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Law, politics and society in early modern England by Brooks, C. W.

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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The madness of vision on baroque aesthetics / by Buci-Glucksmann, Christine

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British and Irish emigrants and exiles in Europe, 1603-1688

Table of Contents: “…Rotterdam's Scots community and the covenanter cause, 1638-1688 / Douglas Catterall -- Special privileges for the Irish in the kingdom of Castile (1601-1680): modern myth or contemporary reality? / Ciaran O'Scea -- Hidden by 1688 and after: Irish Catholic migration to France, 1590-1685 / Éamon Ó Ciosáin -- Murder as a weapon of exile: English politics at the Spanish court (1649-1652) / Igor Pérez Tostado -- Scots in Swedish Bremen and Verden (1645-1712) / Kathrin Zickermann -- The Gordons of Huntly: a Scottish noble household and its European connections, 1603-1688 / Barry Robertson -- "My heart is a Scotch heart": Scottish Calvinist exiles in France in their continental context: 1605-1638 / Siobhan Talbott -- Under the Habsburgs and the Stuarts: the Leslies' Portrait Gallery in Ptuj Castle, Slovenia / Polona Vidmar -- English military émigrés and the Protestant cause in Europe, 1603-c 1640 / David J.B. …”
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Gaming the Stage Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater / by Bloom, Gina

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Gaming the Stage : Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater / by Bloom, Gina

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Gaming the Stage : Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater / by Bloom, Gina

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Warfare in Eastern Europe, 1500-1800

Table of Contents: “…Stevens -- Crimean Tatar long-range campaigns: the view from Remmal Khoja's The history of Sahib Gerey Khan / Victor Ostapchuk -- The siege of Azov in 1641: military realities and literary myth / Brian J. Boeck -- The generation of 1683: the scientific revolution and generalship in the Habsburg army, 1686-1723 / Erik R. …”
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Children in colonial America

Table of Contents: “…Imperial ideas, colonial realities: enslaved children in Jamaica, 1775-1834 / Audra Abee Diptee -- Documents: "The younger sort reverence the elder": a pilgrim describes Indian childrearing ; "I have often been overcome while thinking on it": a slave boy's life -- Part II. …”
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Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World /

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Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World /

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