Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) remains a puzzling and complex subject for students and scholars alike. This is hardly surprising since it is ofte...

Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe. This edited volume presents es...

Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe. This edited volume presents es...

Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government. Yet recent work by politic...

Aristocratic dynasties have long been regarded as fundamental to the development of early modern society and government. Yet recent work by politic...

In recent years, the rituals and beliefs associated with the end of life and the commemoration of the dead have increasingly been identified as of ...

Nationalism is a particularly slippery subject to define and understand, particularly when applied to early modern Europe. In this collection of es...

Devout laywomen raise a number of provocative questions about gender and religion in the early modern world. How did some groups or individuals eva...

Andrew Melville is chiefly remembered today as a defiant leader of radical Protestantism in Scotland, John Knoxs heir and successor, the architect ...

Given the central role played by religion in early-modern Britain, it is perhaps surprising that historians have not always paid close attention to...

Building upon Dr Crossley's 2011 book ('Hernando de los Ríos Coronel and the Spanish Philippines in the Golden Age') this new work further expands ...

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on ...

Interest in the history of violence has increased dramatically over the last ten years and recent studies have demonstrated the productive potentia...

After 500 years Henry VIII still retains a public fascination unmatched by any monarch before or since. Whilst his popular image is firmly associat...

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed la...

One of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe, is why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produce...

The early decades of the sixteenth century were a turbulent time for the Italian peninsula as competing centres of power struggled for political co...

In the Early Modern period - as both reformed and Catholic churches strove to articulate orthodox belief and conduct through texts, sermons, ritual...

Bringing the study of early modern Christianity into dialogue with Atlantic history, this collection provides a longue durée investigation of women...

Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on women in 16th-century England, this study examines the large...

The years between 1744 and 1757 were a testing time for the British government as political unrest at home exploded into armed rebellion, whilst on...

Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and on the streets rendered the Devil an immediate and...

King Henry III of France has not suffered well at the hands of posterity. Generally depicted as at best a self-indulgent, ineffectual ruler, and at...

A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies was experienced across Europe in the early modern period, a consequence of the major politic...

For the people of early modern England, the dividing line between the natural and supernatural worlds was both negotiable and porous - particularly...

Notions of which behaviours comprised sin, and what actions might lead to salvation, sat at the heart of Christian belief and practice in early mod...

A favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Henry Lee was known as the most accomplished cavaliero in England. This handsome, entertaining and highly con...

Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was th...

This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newsp...

Whilst much scholarly work has been focused on Spain's American colonies, much less is known about Spanish colonization of the Pacific. As such, th...

Covering the period from the end of the Anglo-French alliance in 1731 to the declaration of war between the two powers in 1744, this book charts a ...

Covering the period from the end of the Anglo-French alliance in 1731 to the declaration of war between the two powers in 1744, this book charts a ...

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which j...

Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies, were not stable signifiers. Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France...

Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies, were not stable signifiers. Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France...

The significance of Robert Boyle (1627-91) as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now generally acknowledged,...

The significance of Robert Boyle (1627-91) as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now generally acknowledged,...

In May 1555, a broadsheet was produced in Rome depicting the torture and execution in London and York of the Carthusians of the Charterhouses of Lo...

In May 1555, a broadsheet was produced in Rome depicting the torture and execution in London and York of the Carthusians of the Charterhouses of Lo...

Focusing on the Dominican Order's activities in southeastern Poland from the canonisation of the Polish Dominican St Hyacinth (1594) to the outbrea...

In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern E...

Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as...

The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves...

While pre-modern Europe is often seen as having an 'enchanted' or 'magical' worldview, the full implications of such labels remain inconsistently e...

Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? I...

The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola on a principal of strict obedience to papal and superiors authorities, yet the nature of the Je...

Following Zwingli explores history, scholarship, and memory in Reformation Zurich. The humanist culture of this city was shaped by a remarkable sod...

Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1...