Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

To the readers who ask themselves: 'What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included su...

Elizabeth I is perhaps England's most famous monarch. Born in 1533, the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was...

The English reformers of the 1530s, with Thomas Cromwell at their head, continued to have a strong belief in kingly rule and authority, in contrast...

The fifty-odd years of Scottish history dominated by the Jacobite Risings are amongst its most evocative and whilst the last battle, Culloden in 17...

Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. With the echo of that chilling injunction hundreds were accused and tried for witchcraft across England thr...

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from...

Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease ...

Known to history as Dunmore''s War, the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an Ameri...

Modern Scottish History: 1707 to the Present was published in five volumes in 1995 as a collaboration between the University of Dundee and the Ope...

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or il...

Paulo De Medeiros concentrates on some aspects of the Book of Disquiet, in the hope of contributing to what he see as the fundamental task of relat...

To Follow The Lambe Wheresoever He Goeth explores church doctrine among English Calvinistic Baptists between 1640 and 1660. It examines the emergen...

The violent conquest of the eastern part of the lands under Muslim rule by the Mongols marked a new period in the history of Islamic civilisation a...

Explores the transformative reign of the Catholic King James VII and the revolution that brought about his fallThis illuminating book looks beyond ...

Strange Histories is an exploration of some of the most extraordinary beliefs that existed in the late Middle Ages through to the end of the sevent...

Selection of correspondence from the house which was once Little Malvern priory, illuminating life at the time. In 1538 John Russell, secretary to...

Written in the aftermath of the catastrophic sack of Rome in 1527, the historian Paolo Giovios dialogue provides an informed perspective on the eve...

Machiavellianused to describe the ruthless cunning of the power-obsessed and the pitilessis never meant as a compliment. But the man whose name bec...

Tracing journeys of Cantonese migrants along the West River and its tributaries, this book describes the circulation of people through one of the w...

Sir Francis Bryan was Henry VIII's most notorious ambassador and one of his closest companions. Bryan was a man of many talents; jouster, poet, rak...

Overturns established thinking that the Catholic elite were all expropriated and excluded from civil and political life as the Protestant Ascendanc...

The baby abandoned on the doorstep is a phenomenon that has virtually disappeared from our experience, but in the early modern world, unwanted chil...