Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700 books

This text charts early modern women’s mobility across Spanish Empire and offers a new perspective on women’s agency...  Read More >>

This volume engages with a range of important debates including: the relationship between war and state formation;...  Read More >>

Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successive...  Read More >>

This book offers a gendered analysis of kinship and social networks; a delve into the vibrant political and cultural...  Read More >>

This second collection of primary sources in English translation ranges across a gamut of places and moments in...  Read More >>

This reader provides a selection of documents relevant to the encounters and entanglements that arose in the Spanish...  Read More >>

Through an examination of Dutch Reformed church records and theological texts, Dieleman explores the local dynamics...  Read More >>

This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written...  Read More >>

From the mid-twelfth century onwards, the development of European hospitals was shaped by their claim to the legal...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive reconstruction of the Italian geo-political map focused on courts (thirteenth -...  Read More >>

This book addresses the ways in which authorities across Western Europe attempted to control urban space for the...  Read More >>

This book provides the first account of how the reputation of King Edward II (1307-1327) of having engaged in sexual...  Read More >>

This is a translation and new edition of Masaniello. La sua vita e il mito in Europa (Rome, 2007), the first historical...  Read More >>

How did men cope with sexual health issues in early modern England? This vivid history investigates how sexual,...  Read More >>

When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom that this pope would at last reform and reunite...  Read More >>

This is an analysis of 7000 consilia from twenty-two different collections and anthologies by fifteen selected authors,...  Read More >>

This book brings together studies from Georgia, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Korea, and the...  Read More >>

This book examines the lives of women whose gender impeded the exercise of their personal, political, and religious...  Read More >>

Drawing on a variety of sources, including trial records, administrative paperwork, letters, pamphlets, hagiography,...  Read More >>

This book examines both the policies of church boards and town councils in organising charitable appeals, as well...  Read More >>

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Armed Frontier is a deeply researched and yet accessible history of border skirmishes from mid-colonial times to...  Read More >>

A lyrical LGBTQ+ historical novel set in Renaissance Florence. Painter Francesca Rosini risks everything for forbidden...  Read More >>

Drawing on a wide array of textual and material primary sources, this book assesses the ways that gender and other...  Read More >>

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