Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, ...

Ordering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact...

Between 1550 and 1750 London became the greatest city in Europe and one of the most vibrant economic and cultural centres in the world. This book i...

This book establishes a fresh and expansive view of the grotesque in Western art and culture, from 1500 to the present day. Following the non-linea...

This book argues that the Renaissance, long associated with the historical development of individualism, in fact witnessed the emergence of radical...

This book recasts the story of the Reformation by bringing together two histories: the Encounter between Europe and the western hemisphere beginnin...

In this vividly written biography, William E. Wallace offers a new view of the artist. Not only a supremely gifted sculptor, painter, architect and...

This book explores the ways in which Aristotle's legacy was appropriated and reshaped by vernacular readers in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. It c...

Villa Madama, Raphael's late masterwork of architecture, landscape, and decoration for the Medici popes, is a paradigm of the Renaissance villa. Th...

Jonathan Garb's A History of Kabbalah: From the Early Modern Period to the Present Day is a lucid and sophisticated account of the multifaceted nat...

This volume ranges widely across the social, religious and political history of revolution in seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland, from contemp...

Freedom Bound is about the origins of modern America - a history of colonizing, work and civic identity from the beginnings of English presence on ...

Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by ...

The turbulence of the Protestant Reformation marks a turning point in European history, but the Scandinavian contribution to this revolution is not...

Between the end of the Middle Ages and the early nineteenth century, the long-established structures and practices of European trade, agriculture, ...

People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to ...

The Tudors are one of the best known royal families in English history. Over three generations, they constructed and maintained their status and au...

Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. By analyzing the creation of these pilgrim shrines as natural, ...

In the period from 1500 to 1800 the problem of violence necessitated asking fundamental questions and formulating answers about the most basic form...

This book examines the environmental, political, and economic history of Ireland's marine fisheries from 1400 to 1600. It combines a wide range o...