-hunting and early modern Europe.

The Thirty Years War, 1618 - 1648 - The First Global War and the end of Habsburg Supremacy (Hardcover): John Pike The Thirty Years War, 1618 - 1648 - The First Global War and the end of Habsburg Supremacy (Hardcover)
John Pike
R1,060 R843 Discovery Miles 8 430 Save R217 (20%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The 'Defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a localised political and religious dispute in Germany, transformed into a European and global conflict. In seeking to exploit the Bohemian revolt, Spanish Habsburg revanchist ambitions directed by the Spanish Count of Olivarez at the economically powerful Dutch Republic were allied with the Habsburg Emperor's counter-reformation ambitions. After the Bohemian defeat at the White Mountain in 1620 the war widened as the Dutch Republic, England, Transylvania, Denmark, Sweden, and Richelieu's France all intervened to roll back Habsburg hegemony and restore the balance power. There was extensive fighting across the globe, as the Dutch and English sought to challenge the Spanish Habsburg global monopoly. These colonial wars were a major factor in the Iberian revolutions with brought down the Habsburg Imperium. Professor Charles Boxer called it: the first world war . It was a tragic war of attrition but also an epic story of remarkable individuals including the 'titans' of the era,' Imperial General Wallenstein, warrior King Gustavus, sinister Count Olivarez, and the masters of international intrigue, realpolitik and diplomacy- Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin. Above all there were the decisive victories of the under-sung military genius of the era, Lennart Torstensson. The Treaties of Westphalia followed a war which not only changed the global balance of power, but accelerated over thirty years the transformation of the European continent from a world characterized by dynasties and the medieval concept of United Christendom to a European order that was recognisably modern.

The Catholic Reformation (Hardcover): Michael A Mullett The Catholic Reformation (Hardcover)
Michael A Mullett
R4,070 Discovery Miles 40 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Catholic Reformation provides a comprehensive history of the 'Counter Reformation in early modern Europe. Starting from the middle ages, Michael Mullett clearly traces the continuous transformation of the Catholic religion in its structures, bodies and doctrine. He discusses the gain in momentum of Catholic renewal from the time of the Council of Trent, and considers the profound effect of the Protestant Reformation in accelerating its renovation.
This book explores how and why the Catholic Reformation occurred, stressing that moves towards restoration were underway well before the Protestant Reformation. Michael Mullett also shows the huge impact it had not only on the papacy, Church leaders and religious ritual and practice, but also on the lives of ordinary people - their culture, arts, attitudes and relationships.
Ranging across the continent, The Catholic Reformation is an indispensable new survey which provides a wide-ranging overview of the religious, political and cultural history of the time.

Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700 (Hardcover): Rhoads Murphey Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700 (Hardcover)
Rhoads Murphey
R3,924 Discovery Miles 39 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A study of the Ottoman military machine and its successes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in a period when they were feared by western European states and the focus of much military concern. The book is intended for undergraduate courses in early modern history, Ottoman history, history of the Middle East and North Africa, and for military historians.

The Ruin of All Witches - Life and Death in the New World (Hardcover): Malcolm Gaskill The Ruin of All Witches - Life and Death in the New World (Hardcover)
Malcolm Gaskill
R821 R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Save R134 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500 (Paperback, 3rd edition): Hugh Cunningham Children and Childhood in Western Society Since 1500 (Paperback, 3rd edition)
Hugh Cunningham
R1,154 Discovery Miles 11 540 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Updated to incorporate recent scholarship on the subject, this new edition of Hugh Cunningham's classic text investigates the relationship between ideas about childhood and the actual experience of being a child, and assesses how it has changed over the span of 500 years. Through his engaging narrative Hugh Cunningham tells the story of the development of ideas from the Renaissance to the present, revealing considerable differences in the way Western societies have understood and valued childhood over time. His survey of parent/child relationships uncovers evidence of parental love, care and, in the frequent cases of child death, grief throughout the period, concluding that there was as much continuity as change in the actual relations of children and adults across these five centuries. Since the book's first publication in 1995, the volume of historical research on children and childhood has escalated hugely and is testimony to the level of concern provoked by the dominance of the negative narrative that originated in the 1970s and 1980s. A new epilogue revisits the volume from today's perspective, analysing why this negative narrative established dominance in Western society and considering how it has affected historical writing about children and childhood, enabling the reader to put both this volume and recent debates into context. Supported by an updated historiographical discussion and expanded bibliography, Children and Childhood in Western Society since 1500 remains an essential resource for students of the history of childhood, the history of the family, social history and gender history.

