Peter Pierson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3762539 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Pierson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Pierson |
| SIGNATURE | PIERSON P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Commander of the Armada
The History of Spain
Philip of Spain
The Last Descendant of Aeneas
Monarquía y Cortes en la Corona de Castilla
Commander of the Armada
The seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia is best known as the man who led to defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588. This book by Peter Pierson is the first complete biography in any language of this important figure. Based on previously inaccessible documents from the Medina Sidonia archives, it offers fascinating material on sixteenth-century Spain and new and exciting details about the armada campaign. Pierson begins by describing the Duke’s youth and hi…
Commander of the Armada
Peacemaking in the Renaissance
Michael Davies, Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 393, hb. £55, ISBN: 0199242402Michael Davies' fine study demonstrates the vigour of the new Bunyan scholarship emerging from the ferment of recent decades. Arguing that Bunyan has been misread as a writer who, with his readers, was motivated by anxiety over a hyper-Calvinist doctrine of double predestintation, Davies in…
The Emperor and His Chancellor
This study examines a significant development within late medieval and early modern European government, set in the context of the tense relations between the young Emperor Charles V and his ageing chancellor Mercurino de Gattrina. It focuses upon an important transformation in the administrative reorganisation of European monarchies: the shift in the political centre of gravity from the medieval institution of the chancellery as the secretariat …
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The Emperor and His Chancellor
This study examines a significant development within late medieval and early modern European government, set in the context of the tense relations between the young Emperor Charles V and his ageing chancellor Mercurino de Gattrina. It focuses upon an important transformation in the administrative reorganisation of European monarchies: the shift in the political centre of gravity from the medieval institution of the chancellery as the secretariat …
Peacemaking in the Renaissance
Michael Davies, Graceful Reading: Theology and Narrative in the Works of John Bunyan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 393, hb. £55, ISBN: 0199242402Michael Davies' fine study demonstrates the vigour of the new Bunyan scholarship emerging from the ferment of recent decades. Arguing that Bunyan has been misread as a writer who, with his readers, was motivated by anxiety over a hyper-Calvinist doctrine of double predestintation, Davies in…
Commander of the Armada
The seventh Duke of Medina Sidonia is best known as the man who led to defeat the Spanish Armada of 1588. This book by Peter Pierson is the first complete biography in any language of this important figure. Based on previously inaccessible documents from the Medina Sidonia archives, it offers fascinating material on sixteenth-century Spain and new and exciting details about the armada campaign. Pierson begins by describing the Duke’s youth and hi…
Commander of the Armada
Monarquía y Cortes en la Corona de Castilla
The Last Descendant of Aeneas
Philip of Spain
The History of Spain
Commander of the Armada
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