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A study of the European Reformation from 1500 to 1610. It is designed to fulfil the AS and A Level specifications in place from September 2000. The AS section deals with narrative and explanation of the topic. The A2 section reflects the different demands of the higher level exam...ination.
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Thirty-seven essays providing a comprehensive overview, covering the most essential aspects of Atlantic history from c.1450 to c.1850, offering a wide-ranging and authoritative account of the movement of people, plants, pathogens, products, and cultural practices-to mention some ...of the key agents--around and within the Atlantic basin.
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What have medieval nuns, parrot shooting, Freemasonry, and Shetland revelry got in common? This study of monastic orders, guilds, Freemasonry and friendly societies over centuries and across frontiers provides new insights into their contribution to the gendering of public space ...and the evolution of 'separate spheres' in Europe.
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Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, this book tells the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and ...wizards to protect their villages and harvests.
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A collection of essays by leading historians of early modern Europe and the US, this books explores how merchants, entrepreneurs, and other early modern capitalists viewed themselves.
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The leading historians who are the authors of this work offer a highly original account of one of the most important transformations in Western culture: the change brought about by the discovery and development of printing in Europe. Focusing primarily on printed matter other tha...n books, The Culture of Print emphasizes the specific and local contex
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Edited by Woolfson, J.
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Written by an international team of experts, this book is the essential guide to the modern Renaissance debate.
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Offers an overview of the rise of the armed forces in Russia, from the Muscovite army of the fifteenth century through the Napoleon in 1812-1815. This book includes essays which highlight the ideological conflict between Westernization and Russiafication, and the revolution that ...brought down the Romanovs in 1917.
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Examines the lives of those who lived on the margins of medieval and early modern European society. This book explores obvious marginalized classes, such as criminals, gypsies, and prostitutes. It also challenges traditional understandings of the margin by showing that female mys...tics could fall into the margins.
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With their universities and colleges, the Jesuits held a monopoly over higher education in Catholic Germany in the 17th and 18th centuries. Using previously untapped sources, Marcus Hellyer traces the development of science instruction at these institutions over a period stretchi...ng from the Counter-Reformation to the height of the Enlightenment.
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