Early modern Britain & Europe.(the Ends of the Earth: The Age of the European Explorers; David Starkey's Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII; 1473-1541: Loyalty, Uneage and Leadership; For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery; The Jesuits and the Thirty Years' War; Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815; A Man of Three Worlds: Samuel Pollache, a Moroccan Jew in Catholic and Protestant Europe; When Gossips Meet: Women, Family and Neighbourhond in Early Modern England; Sir Walter Ralegh; Shakespeare; Shakespeare's Face; The Bard on the Brain: Understanding the Mind Through the Art of Shakespeare and the Science of Brain Imaging; The Mapmaker' s Quest Depicting New Worlds in Renaissance Europe; Archbishop Laud; The Scientific Revolution: The Essential Readings; London's Leonardo: The Life and Work of Robert Hooke; Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin)(Book Review)(Brief Review)

History Today, May, 2003

Starting with the work of 15th-century Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator who sponsored early voyages, To the Ends of the Earth: The Age of the European Explorers by Peter O. Koch (McFarland & Company, 29.50 [pounds sterling]) traces the story of navigation to the quests of Ferdinand Magellan.

David Starkey's Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII (Chatto & Windus, 25 [pounds sterling]) is a riveting and racy account, based on new research, of the pivotal reign of English history, and argues how clever, influential and sometimes brilliantly manipulative these women were. A biography of the niece of both Edward IV and Richard III, Margaret Pole, 1473-1541: Loyalty, Uneage and Leadership by Hazel Pierce (University of Wales Press, 40 [pounds sterling])...

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