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Step into an age of upheaval, discovery, and dangerous new ideas, where reformers challenge empires, voyagers redraw the world, and fragile colonies begin to imagine their future. From the thunder of Luther’s protest to Descartes’ cool search for truth, this bookshelf opens a window onto the centuries when Europe and the wider world were being remade. Courtly intrigue, faith, trade, exploration, and revolution all converge here in a sweeping panorama of the early modern world.

by Bertha Meriton Gardiner, J. Surtees (James Surtees) Phillpotts

by S. (Salomon) Ilmonen

by Anonymous

by George Francis Dow, John Henry Edmonds

by Henry White

by Almon Wheeler Lauber

by Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo

by Giosofat Barbaro, Ambrogio Contarini
![The nights of Straparola, volume 1 [of 2]](/api/img/6a1009ead526f8ed6efd4853/cover.jpg)
by Giovanni Francesco Straparola

by Alberto P. Guglielmotti

by Edward Luther Stevenson

by Frederick Rolfe

by George Haven Putnam

by Robert Chambers

by Emil Schaeffer

by Väinö Salminen

by Julia Cartwright

by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason