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Early Modern History, c.1400-1800
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Ghost Stories in Late Renaissance France: Walking by Night (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
by:
Timothy Chesters
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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English Mythography in its European Context, 1500-1650
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Anna-Maria Hartmann
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Renaissance Woman: The Life of Vittoria Colonna
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Ramie Targoff
3.83 avg rating β 115 ratings
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All the World is a Stage - Art and Pageantry in the Renaissance and Baroque
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Barbara Wisch
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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A Magical World: Superstition and Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
by:
Derek K. Wilson
3.08 avg rating β 118 ratings
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Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland, 1500-1800
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Wanda Wyporska
3.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Reflections of Renaissance England: Life, Thought, and Religion Mirrored in Illustrated Pamphlets, 1535-1640 (Princeton Theological Monograph)
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Marie-Helene Davies
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Tides in the Affairs of Men: The Social History of Elizabethan Seamen, 1580-1603
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Cheryl Fury
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Nostradamus: How an Obscure Renaissance Astrologer Became the Modern Prophet of Doom
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Stephane Gerson
3.21 avg rating β 33 ratings
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Horrid Spectacle: Violation in the Theater of Early Modern England
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Deborah G. Burks
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague
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Peter H. Marshall
3.74 avg rating β 165 ratings
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For All Waters: Finding Ourselves in Early Modern Wetscapes
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Duckert
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science
by:
Philip Ball
3.88 avg rating β 298 ratings
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The Day the Renaissance Was Saved: The Battle of Anghiari and da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece
by:
NiccolΓ² Capponi
3.08 avg rating β 24 ratings
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In the Company of Demons: Unnatural Beings, Love, and Identity in the Italian Renaissance
by:
Armando Maggi
4.10 avg rating β 10 ratings
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The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society
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A.L. Rowse
3.55 avg rating β 40 ratings
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Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
by:
Miriam Eliav-Feldon
4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice
by:
Iain Alexander Fenlon
3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings
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Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance
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Andrew Hadfield
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
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Lisa Jardine
3.81 avg rating β 347 ratings
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Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance: Johann Weyer, De Praestigiis Daemonum
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Johann Weyer
4.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
by:
Jim Al-Khalili
3.95 avg rating β 1,478 ratings
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The Poetry of Kissing in Early Modern Europe: From the Catullan Revival to Secundus, Shakespeare and the English Cavaliers (Studies in Renaissance Literature, 34) (Volume 34)
by:
Alex Wong
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Fatal Rivalry: Flodden, 1513: Henry VIII and James IV and the Decisive Battle for Renaissance Britain
by:
George Goodwin
3.86 avg rating β 176 ratings
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Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare
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Sophie Chiari
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Machiavelli: A Renaissance Life
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Joseph Markulin
3.94 avg rating β 69 ratings
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Travels Through Stuart Britain: The Adventures of John Taylor, the Water Poet
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John Taylor
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
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Chet Van Duzer
3.95 avg rating β 204 ratings
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Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe: The Iconography of Power (European Festival Studies: 1450-1700)
by:
J.R. Mulryne
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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A Great and Glorious Adventure: A History of the Hundred Years War and the Birth of Renaissance England
by:
Gordon Corrigan
3.71 avg rating β 150 ratings
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Commemorating the Polish Renaissance Child
by:
Jeannie Labno
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty
by:
Alexander Lee
3.38 avg rating β 851 ratings
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Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany
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Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Wise King: A Christian Prince, Muslim Spain, and the Birth of the Renaissance
by:
Simon R. Doubleday
3.57 avg rating β 104 ratings
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Unbridled Tongue: Babble and Gossip in Renaissance France
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Emily Butterworth
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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Elizabeth Lev
4.07 avg rating β 2,809 ratings
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The Self Aware Image: An Insight Into Early Modern Meta-Painting
by:
Victor Ieronim StoichiΘΔ
4.48 avg rating β 29 ratings
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The Renaissance: A Short History
by:
Paul Johnson
3.67 avg rating β 938 ratings
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Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome: Giulio Mancini and the Efficacy of Art
by:
Frances Gage
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Luther's Fortress: Martin Luther and His Reformation Under Siege
by:
James Reston Jr.
3.90 avg rating β 115 ratings
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Emblematic Monsters: Unnatural Conceptions and Deformed Births in Early Modern Europe (77)
by:
A.W. Bates
4.83 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536
by:
James Reston Jr.
