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Exploring the emigration to colonial Pennsylvania of Welsh members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), this b......more
This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventee......more
Based on a comprehensive interpretation and comparison of the existing sources - including city records and expenses, ch......more
This volume offers the first annotated English translation of the first two books of On Celibacy (1473) by the eminent V......more
This book offers the first annotated translation into English of two works of the eminent Venetian humanist, Ermolao Bar......more
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The Renaissance was a period of unparalleled beauty, excitement, and interest in Florence, despite frequent plagues and ......more
Digital humanities have become an integral part of the academic landscape, providing scholars with unique opportunities ......more
A magisterial cultural history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, ranging from the early shaping of the continents a......more
The crusading movement endured well beyond the 14th century. Across Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe, the desire fo......more
Concerns over privacy grow in our society. Understanding the historical roots of the phenomenon becomes more and more ne......more
A fresh perspective on the early mafia as a means of resistance against invasion, this gripping history illustrates the ......more
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The Invasion Before Normandy is a chronicle of one of World War II’s most dramatic and secret operations. In 1944, an Am......more
Animal Sightings challenges two common ideas about the depiction of animals in early modern European court art: first, t......more
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Robert Beale (1541-1601) was a diplomat and administrator who worked at the heart of Elizabethan governance and internat......more
Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, court......more
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the troubled accession of England......more
The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, by historians Allen C. Guelzo and James Hankins, will offer a tru......more
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Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range ......more
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range ......more
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’How to’ as a way out of all awkward situations in life keeps society going. Instructional literature flooded the book m......more
Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Ital......more
This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criti......more
Land and Trade in Early Islam discusses the latest developments in the field of early Islamic economic and social histor......more
"Tracing the moral and medical panics about addictive commodities that flourished after tobacco, chocolate, sugar, coffe......more
Reconstructs the life of Peter Goldman and presents a full edition and translation of his surviving poems and letters. T......more
The remarkable story of the cartographic masterpiece--the Venetian mappa mundi--that revolutionized how we see the world......more
Albert the Great (1200-1280) was a prominent Dominican friar, a leading philosopher, and the teacher of Thomas Aquinas. ......more
One of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023 One of BookRiot’s Best Biographies of 2023 Longlisted for the 2024 Women’s Pr......more
This book examines one of the most pervasive and successful dramatic tropes of the Restoration and early eighteenth cent......more
This book explores how premodern Ottomans characterised public office corruption and what specific transgressions they a......more
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This is the first critical edition and study of a unique and important Muslim polemic against Christians and Jews. The B......more
The years between 1550 and 1700 saw significant changes in the nature and scope of local government: sophisticated infor......more
Contemporary nudge theory points out that people make good choices over issues where they have had past experience of si......more
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The aim of this volume is to re-evaluate some of the temporal, intermedial and geographical boundaries built around the ......more
Bodies beyond Labels explores moments of joy and joyful expressions of self-identity, intimacy, sexuality, affect, frien......more
An illuminating study of early modern efforts to regulate sound in women’s residential institutions, and how the noises ......more
A provocative essay collection that theorizes the Renaissance through the lens of kink. The Kinky Renaissance is a groun......more
A provocative essay collection that theorizes the Renaissance through the lens of kink. The Kinky Renaissance is a groun......more
The life and times of Catherine de’ Medici--the most powerful woman in sixteenth-century Europe--as seen through her oft......more
The Silver Empire is the first comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixte......more
A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies--from ciphers to counterf......more
Every third year, the members of the International Association for Neo-Latin Studies (IANLS) assemble for a week-long co......more
From the author of the best-selling A Venetian Affair ("A narrative of novelistic resonance . . . Astonishing" --The Was......more
Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth a......more
Philosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth a......more
The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often ......more
What was it like to be a woman in service in early modern England? Drawing on evidence of over 1000 female servants reco......more
"A scholarly biography and collection of writings by and about Jakob Hutter, an early leader of the Hutterites, a commun......more
An exploration of the diverse lived experiences of marginality in Scottish society from the sixteen to the eighteenth ce......more
Essays considering how information could be used and abused in the service of heresy and inquisition. The collection, cu......more
The essays in this collection were presented at the 2020 Symposium on Apocalypticism, sponsored by the Marco Institute f......more
Keeping the Peace in the Village is a study of how rural society evolved in the century after 1650. Based on extensive r......more
For more than four and a half centuries, the Jesuits in Hungary were forced to repeatedly recommence their activities du......more
In this volume Giulia Zanon sheds new light on our grasp of social hierarchy and the possibilities for social mobility i......more
This edited volume explores the development of the European book world between 1650 and 1750, concentrating on changes i......more
This book offers something new, a full-length study of printing Anglo-Saxon (Old English) from 1566 to 1705, combining a......more
Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies ......more
Redreaming the Renaissance seeks to remedy the dearth of conversations between scholars of history and literary studies ......more
While humanists agreed on identifying the main requirement of the historical genre with truthfulness, they disagreed on ......more
Paris, 1599. At the end of the French Wars of Religion, the widow Renée Chevalier instigated the prosecution of the mili......more
Clément Janequin’s spectacular entertainment chansons jump-started French music printing, spread his fame across sixteen......more
Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial I......more
Roman emperors have long functioned--and continue to function--in the western imagination as paradigms of imperial leade......more
This selection from Tomaso Costo’s Fuggilozio (The Cure for Indolence, 1596) translates entertaining, dramatic, or witty......more
Imagining Ireland’s Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centurie......more
Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland, c.1660-1730 is a history of political thought in Ireland, told from the ......more
The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius is the first full-length study of the handwritten documents initially used by the aut......more
A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman......more
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Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. This v......more
The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant mom......more
This book discusses the printers’ devices used in Poland-Lithuania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The composi......more
International tragedies, national disgraces, and local dangers: reporting can magnify trauma. But how can we gain a deep......more
The Reformation of the Heart: Gender and Radical Theology in the English Revolution offers fresh insight into the relati......more