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“melita thomas”

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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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  • Legends of the Renaissance: The Life and Legacy of Cesare Borgia

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Analyzes Cesare's legacy and how it endured over the centuries.*Examines the legends and rumors surrounding Cesare's life in an attempt to separate fact from fiction.*Includes pictures depicting Cesare and other important people in his life.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. "Cesare Borgia was considered cruel; nonetheless, that cruelty united Romagna and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570)

    L'arte et prudenza d'un maestro cuoco (The Art and Craft of a Master Cook)

    by Terence Scully ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500-1577) was arguably the most famous chef of the Italian Renaissance. He oversaw the preparation of meals for several Cardinals and was such a master of his profession that he became the personal cook for two Popes. At the culmination of his prolific career he compiled the largest cookery treatise of the period to instruct an apprentice on the full craft of fine cuisine, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance

    by Henry Kamen ...

    $25.19 USD

  • The Matter of Mind

    Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes

    by Christopher Braider ...
    What influence did René Descartes' concept of mind-body dualism have on early modern conceptions of the self? In The Matter of Mind, Christopher Braider challenges the presumed centrality of Descartes' groundbreaking theory to seventeenth-century French culture. He details the broad opposition to rational self-government among Descartes' contemporaries, and attributes conventional links between ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Chevalier Bayard

    A Study in Fading Chivalry

    by Samuel Shellabarger ...
    A Study in Fading Chivalry by a Professor of History at Princeton University.Pierre Bayard belonged to a generation of men so fully absorbed in the sport of war that decades of their lives were often spent in battle following the whims of kings whom they believed acted on their behalf in an evil world. Their ideals were few and clear: duty, the service of honor, and the responsibility of noblesse ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Eyewitness Accounts London's Great Plague

    by Samuel Pepys ...
    Series series Eyewitness Accounts
    On 30 April 1665, the diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the first rumours that the bubonic plague was spreading through London: 'Great fears of the sickness here in the City - God preserve us all!' Thought to have come by ship from Amsterdam, which had been ravaged by the disease for two years, the Plague reached its height in August and September 1665, when over 7,000 Londoners were dying every week. ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • 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

  • Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500�1800

    by Alisha Rankin ...
    Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from nature, new recipes for medical and alchemical procedures, new knowledge about the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Famine and Scarcity in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

    The Regulation of Grain Marketing, 1256–1631

    by Buchanan Sharp ...
    Surveying government and crowd responses ranging from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era, Buchanan Sharp's illuminating study examines how the English government responded to one of the most intractable problems of the period: famine and scarcity. The book provides a comprehensive account of famine relief in the late Middle Ages and evaluates the extent to which traditional ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany

    Memory, Power and Community

    by Dean Phillip Bell ...
    Although Jews in early modern Germany produced little in the way of formal historiography, Jews nevertheless engaged the past for many reasons and in various and surprising ways. They narrated the past in order to enforce order, empower authority, and record the traditions of their communities. In this way, Jews created community structure and projected that structure into the future. But Jews ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Writing of the English Revolution

    Edited by N. H. Keeble ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of fifteen essays by leading scholars examines the extraordinary diversity and richness of the writing produced in response to, and as part of, the upheaval in the religious, political and cultural life of the nation which constituted the English Revolution. The turmoil of the civil wars fought out from 1639 to 1651, the shock of the execution of Charles I, and the uncertainty of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD