Early Modern
79 books
Early Modern
493
Saint Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica - 13 Tertia Pars, The Saviour: His Incarnation and His Salvific Acts
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners...
38 hours 13 minutes
Early Modern
426
Justin McCarthy - History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 3
In Volume III of this series on the Hanoverian Kings, Justin McCarthy is joined by his son, Justin Hartly McCarthy, a liberal Irish MP like his father. Together they bring to life, poor stubborn George III, the...
13 hours 58 minutes
War & Military
471
Friedrich Schiller - History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 4
Volume Four covers the battle of Lutzen (November, 1633) to the death of Wallenstein (February, 1634) focusing on the reaction of the Protestant forces following the death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lutzen, and...
2 hours
Early Modern
466
Justin McCarthy - History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 1
Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century personalities to life: Walpole and Swift, Bolingbroke and Mary Wortley Montagu, the Old Pretender and Bonnie...
12 hours 17 minutes
*Non-fiction
512
Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches
Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...
9 hours 1 minute
