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“gregory d dodds”

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  • Exploiting Erasmus

    The Erasmian Legacy and Religious Change in Early Modern England

    by Gregory D. Dodds ...
    Desiderius Erasmus' humanist works were influential throughout Europe, in various areas of thought including theology, education, philology, and political theory. Exploiting Erasmus examines the legacy of Erasmus in England from the mid-sixteenth century to the overthrow of James II in 1688 and studies the various ways in which his works were received, manipulated, and used in religious ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • The Queen's Bed

    An Intimate History of Elizabeth's Court

    by Anna Whitelock ...
    From the private world of a beloved English queen, a story of intimacy, royalty, espionage, rumor, and subterfugeQueen Elizabeth I acceded to the throne in 1558, restoring the Protestant faith to England. At the heart of the new queen's court lay her bedchamber, closely guarded by the favored women who helped her dress, looked after her jewels, and shared her bed.Elizabeth's private life was of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Civil War

    The History of England Volume III

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Series Book 3 - The History of England
    Step into the tumultuous age of Stuart England with Peter Ackroyd's enlightening Civil War. Beginning with James I, the first Scottish king of England, it tracks an era of massive upheaval, ending with the dramatic flight of his grandson, James II, into exile.Civil War transports you to the heart of the 17th-century Britain, where you meet figures like James I with his shrewd perspectives on ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Galileo

    by John L. Heilbron ...
    Just over four hundred years ago, in 1610, Galileo published the Siderius nuncius, or Starry Messenger, a 'hurried little masterpiece' in John Heilbron's words. Presenting to the world his remarkable observations using the recently invented telescope - of the craters of the moon, and the satellites of Jupiter, observations that forced changes to perceptions of the perfection of the heavens and the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Sacred Trash

    The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza

    by Adina Hoffman, Peter Cole ...
    Series series Jewish Encounters Series
    **NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FINALISTPart of the Jewish Encounter series**One May day in 1896, at a dining-room table in Cambridge, England, a meeting took place between a Romanian-born maverick Jewish intellectual and twin learned Presbyterian Scotswomen, who had assembled to inspect several pieces of rag paper and parchment. It was the unlikely start to what would prove a remarkable, continent ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Concise History of Hungary

    by Miklós Molnár ...
    Translated by Anna Magyar ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the elections of 1988. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people which became a great power in the region and then fought against - and was invaded by - Ottomans, Germans and Soviets. The Hungarian people preserved ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Origins of Nationalism

    An Alternative History from Ancient Rome to Early Modern Germany

    by Caspar Hirschi ...
    In this wide-ranging work, Caspar Hirschi offers new perspectives on the origins of nationalism and the formation of European nations. Based on extensive study of written and visual sources dating from the ancient to the early modern period, the author re-integrates the history of pre-modern Europe into the study of nationalism, describing it as an unintended and unavoidable consequence of the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Kings & Queens of Scotland

    by Timothy Venning ...
    The kingdom of Scots was the last of the non-Anglo-Saxon states of Britain to survive as a political entity. Alone of the ‘Celtic’ nations, it was not absorbed into England by conquest. James VI of Scotland came to the throne of England in 1603, and when union with England finally came in 1707 during the reign of Queen Anne, it was technically on equal terms. This success owed much to the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Redeeming The Prince

    The Meaning of Machiavelli's Masterpiece

    by Maurizio Viroli ...
    A fresh introduction to—and bold new interpretation of—Machiavelli's PrinceIn Redeeming "The Prince, " one of the world's leading Machiavelli scholars puts forth a startling new interpretation of arguably the most influential but widely misunderstood book in the Western political tradition. Overturning popular misconceptions and challenging scholarly consensus, Maurizio Viroli also provides a ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The English Parliaments of Henry VII 1485-1504

    by P.R. Cavill ...
    Series series Oxford Historical Monographs
    P.R. Cavill offers a major reinterpretation of early Tudor constitutional history. In the grand 'Whig' tradition, the parliaments of Henry VII were a disappointing retreat from the onward march towards parliamentary democracy. The king was at best indifferent and at worst hostile to parliament; its meetings were cowed and quiescent, subservient to the royal will. Yet little research has tested ... Read more

    $128.79 CAD

  • Books and Readers in Early Modern England

    Material Studies

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Raphael’s Ostrich

    by Una Roman D’Elia ...
    Raphael’s Ostrich begins with a little-studied aspect of Raphael’s painting—the ostrich, which appears as an attribute of Justice, painted in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican. Una Roman D’Elia traces the cultural and artistic history of the ostrich from its appearances in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to the menageries and grotesque ornaments of sixteenth-century Italy. Following the complex ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD