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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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