This book offers nine new approaches toward a single work of art, Titian’s Allegory of Marriage or Allegory of Alfonso d......more

A Renaissance Reclaimed brings together an international team of historians of scholarship, politics, religion, literatu......more

In Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, ......more

In 1600, Giordano Bruno, one of the leading intellectuals of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake on the charge of h......more

Now appearing in its first English translation, Theuerdank introduces readers to the fascinating world of the Renaissanc......more

Now appearing in its first English translation, Theuerdank introduces readers to the fascinating world of the Renaissanc......more

This book explores the history and continuing relevance of melancholia as an amorphous but richly suggestive theme in li......more

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This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the m......more

Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard......more

"It was during the Renaissance period that sculptors’ models, together with drawings, were first assembled by avid colle......more

In Trust in the Catholic Reformation, Thérèse Peeters shows how trust and distrust affected reform attempts in the post-......more

This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy....more

In July 1456, a massive Turkish army settled in before Belgrade, an ancient city at the confluence of the Danube and Sav......more

The Crusade of 1456 offers translations of key sources from an often overlooked yet consequential event in fifteenth-cen......more

Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750 focuses on coins as material artefacts and agents of mea......more

The Plague Cemetery of Alghero (Sardinia, Italy, 1582-1583) presents a bioarchaeological analysis of the individuals exh......more

A lively and penetrating social history of the Renaissance. Perfect for readers who love the books of Ian Mortimer, Liza......more

This is the first study of Jacobean Scotland’s largest library: the collection assembled over several generations by the......more

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England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only a......more

With a foreword by Diego Quaglioni This book attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of the Western le......more

Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable developments: one, the emergenc......more

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The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the cir......more

’A compelling and wry narrative of one of the most intellectually thrilling eras of British history’ Guardian. *********......more

How did medical students become Galenic physicians in the early modern era? Making Physicians guides the reader through ......more

The history of noncombatant immunity is well established. What is less understood is how militaries have rationalized vi......more

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This volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical t......more

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Memory and Identity in the Learned World offers a detailed and varied account of community formation in the early modern......more

"Heirs of Flesh and Paper" tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects’ practical responses to ro......more

Constantijn Huygens was a poet, composer and connoisseur of art and the classics. He was also secretary and confidant to......more

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This......more

The sixteenth-century glazing from Herkenrode Abbey in Belgium constitutes the most significant body of Flemish stained ......more

This book deals with a fascinating and original claim in 16th-century Europe. Witches should be cured, not executed. It ......more

Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain’s history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-18......more

This groundbreaking collection explores the convergence of the spatial and digital turns through a suite of smartphone a......more

The space of Renaissance anatomy is not solely in the physical theatre. As this collection demonstrates, the space of th......more

This book explores the diplomatic role of women in early modern European dynastic networks through the study of Aragones......more

A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes c......more

The Allure of the Ancient investigates how the ancient Middle East was imagined and appropriated for artistic, scholarly......more

In the second half of the fifteenth century, Roberto Caracciolo’s preaching touched the most important cities of Italy, ......more

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History of Universities XXXIV/2 contains the customary mix of learned articles which makes this publication an indispens......more

This latest volume from the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles publishes the first portion of the Lord Stewartby Coll......more

Jan-Marie Knights documents the social calendar of Tudor high society in a series of bite-sized chunks. The book covers ......more

"In May 1671, Colonel Blood became the only person ever to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. How did he s......more

In the early hours of the 24th of February 1525, under the walls of the city of Pavia, the best Imperial fought against ......more

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The documents in this collection trace the course of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe, describing the emerge......more

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Armies and Political Change in Britain, 1660 -1750 argues that armies had a profound impact on the major political event......more

The collection, curation, and manipulation of knowledge were fundamental to the operation of inquisition. Its coercive p......more

The performance of violence on the stage has played an integral role in French tragedy since its inception. Onstage Viol......more

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Writing Southern Italy before the Renaissance is the first comprehensive book in English to examine the works of trecent......more

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A Poetry of Things considers how cultural objects were used by poets in the years around 1600 - a time of social and eco......more

Where did we do science in the Enlightenment and why? This volume brings together leading historians of Early Modern sci......more

The De concordia, published by Juan Luis Vives in 1529 and dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, is a comprehe......more

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In the spring of 1576, the Health Office of Venice, fearful of a growing outbreak of plague, imposed a quarantine upon t......more

The present volume focuses on Henry Bate of Mechelen (1246-after 1310), the first scholar to bring Ibn Ezra’s astrologic......more

Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed ......more

By exploring the evolution of the Medici family’s villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, phil......more

By exploring the evolution of the Medici family’s villas, Cultivating the Renaissance charts the shifting politics, phil......more