Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth cen...

This book challenges the recently established consensus that the trial was a carefully prepared and executed judicial process in which the judges w...

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with d...

While it has often been recognised that counsel formed an essential part of the political discourse in early modern England, the precise role that ...

A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence. The tradition of the sev...

The minutes of the Corporation provide fascinating detail of the social and economic life of the town. Regulation of crafts and trades, setting th...

This is the first emotional history of the British Empire. Joanna Lewis explores how David Livingstone's death tied together British imperialism an...

How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study reveals th...

In the sixteenth century, Erasmus of Rotterdam led a humanist campaign to deter European princes from vainglorious warfare by giving them liberal e...

Early European visitors placed Ayutthaya alongside China and India as the great powers of Asia. Yet in 1767 the city was destroyed and its history ...

In this major study, the history of the French and British trading empires in the early modern Mediterranean is used as a setting to test a new app...

Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confi...

Anyone could swear like a sailor! Within the larger culture, sailors had pride of place in swearing. But how they swore and the reasons for their b...

Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middlin...

In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for 'home' or struggling to es...

This book examines Elizabeth's correspondence with several significant rulers, analyzing how her letters were constructed, drafted and presented, t...

Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on...

Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth century more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. In the early modern period, accid...

An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines ke...

Grand, extravagant, magnificent, scandalous, corrupt, political, personal, fractious; these are terms often associated with the medieval and early ...