Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Solomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, and his Shevet Yehudah (The Scepte...

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the caree...

In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped...

The management of image in the service of power is a familiar tool of twenty-first- century politics. Yet as long ago as the sixteenth century, Bri...

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symboli...

Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592-1598. While in captivity i...

The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years' War examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern period through a ...

Offers a fresh perspective on the role of the court in late medieval Scotland, framing it within the wider field of court studies, highlighting its...

For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turke...

Robert O. Crummey uses the methods of collective biography to provide the first modern study of the elite group that dominated Russian government a...

Sheriffs were among the most important local office-holders in early modern England. They were generalist officers of the king responsible for exec...

The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 was enacted within France, but shook all Europe. This was especially true in Britain, by 1700 the hom...

Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multi-volume work, a grand synthesis of Wester...

Franco Venturi, premier European interpreter of the Enlightenment, is still completing his acclaimed multivolume work Settecento Riformatore, a gra...

Waqfs, or religious endowments, have long been at the very center of daily Islamic life, establishing religious, cultural, and welfare institutions...

A leading American historian examines the character of the frontiers of European expansion throughout the modern age, questioning a notion of front...

In this colorful depiction of daily political life in Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer argues that the lay persons managed to sustain a civic govern...

Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" b...

At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language is related to the structure...

The rapid expansion of the newspaper business in the first decade of the American republic had crucial consequences for cultural, commercial, and p...

A King Travels examines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering an unprecedented look at the different ...

Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates i...

In An Age of Risk, Emily Nacol shows that risk, now treated as a permanent feature of our lives, did not always govern understandings of the future...

The fundamental aims of this book are two: to explore the interaction between religion and secular society in the formation as well as the dissolut...

In this work C. A. Patrides examines the Renaissance vision of a comely method and proportion" throughout the universe, whether in the vertical arr...

A groundbreaking approach to the problem of realism in Tudor art   In Tudor and Jacobean England, visual art was often termed “lively.” This word w...

"A fresh and quite original contribution to an understanding of an extremely important period in English history and to a quite remarkable discussi...

This book is a study of the social and cultural change in Ming China's lower Yangzi delta region from about 1500 to 1644. It takes three social gro...