Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

A comprehensive overview of the subject, demonstrating that the maritime aspects of the civil wars were much more important than has hitherto been ...

Edition of extremely rich household inventories provides a wealth of information about life at the time. It is rare to find a sequence of househol...

Provides a full, detailed picture of the life of an aristocratic family in early modern England. The Temples of Stowe were a leading Midland lande...

In this book, historian Mar a M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblic...

A groundbreaking biography of Miltons formative years that provides a new account of the poets political radicalizationJohn Milton (16081674) has a...

At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed ...

Having succeeded in establishing themselves in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, in the early 16th century Spain and Portugal became the first...

From Homer to Jane Austen, storytellers have entertained their audiences with tales of women in disputes, as parties and peacemakers. This is our a...

Legend has it that Scotland's most heinous crimes were committed by Sawney Bean and his murderous clan of cannibals-an incestuous cave dwelling tri...

Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. In...

This book explores this question and attempts to reveal precisely who these Huguenots were, what they contributed to and received from their adopte...

Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 until 3 October 1470, and again from 11 April 1471 until his death on 9 April 1483. In...

Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religi...

The World Hunt focuses on the commercial hunting of wildlife and its profound global impact on the environment and world economy. A comprehensive d...

The Florentine musician Jacopo Peri (1561-1633) is known as the composer of the first operas--they include the earliest to survive complete, Euridi...

The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnma, or The Histo...

The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his no...

The fact that the English Civil War led to the execution of King Charles I in January 1649 is well known, as is the restoration of his eldest son a...

The fifteen-year period between 1645 and 1660 was one of the most dynamic in British history, during which the republican Commonwealth and Cromwell...

EIGHT GENERATIONS OF BOLEYN WOMEN FROM THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY TO 1603 The Boleyn family appeared from nowhere at the end of the fourteenth century...

King Richard III remains one of the most controversial figures in British history. Matthew Lewiss new biography aims to become a definitive account...

A magnificent tale of family rivalry and intrigue set against Henry VIII's court. The fall of Anne Boleyn and her brother George is the classic dra...

For a King renowned for his love life, Henry VIII has traditionally been depicted as something of a prude, but the story may have been different fo...

Intelligent, authoritative, and often surprising, a biography of the most famous of French monarchs, by an acclaimed biographer and historian. L...