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Love’s Wounds: Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe

Love’s Wounds: Violence and the Politics of Poetry in Early Modern Europe

Love’s Wounds takes an in-depth look at the widespread language of violence and abjection in early modern European love ......more

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society

Quantitative Studies of the Renaissance Florentine Economy and Society

The book is a collection of nine quantitative studies - each probing one aspect of Renaissance Florentine economy and so......more

The Erracht Feud: Internal divisions in Clan Cameron 1567-77

The Erracht Feud: Internal divisions in Clan Cameron 1567-77

A turbulent and misunderstood period for Clan Cameron when rivals vied for power through bloodfeud. In this new study, E......more

Milton’s Italy: Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Connections in Seventeenth-Century England

Milton’s Italy: Anglo-Italian Literature, Travel, and Connections in Seventeenth-Century England

This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian......more

Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe

Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe

The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across ......more

The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era

The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era

Established in 1542, the Roman Inquisition operated through a network of almost fifty tribunals to combat heretical and ......more

The Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript

The first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle "For the first t......more

The Flight and Fall of the Eagle: A History of Medieval Germany 800-1648

The Flight and Fall of the Eagle: A History of Medieval Germany 800-1648

The intellectual, cultural, and political renaissance that characterized the Europe of Charlemagne was threatened severe......more

Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England

Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England

The reign of Henry VII is important but mysterious. He ended the Wars of the Roses and laid the foundations for the stro......more

Idols of History: High Renaissance Italy

Idols of History: High Renaissance Italy

Ideas shape men, and men make history. Built on this premise, the Idols of History series explores modern European histo......more

The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire

The Business of Alchemy: Science and Culture in the Holy Roman Empire

In The Business of Alchemy, Pamela Smith explores the relationships among alchemy, the court, and commerce in order to i......more

Machiavelli Goes to the Movies: Understanding the Prince Through Television and Film

Machiavelli Goes to the Movies: Understanding the Prince Through Television and Film

Machiavelli’s The Prince is an important modern work of political science, but it is also one that has been often misint......more

Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State 1485-1725

Conquest and Union: Fashioning a British State 1485-1725

The British Isles is a multi-national arena, but its history has traditionally been studied from a distinctively English......more

The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger

The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger

"A colorful introduction to one of the most influential businessmen in history" (The New York Times Book Review), Jacob ......more

Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence

Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence

Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in F......more

The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century: Converging and Competing Cultures

The Crusade in the Fifteenth Century: Converging and Competing Cultures

Increasingly, historians acknowledge the significance of crusading activity in the fifteenth century, and they have star......more

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

Same-sex marriage is a hotly debated topic in the United States, and the world, today. From the tenor of most discussion......more

The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century

The Ashgate Research Companion to Dutch Art of the Seventeenth Century

Despite the tremendous number of studies produced annually in the field of Dutch art over the last 30 years or so, and t......more

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human

Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alo......more

A New Sense of the Past: The Scholarship of Biondo Flavio, 1392–1463

A New Sense of the Past: The Scholarship of Biondo Flavio, 1392–1463

In English and Italian. During his lifetime the historian and antiquarian Biondo Flavio (1392-1463) struggled to obtain ......more

Humanism in the Low Countries: A Collection of Studies Selected and Edited

Humanism in the Low Countries: A Collection of Studies Selected and Edited

In English, Latin, French, and Italian. This book contains twenty-one essays written by the late Professor Jozef IJsewij......more

English Masculinities, 1660-1800

English Masculinities, 1660-1800

This collection of specially commissioned essays provides the first social history of masculinity in the ’long eighteent......more

Collected Works of Erasmus: Poems, Volumes 85 and 86

Collected Works of Erasmus: Poems, Volumes 85 and 86

The final two volumes in the CWE contain an edition and translation of Erasmus’s poetry. For Erasmus scholars this work ......more

The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 842 to 992 (May 1518 to June 1519)

The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 842 to 992 (May 1518 to June 1519)

This volume covers a number of significant events and issues in Erasmus’ life and in the history of his times. He travel......more

Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours (Renaissance Colour Symbolism I)

Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours (Renaissance Colour Symbolism I)

’Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours’ brings together the original texts with original English translations of two c......more

The Science and Art of Renaissance Music

The Science and Art of Renaissance Music

As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken......more

The Rival Queens: Catherine De’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom

The Rival Queens: Catherine De’ Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and the Betrayal That Ignited a Kingdom

The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de’ Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly diverg......more

Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives

Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives

Exploring the rich variety of pictorial rhetoric in early modern northern European genre images, this volume deepens our......more

Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan

Ikki: Social Conflict and Political Protest in Early Modern Japan

The reign of the Tokugawa shoguns was a time of statebuilding and cultural transformation, but it was also a period of i......more

