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by 
Harkup, Kathryn, author.
Publication Date 
2020
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Books
ISBN 
9781472958228 9781472958211
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Medicine -- History -- 16th century.
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Cover image for The chemistry of alchemy : from dragon's blood to donkey dung, how chemistry was forged
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Cobb, Cathy, author.
Publication Date 
2014
Summary 
As the authors show, the writings of medieval alchemists may seem like the ravings of brain-addled fools, but there is more to the story than that. Recent scholarship has shown that some seemingly nonsensical mysticism is, in fact, decipherable code, and Western European alchemists functioned from a firmer theoretical foundation than previously thought. They had a guiding principle, based on experience: separate and purify materials by fire and reconstitute them into products, including, of course, gold and the universal elixir, the Philosophers' stone. Their efforts were not in vain: by trial, by error, by design, and by persistence, the alchemists discovered acids, alkalis, alcohols, salts, and exquisite, powerful, and vibrant reactions--which can be reproduced using common products, minerals, and metals.
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ISBN 
9781616149154
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Chemistry -- History -- 16th century.
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Cover image for Eating with the Tudors : an illustrated history of the food with recipes
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Webster, Brigitte, author.
Publication Date 
2023
Format: 
Books
ISBN 
9781399092593
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Food habits -- England -- History -- 16th century.
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by 
Alford, Stephen, 1970- author.
Edition 
First U.S. edition.
Publication Date 
2017
Format: 
Books
ISBN 
9781620408216
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London (England) -- Commerce -- History -- 16th century.
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Cover image for Game of queens : the women who made sixteenth-century Europe
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Gristwood, Sarah, author.
Publication Date 
2016
Summary 
"Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, women wielded enormous power over their territories for more than a hundred years. In the sixteenth century, as in our own, the phenomenon of the powerful woman offered challenges and opportunities. Opportunities, as when in 1529 Margaret of Austria and Louise of Savoy negotiated the "Ladies' peace" of Cambrai. Challenges, as when both Mary Queen of Scots and her kinswoman Elizabeth I came close to being destroyed by sexual scandal. A fascinating group biography of some of the most beloved (and reviled) queens in history, Game of Queens tells the story of the powerful women who drove European history"-- "Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. Large swathes of the continent were under the firm hand of a dozen reigning women as queens, regents, mothers, wives, or counselors. From Isabella of Castile, her daughter Katherine of Aragon, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor; from England and France to the Netherlands, and across the Holy Roman Empire, these women wielded enormous power over their territories, shaping the course of European history for over a century"--
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ISBN 
9780465096787
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Women heads of state -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
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Cover image for El Greco, life and work, a new history
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Marías, Fernando, 1949- author.
Publication Date 
2013
Summary 
Domenikos Theotokopoulos, known to us as El Greco, was one of the seminal figures of the Spanish Golden Age. This volume, published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the artist's death, features new photographs of recently cleaned and restored paintings, revealing hitherto unknown facets of his art. Born in Crete in 1541 under Venetian rule, raised in the iconographic traditions of Byzantine art, and acquainted with both Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic practice, El Greco journeyed to Venice and Rome in the late Renaissance, before finding patronage in Spain at the court of Philip II. He was a painter not only of religious subjects but also of idiosyncratic portraits executed in his own uniquely dramatic and expressionistic style. He spent approximately half his life in Toledo, a city with which his name has become indelibly linked, although he was never fully accepted and was known there as a disputatious outsider.
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ISBN 
9780500093771
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Painting, Renaissance -- Spain -- 16th century.
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by 
Imamura, Shōgo, author.
Publication Date 
2020
Format: 
Books
Title 
じんかん / 今村翔吾著.
Personal Author 
今村翔吾, author.
Publication Information 
東京 : 講談社, 2020.
ISBN 
9784065192702
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Samurai -- Japan -- 16th century -- Fiction.
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Cover image for The time traveler's guide to Elizabethan England
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Mortimer, Ian, 1967-
Publication Date 
2013
Summary 
" ... this popular history explores daily life in Queen Elizabeth's England, taking us inside the homes and minds of ordinary citizens as well as luminaries of the period, including Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake. Organized as a travel guide for the time-hopping tourist, Mortimer relates in delightful (and occasionally disturbing) detail everything from the sounds and smells of sixteenth-century England to the complex and contradictory Elizabethan attitudes toward violence, class, sex, and religion. Original enough to interest those with previous knowledge of Elizabethan England and accessible enough to entertain those without, The Time Traveler's Guide is a book for Elizabethan enthusiasts and history buffs alike."--
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ISBN 
9780670026074 9780143125631
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England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.
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Elgin, Kathy.
Publication Date 
2009
Summary 
Looks at clothing worn by all classes of people in 16th century England.
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ISBN 
9781604133790
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Clothing and dress -- England -- History -- 16th century -- Juvenile literature.
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by 
Xiong, Zhaozheng, 1952- screenwriter.
Edition 
Letterbox widescreen.
Publication Date 
2017
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Title 
荡寇风云 [dvd] = God of war / 出品寰亚电影制作有限公司, 博纳影业集团有限公司, 东海电影集团有限公司, 联合出品华夏电影发行有限责任公司, 寰亚电影发行(北京)有限公司, 上海盛岳影视传播有限公司, 湖北长江电影集团有限责任公司, 太阳娱乐文化有限公司 ; 北京仝人文化传媒有限公司摄制 ; 编剧熊召政, 王思敏, 谭广源, 吴孟璋 ; 监制导演陈嘉上.
Publication Information 
吉隆坡: K & L Entertainment SDN BHD.; 2017.
ISBN 
9556100002365
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Pirates -- China -- 16th century -- Drama.
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Cover image for How to be a Renaissance woman : the untold history of beauty & female creativity
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Burke, Jill, 1971- author.
Publication Date 
2024
Format: 
Books
ISBN 
9781639365906
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Women -- Europe -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.
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by 
Bergreen, Laurence author.
Edition 
First edition.
Publication Date 
2021
Summary 
"An exploration narrative of the highest order: the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World brings alive the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history-as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"--
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ISBN 
9780062875358 9780062875365
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Voyages around the world -- History -- 16th century.
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