Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The expansion of the English state in the early modern era provoked resistance throughout Britain and Ireland, not least in Cornwall where this int...

In this volume, 8 lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social...

The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democra...

Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Uto...

Thomas More remains one of the most enigmatic thinkers in history, due in large part to the enduring mysteries surrounding his best-known work, Uto...

Women from the Ricasoli and Spinelli families formed a wide variety of social networks within and beyond Florence through their letters as they neg...

With the official support of the Vatican, this book accompanies an immersive exhibition truly an event of historic magnitude and is the result of y...

Between the early seventeenth and the mid-nineteenth century, the field of natural history in Japan separated itself from the discipline of medicin...

Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe: the creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics. ...

Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chosn dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the ...

The collected writings of Margaret More Roper, presented and annotated for classroom use. Margaret More Roper (150544) was, at the age of nineteen,...

In Baroque Science Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instea...

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symboli...

In Coming To, Timothy M. Harrison uncovers the forgotten role of poetry in the history of the idea of consciousness. Drawing our attention to a sea...

The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which lit...

In this original study, Niall Oddy explores representations of Europe in sixteenth and early-seventeenth century French writing to argue that Europ...

This text provides the first full-length consideration of womens economic roles in early modern Scottish towns. Drawing on tens of thousands of cas...

The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, now in its fourth edition, is the perfect resource for both students and scholars of the witch-hunts written...

Wives not Slaves begins with the story of John and Eunice Davis, a colonial American couple who, in 1762, advertised their marital difficulties in ...

The Low Countries were at the heart of innovation in Europe in the fifteenth century. Throughout this period, the flourishing cultures of the Low C...

Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chosn dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the ...

How does John Calvin view the church? And how does the pivotal event of Pentecost influence his view on the church? In his commentary on the Acts o...

This book explores the entanglements among Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth century from a global perspective. It off...

This authoritative, accessible and engaging four-volume history vividly presents the Irish story - or stories - from c.600 to the present, within i...

1520 explores the characters of two larger-than-life kings, whose rivalry and love-hate relations added a feisty edge to European relations in the ...

In Shakespeare and the Making of America, Kevin J. Hayes tells a story that has never been told before. He traces the history of reading Shakespear...

According to the great diarist, John Evelyn, Charles II was 'addicted to women', and throughout his long reign a great many succumbed to his charms...