Early Modern History 1500-1750

The market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England. This study places the market town at the centre of the transformation of early-modern England, both catalysing changes in agriculture and experiencing, in a ..

The Travels of John Sanderson in the Levant,1584-1602..

The travels of Ludovico de Varthema in Egypt, Syria, Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, in Persia, India, and Ethiopia, A.D. 1503 to 1508..

The Travels of Pedro Teixeira; with his 'Kings of Harmuz', and Extracts from his 'Kings of Persia'..

The Troublesome Voyage of Captain Edward Fenton, 1582-1583..

The first part of the book is a straightforward account of the author's personal experiences. The second part is a detailed treatise on the customs of the Tupinambá, their polity, trade, religion, manufactures and warlike undertakings...

The question of who wrote Shakespeare’s plays has been the subject of furious debate among scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the facts of William Shakespeare’s life seems incompatible with the extraordinary genius of his writing.  How could a man who left school at the ag..

The Tudor Navy is a subject which is very unevenly known. The last significant general histories were written at the end of the last century. Since then much detailed research has been undertaken, particularly on the Armada, the end of Henry VIII's reign and the early Elizabethan period. As a resu..

The Ottoman Turks were an important concern of many in early modern Europe, including Martin Luther. Based on an analysis of over 300 sixteenth-century publications, this book makes important contributions to understanding the role of the Turks in the confessional conflicts and to the history of Wes..

From the early Christian era and throughout the Middle Ages, theologians exerted considerable effort to achieve a synthesis bringing together Greek cosmology and the Creation story in Genesis. In the construction of the medieval Empyrean, the dwelling place of the Blessed, Aristotle’s philosophy pro..

The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe Gonzalez in the Ship of the Line San Lorenzo, with the Frigate Santa Rosalia in Company, to Easter Island in 1770-1..

The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613..