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  • The Ottoman Empire

    1300-1600

    af Halil Inalcik ...
    Covering the greatest three centuries of Turkish history, this book tells the story of the Ottoman Empire's growth into a vast Middle Eastern Power.Born as a military frontier principality at the turn of the Fourteenth century, Turkey developed into the dominant force in Anatolia and the Balkans, growing to become the most powerful Islamic state after 1517 when it incorporated the old Arab lands. ... Læs mere

    150,52 kr.

  • The Verge

    Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

    af Patrick Wyman ...
    The creator of the hit podcast series Tides of History and Fall of Rome explores the four explosive decades between 1490 and 1530, bringing to life the dramatic and deeply human story of how the West was reborn.In the bestselling tradition of The Swerve and A Distant Mirror, The Verge tells the story of a period that marked a decisive turning point for both European and world history. Here, author ... Læs mere

    71,36 kr.

  • Bound in Venice

    The Serene Republic and the Dawn of the Book

    This early history of printed literature "delves into the delectable intrigues of Renaissance Venice with a degree of detail that will mesmerize readers" ( La Repubblica).This accessible yet erudite history traces the incredible rise of publishing in the Republic of Venice, the Renaissance's era of global capital of culture and trade. While a number of Venetian innovators drove this new enterprise ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr.

  • The Portuguese Affair

    af Ann Swinfen ...
    Serier Bog 3 - Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez
    A year after defeating the Spanish Armada, England retaliates.An expedition to Portugal sets out to destroy what remains of Spain's Atlantic fleet, drive the Spanish out of Portugal, put the claimant Dom Antonio of Aviz on the throne, and seize the Azores.But from the moment the English fleet, led by Sir Francis Drake and Sir John Norreys, reaches Plymouth, things start to go wrong.Christoval ... Læs mere

    17,04 kr.

  • 1812

    Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

    af Adam Zamoyski ...
    Adam Zamoyski’s bestselling account of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and his catastrophic retreat from Moscow, events that had a profound effect on European history.In 1812 the most powerful man in the world assembled the largest army in history and marched on Moscow with the intention of consolidating his dominion. But within months, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia – history’s first example of ... Læs mere

    112,47 kr.

  • A Place of Greater Safety

    af Hilary Mantel ...
    An extraordinary work of historical imagination from the double Booker Prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, now a major TV series, this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.**Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming and handsome, ... Læs mere

    98,66 kr.

  • Shakespeare

    af Bill Bryson ...
    International bestseller Bill Bryson brings us this brilliantly readable biography of the world’s greatest playwright, William Shakespeare.Join Bill as he takes you on a journey through Elizabethan England, tackling the myths, half-truths and downright lies to make sense of the man behind the masterpieces.Revel in this glorious celebration of the life of Shakespeare from the much-loved author of ... Læs mere

    101,23 kr.

  • Inventing the Renaissance

    Myths of a Golden Age

    af Ada Palmer ...
    The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise the transformative rebirth of knowledge, art, culture and political thought in Europe. And for the last two hundred years, historians have struggled to describe what makes this famous golden age unique.In Inventing the Renaissance, ... Læs mere

    126,98 kr.

  • The Secret World of Christoval Alvarez

    af Ann Swinfen ...
    Serier Bog 1 - Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez
    England, 1586. Treason threatens the very heart of the nation.England is awash with traitors plotting to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I and bring about a foreign invasion.Young physician Christoval Alvarez, a refugee from the horrors of the Portuguese Inquisition, is coerced into becoming a code-breaker and agent in Sir Francis Walsingham's secret service at the behest of the Crown.In the race to ... Læs mere

    17,04 kr.

  • The Tyrannicide Brief

    The Story of the Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold

    Charles I waged civil wars that cost one in ten Englishmen their lives. But in 1649 parliament was hard put to find a lawyer with the skill and daring to prosecute a King who was above the law: in the end the man they briefed was the radical barrister, John Cooke.Cooke was a plebeian, son of a poor farmer, but he had the courage to bring the King's trial to its dramatic conclusion: the English ... Læs mere

    128,33 kr.

  • The Swerve

    How the Renaissance Began

    A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "swerve" known as the Renaissance.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. With excitement, he saw what he had discovered and ordered it copied. The book was a miraculously surviving copy of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of ... Læs mere

    128,33 kr.

  • Caliban and the Witch

    Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

    Serier serie Penguin Modern Classics
    'A groundbreaking work . . . Federici has become a crucial figure for . . . a new generation of feminists' Rachel Kushner, author of The Mars RoomA cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hu ... Læs mere

    111,20 kr.

  • The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England

    af Ian Mortimer ...
    Serier serie Ian Mortimer’s Time Traveller’s Guides
    The past is a foreign country - this is your guide.We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would ... Læs mere

    111,20 kr.

