European History

What do you need to know about the Netherlands? The third edition of Discovering the Dutch explores the urgent question of Dutch identity through a...

How the modern world understood the ancient Greeks and why they matter today.This majestic book by Oswyn Murray has been long and eagerly awaitedan...

Enlightenment in Scotland and France: Studies in Political Thought provides comparative analysis of the Scottish and French Enlightenments. Studies...

Take an enchanting tour of Paris's most charming places, objects, and pasttimes in this lovingly compiled Francophile handbook. Organised by season...

A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term intersectionality was coined in 1989, the existence of margina...

The study of enslavement has become urgent over the last two decades. Social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, wh...

After experiencing fascism and occupation, did the Jewish community in Rome try to pick up where they had left off before the passing of the Itali...

Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations   The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled per...

The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographer...

Having recently passed the 40th anniversary of Margaret Thatchers entry into Number 10 Downing Street, the burgeoning field of Thatcher studies con...

Martin Luther wrote a number of Latin poems, mostly using traditional classical metres, over the course of his career. He used them to praise frien...

Developed throughout early modern Europe, lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease, in ...