Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Now available in paperback for the first time, this book examines trials, civil and criminal, ecclesiastical and secular, in England and Europe bet...

A ridiculously funny history of Britain for adults from the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, perfect for fans of Unr...

This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition on Manifold, here: https://openpub.udel.edu/projects/unsettling-sexual...

This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition on Manifold, here: https://openpub.udel.edu/projects/unsettling-sexual...

This beautifully illustrated history of Safavid Isfahan (15011722) explores the architectural and urban forms and networks of socio-cultural action...

This illuminating book looks beyond the capital and political elites to examine religious and political change in communities across Scotland durin...

Union, war, conquest, revolution, attempted invasions, and armed rebellions: this was an eventful time even by the standards of Scotland's turbulen...

Union, war, conquest, revolution, attempted invasions, and armed rebellions: this was an eventful time even by the standards of Scotland's turbulen...

This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burfo...

While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on their notions of historical...

What sort of information did people in early modern England seek? In The Practical Renaissance Donna Seger explores the diffusion and reception of ...

When Flemish engraver and publisher Theodore de Bry issued the first volume of his America series in 1590, the New World was, for most Europeans, t...

This book addresses the varied performances of magic in medieval and early modern Scandinavia. It provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly ex...

This book investigates the diverse ways in which the Portuguese language expanded in Brazil, despite the multilingual landscape that predominated b...

Printed Drama and Political Instability in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Britain: The Literary Politics of Resistance and Distraction in Plays and Entert...

Exploring what the early English Protestants came to believe about the afterlife, and how they arrived at their positions, this much-needed book fi...

This volume brings together eleven case studies that address how the night became visible in the long and global eighteenth century through differe...

This book examines the career and publications of the French architect Julien-David Leroy (17241803) and his impact on architectural theory and ped...

The Restless City: A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present is a brief, insightful and lively history of the peoples, events ...