Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime ...

Documenting lived experiences of men in charge of others, this collection creates a social and cultural history of early modern governing masculini...

Franciscans in sixteenth-century New Spain were deeply ambivalent about their mission work. Fray Juan de Zumárraga, the first archbishop of Mexico...

This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice during the period 1580 to 1750...

Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration on plantation slavery in the...

In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development...

Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632) was a prolific playwright and pamphleteer chiefly remembered for his vivid and witty portrayals of everyday London life...

In 1644, the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Eur...

Going to Market rethinks womens contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not t...

The fascinating history of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, a building at the heart of British life for over 700 years. Begun in 1...

William Wey, fifteenth-century Devon priest, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Bursar of Eton College, made three pilgrimages between 1456 and ...

The study of slavery and coerced labour is increasingly conducted from a global perspective, and yet a dual Eurocentric bias remains: slavery prima...

Translation is at the centre of Christianity, scripturally, as reflected in the biblical stories of the tower of Babel, or of the apostles speaking...

A New York Times best art book of 2022An A to Z exploration of the Enlightenments quest for understanding and change, as revealed in the eras print...

Leading sixteenth-century scholars such as Martin Luther and Desiderius Erasmus used print technology to engage in dialogue and debate with authori...

Superlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeus Atlas Maiorthat being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history of ma...

With little scholarly attention having been given to the late medieval iconography that features on rood screens in the southwest of England, the ...

Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping Americas religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey ...

A fresh examination of the formidable and resilient Native nations who helped shape the modern Gulf South In The Great Power of Small Nations, Eliz...

From 1580 to 1700, low-ranking Spanish imperial officials ceaselessly moved across the Spanish empire, and in the process forged a single coherent ...

First published in 1984, Henry IV describes and tries to account for Henrys extraordinary life and reign. The book is accompanied, and the argument...

This monograph presents a study of the most significant book in the history of anatomy, Fleming Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) De humani corporis fab...

In the seventeenth century, witchfinders rule and paranoia thrives in a chilling novel about unrequited love, persecution, and betrayal by the best...

A fascinating and revealing new biography of Mary Queen of Scots in captivity.For almost two decades before her or execution at Fotheringhay Castle...

A fascinating and revealing new biography of Mary Queen of Scots in captivity.For almost two decades before her or execution at Fotheringhay Castle...

In the early modern period, members of the Society of Jesus working as missionaries in the so-called mission of Maynas explored vast areas of the u...

This anthology recalls Christmas in Shakespeare's day, when it was an expansive festival, dominated by strict religious observance on the day itsel...

A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilitie...

This is the first English translation of an important 17th century contention between two Irish clerics. The detail uncovered reveals much about Ga...

Explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India Empire of Contingency ex...

This book explores the function and symbolism of monumental wooden crosses and crucifixes from medieval and early modern Norway. Multiple sources i...

This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central ...

Queen of Scots at six days old; married at fifteen in Paris to the Dauphin of France; Queen of France at sixteen; widowed at eighteen; dead at fort...

The arrival of Europeans in the New World in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, often neglected by historians of philosophy, is a cr...