Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Antoine-Chrysosthôme Quatremère de Quincy (1755-1849) was the most distinguished writer on art and architecture at the end of the enlightenment. Ho...

By drawing upon recent scholarship, original manuscript materials, and previously unpublished sources, this new biography presents an analytical na...

From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and ...

Captures the worldviews, concerns, joys, and experiences of people living through the cultural changes in the second half of the sixteenth century ...

In the 17th century, the elite household (kap?) became the focal point of Ottoman elite politics and socialization. It was a cultural melting pot, ...

A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spiesfrom ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to ass...

Why did Englands one experiment in republican rule fail?   Oliver Cromwells death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in E...

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

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This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and E...

This book brings together a selection of recent, cutting-edge research which, for the first time, challenges commonplace arguments about Mary and E...

Renaissance map-makers produced ever more accurate descriptions of geography, which were also beautiful works of art. They filled the oceans Europe...

How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of double, double toil and trouble at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything sci...