Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the...

Drawing together the latest research in the field, The Routledge History of the Renaissance treats the Renaissance not as a static concept, but as ...

This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea...

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza investigates how and why the ...

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family and community life during the Great Migration ...

First published in 1997, this collection of articles, two of which hitherto only appeared in Dutch, examines the technical changes in shipbuilding,...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictio...

The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Medit...

This title was first published in 2000: The printed writings of the most important authors of the sixteenth century are characterised by frequent r...

This edited collection explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and excitement over the rad...

Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book ...

From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern Engla...

What use is it to be given authority over men and lands if others do not know about it? Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know a...

This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the fa...

In March 1757 early in the Seven Years War a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bor...

Native Southerners lived in vibrant societies, rich in tradition and cultural sophistication, for thousands of years before the arrival of European...

Originally published in 1915, The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 examines this period of British Tudor history in ...

This second volume of the authors studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially...

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It s...

Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection mak...

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned ...

From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution, the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the ce...

Fear and suspicion take root among the women of Manningtree, when the Witchfinder General comes to town... WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND...

This title was first published in 2003. The aim of The Crisis of 1614 and The Addled Parliament is to bring literary historians together with const...