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    War, domination, and the monarchy of France Claude de Seyssel and the language of politics in the Renaissance / by Boone, Rebecca Ard

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…In medias res : the life of Claude de Seyssel -- The scholar-diplomat -- The translator of histories -- Seyssel in Italy : a scholar looks at war -- The scholar and the state -- Seyssel, the church, and the ideal prelate.…”
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    Authority and society in Nantes during the French wars of religion, 1559-98 by Tingle, Elizabeth C.

    Published 2006
    “…France History Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598.…”
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    Treason in the Northern Quarter war, terror, and the rule of law in the Dutch revolt / by Nierop, Henk F. K. van

    Published 2009
    “…Netherlands History Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648.…”
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    Violence and religion attitudes towards militancy in the French civil wars and the English Revolution / by Sproxton, Judy

    Published 1995
    “…Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649.…”
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    Margaret of Parma : a life / by Steen, Charlie R.

    Published 2013
    “…Netherlands History Eighty Years' War, 1568-1648.…”
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    The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative by Adorno, Rolena

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…The polemics of possession in Spanish American narrative -- Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala and the polemics of possession -- Fray Bartolomé de las Casas : polemicist and author -- Councilors warring at the royal court -- Historians of war and princely warriors -- The encomendero and his literary interlocutors -- The conquistador-chronicler and his literary authority -- The Amerindian : studied, interpreted, and imagined -- The narrative invention of Gonzalo the Warrior -- The narrative reinvention of the conqueror "captive" -- From Guancane to Macondo : literary places and their predecessors -- Seeing ghosts: the longevity of "serpents in sandals."…”
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    John Winthrop America's forgotten founding father / by Bremer, Francis J.

    Published 2003
    Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Profogue Part One -- Heritage --1 Lavenham to London 1 -- 2 Reformation 23 -- 3 John and Adam 39 --Part Two -- StruggLe --4 Youth 67 -- 5 Turning Points 89 -- 6 A Godly Magistrate o05 -- 7 The Godly Embattled 125 -- 8 The Decision to Migrate 147 --InterLude -- Christian Chanty 73 Part Three -- Errand --9 Passing Through Hell 187 -- 10 The Best of Them Was But an Attorney 203 -- 11 Relations with England 229 -- 12 On the Fringe 241 -- 13 War 26I -- 14 Struggling to Hold the Center 275 -- 15 New Trials and Disappointments 301 -- 16 War Clouds and Concerns 323 -- 17 Under Attack 349 -- 18 Last Years 371 Epilogue 379.…”
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    Law, politics and society in early modern England by Brooks, C. W.

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…English history and the history of English law 1485-1642 -- Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors -- The initiatives of the crown and the break from Rome -- Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century -- The politics of jurisdiction I: the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560--c. 1610 -- The politics of jurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority -- The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject: law and political controversy in the 1620s -- The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629--1642 -- Law and 'community' -- The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law -- Economic and tenurial relationships -- The household and its members -- The person, the community and the state.…”
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    Signs of power in Habsburg Spain and the New World

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Laguna -- Iusgentiumand just war : the problem of representation in Inca Garcilaso's Royal commentaries / Jos�e A. …”
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    Renaissance cultural crossroads translation, print and culture in Britain, 1473-1640 /

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Edwards -- Reading Juan de Flores's Grisel y Mirabella in early modern England / Joyce Boro -- Learning style from the Spaniards in sixteenth-century England / Barry Taylor -- Print, paratext, and a seventeenth century sammelband : Boccaccio's Ninfale Fiesolano in English translation / Guyda Armstrong -- Versifying philosophy : Thomas Blundeville's Plutarch / Robert Cummings -- War, what is it good for? : sixteenth-century english translations of the -- Classics / Fred Schurink -- Cato in England : translating Latin sayings for moral and linguistic instruction / Demmy Verbeke -- John Hester's translations of Leonardo Fioravanti : the literary career of a London distiller / Isabelle Pantin -- 'For the common good and for the national interest' : paratexts in English translations of navigational works / Susanna De Schepper -- Henry Hexham (c.1585-1650), English soldier, author, translator, lexicographer, and cultural mediator in the Low Countries / Paul Hoftijzer -- 'Newes lately come' : European news books in English translation / S.K. …”
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