Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Step into the tumultuous age of Stuart England with Peter Ackroyd's enlightening Civil War. Beginning with James I, the first Scottish king of Engl...

The importance of the banquet in the late Renaissance is impossible to overlook. Banquets showcased a hosts wealth and power, provided an occasion ...

Joel Gascoyne''s Map of Cornwall, published in 1699, set new standards in county map making. He used a larger scale (nearly one inch to the mile), ...

This volume addresses the power of ideas in the making of Indian political modernity. As an intermediate history of connections between South Asia ...

Most people think they know the story of the Gunpowder Plot, and of how a bloody catastrophe was averted at the eleventh hour when Guy Fawkes was c...

The story of Henry Tudor's march to Bosworth and the throne of England began long before the fatal summer of 1485, with his birth in Pembroke Castl...

Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from t...

In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This i...

This volume provides a rich new resource for exploring religion and daily life in Interregnum and Restoration England. Thomas Larkham kept his 'di...

Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional c...

The Festial, most probably composed in the late 1380s by the Augustinian canon, John Mirk, of Lilleshall Abbey, Shropshire, was the most popular an...

This volume brings together reformation and reception studies by exploring the relationship between reformations on the European continent and in B...

This volume is an introduction to the fifteenth century through chronicles and personal recollections of a diverse group of its French- and English...

Fresche fontanis contains twenty-five studies presenting major new research by leading scholars in Scottish culture of the late fourteenth and fift...