Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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...

This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools an...

Five hundred years after the historic French seaport of Le Havre was established, TASCHEN presents a facsimile reproduction of Les premières uvres ...

A dramatic history of the Steel Lobsters, Sir Arthur Hesilriges Regiment of Horse, in the English Civil War the last fully armoured knights in E...

The volume examines the proliferation of inventorying models and practices as cultural techniques of knowledge organization and production during ...

How did Jewish women in sixteenth-century Poland learn all the rules, rituals, and customs pertaining to the sexual life of couples within the cont...

Martin Luthers Thesen gegen den Ablass gaben 1517 den Anstoß zur Reformation. Weniger bekannt ist die lange Vorgeschichte der Ablassverkündung in d...

Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, ow...

This volume shines a light on the supposed tension between linguistic norm and variation in the early modern period by looking at early modern for...

African slaves were brought into Brazil as early as 1530, with abolition in 1888. During those three centuries, Brazil received 4,000,000 Africans,...

In the late medieval and early modern periods, Scottish latinity had its distinctive stamp, most intriguingly so in its effects upon the literary v...

Dissenting Daughters reveals that devout women made vital contributions to the spread and practice of the Reformed faith in the Dutch Republic in t...

Der Sammelband vereint wichtige Aufsätze von Luise Schorn-Schütte aus Anlass ihres 65. Geburtstages. Mit ihrem Oeuvre hat die Jubilarin sowohl der ...

This book uses amputation and prostheses to tell a new story about medicine and embodied knowledge-making in early modern Europe. It draws on the w...