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  • Salonica, City of Ghosts

    Christians, Muslims and Jews (Text Only)

    by Mark Mazower ...
    Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.The history of a bewilderingly exotic city, rarely written about: five hundred years of clashing cultures and peoples, from the glories of Suleiman the Magnificent to its nadir under Nazi occupation.Salonica is the point where the wonders and horrors of the Orient and Europe have met over the centuries.Written with a Pepysian sense of ... Read more

    10,48 €

  • The Renaissance: A History from Beginning to End

    by Hourly History ...
    During the Middle Ages, the nations of Europe forged new identities that moved them away from the lost glory of the Roman Empire into their own ethnicity. The experience of maturation was often clumsy and out of step, an evolutionary process that saw the nation's developing at their own pace as they struggled to replace the protection of Rome with their own home-grown strength. What the nations, ... Read more

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  • The Florentines

    From Dante to Galileo

    by Paul Strathern ...
    Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly change in a striking fashion. Likewise, the thought and self-conception of humanity would take on a completely different aspect. Sciences would be born - or emerge in an entirely new guise.In this ... Read more

    11,12 €

  • Captives

    Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850

    by Linda Colley ...
    Ranging over a quarter of a millennium and four continents, Captives uncovers the experiences and writings of those tens of thousands of men and women who took part in Britain's rise to imperial pre-eminence, but who got caught and caught out. Here are the stories of Sarah Shade, a camp follower imprisoned alongside defeated British legions in Southern India; of Joseph Pitts, white slave and ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • Magnifico

    The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici

    by Miles J. Unger ...
    Series series An Italian Renaissance History
    A vividly colorful portrait of one of the greatest and most fascinating figures of the Renaissance, Lorenzo de' Medici, focusing on his role as a brilliant—sometimes ruthless—statesman who was responsible for the artistic flowering of Florence, the city where the Renaissance first blossomed.Lorenzo de' Medici—a leading statesman, the uncrowned ruler of Florence during its golden age, a true ... Read more

    18,33 €

  • A People without a Past

    Between Three Plagues Volume 2

    by Jaan Kross ...
    The second part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writerThe year is 1563, and by any account Balthasar Russow can be said to have risen in the world. Fresh from his studies in the German town of Stetten, he has assumed the role as pastor of Tallinn's Holy Ghost Church. Moreover, he is betrothed to a maiden of the town - much to the ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Alexandria

    The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' – Daily Telegraph

    by Islam Issa ...
    'Fascinating and important' Natalie Haynes, author of Stone Blind 'Monumental and vividly imagined' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Wonderfully entertaining' SUNDAY TIMESA SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAROn a sparsely populated Egyptian coastline, Alexander the Great sketched his vision of a metropolis into the sand. Situated on the cusp of three co... ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • France

    A History: from Gaul to de Gaulle

    by John Julius Norwich ...
    'For his final book, the late Norwich tackled the dauntingly vast subject of two millennia of French history with admirable lightness and urbanity . . . his comic footnotes deserve a review of their own' DAILY TELEGRAPHI can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly ... Read more

    5,49 €

  • Survivre

    Une histoire des guerres de Religion

    by Jérémie Foa ...
    Dans le monde incertain des guerres de Religion (1562-1598), survivre est tout un art. Comment mentir, se déguiser, s’échapper, simuler ou dissimuler sa confession religieuse ? Comment se faufiler, tromper ou surprendre son adversaire ? Quelles sont, en somme, les tactiques pour tenir dans un monde soudain hostile, dans lequel le voisin peut dénoncer, le boucher empoisonner, votre accent vous ... Read more

    11,99 €

  • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

    by Jacob Burckhardt ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    Jacob Burckhardt was born in 1818 in Basel, Switzerland. He studied history at the University of Berlin and taught art history and the Italian Renaissance in Berlin and Basel. His essay, as he called The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, was first published in 1860. Rich in its detailed account of the arts, fashions, manners, and thought of one of the most innovative eras in human history, ... Read more

    4,10 €

  • The Ropewalker

    Between Three Plagues Volume I

    by Jaan Kross ...
    Translated by Merike Lepasaar Beecher ...
    The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writerJaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the effects of the Livonian War on the peasantry of what is now Estonia. Like Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell, Russow is a diamond in the rough, a ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Inventing the Renaissance

