The Davenant Press ESSAY SERIES includes titles on sixteenth-century England and Europe, Political Thought and Classical
authors.
Forthcoming titles are:
ESSAYS ON ANCIENT LITERATURE by Susan Sorek - due Autumn 2007.
ESSAYS ON THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE by David Loades - due Autumn 2007.
The following titles are available NOW:
ESSAYS ON ANCIENT HISTORIANS by Susan Sorek
ESSAYS IN TUDOR HISTORY by David Loades
ESSAYS ON POLITICAL THOUGHT by Gerald Taylor and Andrew Bradstock
ESSAYS ON THE REIGN OF EDWARD VI by David Loades - Contents:
1. Henry VIII's will and the formation of the Protectorate
2. The Religious Settlement
3. Agrarian and Trade Problems
4. Protector Somerset and the Scottish Wars
5. Protector Somerset and the Privy Council
6. The Foreign Policy of the Protectorate
7. Printing and Publishing
8. The Prayer Book of 1549
9. The Risings of 1548-1549
10. The Coup of October 1549
11. The Struggle for Power 1549-1550
12. Religious Opposition: the Princess Mary
13. Education, Charity and the Dissolution of the Chantries
14. The Foreign Policy of the Earl of Warwick
15. The Court and Council 1550-1553
16. The Second Book of Common Prayer
17. Religious Radicalism
18. Financial Reforms and Retrenchment
19. Overseas Trade and Exploration
20. Northumberland and the Succession Crisis of 1553
plus NOTES and Documents.
ESSAYS in EUROPEAN HISTORY 1453-1648 (Vol. I) by David Loades (Photocopiable) - Contents:
1. Europe in 1453
2. Economic and Political Economy
3. The Legacy of the Hundred Years War
4. Humanism and Intellectual Curiosity
5. From Burgundy to The Netherlands
6. How Absolute was Francis I?
7. The Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire
8. The Habsburg-Valois Wars
9. Spain from Ferdinand to Isabella
10. Islam and Christendom
11. The pre-Reformation Church
12. Martin Luther and his Protest
13. The Spread of Lutheranism
14. The Swiss and South German Reformers
15. Anabaptists and other Radicals
16. The Catholic Reformation before Trent
17. Exploration and Overseas Trade
18. Money and People
19. The End of the Wars 1545-1559
20. The France of Henry II
21. The Council of Trent
22. Portugal, Spain and the New World
23. Cateau-Cambresis and its consequences
24. The Rise of Calvinism
25. The Jesuits and the Counter Reformation
26. The French Civil Wars to 1572
27. The First Phase of the Revolt of the Netherlands
28. Civil Wars and Settlement in France 1572-1598
29. The Creation of the United Provinces
30. Spain as an Imperial Power
31. The Empire and the background to the Thirty Years War
32. The Scandanavian Intervention
33. The France of Henry IV and Richelieu
34. France and the Thirty Years War
35. The Peace of Westphalia
ESSAYS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY 1453 -1648 (Vol. II) by David Loades
This volume contains 40 photocopiable essays on the topics in volume I.
For more information on David Loades' publications, please visit:
http://www.davidloades.co.uk
The illustration on this page is the new front cover of our journal EUROPEAN HISTORY 1477-1715 and is reproduced by kind
permission of the National Archives, Kew.
