Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind o...

In early modern Italy, letters were not only written and read but, in some cases, sung. Musical settings of love letters rekindled a complex kind o...

The prodigy poet, playwright, architect, painter, and humanist savant Leon Battista Alberti emerged in 1435 with De pictura ['On Painting'], the mo...

In this essential new work, Christopher D. Bahl departs from the established historiography on trade, shipping and pilgrimage to argue for the emer...

Rudolf II: The Life and Legend of the Mad Emperor offers a fresh perspective on the Habsburg ruler, shedding new light on a reign often colou...

Unmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: ...

Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldi...

This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450 to 1640: the keeping of mi...

The Enlightenment was a laboratory of modernity that changed the history of the Western world, helping to bring about globalisation and the rise of...

This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divide...

Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare is a study of the power of names; more specifically, it is about the power of naming, asking who gets to choose na...

This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated co...

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gar...

Serving Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gar...

What does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'? Recent debates on the Protestant reformers have focused on whether they were stridently literal in...

What does it mean to read the Bible 'literally'? Recent debates on the Protestant reformers have focused on whether they were stridently literal in...

The chapters in this volume explore the relationship between music and art in Italy across the long sixteenth century, considering an era when musi...

This book provides a comprehensive assessment of Dürers depictions of human diversity, focusing particularly on his depictions of figures from outs...

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its splendid isolation and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did n...

This book examines the role of Europeans who settled in the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries and assumed Ottoman identity, be it ...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

This book is concerned with the early years of the Football Association Challenge Cup more commonly known as the FA Cup examining events from its...

This book offers a comparative and polycentric approach to the formation of global trade networks and goods that circumnavigated China, America, an...

This book sheds light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from...

This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self focussing on three self-narratives authored by the nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trap...

Through meticulously researched case studies, this book explores the materiality of terracotta sculpture in early modern Europe.Chapters present a ...

The historiography of death, memory, and testamentary practices is already abundant in Western Europe and a fairly large number of extra-European r...

The Florentine traveler, merchant, and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known fo...

Reframing Aristotles natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval...

This is the first book-length exploration of the clothes worn in early modern Rome and provides novel insights into the city of Rome during one of ...

Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannon shot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.' In one of t...

An incisive account of the crucial role money played in the formation and development of British North America.  Promise to Pay follows Americas f...

A groundbreaking new account of the author of The Spanish Tragedy that establishes him as a major Elizabethan dramatistThomas Kyd (15581594) was a ...

Early modernity has long been seen as a crucial period in the history of biblical scholarship, witnessing rapid advances in studies of Hebrew, Gree...

This book focuses on the cultural reception of Milton and his works in nineteenth-century America. Using reception theory, the work analyzes the co...

An incisive account of the crucial role money played in the formation and development of British North America.  Promise to Pay follows Americas f...

The Early Modern World, 1450-1750: Seeds of Modernity takes a distinctive approach to global history and enables a holistic view of the world durin...

From the Muscovites' annexation of the nearby Khanate of Astrakhan in 1556 to their expulsion from the region by the Ottomans and their allies in 1...

Consilia played an important role in not only medieval but also early modern professional health literature. A literary consilium consisted of a wr...

As Spaniards built colonies in the New World, men of the cloth saw within ancient ruins and inhabited native towns great potential for easing the c...

In Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic, historian Tabitha Stanmore will transport readers to a time when magic was used day-to-day as ...