Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700 books

This book offers a new insight into one of the most interesting and long-lived institutions known to historians...  Read More >>

William of Moerbeke was a prolific medieval translator of Aristotle and other ancient philosophical and scientific...  Read More >>

Authored by a unique combination of university academics and heritage professionals this book offers new perspectives...  Read More >>

This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the...  Read More >>

"Pan’gye surok (or ""Pan’gye’s Random Jottings"") was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyŏngwŏn(1622-1673),...  Read More >>

The question of the impact of slavery has gained new importance in debates on the history of economic development,...  Read More >>

Rethinking Catholicism in Renaissance Spain claims that theology and canon law were decisive for shaping ideas,...  Read More >>

Of interest to linguists, literary scholars and historians, this interdisciplinary volume examines the shifting...  Read More >>

This book is devoted to the inhabitants of the Spanish-Portuguese borderlands during the Early Modern Period.  Read More >>

This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment,...  Read More >>

This book examines Cardinal Ridolfi and his court in order to understand the extent to which cardinalate courts...  Read More >>

Sumérjase en la épica saga del dominio mundial en El Imperio británico. En este fascinante viaje, explorará cómo...  Read More >>

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Joanna of Castile's destiny will take her over land and sea to marry a man she has never met. Disaster, right? Not...  Read More >>

The first biography devoted to an in-depth examination of the life and conflicted career of Sir James Wright (1716-1785)....  Read More >>

"La ""scoperta"" di un ex voto al ""Museo degli Ex-Voto e della Devozione popolare Giuseppe Gabetti"" di Dogliani...  Read More >>

This volume collects together a wide selection of primary texts that explain the processes behind the enormous changes...  Read More >>

The book operates on the premises that the centuries preceding the colonial conquest of India, which in scholarship...  Read More >>

In Shakespeare's England, Margaret chafes against the bindings of obedience until her abduction by a pirate opens...  Read More >>

The eldest daughter of Romeo and Juliet rejects the betrothal planned by her parents and tries to find the groom-to-be...  Read More >>

A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to counterfeiting,...  Read More >>

Why did England’s one experiment in republican rule fail?  Read More >>

This book brings together a range of methodological approaches to highlight royal and elite sexualities the sexualities...  Read More >>

The definitive bibliographical study of the Elizabethan travel writer Richard Hakluyt and his early works.  Read More >>

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