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Anabaptism: From its Rise at Zwickau to its Fall at M?nster 1521-1536
ISBN: 9781960255082 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Civil Conversation: Book III - The manner of conversation to be observed all within the home.
ISBN: 9798399137100 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Mummy's relive Mistry: Mistry
ISBN: 9798307394502 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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41,35 |
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Edward VI: England's Boy King
ISBN: 9798728958826 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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46,47 |
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That Monstrous Regiment: The Birth of Women's Political Emancipation
ISBN: 9781861513137 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth century, as well as the complex relationships between them. Up against what was essentially a man s world, they proved highly adept at using women s intuition and marriage or more particularly engagement to gain international advantages. They also showed an ambiguity towards Protestantism which was in stark contrast to the tyranny of kings. Above all, these were the women who stormed the cartel of male rulers and were the first to win respected...
Here, for the first time, are outlined the subterfuges and wiles of the six queens who largely ruled Europe during the second half of the sixteenth ce...
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Ladies of the Manor: How Wives & Daughters Really Lived in Country House Society Over a Century Ago
ISBN: 9781445619811 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry out both in their home community and in London, where they spent the Season and where the girls officially entered Society by being presented at Court. Pamela Horn's book examines the lives of these ladies from their childhood and marriage to their role as a 'Lady Bountiful'. It covers their leisure pursuits, sporting activities, country house weekends, and much more besides, up to the life-transforming years of the First World War.
In the world of the late-Victorian and Edwardian country house the mistress and her daughters had many social duties and responsibilities to carry out...
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Shakespeare's Dark Lady: Amelia Bassano Lanier the woman behind Shakespeare's plays?
ISBN: 9781445655246 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fiftysix-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII's reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lord Chamberlain, Hunsdon was in charge of the English theatre and would become the patron of the company that performed the Shakespearean plays. Amelia lived with him for a decade, during which time she also had an affair with the playwright Christopher Marlowe. When she became pregnant, Amelia was exiled from court and next surfaces as the mysterious...
Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became...
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66,14 |
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Sir Francis Bryan: Henry VIII's Most Notorious Ambassador
ISBN: 9781789043419 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The life of Henry VIII's most notorious ambassador, who, unlike many who served the second Tudor monarch, managed to keep his head.
The life of Henry VIII's most notorious ambassador, who, unlike many who served the second Tudor monarch, managed to keep his head.
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The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness
ISBN: 9781402219436 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gripping tale of one of history's most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature In the searing July heat of 1518, Frau Troffea stepped into the streets of Strasbourg and began to dance. Bathed in sweat, she continued to dance. Overcome with exhaustion, she stopped, and then resumed her solitary jig a few hours later. Over the next two months, roughly four hundred people succumbed to the same agonizing compulsion. At its peak, the epidemic claimed the lives of fifteen men, women, and children a day. Possibly 100 people danced to... A gripping tale of one of history's most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature In the... |
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Inside the Tudor Court: Henry VIII and his Six Wives through the eyes of the Spanish Ambassador
ISBN: 9781445645599 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The reports and despatches of Eustace Chapuys, Spanish Ambassador to Henry VIII's court from 1529 to 1545, have been instrumental in shaping our modern interpretations of Henry VIII and his wives. As a result of his personal relationships with several of Henry's queens, and Henry himself, his writings were filled with colourful anecdotes, salacious gossip, and personal and insightful observations of the key players at court, thus offering the single most continuous portrait of the central decades of Henry's reign. Beginning with Chapuys' arrival in England, in the middle of Henry VIII's...
The reports and despatches of Eustace Chapuys, Spanish Ambassador to Henry VIII's court from 1529 to 1545, have been instrumental in shaping our moder...
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Conquest, Tribute, and Trade: The Quest for Precious Metals and the Birth of Globalization
ISBN: 9781616142117 / Angielski / Twarda / 541 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engrossing popular history makes many intriguing connections between sources of economic wealth and the rise of empires, showing that the forces of globalization have been five centuries in the making.
This engrossing popular history makes many intriguing connections between sources of economic wealth and the rise of empires, showing that the forces ...
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Renaissance Polish Armies 1492–1569
ISBN: 9781472867568 / Angielski / 24-03-2026 Książka dostępna od: 24-03-2026 |
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69,45 |
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La Florida: When Spain 'Discovered' Florida and Two Proud Nations Clashed
ISBN: 9781737097600 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Reading Scripture with the Reformers
ISBN: 9780830829491 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how the key figures of the Reformation read and interpreted Scripture, and how their thought was shaped by what they read. We are invited to see what the church today can learn from the fathers of the Reformation, and how these figures offer a model of reading, praying and living out the Scriptures.
This book shows how the key figures of the Reformation read and interpreted Scripture, and how their thought was shaped by what they read. We are invi...
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Christian Conceptions of Jewish Books: The Pfefferkorn Affair
ISBN: 9788763507721 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the conflicting perceptions that Christians held of the meaning and significance of Jewish books at the beginning of the 16th century - a time when, following their general expulsion from many countries and territories, there were fewer Jews in western and central Europe than in the previous thousand years. The book tells the story of the so-called "Pfefferkorn affair": a tenacious campaign led by the German Johann Pfefferkorn - previously a Jew and converted to Christianity - to confiscate and burn all Jewish post-biblical literature in the Holy Roman Empire in the years...
This book explores the conflicting perceptions that Christians held of the meaning and significance of Jewish books at the beginning of the 16th centu...
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Spanish Poetry of the Golden Age
ISBN: 9780802010186 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A representative selection of the best poetry of Spain's Golden Age.
A representative selection of the best poetry of Spain's Golden Age.
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Matteo Ricci and the Catholic Mission to China, 15831610: A Short History with Documents
ISBN: 9781624664328 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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94,52 |
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Captured in the New World!
ISBN: 9781685157449 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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96,98 |
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Story of the Huguenots: A Sixteenth Century Narrative Wherein the French, Spaniards and Indians Were the Actors
ISBN: 9780788421730 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It will be seen by the historical facts given in this Story of the Huguenots that they were the first martyrs to civil and religious liberty on the North American Continent; arriving as they did nearly half a century before the landing of the Puritans at Plymouth. Their trials, sufferings, and the tragic deaths of many of them, while not resulting in establishing a permanent settlement, sanctified the land to liberty, although more than two hundred years elapsed before a final victory was achieved for human freedom and the greatest republic on earth was established. Another fact is shown by...
"It will be seen by the historical facts given in this Story of the Huguenots that they were the first martyrs to civil and religious liberty on the N...
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The Conquest on Trial: Carvajal's Complaint of the Indians in the Court of Death
ISBN: 9780271025131 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael de Carvajal's fascinating and unusual play--published by Luis Hurtado de Toledo in 1557--is a rare sixteenth-century theatrical piece about the conquest of the New World. It is a long-ignored but fundamental source for the study of Latin American cultural history. A theatrical version of the Spanish Conquest clearly influenced by Bartolome de Las Casas, the play centers on a group of American natives filing a complaint against the Spanish conquistadors--before a tribunal presided over by Death. They denounce the horrors and crimes committed against them by the conquistadors and... Michael de Carvajal's fascinating and unusual play--published by Luis Hurtado de Toledo in 1557--is a rare sixteenth-century theatrical piece about... |
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