Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Tracing the interwoven traditions of modern welfare states in Europe over five centuries, Thomas McStay Adams explores social welfare from Portugal...

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what wa...

In early modern Europe, the emergence and development of print culture proved a powerful new method for producing and disseminating knowledge of Ru...

Übersetzungen spiegeln und bestätigen die Normen der zielkulturellen Mehrheitsgesellschaft und ihrer machthabenden Instanzen, wohingegen Anliegen v...

Ranging from devotional poetry to confessional history, across the span of competing religious traditions, this volume addresses the lived faith of...

Offering a fresh approach to the study of the figure of the diplomat in the early modern period, this collection of diverse readings of archival te...

Women have engaged in healing from the beginning of history, often within the context of the home. This book studies the role, contributions and ch...

Professor Kent is concerned with one of the major questions posed by historical research on the later Middle Ages and the Renaissance: did these pe...

This book reflects on Western humanity's efforts to escape from history and its terrors--from the existential condition and natural disasters to th...

Edited from Contemporary Records. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 2) is continuous. This is a new print-on-de...

Between the years 1550 and 1650, Italy's Jewish intellectuals created a unique and enduring synthesis of the great literary and philosophical herit...

For the last 800 years coroners have been important in England's legal and political landscape, best known as investigators of sudden, suspicious, ...

Before dawn one morning in June 1612, an elderly Frenchman took charge of a carriage carrying a precious cargo near Tyburn Fields, London's notorio...

Why did Queen Elizabeth I compare herself with her disastrous ancestor Richard II? Why would Ben Jonson transform Queen Anne and her ladies into Am...

The Other Tudor Princess brings to life the story of Margaret Douglas, a shadowy and mysterious character in Tudor history but who now takes centr...

It is 1596 and in Mexico the Inquisition is at its most efficient. A young man trembles in his cell as he prays for salvation, torn between the Chr...