ilość książek w kategorii: 520
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The House of Commons 1509-1558: Personnel, Procedure, Precedent and Change
ISBN: 9781119279808 / Angielski / Miękka / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The House of Commons 1509–1558 offers readers a ground–breaking examination of the role and significance of the British House of Commons during the Tudor period. Written by a noted scholar, it utilizes new scholarship, archival research, and never–before–published images to enhance our understanding of the time. The book details all aspects of this political institution, including elections and electoral practice, membership, organization, the House in session, and legislative issues. It addresses a surprising number of innovations in the conduct and management of the House... The House of Commons 1509–1558 offers readers a ground–breaking examination of the role and significance of the British House of Commons... |
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160,13 zł |
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The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office: The Production of State Papers, 1590-1596
ISBN: 9781138702509 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, this study reconstructs the activities of the clerks and secretaries who worked in close contact with the Queen at court. An estimated fifty people, many unidentified, saw to every minute detail of the production of official documents and letters in an array of offices, rooms and locations within... This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsing... |
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778,85 zł |
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Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600
ISBN: 9781316631737 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study reveals that - contrary to what historians have often supposed - in pre-Reformation England both ecclesiastical and secular (especially urban) courts were already highly active in regulating sex. They not only enforced clerical celibacy and sought to combat prostitution but also restrained the pre- and extramarital sexual activities of laypeople more generally. Initially destabilising, the religious and institutional changes of 1530-60 eventually led to...
How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study reveals that ...
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135,43 zł |
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Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600
ISBN: 9781107179875 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study reveals that - contrary to what historians have often supposed - in pre-Reformation England both ecclesiastical and secular (especially urban) courts were already highly active in regulating sex. They not only enforced clerical celibacy and sought to combat prostitution but also restrained the pre- and extramarital sexual activities of laypeople more generally. Initially destabilising, the religious and institutional changes of 1530-60 eventually led to...
How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study reveals that ...
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375,23 zł |
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Queen Elizabeth: A Biography Of The Legendary Queen Of England
ISBN: 9781548605735 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queen Elizabeth - we have heard her name, and we have heard that she was the virgin Queen. However, what else made her famous enough to go down in history? Elizabeth is the Queen that made a huge impact on her subjects in England. She was a queen who did not take no for an answer, and she did what she thought was best for her people. Her subjects were her entire world, and Elizabeth did not do anything to compromise the trust that they had in her. To learn more about Elizabeth's life, pick up this book, and hopefully, you find out something new about the Last Queen of the Tudor...
Queen Elizabeth - we have heard her name, and we have heard that she was the virgin Queen. However, what else made her famous enough to go down in his...
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52,42 zł |
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Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny
ISBN: 9781568588124 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country.
Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his country.
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110,96 zł |
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Selling the Tudor Monarchy: Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England
ISBN: 9780300236781 / Angielski / Miękka / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A leading historian reveals how, from even before the Reformation, the Tudors sought to sustain and enhance their authority by representing themselves to their people through the media of building, print, art, material culture and speech.
A leading historian reveals how, from even before the Reformation, the Tudors sought to sustain and enhance their authority by representing themselves...
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223,92 zł |
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History, Fiction, and the Tudors: Sex, Politics, Power, and Artistic License in the Showtime Television Series
ISBN: 9781349683741 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume twenty distinguished scholars separate documented history, plausible invention, and outright fantasy in a lively series of scholarly, but accessible and engaging essays.
In this volume twenty distinguished scholars separate documented history, plausible invention, and outright fantasy in a lively series of scholarly, b...
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484,18 zł |
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The King is Dead
ISBN: 9781681776217 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,54 zł |
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How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England: A Guide for Knaves, Fools, Harlots, Cuckolds, Drunkards, Liars, Thieves, and Braggarts
ISBN: 9781631495113 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,80 zł |
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Black Tudors: The Untold Story
ISBN: 9781786073969 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A transformative history - in Tudor times there were Africans living and working in Britain, and they were free
A transformative history - in Tudor times there were Africans living and working in Britain, and they were free
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55,44 zł |
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James I: Scotland's King of England
ISBN: 9780750986830 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paperback edition of a compelling popular biography of England's first Stuart ruler
Paperback edition of a compelling popular biography of England's first Stuart ruler
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80,66 zł |
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Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World
ISBN: 9781496202260 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious, dishonest, and unchaste. As the essays in Travel and Travail reveal, however, early modern women did travel, and often quite extensively, with no diminution of their moral fibre.
Popular English travel guides from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries asserted that women who wandered too far afield were invariably suspicious,...
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136,25 zł |
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Elizabethan Inventories and Wills of the Exeter OrphansÆ Court, Vol. 2
ISBN: 9780901853578 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,70 zł |
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Elizabethan Inventories and Wills of the Exeter OrphansÆ Court, Vol. 1
ISBN: 9780901853561 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,70 zł |
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Gardens for Gloriana: Wealth, Splendour and Design in the Elizabethan Garden
ISBN: 9781788311199 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirations of their owners, whose greatest desire was to achieve success at Court and to delight the Queen. No leading courtier would be without his great house, no great house was complete without its garden. In this richly illustrated work, Jane Whittaker explores these gems of Elizabethan England, focussing on the gardens of the Queen and her leading courtiers. Drawing on the cultural and horticultural sources of the day, as well as evidence...
The formal gardens of Elizabethan England were among the glories of their age. Complementing the great houses of the day, they reflected the aspirati...
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204,96 zł |
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Ralph Treswell's Survey of Sir Christopher Hatton's Lands in Purbeck,
ISBN: 9780900339226 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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150,64 zł |
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The Gentleman's Mistress: Illegitimate Relationships and Children, 1450–1640
ISBN: 9781526114068 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to elite culture. -- .
This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates...
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428,74 zł |
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England's Other Countrymen: Black Tudor Society
ISBN: 9781786994202 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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435,54 zł |
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Women on the Edge in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9789462987500 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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584,14 zł |