    Myths of a Golden Age

    by 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, ... Read more

    11,44 €

  • Religion and the Decline of Magic

    Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England

    by Sir Keith Thomas ...
    Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • François 1er

    by Max Gallo ...
    Dans la flamboyance d'un siècle passionnant, un des rois qui ont fait la France25 janvier 1515. François Ier est sacré à Reims.Dès le mois de septembre suivant, à Marignan, il devient Roi-Chevalier, adoubé à sa demande par Bayard. Il n'a de cesse d'imposer son autorité face à ses puissants voisins, Henri VIII, roi d'Angleterre, et surtout Charles Quint, qui forge le Saint-Empire. En s'alliant avec ... Read more

    12,99 €

  • The Verge

    Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World

    by 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 ... Read more

    Was 10,99 € Now 9,49 €

  • Last Wills and Testaments: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Samuel Kline Cohn ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    9,78 €

  • История инквизиции

    by Генри Чарльз Ли, Genry Charlz Li ...
    Series Book 34 - Osteon
    Монография американского ученого Генри Чарльза Ли признана одним из лучших, полных и обстоятельных изданий, посвященных такому интересному и противоречивому периоду в истории Церкви, как инквизиция. Этот труд, некогда вызвавший настоящую сенсацию в Европе, — глубокое и беспристрастное изучение причин зарождения инквизиции, биографий ее служителей, архивных документов разных стран и времен. ... Read more

    1,55 €

  • The Ultimate Borgia Collection

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Includes:•Charles River Editors original biographies of Lucrezia, Cesare, and Rodrigo Borgia•Ferdinand Gregorovius biography of Lucrezia•Raphael Sabatinis The Life of Cesare Borgia•Arnold Mathews The Life and Times of Rodrigo Borgia , Pope Alexander VIAlexander never did what he said.Cesare never said what he did. Italian ProverbThe stories and legends attributed to the Borgias have made them one ... Read more

    4,61 €

  • The Richest Girl in England

    by Lita-Rose Betcherman ...
    Katherine Manners was the richest girl in England, a Catholic, and wife to the notorious George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham. George's reputation spiralled until his bloody assassination. Kate's second marriage to Randal, Earl of Antrim, lead to her participation in the 1638 rebellions against the king. She was a woman behind great men, and this is her definitive biography. ... Read more

    3,82 €

  • Galileo, Michelangelo and Da Vinci: Invention and Discovery in the Time of the Renaissance

    by Baby Professor ...
    This book must be one of the best references in the science’s invention department of the renaissance. Featuring three of the greatest men on history, this book is your lightweight partner in the academe and even your career life. You need this and you know that. Get a copy of this book now. ... Read more

    4,11 €

  • Daughters of the North

    Jean Gordon and Mary, Queen of Scots

    by Jennifer Morag Henderson ...
    Longlisted for the 2022 Highland Book PrizeMary, Queen of Scots’ marriage to the Earl of Bothwell is notorious. Less known is Bothwell’s first wife, Jean Gordon, who extricated herself from their marriage and survived the intrigue of the Queen’s court.Daughters of the North reframes this turbulent period in history by focusing on Jean, who became Countess of Sutherland, following her from her ... Read more

    15,36 €

  • 999. Den sidste vogter

    by Carlo A. Martigli ...
    Translated by Thomas Harder ...
    September 2009. Guido de Mola modtager en mystisk pakke, som indeholder en håndskreven tekst og et ældgammelt manuskript, der ser ud til at stamme fra renæssancen. De to dokumenter afslører for ham, at hans slægt vogter over en utrolig hemmelighed om den store renæssancefilosof Giovanni Pico della Mirandola og hans esoteriske teorier. Nu er det Guidos tur til at vogte over hemmeligheden. En ... Read more

    6,21 €

  • Merchant Writers

    Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    by Vittore Branca, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini ...
    Translated by Murtha Baca ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of account books, memoirs, and diaries. Written by ordinary men, these first-hand accounts of commercial ... Read more

    55,96 €

  • Leonardo Da Vinci's Role in the Renaissance | Children's Renaissance History

    by Baby Professor ...
    Leonardo Da Vinci was a great man with many achievements. In fact, he was one of those who made the Renaissance the Renaissance. In this book, we're going to take a look at the life and words of Leonardo. There will be plenty of pictures to showcase his works too! Have you seen his works at a museum before? ... Read more

    4,11 €