Early Modern History 1500-1750

Further English Voyages to Spanish America, 1583-1594..

Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea, 1559-1565..

In this volume, the theme of early-modern European urban migration is explored through a series of historical contexts. Each chapter demonstrates how the presence of diverse and often temporary groups of migrants was a core feature of everyday urban life, and explores the ways in which city authorit..

In this volume, the theme of early-modern European urban migration is explored through a series of historical contexts. Each chapter demonstrates how the presence of diverse and often temporary groups of migrants was a core feature of everyday urban life, and explores the ways in which city authorit..

Gender and Political Culture 1400-1800 investigates the gendered nature of political culture across early modern Europe by exploring the relationship between gender, power, and political authority and influence. This collection offers a rethinking of what constituted ‘politics’ and a reconsideration..

In 1744, Princess Louisa Ulrika of Prussia married Adolf Friedrich of Holstein-Gottorp, crown prince of Sweden, and seven years later, following her husband’s accession to the throne, she became queen consort of Sweden. This book traces her life and experiences, showing how she took an active role i..

This text brings together eleven important pieces by Merry Wiesner, several of them previously unpublished, on three major areas in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, law and work. The final chapter, specially written for this volume addresses three fundamental question..

This text brings together eleven important pieces by Merry Wiesner, several of them previously unpublished, on three major areas in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion, law and work. The final chapter, specially written for this volume addresses three fundamental question..

How do gender and power relationships affect the expression of family, House and dynastic identities? The present study develops a new vision of power as a gendered concept, using a case study of the House of Orange-Nassau whose extensive visual, material and archival sources from both male and fema..

Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century..

Exploring the reasons for a flurry of geographical works in the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century, this study analyzes how cartographers, travelers, astrologers, historians and naval captains promoted their vision of the world and the centrality of the Ottoman Empire in it. It proposes a new c..

The transformation of the medieval European image of the world in the period following the Great Discoveries of the 15th and 16th centuries is the subject of this volume. The first studies deal specifically with the emergence of the concept of the terraqueous globe. In the following pieces Dr Randle..