Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In the late seventeenth century, France prided itself for its rationality and scientific achievements. Yet it was then that Raphaël Lévy, a French ...

This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern public sphere. Focusing on the petition-like ...

This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divide...

This study provides a radical reassessment of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they were living during th...

This book revisits the county study as a way of understanding the dynamics of civil war in England during the 1640s. It explores gentry culture an...

This book seeks to bring coherence to two of the most studied periods in British history, Caroline non-conformity (pre-1640) and the British revolu...

The years when she brought delight, desire and disgust to Shakespeare came after the Spanish Armada of 1588 and before the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, ...

Available in paperback for the first time, this study examines how political news was concealed, manipulated and distorted during the tumultuous la...

This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading...

Discover how humans created their world from the objects they left behind - from the US Constitution to the first iPhone - in DK's latest history b...

During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor, not Henry VIII. Had the first-born son of Henry...

A greatly romanticised era of history, the Tudor period kick-started one of the most significant shifts in British culture ever to occur. When the ...

It was theology against politics. Ordinary men against changing systems of government and belief, fighting for what they believed was right. The Bl...

This book is about the transformation of Englands trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland...

In a Reformation kingdom ill-used to queens, Elizabeth I needed a very particular image to hold her divided country together. The Cult of Gloriana ...

The concept of a Northern European Renaissance in the arts, in thought, and in more general culture north of the Alps often evokes the idea of a cu...

An ambitious, landmark history of the Scientific Revolution, from the age of Columbus to the age of Cook In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlant...

Bethlem Hospital is the oldest mental institution in the world, to many famously known as Bedlam: a chaotic madhouse that brutalised its patients. ...

In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamens classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multip...