4.03 avg rating β 781 ratings
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Mysteriously Meant: The Rediscovery of Pagan Symbolism and Allegorical Interpretation in the Renaissance
by:
Professor Don Cameron Allen
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition, and the Defeat of the Moors
by:
James Reston Jr.
3.87 avg rating β 959 ratings
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Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology
by:
Jeff Persels
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492
by:
Alfred W. Crosby
3.96 avg rating β 1,083 ratings
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Music, Science And Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
by:
Penelope Gouk
4.50 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
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Charles M. Hudson
4.31 avg rating β 164 ratings
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Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah, 1626-1676
by:
Gershom Scholem
4.34 avg rating β 151 ratings
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Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766
by:
Fred Anderson
4.19 avg rating β 4,236 ratings
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Weakness of Will in Renaissance and Reformation Thought
by:
Risto Saarinen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
by:
Jill Lepore
3.94 avg rating β 2,177 ratings
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The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy
by:
Brian Curran
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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Nathaniel Philbrick
3.89 avg rating β 45,342 ratings
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The Sky in Early Modern English Literature: A Study of Allusions to Celestial Events in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing, 1572-1620
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David H. Levy
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Slave Ship: A Human History
by:
Marcus Rediker
4.12 avg rating β 2,152 ratings
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The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870
by:
Hugh Thomas
3.99 avg rating β 576 ratings
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World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination
by:
Allison B. Kavey
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
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The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717
by:
Alan Gallay
4.02 avg rating β 181 ratings
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Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England
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David Lemmings
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Traders in Men: Merchants and the Transformation of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
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Nicholas Radburn
4.50 avg rating β 34 ratings
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Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England: Ravenous Natures
by:
Alanna Skuse
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 11 ratings
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
by:
Laurence Bergreen
3.93 avg rating β 1,707 ratings
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Beard Fetish in Early Modern England: Sex, Gender, and Registers of Value
by:
Mark Albert Johnston
4.50 avg rating β 4 ratings
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God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Alan Mikhail
3.90 avg rating β 949 ratings
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The Riddle of Jael: The History of a Poxied Heroine in Medieval and Renaissance Art and Culture
by:
P Scott Brown
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
by:
Serhii Plokhy
4.27 avg rating β 7,526 ratings
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Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
by:
Claire Richter Sherman
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
by:
Stephen Greenblatt
4.12 avg rating β 2,637 ratings
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The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain
by:
Christina H. Lee
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 4 ratings
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The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
by:
E.M.W. Tillyard
3.81 avg rating β 825 ratings
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Shakespeare: The Biography
by:
Peter Ackroyd
4.03 avg rating β 2,277 ratings
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A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and His Dearest Meg
by:
John Guy
3.93 avg rating β 800 ratings
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Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest
by:
Fernando Cervantes
3.89 avg rating β 1,016 ratings
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The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe
by:
Charles Nicholl
4.04 avg rating β 663 ratings
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
by:
Katherine Rundell
4.16 avg rating β 3,079 ratings
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Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
by:
Laurence Bergreen
4.18 avg rating β 18,440 ratings
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History of the Conquest of Mexico
by:
William Hickling Prescott
4.17 avg rating β 768 ratings
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The European Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries
by:
Hugh Trevor-Roper
3.52 avg rating β 96 ratings
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Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany
by:
Lyndal Roper
3.98 avg rating β 345 ratings
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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern 1492-1800
by:
Robin Blackburn
3.86 avg rating β 147 ratings
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The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City
by:
Katherine Wentworth Rinne
4.69 avg rating β 13 ratings
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βWhen All of Rome Was Under Constructionβ: The Building Process in Baroque Rome
by:
Dorothy Metzger Habel
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Russia's Path toward Enlightenment: Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801
by:
Gary M. Hamburg
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Sensational Past: How the Enlightenment Changed the Way We Use Our Senses
by:
Carolyn Purnell
3.92 avg rating β 130 ratings
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Fire and Light: How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World
by:
James MacGregor Burns
3.66 avg rating β 250 ratings
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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
by:
Frances A. Yates
4.24 avg rating β 554 ratings
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The English Civil War: A People's History
by:
Diane Purkiss
3.70 avg rating β 715 ratings
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