The Queen’s Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr. Dee

The Queen’s Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr. Dee

A spellbinding portrait of Queen Elizabeth s conjuror - the great philosopher, scientist and magician, Dr John Dee (1527......more

Renaissance Woman

Renaissance Woman

The Renaissance created a new vision of womanhood and indeed a "New Woman," proposes Gaia Servadio in this rich feast of......more

Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance

Pagan Virtue in a Christian World: Sigismondo Malatesta and the Italian Renaissance

In 1462 Pope Pius II performed the only reverse canonization in history, publicly damning a living man. The target was S......more

Practicing the City: Early Modern London on Stage

Practicing the City: Early Modern London on Stage

In late-sixteenth-century London, the commercial theaters undertook a novel experiment, fueling a fashion for plays that......more

Slav Outposts in Central European History: The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs

Slav Outposts in Central European History: The Wends, Sorbs and Kashubs

While many think of European history in terms of the major states that today make up the map of Europe, this approach te......more

Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain

Unruly Women: Performance, Penitence, and Punishment in Early Modern Spain

In the first in-depth study of the interconnected relationships among public theatre, custodial institutions, and women ......more

Leonardo’s Brain: Understanding Da Vinci’s Creative Genius

Leonardo’s Brain: Understanding Da Vinci’s Creative Genius

Best-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singula......more

Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, C.1400-1640

Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, C.1400-1640

A regional study of landed society in the transition between the late medieval and early modern period. In the middle of......more

Sociology of the Renaissance

Sociology of the Renaissance

This classic work marks the culmination of a definite stage in the socio-economic historiography from the late Middle Ag......more

Shakespeare the Man: New Decipherings

Shakespeare the Man: New Decipherings

While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been voiced as to Shakespeare’s identity, these eleven ess......more

Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome

Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome

Diplomacy in Renaissance Rome is an investigation of Renaissance diplomacy in practice. Presenting the first book-length......more

Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror

Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror

This important study takes a new approach to understanding Italian Renaissance humanism, based not on scholarly paradigm......more

Magic in Western Culture

Magic in Western Culture

The story of the beliefs and practices called magic starts in ancient Iran, Greece, and Rome, before entering its cruc......more

Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered

Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered

Everybody knows her smile, but no one knows her story: Meet the flesh-and-blood woman who became one of the most famous ......more

Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion

Mary I and the Art of Book Dedications: Royal Women, Power, and Persuasion

In this revisionist approach to book history and Marian studies Valerie Schutte argues that manuscript and printed book ......more

The Duke’s Assassin: Exile and Death of Lorenzino De’ Medici

The Duke’s Assassin: Exile and Death of Lorenzino De’ Medici

Stefano Dall Aglio sheds new light on the notorious Florentine Lorenzino de Medici (also known as Lorenzaccio) and on t......more

A Corresponding Renaissance: Letters Written by Italian Women, 1375-1650

A Corresponding Renaissance: Letters Written by Italian Women, 1375-1650

Women’s vibrant presence in the Italian Renaissance has long been overlooked, with attention focused mainly on the artis......more

Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity

Egyptian Oedipus: Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity

A contemporary of Descartes and Newton, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2-80), was one of Europe’s most inventive and ve......more

The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

Explores two principal genres of illicit learned magic in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpr......more

Machiavelli Goes to the Movies: Understanding the Prince Through Television and Film

Machiavelli Goes to the Movies: Understanding the Prince Through Television and Film

Machiavelli’s The Prince is an important modern work of political science, but it is also one that has been often misint......more

The Art of War in Italy 1494-1529

The Art of War in Italy 1494-1529

From the intro: THE change from mediaeval to modern methods in the art of war is closely related to the general transfo......more

The Lives of the Popes and Emperors

The Lives of the Popes and Emperors

"The Lives of the Popes and Emperors" enjoyed a number of printings in the early Renaissance: Florence, 1478; Venice, 15......more

The Lives of the Popes and Emperors

The Lives of the Popes and Emperors

"The Lives of the Popes and Emperors" enjoyed a number of printings in the early Renaissance: Florence, 1478; Venice, 15......more

Francois Hotman: A Revolutionary’s Ordeal

Francois Hotman: A Revolutionary’s Ordeal

The lifetime of Francois Hotman (1524-1590) was one of the most tumultuous periods in European history. Donald R. Kelley......more

Love & Death in Renaissance Italy

Love & Death in Renaissance Italy

Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there......more

Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland

Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland

Three monarchs of Scotland (James V, Mary Queen of Scots, and James VI/I) were crowned during the sixteenth century; eac......more

Improvising Early Music

Improvising Early Music

Studying improvised music is always a challenge, due to its volatility and unpredictability. But what about studying mus......more

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