Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In Playful Pictures, Chriscinda Henry explores the rise of private art collection in Renaissance Venice as a diporto, or pastime, practiced within ...

Knowledge and the Early Modern City uses case studies from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries to examine the relationships between knowledge...

One of the hallmarks of world history is the ever-increasing ability of humans to cross cultural boundaries. Taking an encounters approach that ope...

A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. The Oxford His...

It is commonly assumed that the creation story of Genesis and its chronology were the only narratives openly available in medieval and early modern...

Anxious about the threat of Ottoman invasion and a religious schism that threatened Christianity from within, sixteenth-century northern Europeans ...

Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 -1750 argues that armies had a profound impact on the major political events of late seventeenth- and ...

From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of...

This study examines the darker side of England's culture of economic improvement between 1640 and 1720. It is often suggested that England in this ...

Between Two Worlds is a story teeming with people on the move, making decisions, indulging or resisting their desires and dreams. In the seventee...

Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transf...

Kings throughout medieval and early modern Europe had extraconjugal sexual partners. Only in France, however, did the royal mistress become a quasi...

Early modern England was marked by profound changes in economy, society, politics and religion. It is widely believed that the poverty and disconte...

This groundbreaking study explores the role of those involved in various aspects of the care, comfort and appearance of the body in seventeenth and...