Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In the wake of the 1588 destruction of the Spanish Armada, English Catholics launched an ingenious counterespionage effort to undermine the Tudo...

Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Gre...

Set mostly within an expansive British imperial and transatlantic framework, this new selection of writings from the renowned historian Jack P. Gre...

Sir Walter Raleigh's biographers have given little attention to his tragic relationship with his son Wat (Walter). They began in proud identific...

Jacques de Coutre was a Flemish gem trader who spent nearly a decade in Southeast Asia at the turn of the 17th century. He left history a substanti...

During a career lasting nearly half a century, Meister Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) personally put to death 392 individuals and tortured, flogged, or...

During the 17th century, England saw foreign foods made increasingly available to consumers and featured in recipe books, medical manuals, treat...

The early American legal system permeated the lives of colonists and reflected their sense of what was right and wrong, honorable and dishonorable,...

John Morton (c. 14201500) was one of the most important men in the land from the Wars of the Roses to the start of the Tudor dynasty. Yet he has be...

The first major biography of Henry VIII least favourite wife - but the one who outlived them all. 'I like her not!' was the verdict of Henry VIII o...

As a youth, Henry VIII was a magnificent specimen of manhood, and in age a gargantuan wreck, but even in his prime he was never the 'ladies man' wh...

The reports and despatches of Eustace Chapuys, Spanish Ambassador to Henry VIIIs court from 1529 to 1545, have been instrumental in shaping our mod...

Recent scholarship on slavery and politics between 1776 and 1840 has wholly revised historians'' understanding of the problem of slavery in America...

Love's Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love poetry. Beginning in fourte...

The War for Mexico's West examines a dramatic, complex episode in the early history of New Spain that stands as an instructive counterpoint to the ...

The Gunpowder Plot is perhaps the most famous and well-documented event in British Early Modern history. This means the story can be told through o...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated SahagÚns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated SahagÚns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Two of the worlds leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagúns monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in M...

Brereton's journal is a book made up of letters from the English Civil War (1642-1646). A Parliamentary general, Sir William was engaged in the ...

Leanda de Lisle brings the story of nine days queen, Lady Jane Grey and her forgotten sisters, the rivals of Elizabeth I, to vivid lif...