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

The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius is the first full-length study of the handwritten documents initially used by the aut......more

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This selection from Tomaso Costo’s Fuggilozio (The Cure for Indolence, 1596) translates entertaining, dramatic, or witty......more

A landmark study of the history of male-male sex in early modern Europe, including the European colonies and the Ottoman......more

Thomas Hobbes and Political Thought in Ireland, c.1660-1730 is a history of political thought in Ireland, told from the ......more

For more than four and a half centuries, the Jesuits in Hungary were forced to repeatedly recommence their activities du......more

Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe. This v......more

The Reformation of the Heart: Gender and Radical Theology in the English Revolution offers fresh insight into the relati......more

The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant mom......more

A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Por......more

This book discusses the printers’ devices used in Poland-Lithuania in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The composi......more

Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich f......more

A LAST STAND AGAINST INSANE ODDS. Charismatic Spanish sea captain and Armada castaway Francisco de Cuéllar has hardly be......more

Performing Disability is a landmark examination of performance history in the medieval and early modern era. Seeking to ......more

In premodern Europe, the gender identity of those waiting for Doomsday in their tombs could be reaffirmed, readjusted, o......more

Silver transformed and convulsed the early modern world. Silver, even more than gold, occupied a deeply charged intersec......more

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in......more

This collection offers readers a guide to analyzing historical texts and objects using a diverse selection of sources in......more

Delivered in bite-sized diary chunks, Jan-Marie Knights takes the reader on a journey into the world of Tudor high socie......more

In the Modern Age, the encounter and conflict between competing religious identities produced a renewed emphasis on the ......more

This collection of essays engages with a variety of aspects of early modern book culture in the 16th-17th centuries, con......more

In early 1618, Anne Cecil (nee Lake), Lady Roos, accused Frances Cecil, countess of Exeter, of having committed adultery......more

Thomas More’s Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Hand......more

Within the shifting political landscapes of Eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages, the principality of Moldavia (ex......more

Lumbre de fe is the most extensive and articulate text of polemic against Islam written during the 16th century in Spani......more

Lumbre de fe is the most extensive and articulate polemic text of polemic against Islam written during the 16th century ......more

Much of the most recent research on Jewish scepticism was inspired by the work of the early modern Venetian rabbi Simone......more

Holy Enemies of Freedom lays bare how anti-Semitism finds its roots in deep-seated cultural trauma. The German Martin Lu......more

Holy Enemies of Freedom lays bare how anti-Semitism finds its roots in deep-seated cultural trauma. The German Martin L......more

Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama proposes a fresh performance-centered view of rhetoric by......more

Ireland was England’s oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland--in a time of Brexit, ’the ......more

Covering the period 1390-1488, MacKay publishes the second portion of the Lord Stewartby Collection, the most important ......more

Offering a re-reading of Erasmus’s works, this book shows that emotion and affectivity were central to his writings. It ......more

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This book offers a philosophical and historical genealogy of persecution focused on two significant events: the witch-hu......more

This book offers a philosophical and historical genealogy of persecution focused on two significant events: the witch-hu......more

Distrust of public institutions, which reached critical proportions in Britain and the United States in the first two de......more

At court, flowers coloured, scented, adorned, sustained, nourished, and enthralled. These interdisciplinary essays engag......more

This volume explores the production of knowledge of normativity in the age of early modern globalisation by looking at a......more

This open access book undertakes a self-critical reinterpretation of European modernity and responds to the need for a g......more

At its core, Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) explores how people tried to survive the Thirty Y......more

Are you traveling to Rome or Florence? This book will enhance your voyage into art, archaeology, food, couture, and the ......more

The Brewers’ Book was compiled by their clerk from 1418-40. This rare survival shines a light upon the craft and fratern......more

The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The ......more

Tudor Networks of Power is the product of a groundbreaking collaboration between an early modern book historian and a ph......more

Award-winning historian Joanne M. Ferraro’s The Renaissance and the Wider World skillfully surveys the economic, politic......more

An accessible introduction to the life of the seventeenth-century’s most celebrated women artists, now in paperback. Art......more

Governor Percy Kirke’s Out-Letter Book, here transcribed verbatim and annotated, covers the terminal decline of English ......more

By clothing the Word with her flesh, the Virgin Mary made God visible, manifesting Christ as a perfect "image" of the Fa......more

"Can the pressures women feel to look good be traced back to the sixteenth century? As the Renaissance visual world beca......more

The first volume of The Oxford History of British & Irish Catholicism explores the period 1530-1640, from Henry VIII’s b......more

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Wie konnten Abwesende politische Prozesse im Venedig der Renaissance beeinflussen? Wie wurden entsprechende Praktiken tr......more

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on......more

This is the twenty-first volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. The series aims to provide authorit......more

Richly illustrated monograph (250 figures, 12 maps) showcasing castles and fortified towns of the Peloponnese garrisoned......more

Twenty-Five Women Who Shaped the Italian Renaissance takes readers on a journey through early modern Italy that places w......more

Cardinal Bessarion was a towering figure in the fifteenth-century Renaissance. His life spanned the century. In his sixt......more

Saint Birgitta of Sweden (d. 1373), one of the most famous visionary women of the late Middle Ages, lived in Rome for th......more

Land Air Sea: Architecture and Environment in the Early Modern Era posits that the long Renaissance and eighteenth centu......more

On the Heroic Frenzies presents the Italian text of Giordiano Bruno’s central work, side-by-side with the English transl......more

Did you know that the English longbow was the "machine gun" of the medieval era, with its effectiveness being far greate......more

This special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is devoted to the Aldine edition of the Ancient Greek epi......more

This book presents an early modern Jesuit attitude towards Hindu and Ethiopian strains of asceticism. The Jesuits’ descr......more

One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year "A lively book....[Luzzi] brilliantly sets the operatic stage of vibrant,......more

Looking beyond the marble elegance of Michelangelo’s David, the pugnacious, passionate, and--crucially--important story ......more

The Republic of Venice was the only Catholic territory where an Anabaptist community was formed in the 16th century. The......more

The five hundred years from the 1450s to the 1950s represent an extraordinarily rich quarry for evidence of incunabula s......more

Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, historia septentrional (1617) is Miguel de Cervantes’s last major work. Virtually......more

The figure of the witch is familiar from the work of early modern German, Dutch, and Flemish artists, but much less so i......more

Teresa of Ávila’s cult was dramatically disseminated in previously unknown celebrations honoring her beatification (1614......more