Archaeology books

Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and...  Read More >>

There is no current work that offers such a broad survey of Ramus and Ramism, or that looks at him in such an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

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

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major...  Read More >>

Over the last twenty years research on the Reformation in Germany has shifted both chronologically and thematically...  Read More >>

In this first full length scholarly study of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram casts new light...  Read More >>

Focusing on John Ruskin as a teacher and on his greatest educational work, Fors Clavigera, Sara Atwood examines...  Read More >>

For humanists the perfect language was a revived Classical Latin. For scholastics it was a practical logic adapted...  Read More >>

The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English...  Read More >>

Analysing a period of 'hidden history', this book tracks the fate of the English Jesuits and their educational work...  Read More >>

This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment,...  Read More >>

Taking a broad European approach, this collection brings together...  Read More >>

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

Covering the history of medieval and early modern India, from the eighth to the eighteenth centuries, this volume...  Read More >>

Natasha Gill offers the first comprehensive analysis of French educational thought before Rousseau. She situates...  Read More >>

Historians have long grappled with the question of how Islamic civilization - so clearly dominant during the medieval...  Read More >>

Gambling is a fascinating subject which for many centuries has attracted public interest. Yet, despite its ubiquity,...  Read More >>

Drawing upon private papers, letters, financial records, diaries and memoirs, this book revisits the Monmouth Rebellion...  Read More >>

This volume examines the selection and promotion of bishops within ecclesiastical politics at the Elizabethan court,...  Read More >>

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

Most works written about the Jacobites have tended to look at the 1745 Rebellion, rather than the earlier attempt...  Read More >>

Louis XIV Outside In introduces current interests in cultural history, integrating aspects of artistic, literary...  Read More >>

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

The contributors to this volume propose that the years 1556-57 saw the Marian Counter Reformation in all its aspects...  Read More >>