Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Exploring Irish-Scottish connections in the period 160360, this book brings important new perspectives to the study of the early Stuart state. Ackn...

Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural...

Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, The Charitable Imperative, originally published in 1989, provides an overview of the v...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future ...

The book considers Thomas More's early life-choices. An early letter is cited by biographers but most miss More's reference to the market place. Mo...

Today, friendship, love and sexuality are mostly viewed as private, personal and informal relations. In the medieval and early modern period, just ...

This volume is an important contribution to the field of Margaret More Roper studies, early modern women's writing, as well as Erasmian piety, Rena...

Italian preachers during the Reformation era found themselves in the trenches of a more desperate war than anything they had ever imagined. This wa...

Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book.   In 1538, a par...

Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea ...

Christian Tobler makes a deep dive into the fighting traditions of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, particularly as recorded by Johannes Lie...

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been ...

This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased ...

A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe   The Reformations, both P...

First published in 1982, Augustan England provides ample substance to reinforce the thesis that the years from 1680 to 1730 mark the most decisive ...

The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers European, the US, Japan and China attempted to militari...

The spiritual turmoil of the sixteenth century had a profound impact on religious life throughout Italy. Art and architecture were directly implica...

The acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills, the interaction between medicine and eating, and the presence of food in literature and rel...

A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority  An artful, powerful book. . . . [A] substantial cont...