Archaeology books

From the seventeenth-century various colonial administrations all consciously measured their laws against that of...  Read More >>

Garcia de Orta’s Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India (1563) was printed in Goa, the capital of the Portuguese...  Read More >>

This collection, which brings together a selection of Alexandra Walsham’s essays written over the last fifteen years,...  Read More >>

This book is the first to emphasize the importance and significance of natural stone in the construction of a city,...  Read More >>

Looking at the experiences of women in early modern Portugal in the context of crime and forgiveness, this study...  Read More >>

Exploring the history and theories of political thought of international relations in the seventeenth century, this...  Read More >>

In the seventeenth and eighteenth century the terms ’atheism’ and ’deism’ involved fine distinctions that have not...  Read More >>

Focusing specifically on semi-religious women, this volume addresses a number of provocative questions about gender...  Read More >>

The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed...  Read More >>

Focusing on the Dominican Order's activities in south-eastern Poland from the late sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth...  Read More >>

Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Modern and Contemporary)...  Read More >>

This book explores the meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood....  Read More >>

This collection ranges far and wide - from early Christian pilgrims to fifteenth-century Ethiopia; from the Islamisation...  Read More >>

Whilst the Protestant Reformation of 1560 is acknowledged as being a watershed moment in Scottish history, relatively...  Read More >>

This collection, a testament to the work of Hilda L. Smith, confronts orthodoxy in social and cultural, scientific...  Read More >>

Approaching The Book of the Courtier as an early modern reader would have, author W.R. Albury explores aspects of...  Read More >>

Lord Kitchener and Lord Haig are two monumental figures of the First World War. Their reputations, both in their...  Read More >>

The guild buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings...  Read More >>

Covering a broad range of topics - encompassing legal, social, cultural, theological and political history - the...  Read More >>

Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This...  Read More >>

This collection focusses upon the history and theology of sin and salvation in reformation and post-reformation...  Read More >>

Drawing on sources from the Jesuit archives in Rome and on Port-Royal material in Paris, the book begins with an...  Read More >>

Gathering a group of internationally renowned scholars, this volume presents cutting-edge research on the complex...  Read More >>

The Use of Hereford, a local variation of the Roman rite, was one of the diocesan liturgies of medieval England...  Read More >>

First published in the summer of 1557 - as the protestant martyrs’ pyres blazed across England - Songes and Sonettes,...  Read More >>