Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual vi...

'Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs' Kate Mosse 'Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating' Alice ...

Traditionally history is cerebral: what did they believe, what did they think, what did they know?Woodsmoke and Sage is not a traditional book. Usi...

Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns uncovers the story and the family behind Englands most obsessed-over queen, Anne Boleyn.From the field...

Crime and Punishment in Tudor England tells the story of the enactment of law and its penalties from Henry VII to Elizabeth I. The sixteenth centur...

London's old buildings hold a wealth of clues to the citys rich and vibrant past. The histories of some, such as the Tower of London and Westminste...

A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 Exhilarating and whip-smart THE SUNDAY TIMES ...

A dynasty is defined by its men: by their personalities, their wars and reigns, their laws and decisions. Their mothers, wives, sisters and daughte...

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys, two of whom represented important Chri...

As a medical, economic, spiritual and demographic crisis, plague affected practically every aspect of an early modern community whether on a local,...

This book presents a uniquely broad and pioneering history of premodern toxicology by exploring how late medieval and early modern (c. 12001600) ph...

This volume contains the first modern critical editions of Concilium (1525) and Rychsztag (1526), two vernacular verse dialogues by the Zurich-base...

Henry Tudor, the future Henry VII, has been called the most unlikely King of England. Yet his rise from obscurity was foretold by the bards, and by...

Written before the Jacobite rebellions irrevocably changed the face of Highland society, Martin Martin's A Description of the Western Islands of Sc...

In these articles John Henry argues on the one hand for the intimate relationship between religion and early modern attempts to develop new underst...

'Excellent . . . Fresh, learned, readable and full of life' Dan Jones, Mail on Sunday Houses of Power is the result of Simon Thurley's thirty years...

A new interpretation of the Holy Roman Empire that reveals why it was not a failed state as many historians believeThe Holy Roman Empire emerged in...

This volume focuses on the various Habsburg courts and households among the two branches of the dynasty that arose following the division of the te...

'We're all now self-makers, whether we like it or not - and this witty, sceptical book is the thought-provoking story of how we got here' GUARDIAN'...