Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Volume 18 in the Collected Works of Erasmus series covers the period from 1 April 1531 to 30 March 1532. The most persistent theme in the letters i...

The 1970s are of particular relevance for understanding the socio-economic changes still shaping Western societies today. The collapse of tradition...

On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of i...

An original contribution to international ethics and humanitarian intervention, Westphalia From Below draws on history and IR theory to offer a fre...

Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, Experimental Selves argues that person, as early moderns understood ...

Known in early modern Europe by many names the French Disease, the Bubas, and, eventually, syphilis the Great Pox was a chronic disease that carr...

Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium - a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that h...

This study considers sixteenth century evangelicals vision of a godly commonwealth within the broader context of political, religious, social, and ...

On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of ...

Cavaliers and Roundheads are figures who appear in hundreds of English ghost stories. In this innovative account, Charles Esdaile argues that such ...

At the Synod of Dordrecht (161819), the deep questions of justification and faith, election and rejection, time and eternity, grace and free will, ...

During the Reformation, Europeans were engaged in a debate that would alter the course of European history. This debate was about how to understand...

This Happened in My Presence reveals life in the small Spanish town of Deza during a period that was complex and tumultuous. The introduction expla...

This original and provocative engagement with Erasmus work argues that the Dutch humanist discovered in classical Stoicism several principles which...

Histories of the Light Division have tended to be incomplete, being based on memoirs of a few well known diarists, principally from the 95th Rifles...

This volume explores a range of premodern rulers and their depictions in historiography, literature, art and material culture to gain a broader und...

Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdoms mid-sevente...

By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical na...

This book examines the hemispheric histories of overlooked peoples and places that shaped colonial Spanish America. This volume focuses on the expe...

One of the greatest leaders in Romanian history, Mircea the Old comes to life in this new book. Although his grandson, Vlad the Impaler, has acquir...