History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Historia de la lengua y literatura castellana, Tomo 2: Época de Carlos V

Julio Cejador y Frauca

Este volumen es el segundo tomo de la obra monumental de Julio Cejador y Frauca, catedrático de lengua y…

Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism

Donald Lemen Clark

This scholarly work is a detailed study of how classical rhetorical terminology shaped English literary…

Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences

Martin Luther

This work is a theological treatise in which Martin Luther, the German reformer, argues against the papal…

The narrative of a journey undertaken in the years 1819, 1820 and 1821 through France, Italy, Savoy, Switzerland, parts of Germany bordering on the Rhine, Holland and the Netherlands: Comprising Incidents That Occurred to the Author, Who Has Long Suffered Under a Total Deprivation of Sight; With Various Points of Information Collected on His Tour

James Holman

James Holman’s work is a first‑person travel narrative that chronicles his three‑year continental tour from…

The massacre of St. Bartholomew: Preceded by a history of the religious wars in the reign of Charles IX

Henry White

The work is a scholarly history that traces the turbulent religious conflicts in France from the early reign…

Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620 With a short summary of later events

C. Edmund Maurice

The work is a scholarly survey of Bohemian history from its earliest Slavic roots through the loss of…

The ascendancy of France, 1598-1715

Henry Offley Wakeman

The work is a scholarly survey of seventeenth‑century Europe that deliberately narrows its focus to the…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4

François Guizot

This volume is the fourth installment of François Guizot’s sweeping “Popular History of France,” a…

The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts.

Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von

The work is a travel memoir presented as a series of letters from Charles‑Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, to an…

A voyage round the world: Perfomed by order of His most Christian Majesty, in the years 1766, 1767, 1768, and 1769.

Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

This work is a nineteenth‑century French account of the great circumnavigations ordered by Louis XVII and…

The English Village Community Examined in its Relations to the Manorial and Tribal Systems and to the Common or Open Field System of Husbandry; An Essay in Economic History (Reprinted from the Fourth Edition)

Frederic Seebohm

Frederic Seebohm’s work is a scholarly essay in economic history that investigates the English village…

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini

The work is the self‑written life story of Benvenuto Cellini, the celebrated Florentine goldsmith, sculptor…

Mr. Ray's travels, Vol. 2: A collection of curious travels and voyages. Containing Dr Leonhart Rauwolf's journey into the eastern countries, viz. Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c., translated from the Original High Dutch, by Nicholas Staphorst. And also, travels into Greece, Asia minor, Egypt, Arabia felix, Petræa, Ethiopia, the Red Sea, &c. Collected from the observations of Mons. Belon, Prosper Alpinus, Dr. Huntington, Mr. Vernon, Sir George Wheeler, Dr. Smith, Mr. Greaves, and others. To which are added three catalogues of such trees, shrubs, and herbs, as grow in the Levant. By the Rev. John Ray, F.R.S.

Ray, John; Rauwolf, Leonhard

The work is a sprawling 17th‑century compilation of travel narratives, botanical observations, and historical…

The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2

Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

The work is a two‑volume collection of the letters and memoirs of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, the 16th‑century…

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2 With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.

Edward Edwards

Edward Edwards’s work is a scholarly catalogue rather than a narrative history.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)

Robert S. Rait

Robert S. Rait’s An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500‑1707) is a scholarly survey…

The Early History of the Scottish Union Question Bi-Centenary Edition

George W. T. Omond

The work is a scholarly survey of the many diplomatic and military overtures that preceded the formal union…

Love affairs of the Courts of Europe

Thornton Hall

Hall’s Love affairs of the Courts of Europe is a biographical narrative that traces the astonishing rise of…

Bygone Punishments

William Andrews

Bygone Punishments is a Victorian‑era survey of historic penal practices, compiled by William Andrews and…

Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies. Vol 2.

Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme

This volume is an erotic chronicle that mixes historical gossip with bawdy humor, beginning with a comparison…

A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism

Joel Elias Spingarn

This work is a scholarly essay that traces the evolution of literary criticism from the Italian Renaissance…

The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London

P. S. Allen

The work is a series of scholarly lectures by Percy Stafford Allen that examine the Renaissance through the…

Selections from the Table Talk of Martin Luther

Martin Luther

This volume presents a carefully chosen portion of Martin Luther’s “Table‑Talk,” the informal conversations…

A Treatise on Good Works

Martin Luther

This treatise is Martin Luther’s systematic response to the controversy surrounding his doctrine of…