Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

A fascinating book exploring the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeares beloved plays.Shakespeares plays have influenced generations...

The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 16001900 presents a new perspective on the uses of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailin...

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke ...

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke ...

'A dazzling tale, brilliantly told' Peter Frankopan'A wonderful book' Sunday Telegraph, 5*'Triumphant' Literary ReviewDURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A lasting work of social history THE TIMES ...

Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the...

'Alice Hunt brilliantly reanimates this most extraordinary decade. It is a gripping tale of political and cultural crisis but also one of joy and h...

The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiecethe Venetian mappa mundithat revolutionized how we see the world.In 1459 a Venetian monk named ...

Visualizing Venice presents the ways in which the use of innovative technology can provide new and fascinating stories about places and times withi...

In The Enlightenments Animals Nathaniel Wolloch takes a broad view of changing conceptions of animals in European culture during the long eighteent...

'The wonderful story of one of the worst monarchs in European history, told with enormous wit and scholarship by a supremely talented historian. If...

This study offers a reading of Don Quixote, with comparative material from Golden Age history and Cervantes life, to argue that his greatest work w...

Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854: A History of Emotions brings together leading scholars in medieval, early modern, eighteenth-century,...

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 an...

From the early Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century, Venice held a central position in the global trade network. This book explores how...

What was the interrelation between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c. 1550-1750? Early modern England was a hierarchical...

Since the cultural turn of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has been radically transformed, with older narratives stood on their he...

The Enlightenment, as concept and time period, was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body, humans and the natural ...

The conduit - of people, ideas and commerce - between Europe and Asia for more than six centuries, the Ottoman imperium had by 1590 become one of t...

This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its ri...