Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed ......more
...more
The importance of place - as a unique spatial identity - has been recognized since antiquity. Ancient references to the ......more
This Companion to the Spanish Scholastics offers a much-needed survey of the entire field of early modern Spanish schola......more
...more
The culmination of thirty years of research, Eric Leland Saak’s Augustinian Theology in the Later Middle Ages offers a c......more
Early modern travelers often did not form part of classic ’diaspora’ communities: they frequently never really settled, ......more
This book tells the story of a Hampshire man who, during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, achieved prominence fro......more
Das Buch untersucht die kulturelle Patronage Erzherzog Ferdinands II. von Osterreich (1529-1595). Als zweitgeborener Soh......more
This book highlights the famous ’Athenian tribe’ a group of humanist scholars in the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and......more
In the Cause of Humanity is a major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention......more
...more
...more
This volume comprises Erasmus’ correspondence during the final two years of his life, June 1534-August 1536. In the publ......more
The Catholic Church answered Reformation-era contestations of the cult of images in a famous decree of the Council of Tr......more
In the early modern Iberian book world, as in the European book world more broadly, most works issuing from the presses ......more
This book provides a new perspective on book history by exploring communities created by the production and consumption ......more
In the early modern period, images of revolts and violence became increasingly important tools to legitimize or contest ......more
...more
Danilo Facca investigates the contribution of Aristotelianism in the emergence of a system of philosophical disciplines ......more
...more
Mary Tudor’s childhood was overshadowed by the men in her life: her father, Henry VII, and her brothers Arthur, heir to ......more
The life of John Selden (1584-1654) was both contemplative and active. Seventeenth-century England’s most learned person......more
Mining the rich documentary sources housed in Tuscan archives and taking advantage of the breadth and depth of scholarsh......more
...more
Winner of the National Huguenot Society’s 2022 Scholarly Works Award The Huguenots and their struggle for freedom of con......more
Winner of the National Huguenot Society’s 2022 Scholarly Works Award The Huguenots and their struggle for freedom of con......more
Maria of Austria was one of the longest surviving Renaissance Empresses but until now has received little attention by b......more
...more
Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology is a comprehensive volume that consists of three sections: concise introdu......more
This multi-disciplinary volume is the first collective effort to explore Istanbul, capital of the vast polyglot, multiet......more
In medieval Italy the practice of revenge as criminal justice was still popular amongst members of all social classes, y......more
Imagining Ireland’s Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centurie......more
This study examines the darker side of England’s culture of economic improvement between 1640 and 1720. It is often sugg......more
The story of the Renaissance city and palace of Urbino, and the life of the extraordinary man who created it: Federico d......more
...more
...more
From oaths and hand-kissing to coronations and baptisms, Power and Ceremony in European Historyconsiders the governing p......more
The Encyclopedia of Early Modern History offers four hundred years of history in one work. Experts from all over the wor......more
...more
Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-......more
...more
The Dialectical Questions offers an English translation of the Erotemata Dialectices, the final and fullest textbook on ......more
The paperback edition of this captivating story of Tudor dress, and the people who made and wore it The Tudors are some ......more
Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment ......more
Piechocki calls for an examination of the idea of Europe as a geographical concept, tracing its development in the 15th ......more
...more
...more
...more
...more
...more
...more
...more
At its core, Coping with Life during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648) explores how people tried to survive the Thirty Y......more
A Fake Saint and the True Church uncovers the remarkable story of a fake saint to tell a tale about truth. It begins at ......more
Fools and clowns were widely popular characters employed in early modern drama, prose texts and poems mainly as laughter......more
...more
Printers in the early modern Low Countries produced no fewer than 152 editions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. John Tholen inve......more
Prague in the seventeenth century is known as home to a scintillating imperial court crammed with exotic goods, scientis......more
The period between c.1580 and c.1685 was one of momentous importance in terms of the establishment of different confessi......more
This book provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on the importance of detailed rules to many of the world’s ethic......more
...more
This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, w......more
Renaissance Politics and Culture collects ten essays by eminent scholars in Renaissance studies to celebrate the life an......more
Recent research has established the continued importance of engagement with the classical tradition to the formation of ......more
This edited collection offers in seventeen chapters the latest scholarship on book catalogues in early modern Europe. Co......more
...more
...more
Miikka Ruokanen reveals the powerfully Trinitarian and participatory nature of Martin Luther’s conception of divine grac......more
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and r......more
...more
...more
...more
A Companion to the Spanish Renaissance makes a renewed case for the inclusion of Spain within broader European Renaissan......more
A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs. From the early percolation o......more
...more
...more
The Cambridge History of Terrorism provides a comprehensive reference work on terrorism from a distinctly historical per......more
Four generations of Brandon men lived and served six English Kings, the most famous being Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffo......more
Winner of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize A new history explores how one of Renaissance Italy’s ......more
This volume provides the first complete English translations of these Paraphrases since 1549, in addition to excellent i......more
...more