Early Modern History: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

This volume brings together cutting-edge research by some of the most innovative scholars of early modern Britain. Inspired in part by recent studi...

It was the original forever war, which went on interminably, fuelled by religious fanaticism, personal ambition, fear of hegemony, and communal sus...

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotla...

Historians have long engaged in passionate debate about collective memory and the building of national identities. This book focuses on one nationa...

In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontie...

In Brokering Empire, E. Natalie Rothman explores the intersecting worlds of those who regularly traversed the early modern Venetian-Ottoman frontie...

From 1505 to 1689, Russia's tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm's most beautiful young maidens—provided ...

In The Perraults, Oded Rabinovitch takes the fascinating eponymous literary and scientific family as an entry point into the complex and rapidly ch...

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or il...

In the late seventeenth century, France prided itself for its rationality and scientific achievements. Yet it was then that Raphaël Lévy, a French ...

This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern ‘public sphere’. Focusing on the petition-lik...

This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate over the emergence of an early modern ‘public sphere’. Focusing on the petition-lik...

This international and interdisciplinary volume investigates Protestant devotional identities in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Divide...

This study provides a radical reassessment of the English Reformation. No one in eighteenth-century England thought that they were living during ‘t...

This book revisits the county study as a way of understanding the dynamics of civil war in England during the 1640s. It explores gentry culture an...

This book seeks to bring coherence to two of the most studied periods in British history, Caroline non-conformity (pre-1640) and the British revolu...