  • Sharpe’s Fury

    The Battle of Barrosa, March 1811

    Serier Bog 11 - The Sharpe Series
    ‘Sharpe and his creator are national treasures.' Sunday TelegraphSpain, March 1811Cadiz is under siege – the last city standing in France’s conquest of Spain. So Captain Richard Sharpe must navigate the spymasters and murderous factions within its walls – and see off deadly threats from more than one enemy.Deserted by their ailing Spanish allies, the British are heavily outnumbered as they prepare ... Læs mere

    78,76 kr.

  • Michelangelo

    Grandmaster of the Renaissance

    Michelangelo was a most improbable art genius. His mother died when he was a child and his shiftless father deposited him with a rural nursemaid, whose husband worked in a quarry. Consequently, little Michelangelo began to shape pieces of marble with his tiny hammer and chisel. At age eight, his uncle shamed his father into entering him into school, so he could at least learn to read and write. ... Læs mere

    49,36 kr.

  • Dutch Light

    Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

    'Enchanting to the point of escapism.' – Simon Ings, Spectator'Hugh Aldersey-Williams rescues his subject from Newton's shadow, where he was been unjustly confined for over three hundred years.****' – Literary ReviewFilled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens’s remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than th... ... Læs mere

    99,99 kr.

  • The Enterprise of England

    af Ann Swinfen ...
    Serier Bog 2 - Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez
    A devastating threat looms on the horizonFacing the threat of King Philip's Enterprise of England a Spanish invasion and annexation of the country Sir Francis Walsingham's espionage service spreads a vast spy network across Europe.Young physician and code-breaker Christoval Alvarez is among those agents.After caring for hundreds of maimed and wounded soldiers returning from the fall of Sluys, ... Læs mere

    17,04 kr.

  • Life in a Medieval City

    Serier Bog 1 - Medieval Life
    From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series.Evoking every aspect of city life in the Middle Ages, Life in a Medieval City depicts in detail what it was like to live in a prosperous city of Northwest Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. ... Læs mere

    92,66 kr.

  • The Private Lives of the Tudors

    A revelatory glimpse into the lives of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and more from Sunday Times bestselling author Tracy Borman

    af Tracy Borman ...
    Secrets. Silence. Scandal. This is the Tudors as you have never seen them before - as told through the eyes of the people who were ALWAYS watching.'I do not live in a corner. A thousand eyes see all I do.' Elizabeth IThe Tudor monarchs were constantly surrounded by an army of attendants, courtiers and ministers. Even in their most private moments, they were accompanied by a servant specifically ... Læs mere

    150,52 kr.

  • The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

    Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at different times experienced both papal persecution and imprisonment, and the adulation of the royal ... Læs mere

    111,20 kr.

  • Bartholomew Fair

    af Ann Swinfen ...
    Serier Bog 4 - Chronicles of Christoval Alvarez
    All is fair in love and warWhen Bartholomew Fair, London's largest public festival, is threatened in 1589 by five hundred armed soldiers dismissed from service without pay, the authorities must act swiftly and decisively to prevent trouble.Yet other unrest is brewing. Young physician and code-breaker Christoval Alvarez stumbles upon a sinister troupe of Italian puppeteers hellbent on causing chaos ... Læs mere

    17,04 kr.

  • Gross Facts about the Renaissance Scientists | Children's Renaissance History

    Before a great discovery, the Renaissance scientists had to endure long days of working in sometimes unhygienic places. You need to know these gross facts in order to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of the work these early scientists did for the sake of knowledge. Are you ready to read the dirty truth? Then open this book today! ... Læs mere

    30,82 kr.

  • Only One Thing in Life Is Constant-Change. Or, Rise, Fall, and Disappearance of Empires and Powerful Countries. :

    SHORT STORY #20. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.

    Serier Bog 20 - Nonfiction series
    Everything is changing constantly. Only one thing in life is constant—change. What was true and applicable just recently is could be absolute today.The history has witnessed the rise, fall, and disappearance of many civilizations. Recent examples: suddenly, without any warnings or predictions, the British Empire disintegrated after World War II, in 1947. What about the Oil Embargo of 1973-1974 and ... Læs mere

    7,83 kr.

  • Borders Witch Hunt

    17th Century Witchcraft Trials in the Scottish Borders

    af Mary W. Craig ...
    The years between 1600 and 1700 were a period of war, famine, plague and religious upheaval in Scotland.A time when ordinary women, and men, of the Scottish Borders who fell under the suspicion of the Kirk would face interrogation and torture.A time when fear of Auld Nick turned the world upside down and the cry of witch would almost always lead to the rope and the flame.Mary Craig explores this ... Læs mere

    83,11 kr.