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Exploring the emigration to colonial Pennsylvania of Welsh members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), this b......more

A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 600-1700 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the spaces......more

Based on a comprehensive interpretation and comparison of the existing sources - including city records and expenses, ch......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 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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A groundbreaking new history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion, a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three ......more

How did ordinary men and women dress in early modern Europe? What fabrics and garments formed the essential elements of ......more

A sweeping history of The Age of Reason, revealing how--although it was a time of great progress--it was also an era of ......more

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The Renaissance was a period of unparalleled beauty, excitement, and interest in Florence, despite frequent plagues and ......more

The maritime legal framework, of General Average (GA), remains an enigmatic and overlooked process within the history of......more

Digital humanities have become an integral part of the academic landscape, providing scholars with unique opportunities ......more

The aim of this volume is to re-evaluate some of the temporal, intermedial and geographical boundaries built around the ......more

Revisiting Revenge Tragedy explores one of the most popular and influential genres of early modern theatre. Revenge trag......more

The Beauty of Belief sheds new light on Lutheran relationships with ecclesiastical decoration in southwest Germany follo......more

In Toledo in 1529, a converso named Pedro de Cazalla declared that the connection between man and God was but a thread a......more

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This volume explores the production, transmission, and reading practices of vernacular Bibles in early modern Europe. Th......more

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance library With the advent of print in the f......more

The legendary Renaissance math duel that ushered in the modern age of algebra The Secret Formula tells the story of two ......more

The fourteen chapters of this volume reflect the centrality of the element Earth in medieval thought and life, a central......more

- This richly illustrated book throws light on the legacy and life of Margaret of Parma, whose importance in 16th centur......more

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The literarisation of the early modern Baltic Sea region was a long and complex process with varying trajectories for di......more

What was published in Naples during the Spanish Vicerealm? What Neapolitan people read or were exposed to and how this l......more

This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventee......more

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A fresh perspective on the early mafia as a means of resistance against invasion, this gripping history illustrates the ......more

A groundbreaking and beautifully written biography of Queen Anne Boleyn, the ill-fated second wife of Renaissance Englan......more

**SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, "10 BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2022"** **HISTORY TODAY, "BOOKS OF THE YEAR (2022)"** A brilliant and ......more

The Invasion Before Normandy is a chronicle of one of World War II’s most dramatic and secret operations. In 1944, an Am......more

The second volume in the Anti-Jesuit Literature series at Brill casts a revealing light on a crucial moment in eighteent......more

Traditional narratives hold that the art and architecture of the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century were transfo......more

This book discusses the role Western military books and their translations played in 17th-century Russia. By tracing how......more

Drawing on a detailed examination of Venetian commerce in the Middle Ages, this book explores the business practices and......more

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A compelling, authoritative history of how women shaped the Reformations and transformed religious life across the globe......more

This book is about the parlance of political economic ideas with scientific practices in the Duchy of Milan, from the la......more

This collection of essays explores the role of gardens in early modern academies and, conversely, the place of what migh......more

Explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Indi......more

The arrival of Europeans in the New World in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, often neglected by histor......more

Queen of Scots at six days old; married at fifteen in Paris to the Dauphin of France; Queen of France at sixteen; widowe......more

This monograph discusses different philosophical and theological components of Aquinas’s view regarding the relation bet......more

This is the 2nd volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage’s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination o......more

This is the 3rd volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage’s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination o......more

This is a 4-volume work entitled The Mage’s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination of the life and wor......more

This is the 1st volume in a 4-volume work entitled The Mage’s Images. The work provides the first in-depth examination o......more

Contemporary nudge theory points out that people make good choices over issues where they have had past experience of si......more

Robert Beale (1541-1601) was a diplomat and administrator who worked at the heart of Elizabethan governance and internat......more

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

Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, court......more

Although Robert Klein (1918-1967), well known for his erudition and the originality of his research, was an important, e......more

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A surprising history of interfaith collaboration in the Roman Ghetto, where for three centuries Jewish and Christian but......more

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"Money, money, and more money." In the eyes of early modern warlords, these were the three essential prerequisites for w......more

This volume presents a broad spectrum of essays exemplifying current advances in print scholarship. It aims to focus att......more

"This series pushes the boundaries of knowledge and develops new trends in approach and understanding." ENGLISH HISTORIC......more

Characterized by an interdisciplinary approach, these essays highlight the relationship between music and poetry in Ital......more

This book examines one of the most pervasive and successful dramatic tropes of the Restoration and early eighteenth cent......more

This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criti......more

Ambivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter ......more

Finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography) One of the New Yorker’s Best Books of 2023 One of BookRiot’s B......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

This volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflect......more

This volume explores the dream cultures of the European long sixteenth century, with a focus on Italian sources, reflect......more