Early Modern History 1500-1750

Pictures and Popery investigates the reception of great Renaissance works of art and wider cultural activities. It also reintroduces the accepted nature of English identity and religious attitudes into the broad historical narrative. In so doing, this book offers a genuinely new and stimulating insi..

This collection explores different approaches to contextualizing and conceptualizing the history of Pietism, particularly German-speaking Pietistic groups who migrated to the British colonies in North America during the long eighteenth century. Emerging in the seventeenth century, Pietism was closel..

At first sight, the subjects of piety and family life may appear to have little in common. Yet, as the essays in this volume make clear, there are in fact a number of shared features and points of contact that make the study of these issues a particularly fertile area for scholars of the Reformation..

Piety and the People..

Piracy and the English Government, 1616-1642, explodes the myth that England was ’a nation of pirates’, arguing that the English people were far more often victims of piracy. The costs to the economy and society resulting from piracy, which are critically examined here for the first time, reveal th..

Lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease. An in-depth study of the Venetian lazaretti in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book asks what these hospitals can tell us about early modern medicine and society...

This book investigates German plague prints and treatises published between 1473 and 1573 in order to explore the intertwined histories of plague, print, medicine, and the Reformation. It presents the broadest study of German plague treatises in any language, and traces a German reform of healing th..

In this book, narratives of the Ottoman/Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa (1600/01) act as a fulcrum around which to explore Ottoman textualities and literacy practices and the diverse roles that the various accounts had, including constructing identities, forging diplomatic alliances and legitimising ..

This edited collection showcases the contribution of women to the development of political ideas during the Enlightenment, and presents an alternative to the male-authored canon of philosophy and political thought. Recently, considerable scholarly attention has been paid to women’s literary writing ..

This collection examines the potential and limitations of spatial approaches for the political history of preindustrial Europe. Adopting a broad definition of 'political', the volume concentrates on two key questions: Where did political exchange take place? And how did spatial dimensions affect pol..

Politicians and Pamphleteers reveals the importance of print to the English political world of the Civil Wars and Interregnum period. It explores how print propaganda came to the fore during these years as public opinion became a factor of dramatically enhanced importance, fundamentally altering th..

Through its focus on the relationship between foreign and domestic politics, this book provides a new perspective on the events of George I's reign (1714-27). Based on a wealth of British and foreign primary sources, Black links diplomacy to domestic politics to show that foreign policy was a key as..