Early Modern History 1500-1750

This work is concerned with the activities of the Florentine merchants active in Rome during the mid-sixteenth century, and their connections and relations with the Apostolic Chamber, particularly during the pontificate of Pope Paul III...

Across Europe, the parish church has stood for centuries at the centre of local communities. In spite of the importance of the parish church, these buildings have generally not received the same attention from historians as non-parochial places of worship. This collection of essays redresses this ba..

John Day (1522-1584) is generally acknowledged to be the foremost English printer of the latter sixteenth-century. Yet despite his legacy, this book is the first full-length study to investigate Day's life and legacy. The study sets Day in the context of the sixteenth-century printing industry, exam..

This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. It shows how autopsies informed the understanding of pathology of those involved, from medical practitioners' debates to laypeople’s experi..

This book analyzes the organization of the Venetian military structure in the Mainland Dominion in the Early Modern Period, particularly from the point of view of the everyday management of the army by rural communities. It explains the evolution of the Venetian military structure using an economic ..

The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc's study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this descri..

This volume is comprised of thirteen essays that explore penitential teachings and practices from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries in Western Europe and its colonies. Together the essays reveal that in this period, penitence was an increasingly important force shaping the indivi..

Penury into Plenty demonstrates that the investigation of past ecological consciousness and environmental change is vital for understanding contemporary concerns. By drawing upon environmental, economic, scientific and literary history and theory, this book examines the socio-economic and ecological..

Whilst there has been much recent scholarly work on retailing during the early-modern period, much less is known about how people at the time perceived retailing. Centred around the general theme of perceptions, this book addresses this gap in our knowledge, looking at a different aspect of consumpt..

Perspectives on English Revolutionary Republicanism takes stock of developments in the scholarship of seventeenth-century English republicanism by looking at the movements that have shaped the field over the decades: the linguistic turn, the cultural turn and the religious turn. The contributors to ..

Peter Floris, his Voyage to the East Indies in the Globe, 1611-1615..

This book looks at the key issues of Peter the Great's reign: territorial expanion and domestic reform. It also analyses the controversy surrounding his reputation: does he deserve the title 'Great.', was he enlightened or barbaric?..