This retelling of the sixteenth century introduces the reader to a gallery of amazing women from queens to commoners, wh......more

A multidisciplinary guide to classroom discussion of race in the European Renaissance. Teaching Race in the European Ren......more

Throughout her reign, Elizabeth I and her supporters used biblical analogies to perpetuate the Queen’s claim to be Engla......more

This groundbreaking book is the first comprehensive study of Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries. N......more

In the early modern world three dominant cultures of war were shaped by a synergy of their internal and external interac......more

The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi--the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance be......more

Interventions in other states on behalf of their subject populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state p......more

’James Boyce tells the true history of this country with rare clarity and an eye for the essential that never fails.’ -D......more

Exploring the nexus of music and religious education involves fundamental questions regarding music itself, its nature, ......more

An interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence. In this innov......more

This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani’s classic translation of Michelangelo’s poetry....more

This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani’s classic translation of Michelangelo’s poetry....more

Kings and Queens: The Power Struggles of Medieval Europe is a comprehensive and engaging exploration of the power strugg......more

A portrait of the rhythms and rituals of the magnificent court of the Spanish Habsburgs during Spain’s sixteenth- and se......more

Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society as wife of two successiv......more

In the last thirty years, understandings of the European reformations have been transformed. A generation of scholars ha......more

In this erudite book, Ian Adamson provides a comprehensive history of Gresham College in the seventeenth century, partic......more

A multidisciplinary guide to classroom discussion of race in the European Renaissance. Teaching Race in the European Ren......more

The new Companion to Erasmus in the Renaissance Society of America’s Texts and Studies Series draws on the insights of a......more

This book offers a panorama of movement, mobility, and exchange in the early modern world. While the pre-modern centurie......more

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

Medieval Scandinavia went through momentous changes. Regional power centres merged and gave birth to the three strong ki......more

Baroque depictions of violence are often dismissed as ’over the top’ and ’excessive’. Their material richness and exciti......more

Before the first purpose-designed exhibition spaces and painting exhibitions emerged, showing art was mainly related to ......more

Education during the Tudor era was a privilege and took many forms including schools, colleges and apprenticeships. Thos......more

Intrigue, double-dealing and conspiracy in the Eternal City. ’A fascinating narrative of the intermingling of secular an......more

This collection is the first to historicise the term ephemera and its meanings for early modern England and considers it......more

Mary Queen of Scots is perhaps one of the most controversial and divisive monarchs in regal history. Her story reads lik......more

Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people......more

Lesser Living Creatures examines literary and cultural texts from early modern England in order to understand how people......more

Who were the shadow agents of Renaissance war? In this pioneering collection of essays scholars use new archival evidenc......more

This book examines commercial and personal connections in the early modern book trade in Paris and northwestern France, ......more

Erasmus’ thorough engagement with the New Testament, in particular his revision of the Vulgate translation, aroused much......more

Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) was the mother of Henry Tudor (1457-1509) by her first husband, Edmund Tudor, who die......more

A Companion to the Renaissance in Southern Italy offers readers unfamiliar with Southern Italy an introduction to differ......more

PETRARCH FOR THE MODERN EAR, by the translator of a Dante edition that ’ranks with the very best available in English’. ......more

Winner of the 2023 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History Written by the poet-painter Karel van Mander, who finished it......more

The book describes humanism in a systematic and historical perspective. It analyzes its manifestation and function in cu......more

A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master. In sixteenth-century Northern Eu......more

This collection of short, accessible essays serves as a supplementary text to Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s play, Emilia. Criti......more

For the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 a......more

For the first time, Early Modern Streets unites the diverse strands of scholarship on urban streets between circa 1450 a......more

Based upon a sweeping command of Dutch East India Company (VOC) primary sources, Knaap’s manuscript offers a thought-pro......more

(Dis)connected Empires takes the reader on a global journey to explore the triangle formed during the sixteenth century ......more

The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern p......more

Experiencing God in Late Medieval and Early Modern England demonstrates that experiences of divine revelation, both bibl......more

The Defence of the Seven Sacraments (in Latin, Assertio Septem Sacramentorum) is a theological treatise from 1521, writt......more

Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring o......more

In premodern times, death was a more visible phenomenon than now owing to the ways in which dying and the subsequent pha......more

Early modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. Landscape emerged as a site of artistic explor......more

The book identifies to what extent it is possible to speak of a democratization of knowledge in Renaissance Italy. It es......more

Often considered the advent of mass media, the use of books and prints by Protestants has been widely studied and has ge......more

Making Worlds explores how early globalization fostered new ways of knowing and shaping the world....more

A Times’ Book of the Week A brilliant and beautifully written deep dive into the complicated relationship between Elizab......more

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A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of ......more

Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern E......more

The Introduction and the chapter Toleration and Religious Polemics are available in Open Access. Searching for Compromis......more

Martin Luther was the architect and engineer of the Protestant Reformation, which transformed Germany five hundred years......more

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A history of the Prussian and Russian forces that fought in the Seven Years War This translation of the classic history ......more

A critical edition and the first English translation of the French play. April 1542 saw a massacre of epic proportions i......more

The Transatlantic Las Casas demonstrates the vitality of Lascasian studies. An impressive ensemble of scholars spanning ......more

Intermediality, figurability, iconotext, visual exegesis: these are some of the many new ways in which the relationship ......more

The Society of Jesus began a tradition of collecting books and curating those collections at its foundation. These libra......more

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

An enlightening study of the contradictory character of this canonical fourteenth-century Italian poet. Born in Tuscany ......more

The queenship of the first European Renaissance queen regnant never ceases to fascinate. Was she a saint or a bigoted ze......more

In Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600), Jan L. de Jong reveals how funerary monuments, far from simply marking a grav......more

This pioneering volume explores the contribution of migrants to European culture from the early modern era to today. It ......more

A brilliant history of one of the most beautiful cities in the world during the height of the Italian Renaissance. Perfe......more

A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding. The......more

The Renaissance witnessed an upsurge in explanations of natural events in terms of invisibly small particles - atoms, co......more

"Until now the history of knowledge has largely been about formal and documented accumulation, concentrating on systems,......more

This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama during the Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through......more