European history: Renaissance

'A story told with verve and passion' The Times, Book of the Week'An alternative and engaging biography.

A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspectiveA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZEHenrietta Maria, Charles I's queen, is the most reviled consort in British history.

Though many scholars and commentators have predicted the death of religion, the world is more religious today than ever before.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Weir is excellent on the little details that bring a world to life' GuardianAnne Boleyn: A King's Obsession by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen, is the second captivating novel in the Six Tudor Queens series.

*A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller*Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of The Lost Tudor Princess, is the first in a spellbinding six novel series about Henry VIII's Queens.

To read this magnificent biography of Leonardo da Vinci is to take a tour through the life and works of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time in the company of the most engaging, informed, and insightful guide imaginable.

American narratives often celebrate the nation's rich heritage of religious freedom.

The Malleus is an important text and is frequently quoted by authors across a wide range of scholarly disciplines.

Dieses eBook: "Das Amulett (Historischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

The past is a foreign country: this is your guidebook.

Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way through the history and experiences of its gay population.

The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history 'A first-class storyteller' The TimesThroughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of their faith.

A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and a half-negro maidservant rides into Florence.

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.

Featuring the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.

An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.

A dazzling piece of Italian history of the infamous family that become one of the most powerful in Europe, weaving its history with Renaissance greats from Leonardo da Vinci to GalileoAgainst the background of an age which saw the rebirth of ancient and classical learning, The Medici is a remarkably modern story of power, money and ambition.

Matteo Ricci, an early recruit of the Jesuit order, was sent to China as a missionary in 1582.

Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence, the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice.

Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance.

In April 1478, a plot to murder the two heads of the powerful Medici family dramatically miscarried.

Hannah Shah is an Imam's daughter.

Don Matzat here provides a new perspective on the life of Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of the infamous Henry VIII.

Eight kings of England were the named Henry, but only two of them were born as heirs to the throne and these - the third and sixth - proved to be the weakest.

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Four generations of Brandon men lived and served six English kings, the most famous being Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, best friend and brother-in-law to King Henry VIII.

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The Gunpowder Plot is perhaps the most famous and well-documented event in British Early Modern history.

Anna was the 'last woman standing' of Henry VIII's wives - and the only one buried in Westminster Abbey.

On 22 August 1485, Henry Tudor emerged from the Battle of Bosworth victorious.

Descubre el drama y el poder de una de las historias más cautivadoras y trágicas de la historia inglesa en "Nueve Días de Reina".

When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy.

Mary Tudor's childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to the Tudor throne, and Henry VIII.

Europe in the 1500s and 1600s was an ascending, expanding civilisation, poised to become globally dominant, and destined to produce the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution.

Evidence of the foulness and cruelty of the greatest catastrophe ever to hit London is still being unearthed under the streets of the capital today.

A dynasty is defined by its men: by their personalities, their wars and reigns, their laws and decisions.

Catherine of Aragon continues to fascinate readers 500 years after she became Henry VIII's first queen.

William Shakespeare is the world's best-loved playwright.

Mary, Queen of Scots is one of the great tragic figures of British history.

Mary Tudor has always been known as 'Bloody Mary', the name given to her by later Protestant chroniclers who vilified her for attempting to re-impose Roman Catholicism in England.

Who wrote the works of Shakespeare?

'The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing madness .

Have you ever wondered what the Tudors ate?

Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life.

British history is rich in enthralling stories: pivotal moments that changed the future of the country; moments of drama, suspense, intrigue.