Europe - Renaissance
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
$24.00 Read moreA New Yorker Best Book of 2025
An irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.
From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance- Author: Palmer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: May 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0226852598
- Language: English
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Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century
$24.00 Read moreThe stories of early modern Protestant women, including Rose Thurgood, Anna Trapnel, and Jane Lead, who defied the religious authority of their age.
Voices of Thunder illuminates the stories and belie- Author: Baker, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1836391196
- Language: English
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The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe
$38.00 Add to cartA renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the dramatic tale of modern Europe’s ascent.
In The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe, Walter McDougall, winner of the Pulitzer Pr
- Author: McDougall, Walter A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1967613001
- Language: English
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Europe: A New History
$35.00 Read moreA bold new history of Europe, from ancient Greece to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
What do we talk about when we talk about Europe? Is it defined by geography? Or is it politics, or shared culture?- Author: Beaton, Roderick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 154160380X
- Language: English
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The Surgeon, the Midwife, the Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England
$28.95 Add to cartDiscover the remarkable birth of modern medicine… and how not to die in the Renaissance
‘An entertaining history of medicine… Skuse brings a deep familiarity with the contemporary sources and a dr… [more below]- Author: Skuse, Alanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1836430779
- Language: English
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The Prince
$4.99 Read moreHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
‘We have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Machiavelli, Niccolo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0007420072
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: A Short History
$22.00 Add to cartThe Renaissance holds an undying place in our imagination, its great heroes still our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Chaucer. This period of profound evolution in European thought is… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Chronicles
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 0812966198
- Language: English
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Francis of Assisi: The Life of a Restless Saint
$30.00 Add to cartAn award-winning historian reconstructs the life of Francis of Assisi, uncovering the man behind the myths
“Refreshing. . . . Complex, multilayered, and ambitious.”–Costica Bradatan, Times Literary S- Author: Leppin, Volker
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0300263805
- Language: English
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The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance
$45.00 Add to cartA magisterial history of the Renaissance and the birth of the modern world
The cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. Why then and not earlier? Why- Author: Roeck, Bernd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 069118383X
- Language: English
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Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
$37.50 Read moreAn irreverent new take on the Renaissance, which reveals it as anything but Europe’s golden age.
From the darkness of a plagued and war-torn Middle Ages, the Renaissance (we’re told) heralds the dawn- Author: Palmer, Ada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: March 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0226837971
- Language: English
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Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason: From Descartes to Peter the Great
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of The Age of Reason, revealing how–although it was a time of great progress–it was also an era of brutality and intolerance with a very human cost.
During the 1600s–between the- Author: Strathern, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1639367977
- Language: English
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Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance
$60.00 Read moreA lavish survey of Renaissance master sculptor Donatello and his works–captured in photographs from some of the nation’s most renowned art museums
Arguably the greatest sculptor of all time, Donatel- Author: Motture, Peta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1838510346
- Language: English
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The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo: The Transformation of Western Civilization
$18.95 Read moreA sweeping and magisterial four-hundred-year history of both the city and the people who gave birth to the Renaissance.
Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642, something h- Author: Strathern, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362134
- Language: English
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When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
$19.99 Read moreThe sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet it also witnessed the remar
- Author: Quilligan, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092378
- Language: English
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Young Queens: The Intertwined Lives of Catherine De’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and Mary, Queen of Scots
$26.00 Add to cartFinalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography)
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One of the New Yorker‘s Best Books of 2023
One of BookRiot‘s Best Biographies of 2023
Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize in Nonfiction- Author: Chang, Leah Redmond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338409
- Language: English
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
$39.00 Read moreWho are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world withou
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Groebner, Valentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951722
- Language: English
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The Boleyns: From the Tudors to the Windsors
$29.95 Read moreAnne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed on 19 May 1536. Her sister Mary, rumoured mistress to the monarch, lived on and survived the king’s wrath. But this is not the end of the tale … [more below]
- Author: Harvey Purse, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1398100226
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: An Enthralling Guide to a Period of Rebirth in Arts, Science and Culture
$25.99 Add to cartDo the names Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael ring a bell?
If so, you are already somewhat familiar with the Renaissance, which saw a rebirth in the arts and science. Great strides were mad
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 31 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887652474
- Language: English
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The French Huguenots and Wars of Religion
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Huguenot Society’s 2022 Scholarly Works Award
The Huguenots and their struggle for freedom of conscience and freedom of worship are largely unknown outside of France. The entranc
- Author: Davis, Stephen M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1532661614
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMore than ever before, the Renaissance stands out as one of the defining moments in world history. Between 1400 and 1600, European perceptions of society, culture, politics and even humanity itself em… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Brotton, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2006
- ISBN10: 0192801635
- Language: English
