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  • Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England

    by Loretta Dolan ...
    Nurture and Neglect: Childhood in Sixteenth-Century Northern England addresses a number of anomalies in the existing historiography surrounding the experience of children in urban and rural communities in sixteenth-century northern England. In contrast to much recent scholarship that has focused on affective parent-child relationships, this study directly engages with the question of what ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    The earliest known and longest lasting mistress of Henry VIII, Bessie Blount was the kings first love. More beautiful that Anne Boleyn or any of Henrys other wives or concubines, Bessies beauty and other charms ensured that she turned heads, winning a place at court as one of Catherine of Aragons ladies. Within months she was partnering the king in dancing and she rose to be the woman with the ... Read more

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  • How To Be a Tudor

    A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life

    by Ruth Goodman ...
    Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPRA New York Times Book Review Editors Choice SelectionAn erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England, "Goodman's latest…is a revelation" (New York Times Book Review).On the heels of her triumphant How to Be a Victorian, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period ... Read more

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  • Da Vinci: His Life and His Legacy

    by Catherine McGrew Jaime ...
    What makes this book different from others about Leonardo? Catherine takes a topical look at da Vinci's life - covering not just his artistic accomplishments, but also his mathematics work, his engineering work, his inventions, and much more.Most books on Da Vinci for kids have very little information, and those geared for adults generally have too much. This book is complete enough to give a good ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's London

    Everyday Life in London 1580-1616

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city. Shakespeare's London was a bustling, teeming metropolis that was growing so rapidly that the government took repeated, and ineffectual, steps to curb its expansion. From contemporary letters, journals and diaries, a vivid picture emerges of this fascinating city, with its many opportunities and also its ... Read more

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  • The Alchemy Reader

    From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton

    Edited by Stanton J. Linden ...
    The Alchemy Reader is a collection of primary source readings on alchemy and hermeticism, which offers readers an informed introduction and background to a complex field through the works of important ancient, medieval and early modern alchemical authors. Including selections from the legendary Hermes Trimegistus to Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton, the book illustrates basic definitions, conceptions ... Read more

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  • The King's Pearl

    Henry VIII and His Daughter Mary

    by Melita Thomas ...
    Mary Tudor has always been known as ‘Bloody Mary’, the name given to her by later Protestant chroniclers who vilified her for attempting to re-impose Roman Catholicism in England. Although a more nuanced picture of the first queen regnant has since emerged, she is still stereotyped, depicted as a tragic and lonely figure, personally and politically isolated after the annulment of her parents’ ... Read more

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  • The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe

    Edited by Kenneth Borris, George S. Rousseau ...
    The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe investigates early modern scientific accounts of same-sex desires and the shapes they assumed in everyday life. It explores the significance of those representations and interpretations from around 1450 to 1750, long before the term homosexuality was coined and accrued its current range of cultural meanings.This collection establishes that ... Read more

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  • The Renaissance World

    Edited by John Jeffries Martin ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series, offers a sweeping survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world.Collating thirty ... Read more

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  • Divided Kingdom

    Ireland 1630-1800

    by S.J. Connolly ...
    Series series Oxford History of Early Modern Europe
    For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious and political ... Read more

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  • The Dasmari�ases, Early Governors of the Spanish Philippines

    by John Newsome Crossley ...
    Building upon Dr Crossley's 2011 book ('Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age') this new work further expands our understanding of the Spanish Philippines by looking at Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas and his son Luis, successive governors from 1589. Drawing upon a rich selection of documents from the official Spanish archives (principally the Archivo General de Indias, ... Read more

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  • Scandalous Liaisons

    Charles II and his Court

    by R. E. Pritchard ...
    Scandalous Liaisons tells the story of the most hedonistic, loose-living court in English history, from Charles II’s youthful years and mistresses in France, to his tempestuous relationship with the hot-tempered, sexually and financially voracious Barbara Villiers. Of Charles’s mistresses, everybody’s favourite was the perky Cockney actress, Nell Gwyn. Nell and the French aristocrat (and not ... Read more

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