European history: Renaissance

A study of the actions and responsibilities of those taking temporary power during the minority of a monarch.

While there exists no evidence to date that the indigenous inhabitants of Arabia knew of holy war prior to Islam, holy war ideas and behaviors appear already among Muslims during the first generation.

Martyrs' Mirror examines the folklore of martyrdom among seventeenth-century New England Protestants, exploring how they imagined themselves within biblical and historical narratives of persecution.

Maestro Martino of Como has been called the first celebrity chef, and his extraordinary treatise on Renaissance cookery, The Art of Cooking, is the first known culinary guide to specify ingredients, cooking times and techniques, utensils, and amounts.

The early sixteenth century saw a major crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy every Jewish book in Germany.

Follow in the footsteps of Anne Boleyn from Hever Castle, to Richmond Palace and ultimately to the Tower of London.

Christians are the world's most widely persecuted religious group, according to studies by the Pew Research Center, Newsweek, and the Economist, among others.

From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to todayAs a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellowand, like them, white has its own intriguing history.

Padron reveals the evolution of Spain's imagining of the New World as a space in continuity with Asia.

This book looks at the life, activities and achievements of William, 1st Baron Sandys, Knight of the Garter.

The first major history of the bravura movement in European paintingThe painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century.

Harry Bernstein was born into a world of hardship and suffering in a northern mill town, in the shadow of the First World War.

Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology.

The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial self-promotion.

Step into the world of Renaissance art, where the genius of Michelangelo met the ambi-tions of the Popes.

While there exists no evidence to date that the indigenous inhabitants of Arabia knew of holy war prior to Islam, holy war ideas and behaviors appear already among Muslims during the first generation.

Born Francoise d'Aubigne, a criminal's daughter reduced to street begging as a child, Madame de Maintenon (1653-1719) made an improbable rise from impoverished beginnings to the summit of power as the second, secret wife of Louis XIV.

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military strategy and then employing state of the art left-right brain scientific research to explain his universal genius.

Religious terrorism has become the scourge of the modern world.

An exploration of the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation.

A riveting, exemplary tale of the great cultural "e;swerve"e; known as the Renaissance.

A fitting conclusion to a well-researched and meticulously edited memoir translation.

From Shakespeare's "e;green-eyed monster"e; to the "e;green thought in a green shade"e; in Andrew Marvell's "e;The Garden,"e; the color green was curiously prominent and resonant in English culture of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

In her study of Oberammergau, the Bavarian village famous for its decennial passion play, Helena Waddy argues against the traditional image of the village as a Nazi stronghold.

Queen of Scots at six days old; married at fifteen in Paris to the Dauphin of France; Queen of France at sixteen; widowed at eighteen; dead at forty-four.

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.

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE**A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A bona fide historical classic' Sunday Times'Simply one of the best history books I have ever read' BBC HistoryIn the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen.

Why is it that Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland have been in perpetual conflict for thirty years when they can live and prosper together elsewhere?

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

The crises of faith that fractured Reformation Europe also caused crises of individual and collective identity.

In Northern Ireland, a once seemingly intractable conflict is in a state of transformation.

To what extent was Machiavelli a "e;Machiavellian"e;?

Praise for Joanna Hickson:'An intriguing tale, told with confidence' The Times'Rich and warm' Sunday ExpressWill his ambition be her destiny or her downfall?

In this illuminating study of a vital but long overlooked aspect of Chinese religious life, Jimmy Yu reveals that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, self-inflicted violence was an essential and sanctioned part of Chinese culture.

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

Witchcraft has proven an important, if difficult, historical subject to investigate and interpret over the last four decades or so.

Step into the captivating world of 17th-century France, where Philippe I, Duke of Orleans, carved out his unique legacy amidst the grandeur of the Bourbon dynasty.

A Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic TitleThroughout history, Muslim men have been depicted as monsters.

The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century--from the Enlightenment to the First World War.

Mit Weitsicht, Diplomatie und unerschütterlicher Entschlossenheit führte Papst Pius IV.

An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa's biggest country and worried the world.

Leading figures at the dawn of the sixteenth-century Reformation commonly faced the charge of "e;judaizing"e;: 72 In His Name concerns the changing views of four such men starting with their kabbalistic treatment of the 72 divine names of angels.

In recent years, terrorism has become closely associated with martyrdom in the minds of many terrorists and in the view of nations around the world.

Because of their spectacular, naturalistic pictures of plants and the human body, Leonhart Fuchs's De historia stirpium and Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica are landmark publications in the history of the printed book.

Conflict and dispute pervade political and policy discussions.