The East India Company: 1600 - the mid-nineteenth century (Hardcover): Patrick Tuck The East India Company: 1600 - the mid-nineteenth century (Hardcover)
Patrick Tuck
R26,746 Discovery Miles 267 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The East India Company played a major part in the growth of Britain's empire. Its functions went beyond those of a trading concern and merged military force, government and colonization with economic expansion. This six-volume work covers the history of the Company from its origins in 1599-1600 to its abolition in the wake of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. This comprehensive collection contains reprinted first-hand sources, scholarly surveys, and thematically arranged collections of recent journal articles, offering scholarly coverage of the Company's history, and presenting recent interpretations of its development.

War In The Early Modern World, 1450-1815 (Paperback): Jeremy Black War In The Early Modern World, 1450-1815 (Paperback)
Jeremy Black
R1,239 Discovery Miles 12 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A collection of essays charting the developments in military practice and warfare across the world in the early modern and modern periods.

Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio - Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna (Hardcover):... Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio - Family, Politics, Gender and Reputation in (and beyond) Renaissance Bologna (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Bernhardt
R3,968 Discovery Miles 39 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successive de facto rulers of Bologna: Sante then Giovanni II Bentivoglio. Placed twice there without a dowry by Duke Francesco Sforza as part of a larger Milanese plan, Genevra served her family by fulfilling the gendered role demanded of her by society, most notably by contributing eighteen children, accepting many illegitimates born to Giovanni II, and helping arrange their future alliances for the success of the family at large. Based on contemporary archival research conducted across Italy, this biography presents Genevra as the object of academic study for the first time. The book explores how Genevra's life-story, filled with a multitude of successes appropriate for an elite fifteenth-century female, was transformed into a concordant body of misogynistic legends about how she destroyed the Bentivoglio and the city of Bologna.

England's Long Reformation - 1500 - 1800 (Hardcover): Nicholas Tyacke England's Long Reformation - 1500 - 1800 (Hardcover)
Nicholas Tyacke
R3,914 Discovery Miles 39 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"England's Long Reformation" brings together a distinguished team of scholars, who seek to advance beyond current debates concerning the English Reformation. It puts the religious changes of the 16th century in longer perspective than has been traditional and counters the recent emphasis on the popularity of pre-Reformation Catholicism. Instead the case is argued for an underlying trajectory of evangelical activity from the 1520s. The contributors also examine some of the hybrid religious forms which developed and the propagation of the more uncompromising messages of Puritanism and Counter-Reformed Catholicism. Taking their cue fom continental historians, the authors demonstrate the insights which can be derived by taking a long view of the Reformation in England. The processes of Protestantization and indeed Christianization were involved, with each new generation needing to be won over or at least re-educated. The interaction of religion and society - particularly as regards the so-called "reformation of manners" - is another central theme. Ranging from Tudor Norwich to Hanoverian Bristol, the work collectively breaks down some of the artificial barriers created by periodization

The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe (Hardcover, New Ed): Karin Maag The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Karin Maag
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This work provides a comprehensive and multi-facetted account of the Reformation in eastern and central Europe, drawing on extensive archival research carried out by Continental and British scholars. Across a broad thematic, temporal and geographical range, the contributors examine the cultural impact of the Reformation in Eastern Europe, the encounters between different confessions, and the blend of religious and political pressures which shaped the path of Reformation in these lands. By making the fruits of their research accessible to a wider audience, the contributors hope to emphasise the important role of eastern and central Europe on the early modern European scene.

