Early Modern History 1500-1750

The Hawkins' Voyages during the Reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and James I..

The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia..

The Historie of Travell into Virginia Britania (1612), by William Strachey, gent..

The account relating to 1609-1622 by Nathaniel Butler, edited, from a MS. in the Sloane Collection, British Museum. Additional documents include a note on constitutional procedure at the first General Assembly held at St George's, 1 August 1620. The supplementary material consists of the 1882 annual..

Roger North (1651-1734) is known today as a biographer and writer on music, architecture and estate management. Yet his writings, including thousands of pages still in manuscript, also contain critical reflections about intellectual and social changes taking place in England. Eschewing the 'Whig' st..

The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France provides the first comprehensive comparison of the printed debates over the superiority or inferiority of woman - the Querelle des femmes - and the dignity and misery of man, revealing the striking overlap between them as they evolved into the 1600s. ..

This book is about a single image - John Evelyn's frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal-Society of London (1667). Providing a full analysis of the image in its Royal Society setting and the wider world of early-modern science, the book first considers the overall iconography of the ima..

The Impact of the English Civil War on the Economy of London, 1642-50 examines every sector of London’s economy as it changed during the English Civil War. It also looks closely at the impact of war on the major pillars of the London economy, namely London’s role in external and internal trade, and ..

Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of Reformation studies. High-level research has tended to be confined within specific geographical, confessional or chronological boundaries. By bringing together scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this volume aims to counteract this centrif..

Drawing on a vast store of primary sources - particularly those of the Inquisition - this book recreates the social fabric of Venice between 1640 and 1740. It brings to life a wealth of minor figures who inhabited the city and fostered ideas of dissent, unbelief and atheism in the teeth of the Count..

Drawing on a vast store of primary sources - particularly those of the Inquisition - this book recreates the social fabric of Venice between 1640 and 1740. It brings to life a wealth of minor figures who inhabited the city and fostered ideas of dissent, unbelief and atheism in the teeth of the Count..

The Italian Wars of 1494-1559, in which France and Spain battled for control of the Italian peninsula, had a major impact on the whole of Renaissance Europe.  This important text combines analysis of developments in military strategy and the tactical use of firearms with consideration of the social ..