Renaissance category: 1000 books
by Cedric C. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Cedric C. Brown combines the study of literature and social history in order to recognize the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the obviously instrumental, and...
Pathology in Practice
Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Post-mortems may have become a staple of our TV viewing, but the long history of this practice is still little known. This book provides a fresh account of the dissections that took place across early modern Europe on those who had died of a disease or in unclear circumstances. Drawing on different...
Absolute monarchy on the frontiers
Louis XIV’s military occupations of Lorraine and Savoy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
French territorial ambitions and consequent military activity during the reign of Louis XIV ensured that a number of territories bordering on France were subject to military occupation for strategic reasons from the 1660s onwards. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study presents the occupation...
Strangers Nowhere in the World
The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
The mingling of aristocrats and commoners in a southern French city, the jostling of foreigners in stock markets across northern and western Europe, the club gatherings in Paris and London of genteel naturalists busily distilling plants or making air pumps, the ritual fraternizing of "brothers"...
by Barbara Fuchs, Emily Weissbourd
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires. Bringing together studies of English, Spanish, Italian, and Ottoman literature and cultural artifacts, the volume...
Tudor and Stuart Seafarers
The Emergence of a Maritime Nation, 1485-1707
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2018
Tudor and Stuart Seafarers tells the compelling story of how a small island positioned on the edge of Europe transformed itself into the world's leading maritime power. In 1485, England was an inward-looking country, its priorities largely domestic and European. Over the subsequent two centuries,...
The Ovidian Vogue
Literary Fashion and Imitative Practice in Late Elizabethan England
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
The Roman poet Ovid was one of the most-imitated classical writers of the Elizabethan age and a touchstone for generations of English writers. In The Ovidian Vogue, Daniel Moss argues that poets appropriated Ovid not just to connect with the ancient past but also to communicate and compete within...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Volume 5 of The New Cambridge History of Islam examines the history of Muslim societies from 1800 to the present. Francis Robinson, a leading historian of Islam, has brought together a team of scholars with a broad range of expertise to explore how Muslims responded to the challenges of Western conquest...
by John A F Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This text surveys all aspects of the Church's structure, role and relationship with the laity in the period 1485 to 1529. The picture that emerges is far from the corruption and instability of conventional wisdom and the varied sources also provide a vivid insight into Tudor life.
Chaplains in early modern England
Patronage, literature and religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
A pioneering collaboration between leading early modern historians and literary scholars. Chapters by Kenneth Fincham, David Crankshaw and Mary Morrissey analyse the legal structures governing the appointment and remit of chaplains and map their roles and functions within early modern England.
Monarchy Transformed
Princes and their Elites in Early Modern Western Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This decisive contribution to the long-running debate about the dynamics of state formation and elite transformation in early modern Europe examines the new monarchies that emerged during the course of the 'long seventeenth century'. It argues that the players surviving the power struggles of this...
Magic in the Cloister
Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries a group of monks with occult interests donated what became a remarkable collection of more than thirty magic texts to the library of the Benedictine abbey of St. Augustine's in Canterbury. The monks collected texts that provided positive justifications...
Everyday Life in Tudor London
Life in the City of Thomas Cromwell, William Shakespeare & Anne Boleyn
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Tudor London was a vibrant capital city, the very hub of English cultural and political life. The thriving metropolis had a strong royal presence, at the long established Tower of London and Westminster, and later at the palaces of Whitehall, Bridewell and St James’s, built by Henry VIII to host...
John Evelyn
A Life of Domesticity
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
The great English writer and gardener John Evelyn (1620–1706) kept a diary all his life. Today, this diary is considered an invaluable source of information on more than fifty years of social, cultural, religious, and political life in seventeenth-century England. Evelyn’s work is often overshadowed...