Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700 books

Modern communications allow the instant dissemination of information and images, creating a sensation of virtual...  Read More >>

Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to...  Read More >>

At the heart of this volume is a concern with exploring levels of interaction between two particular objects of...  Read More >>

After 500 years Henry VIII still retains a public fascination unmatched by any monarch before or since. Through...  Read More >>

Documenting lived experiences of men in charge of others, this collection creates a social and cultural history...  Read More >>

Festivals and ceremonials played a major role in the Spanish world; through them local identities as well as a common...  Read More >>

Analysing the make-up and workings of the Royalist party in Scotland and Ireland during the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth...  Read More >>

Thomas Harrison is today perhaps best remembered for the manner of his death. As a leading member of the republican...  Read More >>

In this book, the role of royalist agents, spies and conspirators is uncovered and examined. Shifting the traditional...  Read More >>

Whilst much scholarly work has been focused on Spain's South American colonies, less is known about Spanish colonisation...  Read More >>

Should we assume that people who lived some time ago were quite similar to us or should we assume that they need...  Read More >>

This companion is designed to provide scholars and graduate students with a comprehensive and authoritative overview...  Read More >>

The period between 1689 and 1716 witnessed a fundamental reordering of the political, religious and cultural map...  Read More >>

The author of The Tudor Socialite and Plantagenet Socialite looks at the life and movements of Mary, Queen of Scots,...  Read More >>

In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents...  Read More >>

Contrary to early modern patriarchal assumptions, this study argues that noblemen in early modern Spain depended...  Read More >>

Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance Man, an artist, mathematician, inventor and writer amongst his many...  Read More >>

Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity shows that the “discovery”...  Read More >>

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From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers,...  Read More >>

From the multimillion-copy bestselling author of the Horrible Histories, this is a witty, whistlestop tour through...  Read More >>

This book offers a cultural history of the travels of energy in the English language, from its origins in Aristotle’s...  Read More >>