17th century

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17th century

The Globe restored

a study of the Elizabethan theatre
1990

Renaissance art, music & literature

2004
Follows a young film producer as she travels across Europe in search of information about the people, places, and thinking behind Renaissance developments, investigating aspects of art, music, and literature, including the uses of realism, the introduction of new instruments, and the invention of the printing press.

The book of William

how Shakespeare's first folio conquered the world
2009

Galileo, for Copernicanism and for the church

1996
Examines the ideological conflict between Galileo's scientic based worldview and the Church which considered such ideas to be heretical.

Nathaniel's Nutmeg, or, The true and incredible adventures of the spice trader who changed the course of history

1999
Traces the adventures of seventeenth-century ship captain Nathaniel Courthope, charged by King James I of England to lead a mission to the tiny island of Run, the most lucrative of the Spice Islands; and discusses the historical impact of his journey.

The origins of American slavery

freedom and bondage in the English colonies
1997

A library for Juana

the world of Sor Juana In?es
2002
A biography of the seventeenth-century Mexican poet, learned in many subjects, who became a nun later in life.

Shakespeare's Globe Playhouse

a modern reconstruction in text and scale drawings
1956

The lost fleet

the discovery of a sunken armada from the golden age of piracy
2002
Chronicles the events surrounding the sinking of a fleet of French ships in the Caribbean Sea on January 2, 1678, and explains how the accident caused the rise of piracy and the beginning of an era which would forever change the shape of the Americas.

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