Trent and All That. Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era, Paperback - John W. O'Malley

John W. O'Malley works out a remarkable guide to the intellectual and historical developments behind the concepts of Catholic reform, the Counter R...

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Publisher: Academic Studies PressAuthor(s): Alessandro GuettaNumber of pages: 300Collection: Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual LifePublication da...

Reducere. A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world--the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus' c...

In 1869, some seven hundred Catholic bishops traveled to Rome to participate in the first church-wide council in three hundred years. The French Re...

What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies.Editor(s): Manuel...

A comparative study of the colleges established by Irish, English and Scots Catholics across Europe through the early modern period. -- .

Examines Catholic engagement in the Holy Land, a place of immense spiritual significance for Christians, Muslims and Jews. It explores its spiritua...

In the 19th century, when gender roles were more confining, the dominant forms of psychosomatic illness were paralysis and hysteria. Today, when pe...

Reducere. Newly updated with chapter on 1918 Spanish flu and 2020 Coronavirus. In today's world conspiracy theories abound. What is the actual history of fal...

Lumbering State, Restless Society offers a comprehensive and compelling understanding of modern Egypt. Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): OEzge Baykan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) CalafatoIllustration(s): 110 colour illusNum...

Populism, on both the right and the left, has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and the United States and is making inroads in other parts of ...

Reducere. Learn history the fun way in an entertaining and informative series of books about key people from Scotland's history

Intelligence and Metadrama in the Early Modern Theatre offers insight into why the early modern stage abounds with informer and intelligencer figures.

This book explores the phenomenon of firsting in primary and secondary sources about the early modern Atlantic world, while proposing ways through ...

New for the And All That Series, this book explores the savage history of the Vikings.

Reducere. Follow hot-blooded Mary's lifelong rivalry with her frosty cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England and discover why the Queen of Scots gets her head c...

This book explores the relationship between Shakespeare's most famous tragedies and the genre of 'domestic tragedy': plays about murder and adulter...

Money management for teenagers. Everything they need to know to understand money and make the most of their cash.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 48 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Collection: The Cultural Histories SeriesPublication date: 2022...

This volume explores the theme of religious and political practices in early modern Britain. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressIllustration...

Seafaring activity for trade and travel was dominant throughout the Spanish Empire, and in the worldview and imagination of its inhabitants, the sp...

Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe examines the important roles of women who campaigned with armies from 1500 to 1815. This included...

Dinosaurs have taken over the Earth! They're stomping and stamping all over the place.

One of the most well-loved and best-selling humour titles of all time.

Reducere. European exploration and conquest expanded exponentially in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and as the horizons of imperial experience ...

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A compelling account of the early period of expeditionary archaeology and photography told through the words and works of six pioneers.Publisher: D...

Reducere. The big Horn Basin of northern Wyoming was one of the last frontiers in the continental United States. With settlers did not arrive until 1879, whe...

Everything you've ever wanted to know about sex, puberty and a whole lot more

"Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and six...

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

Reducere. Technically speaking, slavery was not legal in the English-speaking world before the mid-seventeenth century. But long before race-based slavery wa...

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This book showcases the wide variety of commercial cosmopolitan practices that arose from the global economic entanglements of the early modern per...

DescriptionAt the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they ...

A guide for those seeking an all-encompassing history and introduction to the basics of Catholicism. It includes insight into Mass, Saints, the chu...

By the eighteenth century, personal networks bound together the widening British world. In The Opened Letter, Lindsay O'Neill argues that the Briti...

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and exp...

Reducere. Captives and Corsairs uncovers the forgotten story of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousa...

This book is designed to make mathematics accessible, interesting and entertaining to the non-expert: it will appeal to interested lay readers, sch...

Some years ago, for no obvious reason, Paul Whiteman felt compelled to analyse the mystical number 666, also known as the number of The Beast. His ...

Reducere. Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines wh...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): James T. LapsleyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 24Cover type:...

DescriptionEmerging at the turn of the seventeenth century, the Dutch Republic rose to become a powerhouse of economic growth, artistic creativity,...

Reducere. The religious refugee first emerged as a mass phenomenon in the late fifteenth century. Over the following two and a half centuries, millions of Je...

Reducere. Uses the history of Curacao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of soci...

A fascinating and hilarious gallop through Twentieth Century British history by comedian Al Murray

DescriptionAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying ...