Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Written in the early seventeenth century, the Hustynja Chronicle represents the first attempt of early modern chroniclers to write a systematic his...

This pioneering volume explores the contribution of migrants to European culture from the early modern era to today. It takes culture as an aesthet...

What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church state should be? And how did this thinking evolve? Based on ...

Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how b...

Informed Power maps the intricate, intersecting channels of information exchange in the early American South, exploring how people in the colonial ...

Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal...

One of the most accomplished human beings who ever lived, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) remains a quintessential Renaissance genius. The perfect com...

These are the women who ruled, the women who founded dynasties, the women who fought for religious freedom, their families and love. These are the ...