Early Modern History 1500-1750

Women, Enlightenment and Catholicism explores the uncharted territory of women’s religious Enlightenment. Offering biographical insights into the social and cultural context of female Enlighteners it is ideal reading for scholars and students of Enlightenment history, early modern religion, and earl..

This is the first book to investigate systematically the roles of Church and State in stabilising moral order after the Catholic Reform. It focuses on Venice, examining how civil and ecclesiastical courts dealt with conflicts related to marriage and sex, in an effort to enforce their vision of a mo..

In this volume, ten leading scholars of early modern religion explore the experience of parish worship in England during the Reformation and the century that followed it. Including a variety of disciplinary approaches, the contributors demonstrate how parish worship in this period was of critical th..

Writing a New France, 1604-1632 focuses on French reactions to contact with the New World. Through key early-modern travel and missionary accounts, the author traces a French "rewriting of the self" in America. This study sheds fresh light on a significant moment in French colonial history while pr..

Explores the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them...

Explores the relationship between the growth in popular literacy and the development of new readerships and the authors addressing them...

Examining a range of seventeenth century literature, including travel narratives, promotional literature, plays, poetry and journals, this book examines the ways in which the geography and nature of the new colonies of North America were represented, both by the settlers themselves and commentators ..

In this volume scholars from an array of different disciplines have embraced what biography can offer them, expanding the remit of biography from people to things, tracing the 'life' of their chosen object from creation to use, to disposal, to rediscovery. The book explores the diversity of biograph..

Re-thinking the roles played by mathematics and cartography in the English seventeenth century, this book explores the unstable currency of mathematics at the time, and traces it through a wide variety of literary and scientific texts...

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‘Practical Divinity’..