Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from t...

In the sixteenth century, the people of England witnessed the physical transformation of their most valued buildings: their parish churches. This i...

The Imperial Security State explores an important but under-explored dimension of British imperialism - its information system and the close links ...

This volume provides a rich new resource for exploring religion and daily life in Interregnum and Restoration England. Thomas Larkham kept his 'di...

Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional c...

If there was one person who could be said to light the touch-paper for the epochal transformation of European religion and culture that we now call...

The Festial, most probably composed in the late 1380s by the Augustinian canon, John Mirk, of Lilleshall Abbey, Shropshire, was the most popular an...

This volume brings together reformation and reception studies by exploring the relationship between reformations on the European continent and in B...

Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain examines selected dramatic works where the vicissitudes of matrimony play center stage. Various aspects of c...

This volume is an introduction to the fifteenth century through chronicles and personal recollections of a diverse group of its French- and English...

Fresche fontanis contains twenty-five studies presenting major new research by leading scholars in Scottish culture of the late fourteenth and fift...