Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

John Milton is widely known as the poet of liberty and freedom. But his commitment to justice has been often overlooked. As Alison A. Chapman shows...

The dual biography of two remarkable women - Catherine Parr and Anne Askew. One was the last queen of a powerful monarch, the second a countrywoman...

A penetrating study of the images, symbols, pageants, and creative performances ambitious Elizabethans used to secure political power Shakespeares ...

Dracula the fifteenth-century Romanian prince, also known as Vlad the Impaler [?epe?], is one of the most fascinating personalities of medieval hi...

Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies by building on the pathbrea...

This volume addresses the relationship between people and their homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance, traced from the late...

Civil Religion - a tradition of political thought that has argued for a close connection between religion and the state - made an important contrib...

The skills, ideas, and behaviours imparted through schooling provide insight into the collective outlook of a society in any age. Deeply rooted in ...

This illuminating discussion of deism in the early American colonies presents an overview of its main tenets, showing how its influence rose swiftl...

Von den drei großen Konfessionen entwickelte nur das Luthertum verbindliche Bekenntnisse, die die Lehre normativ formulierten. Oft wurde der große ...

Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed on 19 May 1536. Her sister Mary, rumoured mistress to the monarch, lived on and survived t...

The story of the sixteenth-centurys epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and th...

Der durch die Reformation ausgelöste Glaubensstreit warf für die seit jeher vorhandene Untrennbarkeit von Politik, Religion und Recht Probleme auf....

Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation t...

This book shows how pirates were portrayed in their own time, in trial reports, popular prints, novels, legal documents, sermons, ballads and newsp...