Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

In Spenser's famous Flight, Patrick Cheney challenges the received wisdom about the shape and goal of Spenser's literary career. He contends that S...

Royal scandal, set against the background of the Jacobean court, involving love, bribery, poison, treachery and black magic - 'a hugely enjoyable b...

The first comprehensive study of this war helps us understand how each country to defend the frontier, and the political issues which drove the Ang...

This revised and expanded volume brings together a carefully-selected collection of primary sources drawn from medieval and sixteenth-century texts...

Drawing on the graphic and revealing evidence recorded by the different courts in early modern Saragossa, this book captures the spirit of an age w...

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to R...

The Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Winning AuthorA religious serial killer is haunting Florence and only Cesare Aldo can stop them. A...

Richard Baxter (16151691) was arguably the greatest English Puritan of the seventeenth century. He is well known for his ministerial manual The Ref...

The Renaissance Battle for Rome examines the rhetorical battle fought simultaneously between a wide variety of parties (individuals, groups, author...

ENGHow did pre-modern scholars conceive of contagion and the transmissibility of disease in general? Infectious Ideas answers this question by look...

Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a reg...

In 1573, 712 bales of Chinese silk arrived in New Spain in the cargos of two Manila galleons. The emergence and the subsequent rapid development of...

Key protagonists in these debates included Erasmus, Luther and Machiavelli. Today we might call them intellectuals, yet mostly they did not travel,...

Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seize...

This collection of essays analyses the publication and reception history of sixteenth-century Iberian books of chivalry in English translation. A c...

Before he was a writer, Miguel de Cervantes was a soldier. Enlisting in the Spanish infantry in 1570, he fought at the battle of Lepanto, was seize...

French-Canadian explorers, traders, and soldiers feature prominently in this country's storytelling, but little has been written about their female...