Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 an...

From the early Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century, Venice held a central position in the global trade network. This book explores how...

What was the interrelation between language, power, and socio-economic inequality in England, c. 1550-1750? Early modern England was a hierarchical...

Since the cultural turn of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has been radically transformed, with older narratives stood on their he...

The Enlightenment, as concept and time period, was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body, humans and the natural ...

The conduit - of people, ideas and commerce - between Europe and Asia for more than six centuries, the Ottoman imperium had by 1590 become one of t...

This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its ri...

At the height of the Mughal Empire's wealth and power, Jahanara Begum, a 17 year old princess, became the head of the imperial harem. Imperial Wome...

The Architectural Image and Early Modern Science: Wendel Dietterlin and the Rise of Empirical Investigation explores how architectural media came t...

Lady Anne Bacon (1528-1610) was a highly educated woman who lived through the great political and religious transitions of five reigns and was embe...

In this vivid account Ana Debenedetti examines the life and work of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli through the lens of the organization of hi...

How did traditional beliefs about the supernatural change as a result of the Reformation, and what were the intellectual and cultural consequences?...