Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

With a focus on England from the accession of Elizabeth I to the mid-1620s, this book examines the practice of direct, scholarly disputation betwee...

Louis XIV - the Sun King - casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Yet while he has been the subject of...

Whilst much has been written about the Jacobites, most works have tended to look at the Rebellion of 1745, rather than the earlier attempt to reins...

Jesuit Science and the End of Natures Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including Niccolò Cabeo, Athanasius Kircher, and...

Having arriving in the Province of Maine in 1641 with a brief to create both government and law for the fledgling colony, Thomas Gorges later recor...

At the heart of this volume is a concern with exploring levels of interaction between two particular objects of study, islands on the one hand, and...

Lord Burghley and Episcopacy, 1577-1603 examines the selection and promotion of bishops within the shifting sands of ecclesiastical politics at the...

Luthers 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows his creations to suffer remains one ...

Despite its failure to unseat King James II, the Monmouth Rebellion had a profound influence upon English politics. In particular, it reignited the...

Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Thomas ...

The oldest and most renowned Dutch university, Leiden was an attractive proposition for travelling foreign students in the seventeenth and eighteen...

Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval period - could fall completel...

As the first comprehensive volume devoted entirely to women of both the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg royal dynasties spanning the sixteenth and th...

The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metal...

Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities; it was the focal point of its religious life, the ritu...

Religious conversion - a shift in membership from one community of faith to another - can take diverse forms in radically different circumstances. ...

Religious conversion - a shift in membership from one community of faith to another - can take diverse forms in radically different circumstances. ...

In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France ...

In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France ...

John Owen (1616-1683) and Richard Baxter (1615-1691) were both pivotal figures in shaping the nonconformist landscape of Restoration England. Yet d...

If terms are associated with particular historical periods, then polemic is firmly rooted within early modern print culture, the apparently inevita...

Through its focus on the relationship between foreign and domestic politics, this book provides a new perspective on the often fractious and tangle...

Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican regime and signatory to Charles...

The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English Reformation became an issue of ...

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subj...

Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary...

Analysing the make-up and workings of the Royalist party in Scotland and Ireland during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century, Royalists at...

Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by ...

In the first book systematically to give evidence of conjugal co-rule at an Italian Renaissance court, and the first full length scholarly study of...

Over the last twenty years research on the Reformation in Germany has shifted both chronologically and thematically toward an interest in the long ...

In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The fir...

Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new colle...

Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and historiography, this volume of ess...

Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared in books printed on both si...

Originally published in 1927 this book presents the main features of Newtons life and his chief contributions to scientific knowledge. It gives the...

Historical biography has a mixed reputation: at its best it can reveal much not only about an individual, but the wider context of their life and s...

In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue his search for truth, which fo...

In the early 1690s Roger North was preparing to remove from London to Rougham, Norfolk, where he planned to continue his search for truth, which fo...

Castigliones Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano, 1528), a dialogue in which the interlocutors attempt to describe the perfect courtier, ...

Despite the recent history of violence and destruction, Bosnia-Herzegovina holds a positive place in history, marked by a continuous interweaving o...

The fourteen essays that comprise this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and perman...

Mary Tudor's reign is regarded as a period where, within a short space of time, an early modern European state attempted to reverse the religious p...

'In the last two decades, the history of the Counter-Reformation has been stretched and re-shaped in numerous directions. Reflecting the variety an...

Modern communications allow the instant dissemination of information and images, creating a sensation of virtual presence at events that occur far ...

Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the apparent rise and fall of anatomy studies within univer...

Although literary-historical studies have often focused on the range of dissenting religious groups and writers that flourished during the English ...

The 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688-90 played a fundamental role in re-shaping the political, religious and cultural map of the British Isles. Yet, a...

Toward the end of the fifteenth century, the Habsburg family began to rely on dynastic marriage to unite an array of territories, eventually creati...