Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The raising of the _Mary Rose_ in 1982 was a remarkable feat of archaeology and her subsequent preservation and display at Portsmouth a triumph of ...

From when the Empress Jingo-kogo led an invasion of Korea while pregnant with the future Emperor Ojin, tales of female Japanese warriors have emerg...

Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture?The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of the Re...

'His finest work and one that was both symptom and engine of the concept of history from below ... Here Levellers, Diggers, Ranters, Muggletonian...

Chinas sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw an unprecedented explosion in the production and circulation of woodblock-printed books. What can su...

Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Giovanni Boccaccio (13131375) is an ambitious work of humanistic scholarship whose goal is to plunder ancient and me...

At Kingdom's Edge investigates how life in a conquered colony both revealed and shaped what it meant to be English outside of the British Isles. Co...

This book describes the transformation of Scotland from a medieval and to modern state. Michael Lynch examines the influence of the Renaissance and...

There has been a recent trend in history to interpret the rise and fall of great powers in terms of economics, or demographics, or geography. This ...

Queen Elizabeth Is reign is amongst the most exciting and fascinating of any period of English history. She was a glamourous queen who ruled a vibr...

The Cantelowe Accounts appear to offer the earliest evidence of an English merchant using Italian as a second language. They were written by John B...

Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the surprising history of American piracys Golden Age - spanni...

The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, li...

This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press''s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the engineering pope Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transforme...

A new look at Henry VIII's second wife, Anne BoleynWill certainly make readers think again about what we really know about Henry VIII's most contro...

The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation th...

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed on 19 May 1536. Her sister Mary, rumoured mistress to the monarch, lived on and survived t...

An authoritative, richly illustrated history, and affectionate celebration, of Siena, one of the best-loved and most-visited cities in Italy. Occu...

In 1420, after more than one hundred years of the Avignon Exile and the Western Schism, the papal court returned to Rome, which had become depopula...