Cultivating the Renaissance - A Social History of the Medici Tuscan Villas (Paperback): Katie Campbell Cultivating the Renaissance - A Social History of the Medici Tuscan Villas (Paperback)
Katie Campbell
R1,179 Discovery Miles 11 790 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Traces the evolution of Renaissance philosophy and aesthetics, architecture, horticulture and social attitudes as reflected in the villas and gardens of the Medici family. Allowing the reader to see an alternative way to see the development of the Renaissance. This book shows the evolution of the Medici villas, from defensive farms through humanist retreats to princely palaces, charts the rise of a family from humble farmers to European royalty enabling students to see how a family could rise through the classes in early modern Italy. The Medici spearheaded the movement to rediscover the classical world; in so doing they promoted the humanist philosophy of living in harmony with nature, evolved a new ideal of villa life and created the template for Renaissance architecture. Offering students and readers alike, a clear example of how the classical world influences the Renaissance world.

The German Peasant War of 1525 - New Viewpoints (Paperback): Bob Scribner, Gerhard Benecke The German Peasant War of 1525 - New Viewpoints (Paperback)
Bob Scribner, Gerhard Benecke
R909 Discovery Miles 9 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1979, presents a series of important investigations into the German Peasant War of 1525 - the last great peasant revolt and the first modern revolution. Previously under-studied by English-speaking historians, these essays provide a valuable analysis of the aims and extent of the Peasant War, and are representative of the various elements in the historiographical debate.

Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth-Century France, Russia and China (Paperback): Roland Mousnier Peasant Uprisings in Seventeenth-Century France, Russia and China (Paperback)
Roland Mousnier
R983 Discovery Miles 9 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1971, is a close analysis of some of the typical peasant uprisings of the seventeenth century. The goal of the movements in France and China was a return to an older and more traditional society, rather than a profound transformation of the social structure. In Russia, however, the peasants attempted to overturn the rigid order of a two-class structure and replace it with a more democratic society.

Britain since 1688 - A Nation in the World (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Stephanie Barczewski, John Eglin, Stephen Heathorn,... Britain since 1688 - A Nation in the World (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Stephanie Barczewski, John Eglin, Stephen Heathorn, Michael Silvestri, Michelle Tusan
R3,790 Discovery Miles 37 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Now in its second edition, Britain since 1688 is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to British History from 1688 to the present day that assumes no prior knowledge of the subject. Chronological in structure yet thematic in approach, the book guides the reader through major events in British history from the Glorious Revolution of 1688, offering extensive coverage of the British Empire and continuing through to recent events such as Britain's exit from the European Union. Fully revised and updated using the most recent historical scholarship, this edition includes discussion of the Brexit referendum and Britain's subsequent exit from the European Union, along with increased coverage of Britain's imperial past and its legacy in the present. New sidebars on themes such as race, immigration, religion, sexuality, the presence of empire and the experience of warfare are carried across chapters to offer students current and relevant interpretations of British history. Written by a team of expert North American university professors and supported by textboxes, timelines, bibliographies, glossaries and a fully integrated companion website, this textbook provides students with a strong grounding in the rich tapestry of events, characters, and themes that encompass the history of Britain since 1688.

Politics and the Rise of the Press - Britain and France 1620-1800 (Paperback): Bob Harris Politics and the Rise of the Press - Britain and France 1620-1800 (Paperback)
Bob Harris
R1,137 Discovery Miles 11 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Politics and the Rise of the Press compares the rise of the newspaper press in Britain and France, and assesses how it influenced political life and political culture. From its social, economic and political sources, to its importance for the middling ranks in eighteenth-century British society, and its transformation after the French revolution. This detailed, comparative account, which also contains considerable original research on the early Scottish press, will be of value to all students of French and British history of the period.

Premodern Sexualities (Paperback): Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero Premodern Sexualities (Paperback)
Louise Fradenburg, Carla Freccero
R1,277 Discovery Miles 12 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Premodern Sexualities offers rigourous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating pre-modern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses on sexuality while emphasizing problems in historicist interpretation of early textulaiztions of sexualtity. Premodern Sexualities clarifies the contributions literary studies can make - thorugh its emphasis on reading strategies - to the historiography of sexuality.
Editors Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero construct a genealogy for the history of sexuality, sexual practices and sexual identities. By expanding the recent abundance of work in the history of sexuality, Fradenburh and Freccero call for a rethinking of the categories of history and sexuality in ways that mutually transform each other in the much- needed encounter between historicism and queer theory.

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