Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This volume focuses on early modern Italy and some of its key multilingual zones: Venice, Florence, and Rome. It offers a novel insight into the in...

This study reveals the broad material, devotional, and cultural implications of sculpture in Renaissance Venice. Examining a wide range of sourcest...

This volume examines the literary works of English exiles seeking to navigate what Edward Said calls the perilous territory of not-belonging. The s...

On the 20th of January 1526, the Santiago left Lisbon bound for Africa with a cargo of brass and tin bracelets, round bells, barber basins and clot...

Clarendon Reconsidered reassesses a figure of major importance in seventeenth-century British politics, constitutional history and literature. Desp...

The stigma of haste pervaded early modern English culture, more so than the so-called stigma of print. The periods writers were perpetually short o...

This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to have anticipated, in one way or another, modern professional and/or career-oriented...

This book examines egalitarian social ideals and institutions that arose in preindustrial China and England, and in the process, uncovers Chinas fo...

Broadening the notion of censorship, this volume explores the transformative role played by early modern censors in the fashioning of a distinct En...

One of the hallmarks of world history is the ever-increasing ability of humans to cross cultural boundaries. Taking an encounters approach that ope...

The followers of the martyred Bohemian priest Jan Hus (1371-1415) formed one of the greatest challenges to the medieval Latin Church. Branded as he...

Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and arch...

The personal rule of Louis XIV, following on from a long period of royal minority and apprenticeship, lasted 54 years from 1661 to 1715. But the se...

Providing a survey of colonial American history both regionally broad and Atlantic in coverage, Converging Worlds presents the most recent research...

The current surge of interest in the Elizabethan poet, dramatist, prose-writer and critic, Thomas Nashe, follows years of neglect or undisguised ho...

This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors predilection for Italian ...

Bringing together Jamaican Maroons and indigenous communities into one framework for the first time McKee compares and contrasts how these non-wh...

The Childrens Troupes and the Transformation of English Theater 15091608 uncovers the role of the childrens companies in transforming perceptions o...

This book examines the early development of the graphic arts from the perspectives of material things, human actors and immaterial representations ...

First published in 1999, This book is a wide-ranging and authoritative review of the reception in England and other countries of Foxes Acts and Mon...

Early modern Naples has been characterized as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and as such an appropriate ta...

The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often b...

Analyzing the rise and subsequent fall of international piracy from the perspective of colonial hinterlands, Mark G. Hanna explores the often overt...

The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health explores the history and historiography of madness from the ancient and medieval worlds to the p...

This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the...

Drawing together the latest research in the field, The Routledge History of the Renaissance treats the Renaissance not as a static concept, but as ...

This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea...

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza investigates how and why the ...

Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World examines the dynamics of marriage, family and community life during the Great Migration ...

First published in 1997, this collection of articles, two of which hitherto only appeared in Dutch, examines the technical changes in shipbuilding,...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictio...

The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600 explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Medit...

This title was first published in 2000: The printed writings of the most important authors of the sixteenth century are characterised by frequent r...

This edited collection explores the axis where monstrosity and borderlands meet to reflect the tensions, apprehensions, and excitement over the rad...

Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book ...

From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern Engla...

What use is it to be given authority over men and lands if others do not know about it? Furthermore, what use is that authority if those who know a...

This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the fa...

In March 1757 early in the Seven Years War a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bor...

Native Southerners lived in vibrant societies, rich in tradition and cultural sophistication, for thousands of years before the arrival of European...

Originally published in 1915, The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-1537, and The Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 examines this period of British Tudor history in ...

This second volume of the authors studies opens with a new survey of the recent historiography of Dubrovnik, and also contains four items specially...

The extraordinary cultural Renaissance in the northern Italian courts of the late 15th and early 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. It s...

Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection mak...

The mid-twentieth century saw a change in paradigms of art history: iconology. The main claim of this novel trend in art history was that renowned ...

From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793 after the French Revolution, the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was the ce...

Fear and suspicion take root among the women of Manningtree, when the Witchfinder General comes to town... WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE AND...

This title was first published in 2003. The aim of The Crisis of 1614 and The Addled Parliament is to bring literary historians together with const...