Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

The significance of Robert Boyle (1627-91) as the most influential English scientist in the generation before Newton is now generally acknowledged,...

In May 1555, a broadsheet was produced in Rome depicting the torture and execution in London and York of the Carthusians of the Charterhouses of Lo...

In May 1555, a broadsheet was produced in Rome depicting the torture and execution in London and York of the Carthusians of the Charterhouses of Lo...

Focusing on the Dominican Order's activities in southeastern Poland from the canonisation of the Polish Dominican St Hyacinth (1594) to the outbrea...

In recent years scholars have increasingly challenged and reassessed the once established concept of the 'crisis of the nobility' in early-modern E...

Almost every medical faculty possesses anatomical and/or pathological collections: human and animal preparations, wax- and other models, as well as...

The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves...

While pre-modern Europe is often seen as having an 'enchanted' or 'magical' worldview, the full implications of such labels remain inconsistently e...

Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? I...

The Society of Jesus was founded by Ignatius Loyola on a principal of strict obedience to papal and superiors authorities, yet the nature of the Je...

Following Zwingli explores history, scholarship, and memory in Reformation Zurich. The humanist culture of this city was shaped by a remarkable sod...

Utopias have long interested scholars of the intellectual and literary history of the early modern period. From the time of Thomas More's Utopia (1...

This collection of 13 essays deals with a range of topics concerning Portuguese, Dutch and Chinese merchants, commodities and commerce in maritime ...

Documenting lived experiences of men in charge of others, this collection creates a social and cultural history of early modern governing masculini...

Franciscans in sixteenth-century New Spain were deeply ambivalent about their mission work. Fray Juan de Zumárraga, the first archbishop of Mexico...

This volume presents foundational and representative essays of the last half century on theatre performance practice during the period 1580 to 1750...

Recent research has demonstrated that early modern slavery was much more widespread than the traditional concentration on plantation slavery in the...

In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development...

Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632) was a prolific playwright and pamphleteer chiefly remembered for his vivid and witty portrayals of everyday London life...

In 1644, the news that Antonio de Montezinos claimed to have discovered the Lost Tribes of Israel in the jungles of South America spread across Eur...

Going to Market rethinks womens contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not t...

The fascinating history of St Stephen's Chapel in the Palace of Westminster, a building at the heart of British life for over 700 years. Begun in 1...

William Wey, fifteenth-century Devon priest, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Bursar of Eton College, made three pilgrimages between 1456 and ...