Most Read This Week In 17th Century


The 17th century was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700, in the Gregorian calendar. The 17th century falls into the Early Modern period of Europe and in that continent was characterized by the Dutch Golden Age, the Baroque cultural movement, the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis XIV, the Scientific Revolution, and The General Crisis.

Most Read This Week Tagged "17th Century"

Skylark
The Manningtree Witches
Act of Oblivion
Hour of the Witch
The King's Messenger
We Are Green and Trembling
The Six Loves of James I
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
I Am You
The Witches of Vardø
Costanza
The Ghost Ship (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #3)
Dawnlands (The Fairmile #3)
The Map of Bones (The Joubert Family Chronicles, #4)
The Vanished Days (Slains, #3)
The Maiden
The Modern Fairies
Disobedient
Saltblood
The Leviathan
The Village Healer’s Book of Cures
The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
The Winter List (Damian Seeker #6)
A Poisoner's Tale
Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death
The Witching Tide
The Royal Secret (Marwood and Lovett, #5)
An Age of Winters
The Players
The Pirate King: The Strange Adventures of Henry Avery and the Birth of the Golden Age of Piracy
The Shadows of London (Marwood and Lovett #6)
The Other Gwyn Girl
The Swift and the Harrier
The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
1666
Out Front the Following Sea
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune
The Poison Keeper (Tofana, #1)
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688
All We Have Is Time
Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
Before the Fortress Falls
The Hemlock Cure
In the Margins
Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches
Cunning Women
The Rebel Daughter
The Phoenix Bride
The East Indian
A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America
The Revels
God's Vindictive Wrath (Divided Kingdom, #1)
The Master of Measham Hall
The Plague Letters
The Ghost Theatre
Terror to the Wicked: America's First Trial by Jury That Ended a War and Helped to Form a Nation
Het monsterschip: Maarten Tromp en de armada van 1639
The Cargo From Neira (Gabriel Taverner #5)
The Beauties
A Portrait in Shadow
Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
The Drowned City (Daniel Pursglove, #1)
London and the Seventeenth Century: The Making of the World's Greatest City
A Net for Small Fishes
Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court
Blue Hawk

Everyone who has an interest in the History of Winchester, the Civil War In Hampshire and the 17th Century needs to read this - Desecration: Winchester 1642 by Charles Cordell ...more
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Jonathan     Kennedy
Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later.
Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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