Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This book is the first study to provide an integrated picture of Westminster during this crucial period in its history. It reveals the often proble...

This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in an...

Winner of the David H. Pinkney Prize of the French Historical Society Winner of the Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize of the Western Associati...

An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century.'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History ...

The period between c.1580 and c.1685 was one of momentous importance in terms of the establishment of different confessional identities in Ireland,...

Between Scholarship and Church Politics describes the life and career of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter College, Oxford, 1612-1642, regius profess...

How should science be written? It is a question that piqued natural philosophers of the seventeenth century as they experimented with the rhetorica...

Dynastic Politics and the British Reformations, 1558-1630 revisits what used to be regarded as an entirely 'mainstream' topic in the historiography...

Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England represents one of the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern ...

Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—...

Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people in that era thought about—...

Resurrection of the Gods (1900) is a novel by Dmitriy Merezhkovsky. Having turned from his work in poetry to a new, spiritually charged interest in...

The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be theological ...

The “forgotten majority” of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the larg...