Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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 ...

Witchcraft holds a continued fascination for readers around the world, and the Scottish witch hunts have recently received renewed media attention,...

A large number of enciphered documents survived from early modern Hungary. This area was a particularly fertile territory where cryptographic metho...

The Sword of Monmouth tells the extraordinary story of King Charles I Prince of Wales sword and how it was handed down to King Charles II and then ...

This book studies the negative stereotypes around the women who worked as sick nurses in this period and contrasts them with the lived experience o...

In recent decades, scholars have uncovered the vital contributions made by non-elite figures, including women, artisans, and indigenous peoples, to...

Clever Little Books explores the role of Latin commentaries on the Roman poet Martial as a medium for the transmission of sexual knowledge among ma...

Lies of the Land examines the often-overlooked artistic roots of mapmaking practice in early modern France, offering an original perspective on dis...

John Morton Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancellor bestrode the Wars of the Roses. A significant supporter of Henry VI, then a di...

In 1660 Charles II was restored to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland, but his hold on power was precarious. In particular, Ireland was ...

A ridiculously funny history of Britain for adults from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, perfect for fans of Unr...

No longer a mere finding aid, the Repertorium Germanicum has become a complex register volume on church and curia history that, together with the ...

Martial Arts are literally The Arts of Mars, the Roman god of war. For over two and a half millennia, the combat arts of Europe served the hoplite,...

In the past, most studies on Pre-Roman societies in Italy (1st millennium BCE) focused on the elites, their representation and cultural contacts. T...

Thomas Babington Macaulay was one of the great English historians of the nineteenth century. He first made his name as an essayist, contributing ma...

As featured on Suranne Jones: Investigating Witch TrialsIn 1487, the zealous inquisitor Heinrich Kramer wrote a treatise that would have a remarkab...

In 1732, Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published his Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror of the Jewish Religion), a descr...

Die rasch zum Standardwerk avancierte Sammlung Von Strittigkeit der Bilder. Texte des deutschen Bildstreits zum 16. Jahrhundert wird nun um einen d...

David B. Ruderman's groundbreaking studies of Jewish intellectuals as they engaged with Renaissance humanism, the Scientific Revolution, and the En...

Perhaps no other weapon represents Renaissance Italian fencing like the rapier. But do we know how it was used and how it was taught? This book tak...

The 16th and 17th century raids of the Tatars of the Northern Black Sea take an important place in the historical consciousness of the Eastern Euro...