Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Il formaggio e i vermi	Carlo Ginzburg,John Tedeschi,Anne C. Tedeschi	Offers a study of culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, the miller known as Menocchio, who was accused of heresy during the Inquisition and sentenced to death. This bo…	OL14872792W
European Warfare, 1494-1660	Jeremy Black	The onset of the Italian Wars in 1494, subsequently seen as the onset of 'modern warfare', provides the starting point for this impressive survey of European Warfare in early modern Europe. Huge deve…	OL15180384W
Europe and England in the sixteenth century	T. A. Morris	This innovative textbook uniquely combines an integrated survey of European and English history in the sixteenth century. The book is structured in three parts: the Western European Environment, The …	OL1935398W
Atlas of the Renaissance	Chris Black	240p. : 31 cm	OL19405315W
Daughters of the Winter Queen	Nancy Bazelon Goldstone	Documents how a betrayed Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James I, raised her four daughters in exile during the Dutch Golden Age, tracing how their stories shaped a three-decade war and fulfilled t…	OL19741295W
Game of queens	Sarah Gristwood	"Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. Large swathes of the continent were under the firm hand of a dozen reigning women as queens, regents, mothers, wives, or counselors. From Is…	OL20042927W
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	Andrew Cunningham,Ole Peter Grell,Cunningham, Andrew Dr.	Its very good and intresting	OL3349461W
The rise of Christian Europe	H. R. Trevor-Roper	"The steps by which western Europe was able to rise out of the Dark Ages, shake off the Moslem power, inaugurate the twelfth century Renaissance and bring it to full glory two centuries later."	OL4147251W
The knights of the crown	D'Arcy Jonathan Dacre Boulton	xxv, 540 p. : 24 cm	OL5256196W
The Renaissance	Mary Quigley	Presents an overview of the history of European society during the time known as the Renaissance, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.	OL5820839W
The wheels of commerce	Fernand Braudel	TABLE OF CONTENTS: The instruments of exchange. Europe: the wheels of trade at the lowest level -- Europe: the wheels of trade at the highest level -- The world outside Europe -- Concluding hypothese…	OL771559W
Sisters to the King	Maria Perry	336 pages : 21 cm	OL79993W
Nations Out of Empires	Harry G. Gelber	"Harry Gelber examines centuries of colonial interaction and argues there is a close link between revolution in eighteenth-century Europe and the development of Asian nationalisms from the nineteenth…	OL8400185W
The Princely Courts of Europe 1500-1750	John Adamson	352 p. : 27 cm	OL9012717W