Early Modern History 1500-1750

This book explores the complex events and the increasing religious and political discord that followed the coronation of James I and which culminated in the English Civil War...

This book explores the complex events and the increasing religious and political discord that followed the coronation of James I and which culminated in the English Civil War...

The East and West Indian Mirror..

This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s. Through original sources in the State Papers and Cecil Papers, the book reconstructs the work of the Queen’s clerks and secretaries in the years when the position of principal secretary was for..

This volume collates sixteen of the more important tracts from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries dealing with the lives and misdoings of thieves, rogues and tricksters...

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Thematically organised, the volume explores how politics, religion, popular culture, the world of work and social practices fit together in an exciting world o..

The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symboli..

This book provides a collective view of the five major English chartered trading companies active during 1688-1763. Using archival and secondary sources, it fills in some of the knowledge gaps concerning the less well-studied companies, and examines interconnections between international rivalry, fi..

In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France with more than 4,000 women entering them over a 200 year period. In theory they were cut off from the outside world; however, in practice the nuns were ..

Documents published and unpublished, with appendices, including one on maps of New England 1606-1610, and one (by Philip L. Barbour) on an early vocabulary of an Algonkian language...

This study clarifies the agrarian and commercial motives behind the English Revolution, showing their connection to parliament’s constitutional changes of early 1641, when it challenged the crown at the center of the state. Commercialization was associated with a new system of beliefs, and a more ex..

This volume is a reprint of the 1928 reissue of The English Rogue, containing Head's original book and two of Kirkman's added volumes...