Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Economics of Faith examines the role of religious leaders in the development of poor relief institutions in early modern Europe. As preachers, poli...

The 1641 rebellion is one of the seminal events in early modern Irish and British history. Its divisive legacy, based primarily on the sharply cont...

The first comprehensive guide to Elizabethan ideas about the mind What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and soul? These questions were a...

The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centred on the Bible: school children studied the ...

The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Violence in Sixteenth-Century F...

For much of western history, the achievements of classical antiquity were seen as unsurpassable, and works by Latin and Greek authors were viewed a...

This book reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors--from the existential condition and natural disasters to th...

Tells the story of one state in particular whose role in the slave trade was outsized: Rhode Island Historians have written expansively about the s...

The first formally organized educational institution in Russia was established in 1685 by two Greek hieromonks, Ioannikios and Sophronios Leichoude...

This book traces the history of Exeter College, Oxford, from its first endowment by Walter Stapeldon, bishop of Exeter, in 1314 until the College's...

Explores the network of social, political and spiritual connections in north west England as a site for regional drama, introducing the reader to t...

*** Danish Historical Society Award Winner (2018) “Historical research result of the year” ***Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World discusses how th...

Theatre and empire explores the genesis of British national identity in the reign of King James VI and I. While devolution is currently decentralis...

Mary I, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, was Queen of England from 1553 until her death in 1558. For much of this time she ruled alongside her husban...