Seventeenth Century – Bücher, CDs, Super Audio CDs und mehr, Seite 9

William Gibson
James II and Wales

Studies the unsuccessful rule of King James II in seventeenth-century Wales.The reign of James II was a dramatic failure in Wales. He became King when Welsh loyalty to the crown and church was strong. How…

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George Savile Halifax
The Character of a Trimmer and Other Writings

Oxford World's Classics

To know when to let things alone is a high pitch of good sense.George Savile, Marquess of Halifax was among the greatest statesmen of late seventeenth-century England and was a central figure in the Glori…

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Benjamin Moser
The Upside-Down World

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of …

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Madeleine Thien
The Book of Records

Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and fut…

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Andrew Graham-Dixon
Vermeer

One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled on one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by Johann…

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Thomas Matthew Vozar,
Isaac Barrow's on the Turkish Religion

This edition offers a novel perspective on seventeenth-century European-Islamic encounters by making accessible the Neo-Latin poem On the Turkish Religion (De Religione Turcica ). Written by the Cambridge…

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Gary Schwartz
Dutch Painting

This authoritative book in the World of Art series offers a new perspective on the paintings of the Dutch Golden Age, authored by one of the world's foremost experts on Dutch art.Renowned art historian Ga…

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John Berger
Bento's Sketchbook

The Essential John Berger

The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued…

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Sven Van Dorst
Forever Flowers

A beautifully produced, close-up look at nature and flowers in the art of the late medieval Low Countries .If flowers could talk...In Forever Flowers, conservator Sven Van Dorst offers a different perspec…

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Madeleine Thien
The Book of Records

Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and fut…

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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David Ignatius
Phantom Orbit

David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as …

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Kong Shangren,
The Peach Blossom Fan

Interweaving a star-crossed romance with the decline and fall of the Ming dynasty in mid seventeenth-century China, The Peach Blossom Fan by Kong Shangren (1648-1718) is a masterpiece of world literature.…

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Gordon Campbell
The 1611 King James Bible

This landmark publication presents the most faithful edition of the 1611 King James Bible available today. It reproduces the seventeenth-century text in roman type-page for page, line for line, and letter…

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Stuart A Raymond
Words from Wills and Other Probate Records

What does that mean? Many words used in probate records before c.1800 are obsolete, and unlikely to be understood by newcomers to historical research. Andirons, beres, and winding sheets were all very fam…

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Olga Ravn,
The Wax Child

In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who has come to them in the for…

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Daniel K Williams
The Search for a Rational Faith

The Search for a Rational Faithpresents a 400-year narrative history of Anglo-American Protestant intellectual defenses of the Christian faith from the seventeenth century to the present. It challenges po…

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Rebecca M Rush
The Fetters of Rhyme

How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetry In his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme, portr…

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Joy McCullough
Everything Is Poison

This historical novel in prose and verse tells the story of a deadly secret hiding in plain sight and of the women who risk everything to provide care for those with nowhere else to turn, perfect for fans…

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John Adamson
Escorial

A portrait of the rhythms and rituals of the magnificent court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain's sixteenth- and seventeenth-century 'Golden Age'.Of all the European courts between the Renaissance an…

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