Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Outside the imagination, witches don't exist. But in Poland and in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, people imagined their neighb...

Art as we know it today would not exist without the Renaissance. Widely considered the most influential phenomenon in European art, architecture, l...

English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and indust...

Honoring the memory of Professor Alan Everittwho advanced the fruitful notion of the county community during the 17th centurythis volume proposes s...

This comparative study gathers together new research by local historians into aspects of welfare in Hertfordshire spanning four centuries and focus...

Almost 500 years have passed since the death of Anne Boleyn, and yet, there has never been a suggestion she was guilty of the crimes which saw her ...

There are many sound histories of the Reformation in the old style with its preference for ideas and theologians. This new book by Professor Eric I...

Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Ala...

The Thief tells the story of Niels Heidenreich, the mastermind behind the theft of the audacious theft of the Golden Horns, cultural treasures so r...

Why did so many rulers throughout history risk converting to a new religion brought by outsiders? In his award-winning Unearthly Powers (2019), Ala...

English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and indust...

Gender influenced every aspect of life in medieval and early modern Scotland. This collection illuminates how gendered expectations and experiences...

Recent historical studies on the Ottoman Empire have taken for granted that subjects of the Ottoman polity flourished under a so-called Pax Ottoman...