The Renaissance World

Edited by John Jeffries Martin

With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this volume, in the successful Routledge Worlds series,...

October 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45511-4 (Routledge)

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Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance

By John McClelland

This is the first book to address the gap in the literature linking the physical culture of the ancient world with the beginnings of modern...

September 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48499-2 (Routledge)

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By Peter Harman

Originally published in 1983.This volume outlines some of the important innovations in astronomy, natural philosophy and medicine which took place in the sixteenth and seventeenth...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47483-2 (Routledge)

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By Paolo Rossi

Originally published in 1968. This volume discusses Francis Bacon’s thought and work in the context of the European cultural environment that influenced Bacon’s philosophy and...

August 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47495-5 (Routledge)

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Henry VIII

By Lucy Wooding

'The author does a wonderful job of telling a gripping story that also gives a sense of the complexity of the reign and the period...

July 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-33995-7 (Routledge)

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Mary Tudor

By Judith M. Richards

Mary Tudor is often written off as a hopeless, twisted queen who tried desperately to pull England back to the Catholic Church that was so...

June 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32721-3 (Routledge)

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The Witchcraft Reader

Edited by Darren Oldridge

The Witchcraft Reader draws together the best historical writing on the subject, exploring the origins and consequences of the fear of witches. The Reader traces...

April 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41565-1 (Routledge)

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News Networks in Seventeenth Century Britain and Europe

Edited by Joad Raymond

Examining new research, this excellent volume presents a series of case-studies exemplifying the new newspaper history. Using cross-cultural comparisons, Joad Raymond establishes an agenda for...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46411-6 (Routledge)

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The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe

Edited by Kenneth Borris, George S. Rousseau

The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe investigates early modern scientific accounts of same-sex desires and the shapes they assumed in everyday life. It...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44692-1 (Routledge)

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Engines of the Imagination

Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine

By Jonathan Sawday

At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through...

2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35062-4 (Routledge)

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