Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Since the days of Adam Smith, Mercantilism has been a hotly debated issue. Condemned at the end of the 18th century as a false system of economic t...

This is the first general selection from the substantial body of surviving documents about Elizabeths navy. It is a companion to The Navy of Edward...

Through its focus on the relationship between foreign and domestic politics, this book provides a new perspective on the often fractious and tangle...

In this remarkable book, the oft-told narrative of Sir Walter Raleigh is blown apart through the chance discovery of hitherto neglected Dutch corre...

Between 1640 and 1660 the British Isles witnessed a power struggle between king and parliament of a scale and intensity never witnessed, either bef...

Over the last twenty years research on the Reformation in Germany has shifted both chronologically and thematically toward an interest in the long ...

This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elemen...

In the first book systematically to give evidence of conjugal co-rule at an Italian Renaissance court, and the first full length scholarly study of...

In May 1555, a broadsheet was produced in Rome depicting the torture and execution in London and York of the Carthusians of the Charterhouses of Lo...

During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries religious zeal nourished by the mendicants sense of purpose motivated Dominican and Franciscan friar...

Honorable Mention for the 2016 Kayden Book Award This first book-length study in Chinese or any Western language of personal letters and letter-wri...

The Emden Synod of 1571 was a landmark gathering of Dutch refugee and underground communities in troubled times. Their resolutions on a non-hierarc...

In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe...

'In the midst of life we are in death.' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world....

This book, first published in 1926, is neither a catalogue of libraries and record offices, no is it a selection of transcripts from the English an...

Examining womens agency in the past has taken on new urgency in the current moment of resurgent patriarchy, Womens Marches, and the global #MeToo m...