Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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...

'Subaltern studies' refers to the importance of 'subordinate' groups in the making of history. The latter are usually defined as encompassing the u...

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

Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also n...

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a chil...

What were the real life stories and legacies of the six women who married Henry VIII? Discover these extraordinary queens through the court cultur...

A dramatic illustrated exploration of the infamous massacre of 1622, and the events of a pivotal conflict in colonial American history. From the e...

This groundbreaking book combines literary interpretation, gender analysis, and cultural, political, and diplomatic history to examine how Elizabet...

1648... the Thirty Years' War is about to end and it's possible to see the balance of power slowly shifting in Europe. Spain, great rival to the Ho...