Early Modern History 1500-1750

The historiography of the Italian Renaissance has been much studied, but generally in the context of a few key figures. Much less appreciated is the extent of the enthusiasm for the subject in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the subject was "discovered" by travellers and men and women of let..

Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe explores the productive relationships between violence and emotions in the early modern period, and how they were created, supported and disseminated through bodies and texts. It examines the purposes for which violence and emotional states functioned – i..

Vittoria Colonna was one of the best known and most highly celebrated female poets of the Italian Renaissance. She was best known for her skill in constructing tightly controlled and beautifully modulated Petrarchan sonnets. Colonna was also deeply involved with groups of reformers in Italy before ..

Describes and explains the course of the series of struggles for power among the states surrounding the Baltic between the middle of the sixteenth and end of the eighteenth century...

Describes and explains the course of the series of struggles for power among the states surrounding the Baltic between the middle of the sixteenth and end of the eighteenth century...

This volume gauges the importance of religious influences on foreign policy and war after the conclusion of the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648. It questions the traditional view that Westphalia was a watershed event in international relations that ended wars of religi..

The historical study of war in the Spain of Philip II forms the starting point for the articles in this volume. They approach this not so much from a military angle, but as a problem of organization, procurement and finance. In a sense, the articles represent an assessment of the effectiveness of ..

The book addresses the role of the Huguenots as an international force both before and after the infamous Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 - an overlooked aspect of Early Modern soldiering. The Huguenots were of great importance internationally in armies and this book seeks to redress that ..

The book addresses the role of the Huguenots as an international force both before and after the infamous Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 - an overlooked aspect of Early Modern soldiering. The Huguenots were of great importance internationally in armies and this book seeks to redress that ..

Exploring the history and theories of political thought of international relations in the seventeenth century, this volume addresses one of the great paradoxes of post-medieval Europe: why instead of bringing peace to a disorganised and violent world, modernity instead produced a seemingly endless s..

This book examines the politics of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the crucial period between the Russian tsar Peter the Great’s victory over Sweden at the battle of Poltava and the 1717 Silent Sejm, the Polish-Lithuanian parliament’s session which is traditionally seen as responsible for openin..

As the first book-length study of waterborne festivities in Renaissance and early modern Europe, this collection of essays draws on a rich array of sources, many previously un-researched, to explore aspects of scenography, choreography, music, fashion, painting, sculpture, architecture, stage - and ..