Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Published in 1999. The articles in this collection focus on instruction - and writings arising from that instruction - in philosophy and the arts d...

Published in 1998. John Knox is one of the towering figures of the European reformation, his name synonymous with hard-line evangelical Protestanti...

This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elemen...

Examining the history of altar decorations, this study of the visual liturgy grapples with many of the previous theoretical frameworks to reveal th...

Using untapped archival sources from Britain, France and America, Talbott presents a comparative view of British relations with France over the lon...

Originally conceived as a military history, this second edition completes the story of the Middle Eastern populations that underwent significant tr...

The Atlantic World: Essays on Slavery, Migration, and Imagination brings together ten original essays that explore the many connections between the...

A key volume on a central aspect of the history of medicine and its social relations, The History of Healthcare in Public and Private examines how ...

This title was first published in 2003. In this new socio-cultural study of the history of the theatre in early modern England, author Paola Puglia...

Images of Change focuses on the visual propaganda employed by Catholic popes in Rome during the time of Tridentine Reform. In 1563, at the Council ...

Concerns over privacy grow in our society. Understanding the historical roots of the phenomenon becomes more and more necessary to navigate our co...

This is a revised critical edition of philosopher and scientist, Francesco Patrizi's manuscript, Il Delfino, overo del bacio (c.1555), with an Engl...

The Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Winning AuthorA religious serial killer is haunting Florence and only Cesare Aldo can stop them. A...

Since the early 1970s the increasingly effective conduct of archaeological work in the City of London and surrounding parts of the conurbation have...

Exploring Irish-Scottish connections in the period 160360, this book brings important new perspectives to the study of the early Stuart state. Ackn...

Hybrid Renaissance introduces the idea that the Renaissance in Italy, elsewhere in Europe, and in the world beyond Europe is an example of cultural...

Drawing on a wide variety of archival and secondary sources, The Charitable Imperative, originally published in 1989, provides an overview of the v...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future ...

The book considers Thomas More's early life-choices. An early letter is cited by biographers but most miss More's reference to the market place. Mo...

Today, friendship, love and sexuality are mostly viewed as private, personal and informal relations. In the medieval and early modern period, just ...

This volume is an important contribution to the field of Margaret More Roper studies, early modern women's writing, as well as Erasmian piety, Rena...

Italian preachers during the Reformation era found themselves in the trenches of a more desperate war than anything they had ever imagined. This wa...

Uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book.   In 1538, a par...

Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea ...

Christian Tobler makes a deep dive into the fighting traditions of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, particularly as recorded by Johannes Lie...

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been ...

This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased ...

A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe   The Reformations, both P...

First published in 1982, Augustan England provides ample substance to reinforce the thesis that the years from 1680 to 1730 mark the most decisive ...

The Struggle for the Pacific (1937) examines the rivalries and postures as various powers European, the US, Japan and China attempted to militari...

The spiritual turmoil of the sixteenth century had a profound impact on religious life throughout Italy. Art and architecture were directly implica...

The acquisition of table manners and rhetorical skills, the interaction between medicine and eating, and the presence of food in literature and rel...

A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority  An artful, powerful book. . . . [A] substantial cont...

Discovered in 1995, the remarkable thirteenth-century frescoes in the great hall, or Aula Gotica, of Rome's Santi Quattro Coronati complex are amon...

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were ...

Weaving together thousands of archival fragments, this study explores a shared Black Atlantic world where the meanings of slavery and freedom were ...

The story of Wallachian mobility and settlement is remarkably central to the human condition. At its core, it reflects a fundamental drive to enhan...

Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisitions history...

Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisition's histor...

When the Spanish invaded the Inca empire in 1532, the cult of the ancestors was an essential feature of pre-Columbian religion throughout the Andes...