Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Solomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, and his Shevet Yehudah (The Scepte...

In The Merchants of Siberia, Erika Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the caree...

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

From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped...

The management of image in the service of power is a familiar tool of twenty-first- century politics. Yet as long ago as the sixteenth century, Bri...

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symboli...

Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592-1598. While in captivity i...

The Palatine Family and the Thirty Years' War examines the experience of exiled royal and noble dynasties during the early modern period through a ...

Offers a fresh perspective on the role of the court in late medieval Scotland, framing it within the wider field of court studies, highlighting its...

For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turke...

Robert O. Crummey uses the methods of collective biography to provide the first modern study of the elite group that dominated Russian government a...

Sheriffs were among the most important local office-holders in early modern England. They were generalist officers of the king responsible for exec...

The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 was enacted within France, but shook all Europe. This was especially true in Britain, by 1700 the hom...