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Explore 24 books like Challenges to Authority by Peter Elmer — a handpicked selection united by Renaissance and Europe.

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Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Challenges to Authority.

Rivers of Gold The Rise of the Spanish Empire

Hugh Thomas

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

English Feminists and Their Opponents in the 1790s Unsex’d and Proper Females

William Stafford

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

The Bright Ages A New History of Medieval Europe

Matthew Gabriele

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

Fatal Discord Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind

Michael Massing

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

Disraeli A Brief Life

Paul Smith

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration Literature, Drama, History

Gerald M. MacLean

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

The Real Guy Fawkes

Nick Holland

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

Before Mestizaje The Frontiers of Race and Caste in Colonial Mexico

Ben Vinson III

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

Arbella Stuart The Uncrowned Queen

Jill Armitage

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

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Spinoza, Life and Legacy

Jonathan I. Israel

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe

Andrew Cunningham

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#12

Memory in Shakespeare’s Histories Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England

Jonathan Baldo

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#13

Oil and Marble A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

Stephanie Storey

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#14

The House of Hemp and Butter A History of Old Riga — Kevin C. O’Connor

Kevin C. O'Connor

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#15

Devices and Desires Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England

Kate Hubbard

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#16

Brunelleschi’s Dome How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture

Ross King

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#17

Living by the Sword Weapons and Material Culture in France and Britain, 600-1600

Kristen Brooke Neuschel

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#18

The Chinese Astronomical Bureau, 1620-1850 Lineages, Bureaucracy and Technical Expertise

Ping-Ying Chang

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#19

The Fellowship The Story of a Revolution

John Gribbin

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#20

Argentina Since Independence

Leslie Bethell

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#21

Marriage with My Kingdom The Courtships of Queen Elizabeth I.

Alison Plowden

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#22

The Shakespeare Trail A Journey Into Shakespeare’s England

Zoe Bramley

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

#23

The Safeguard of the Sea A Naval History of Britain 660-1649 — N A M Rodger

N. A. M. Rodger

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Henry VIII and the Men Who Made Him The Secret History Behind the Tudor Throne

Tracy Borman

Themes: Renaissance • Europe

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Renaissance, Europe — the same threads that run through Challenges to Authority by Peter Elmer. Among the authors featured: Hugh Thomas, William Stafford, Matthew Gabriele, Michael Massing, and others.

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