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Women of letters
Gender, writing and the life of the mind in early modern England
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the...
by Brian Quintrell
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Draws on recent interpretations of the period to re-evaluate Charles I's reign. This work analyses the reign of Charles I against the background of his father's legacy and the problems he inherited. The study assesses Charles's own methods and style of government, suggesting that these were mainly to blame for the difficulties he encounted.
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Reproducing the English Lyric from Tottel to Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
In the latter half of the sixteenth century, English poets and printers experimented widely with a new literary format, the printed collection of lyric poetry. They not only investigated the possibilities of working with a new medium, but also wrote metaphors of human reproduction directly into their...
Empire of Sentiment
The Death of Livingstone and the Myth of Victorian Imperialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This is the first emotional history of the British Empire. Joanna Lewis explores how David Livingstone's death tied together British imperialism and Victorian humanitarianism and inserted it into popular culture. Sacrifice and death; Superman like heroism; the devotion of Africans; the cruelty of...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This collection offers readers a timely encounter with the historical experience of people adapting to a pandemic emergency and the corresponding narrative representation of that crisis, as early modern writers transformed the plague into literature. The essays examine the impact of the plague on...
A History of the Netherlands
From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Books offering an overview of Dutch history are few and far between in the English-speaking world. Friso Wielenga's A History of the Netherlands: From the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day fills this gap. It offers a modern, integrated outline of Dutch history from the period in which the country...
Ireland, France, and the Atlantic in a Time of War
Reflections on the Bordeaux–Dublin Letters, 1757
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
In March 1757 – early in the Seven Years’ War – a British privateer intercepted an Irish ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, as it returned home from Bordeaux with a cargo of wine and French luxury goods. Amongst the cargo seized were 125 letters from members of the Irish expatriate community,...
Colonial Botany
Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
In the early modern world, botany was big science and big business, critical to Europe's national and trade ambitions. Tracing the dynamic relationships among plants, peoples, states, and economies over the course of three centuries, this collection of essays offers a lively challenge to a historiography...
Exorcism and Its Texts
Subjectivity in Early Modern Literature of England and Spain
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Exorcism and demonic possession appear as recurrent motifs in early modern Spanish and English literatures. In Exorcism and Its Texts, Hilaire Kallendorf demonstrates how this 'infection' was represented in some thirty works of literature by fifteen different authors, ranging from canonical classics...
The Legacy of the French Revolutionary Wars
The Nation-in-Arms in French Republican Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2009
A major contribution to the study of collective identity and memory in France, this book examines a French republican myth: the belief that the nation can be adequately defended only by its own citizens, in the manner of the French revolutionaries of 1793. Alan Forrest examines the image of the citizen...
On the Origins of Global History
Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 28 November 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
How does one think of history on a world scale? Should one turn to the intellectuals of the past or the historians of the present? Universal history as it was practised from Antiquity started to change from the sixteenth century in varied contexts, from East Asia to Spanish America. Applying his extensive...
by Jane P. Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The dark side of early modern European culture could be deemed equal in historical significance to Christianity based on the hundreds of books that were printed about the topic between 1400 and 1700. Famous writers and artists like William Shakespeare and Albrecht Dürer depicted the dark side in...
by Beat Kümin, Dr Christopher Kissane, Professor Brian Cowan
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Using a three-part structure focused on the major historical subjects of the Inquisition, the Reformation and witchcraft, Christopher Kissane examines the relationship between food and religion in early modern Europe.
Food, Religion and Communities in Early Modern Europe employs three key case...
Social Change and Continuity
England 1550-1750
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Barry Coward has revised his wide-ranging text which outlines the major social changes that occurred in England in the two hundred years after the Reformation. He examines the religious and intellectual changes resulting from revolutionary pressures, as well as considering the impact of rapid inflation...