Early Modern History, c.1400-1800
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The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
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Carlo Ginzburg
4.01 avg rating β 6,664 ratings 2. 
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1: The Structures of Everyday Life
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Fernand Braudel
4.35 avg rating β 1,711 ratings 3. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating β 75,028 ratings 4. 
The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
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Christopher Hill
4.13 avg rating β 1,381 ratings 5. 
The Petrine Instauration: Religion, Esotericism and Science at the Court of Peter the Great, 1689-1725 (Aries Book Series -Texts and Studies in Western Esotericism, 14)
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Robert Collis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
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Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment: Scotland, 1670 - 1740 4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Witch hunting, magic, and the new philosophy: An introduction to debates of the scientific revolution, 1450-1750
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Brian Easlea
4.17 avg rating β 12 ratings 10. 
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
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Tracy Borman
4.20 avg rating β 2,581 ratings 
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King Sigismund of Poland and Martin Luther: The Reformation before Confessionalization 4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Susan Dackerman
4.29 avg rating β 14 ratings 
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Chariots of Ladies: Francesc Eiximenis and the Court Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Iberia it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Printed in Utopia: The Renaissanceβs Radicalism
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Ed Simon
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 5 ratings 15. 
Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image (Intersections, 39)
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Walter S. Melion
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 15. 
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
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Dava Sobel
3.75 avg rating β 30,046 ratings 20. 
Unfit For Marriage: Impotent Spouses On Trial In The Basque Region Of Spain, 1650-1750 4.18 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Treating the Public: Charitable Theater and Civic Health in the Early Modern Atlantic World
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Rachael Ball
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
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The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721 (Modern Wars in Perspective series)
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Robert I. Frost
3.91 avg rating β 58 ratings 24. 
Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science
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Marco Beretta
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 24. 
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol 2: The Wheels of Commerce
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Fernand Braudel
4.46 avg rating β 578 ratings 24. 
Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
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Olivia Weisser
4.33 avg rating β 12 ratings 
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Cognitive Confusions: Dreams, Delusions and Illusions in Early Modern Culture
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Ita MacCarthy
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 29. 
Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 3: The Perspective of the World
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Fernand Braudel
4.42 avg rating β 478 ratings 29. 
Women on the Early Modern Stage: A Woman Killed with Kindness, The Tamer Tamed, The Duchess of Malfi, The Witch of Edmonton
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Emma Smith
4.20 avg rating β 15 ratings 29. 
Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
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David Cordingly
3.68 avg rating β 10,103 ratings 34. 
The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569
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Robert I. Frost
4.29 avg rating β 51 ratings 34. 
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Tudor and Stuart Seafarers: The Emergence of a Maritime Nation, 1485-1707
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James Davey
4.10 avg rating β 10 ratings 38. 
Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy Of Modernity 4.14 avg rating β 37 ratings
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Alchemical Imagery in the Works of Quirinus Kuhlmann (1651 - 1689)
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Eugene Kuzmin
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 38. 
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
by:
Keith Thomas
4.17 avg rating β 1,546 ratings 38. 
Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450-1650
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Carlos M.N. Eire
4.34 avg rating β 431 ratings 38. 
Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail
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Marcus Rediker
3.83 avg rating β 154 ratings 43. 
The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795
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Daniel Stone
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 16 ratings 43. 
The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France
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Paul Duro
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 43. 
Malevolent Nurture: Witch-Hunting and Maternal Power in Early Modern England
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Deborah Willis
3.85 avg rating β 27 ratings 46. 
The Military Revolution Debate: Readings On The Military Transformation Of Early Modern Europe 3.94 avg rating β 62 ratings
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Ideas and Cultural Margins in Early Modern Germany really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Baroque Antiquity: Archaeological Imagination in Early Modern Europe really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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A History of Science, Magic and Belief: From Medieval to Early Modern Europe 3.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Renaissance Military Memoirs: War, History and Identity, 1450-1600 (Warfare in History, 18) 3.55 avg rating β 47 ratings
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Renaissance Mad Voyages: Experiments in Early Modern English Travel
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Anthony Parr
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 52. 
Cunning-Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic
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Emma Wilby
4.40 avg rating β 277 ratings 55. 
The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe
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Theodore K. Rabb
3.59 avg rating β 37 ratings 55. 
Be Sober and ReasonableThe Critique of Enthusiasm in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
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Michael Heyd
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
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Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe: The Clandestine Trade In Illegal Book Collections it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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The Devil's Art: Divination and Discipline in Early Modern Germany
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Jason Philip Coy
3.20 avg rating β 5 ratings 60. 
Prints in Translation, 1450-1750: Image, Materiality, Space
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EdwardH. Wouk
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 61. 
Printed Pandemonium: Popular Print and Politics in the Netherlands 1650-72
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Michel Reinders
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 61. 
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World
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Patrick Wyman
4.15 avg rating β 2,482 ratings 
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Barbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865
by:
Wayne E. Lee
4.41 avg rating β 29 ratings 66. 
Fabulous Ireland- Β«Ibernia FabulosaΒ»: Imagining Ireland in Renaissance Italy
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Eric Haywood
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 66. 
Katie Luther, First Lady of the Reformation: The Unconventional Life of Katharina von Bora
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Ruth A. Tucker
3.02 avg rating β 128 ratings 69. 
Aretino's Satyr: Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Heretics and Heroes: How Renaissance Artists and Reformation Priests Created Our World
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Thomas Cahill
3.80 avg rating β 1,583 ratings 71. 
Handbook of Renaissance Meteorology; With particular reference to Elizabethan and Jacobean literature
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S.K. Heninger
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 71. 
The Serpent and the Lamb: Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation
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Steven E. Ozment
3.72 avg rating β 47 ratings 73. 
The Tarsias by Lorenzo Lotto: A Route between Bible and Alchemy
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Fernando Noris
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
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The Semiotics of Rape in Renaissance English Literature
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Lee A. Ritscher
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 75. 
The Age of Reform, 1250-1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe
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Steven E. Ozment
4.02 avg rating β 299 ratings 
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Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance
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Ramie Targoff
3.85 avg rating β 644 ratings 79. 
The Saint and the Chopped-Up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 4.40 avg rating β 5 ratings
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Cardanoβs Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer
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Anthony Grafton
3.82 avg rating β 51 ratings 81. 
Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England: Illicit Sex and the Nobility
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Johanna Rickman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings 
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When the Bad Bleeds: Mantic Elements in English Renaissance Revenge Tragedy
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Imke Pannen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 83. 
Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution 4.07 avg rating β 212 ratings
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Male Delivery: Reproduction, Effeminacy, and Pregnant Men in Early Modern Spain
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Sherry Velasco
4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings 85. 
Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England
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Katherine Eggert
3.43 avg rating β 7 ratings 87. 
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The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
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Ross King
3.99 avg rating β 2,188 ratings 89. 
Hot Dry Men Cold Wet Women: The Theory of Humors in Western European Art 1575-1700 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings, Etchings & Woodcuts
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Susan Dackerman
4.20 avg rating β 5 ratings 91. 
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Alchemy and Rudolf II: Exploring the Secrets of Nature in Central Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries
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Ivo PurΕ‘
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
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Pain, Pleasure and Perversity: Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England 4.17 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Perfection Proclaimed: Language and Literature in English Radical Religion 1640-1660
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Nigel Smith
3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings 97. 
Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy 4.40 avg rating β 10 ratings
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Ways of Knowing in Early Modern Germany: Johannes Praetorius As a Witness to His Time 3.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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Ross King
3.91 avg rating β 27,851 ratings