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Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages(2019) HENG, GERALDINE (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN)This book is for readers who may or may not be familiar with the Middle Ages, but are interested in race and racism, and want to know how far back in time racism begins to appear. The book does for race studies what feminism, queer studies, postcolonial sVezava: Mehka48,12 €
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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World(2014) RICHARDSON, KRISTINA (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, QUEENS COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)A revealing portrait of Medieval Arab notions of physical difference, this book uses close analysis of primary sources to bring to light cultural views and lived experiences of disability and difference.Vezava: Mehka46,32 €
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John Aubrey(2016) SCURR, RUTH'A truly remarkable writer, one of the most gifted non-fiction authors alive' Simon Schama, Financial TimesSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the autobiography that John Aubrey never wrote. You may not know his name.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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History of the Islamic World, 600-1800(2020) VAN STEENBERGEN, JOA History of the Islamic World, 600-1800 supplies a fresh and unique survey of the formation of the Islamic world and the key developments that characterize this broad region’s history from late antiquity up to the beginning of the modern era.Vezava: Mehka74,12 €
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On Exile(2013) FILELFO, FRANCESCOFrancesco Filelfo’s On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de’ Medici, discussing the sufferings of exile—poverty and loss of reputation—and the best way to endure and profit from them. This volume contains the first complVezava: Trda47,68 €
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Rome in Triumph, Volume 1(2016) FLAVIO, BIONDOBiondo Flavio was a pioneering figure in the Renaissance discovery of antiquity and popularized the term Middle Age to describe the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the revival of antiquity in his own time. Rome in Triumph is the capstone oVezava: Trda47,68 €
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Oxford AQA History for A Level: Stuart Britain and the Crisis of Monarchy 1603-1702(2015) FARR, DAVIDThis book is approved by AQA and covers in breadth issues of change, continuity, and cause and consequence in this period of British history through key themes such as how far did the monarchy change during Stuart Britain, why were there disputes over relVezava: Mehka77,82 €
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Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561(2022) BLAYNEY, PETER W. M.This major, revisionist study upends our thinking about the ancestry and origins of the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, revealing it to have necessitated unprecedented levels of shared printing. In its close analysis of Anglican liturgy it will have coVezava: Trda68,43 €
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Queen and the Heretic(2018) WILSON, DEREKCatherine Parr and Anne Askew: united in faith and danger, divided in death.Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Rescue the Surviving Souls(2020) TELLER, ADAMA groundbreaking examination of a little-known but defining episode in early modern Jewish history A refugee crisis of huge proportions erupted as a result of the mid-seventeenth-century wars in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Tens of thousands of JewVezava: Trda59,50 €
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European Physico-theology (1650-c.1760) in Context(2022) VON GREYERZ, KASPAR (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF BASEL)Physico-theology celebrated the observation of nature as a way toward recognising God as Creator, demonstrating the compatibility of the biblical record with new science. This is the first English-language monograph to study the impact of physico-theologyVezava: Trda178,66 €
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Hobbes and the Artifice of Eternity(2016) MCCLURE, CHRISTOPHER SCOTT (HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MASSACHUSETTS)Ideal for scholars of Hobbes, early modern historians, and political theorists, Christopher Scott McClure's radical re-reading of Hobbes argues that the apparent inconsistencies in Hobbes' theories of political and religious philosophy were part of an intVezava: Trda145,92 €
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Imagining Ireland's Pasts(2021) CANNY, PROF NICHOLAS (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF HISTORY, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY)The book describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries, and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative.Vezava: Trda213,51 €
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Common Freedom of the People(2018) BRADDICK, MICHAEL (PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD)The dramatic life of 'Freeborn John' Lilburne -- revolutionary campaigner for popular sovereignty in seventeenth-century England, and battler for the fundamental political and legal rights we enjoy today.Vezava: Trda45,54 €
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In Search of a Kingdom(2022) BERGREEN, LAURENCEFor Elizabeth, Drake made the impossible real, serving as a crucial and brilliantly adaptable instrument of her ambitions to transform England from a third-rate island kingdom into a global imperial power.In 1580, sailing on Elizabeth’s covert orders, DraVezava: Mehka18,21 €