Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval and early modern pe...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictio...

In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The fir...

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study demonstrates the extent to which j...

This collection of essays looks at the shared experience of exile across different groups in the early modern period. Contributors argue that exile...

In March 1757 early in the Seven Years War a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bor...

Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and on the streets rendered the Devil an immediate and...

The European World 15001800 provides a concise and authoritative textbook for the centuries between the Renaissance and the French Revolution. It p...

Thomas Stukeley was one of the most colourful characters of the Elizabethan age, whose exploits brought him fame and notoriety throughout Europe. ...

This book deals with the city of Rome and its buildings in the period between Bernini's death in 1680 and the year 1797, when Thorvaldsen came to t...

Originally published in 1933, and written by Americas historian, James Truslow Adams, this volume tells the story of the rise of the American natio...

This volume brings together a set of classic essays by Domenico Sella in which he reassesses the economic fortunes of Northern Italy, in particular...

Originally published in 1915, The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 examines this period of British Tudor history in ...

First published in 1999, this volume re-examines narrative design in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Faerie Queene, King Lear and Paradise Los...

The easy accessibility of political fiction in the long eighteenth century made it possible for any reader or listener to enter into the intellectu...

This book was published in 2003. Thomas Stukeley was one of the most colourful characters of the Elizabethan age, whose exploits brought him fame a...

P.D.A. Harvey is a historian of medieval rural England with a wide interest in the history of cartography; this collection of his essays brings tog...

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 15331612), 'the greatest artist youve never heard of'. One of the first original icon...

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteen...

This book explores how the Medici Grand Dukes pursued ways to expand their political, commercial, and cultural networks beyond Europe, cultivating ...

An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subj...

Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixt...

This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in ant...

This work resituates the Spanish Caribbean as an extension of the Luso-African Atlantic world from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth centur...

Gender was a key social indicator in Byzantine society, as in many others. While studies of gender in the western medieval period have appeared reg...

Why was early modern Europe the starting point of the economic expansion which led to the Industrial Revolution? What was the states role in this m...

This is the first book to describe the early English woollens industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-six...

The reigns of Edward VI and Mary I remain largely by-passed in naval history, yet it was a vital time for the administration of the navy and it saw...

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in literature, music, and visual...

Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating disc...

Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France engages the question of remembering from a number of different perspectives. It examines the forma...

World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins...

An exploration of the complex and multifaceted connection between deviant behaviour and social marginality in Scotland between the sixteenth and ei...

Now available in paperback for the first time, this book examines trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe bet...