Reframes Cabot and Columbus within centuries of Atlantic trade and exploration. What did John Cabot and Christopher Columbus truly achieve—and what did they inherit? In this compelling reassessment, Lydia Towns traces their voyage...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1983, this book discusses the emergence of a new concept of the state as a substantive entity and the source of the rulers authority over his subjects. It maintains that such a concept emerged in French political thought of t...Loe edasi...
This open access book examines intelligence organization in sixteenth-century Sweden. The specific aim is to examine the intelligence networks organized in Sweden during the reigns of Gustav Vasa, Erik XIV and Johan III. The study explores the ope...Loe edasi...
The Revolution in Time explores the idea that people in Western Europe changed the way they thought about the concept of time over the early modern period, by examining reactions to the 1688-1689 revolution in England. The study exam...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: British Museum Press, ISBN-13: 9780861592388)
In 1994, the remains of a 17th-century shipwreck were discovered by divers off Salcombe Bay. The finds consisted of 400 gold coins of the Sa’dian sharifs of Morocco in addition to ingots, jewellery as well as other items including Dutch pewter and po...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009612258)
Offering the first in-depth study of religious violence in seventeenth-century Ireland, this book explores how religious division became the dominant force in unrest. With particular focus on the cataclysmic 1641 Rebellion, Joan Redmond examines how...Loe edasi...
John-Paul Ghobrial, Michael A Reynolds, Christian C Sahner, Jack Tannous
Sari: Edinburgh Studies in Middle Eastern Christianity
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399524834)
Challenges the field of Middle Eastern studies by imagining the history of the region from the perspective of its Christian inhabitants....Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009703710)
Now long-forgotten, the brain disease frenzy was frightening, not just because it killed its sufferers, but because it changed them beyond recognition. This book offers a fresh perspective on early modern understandings of mental illness, and deep...Loe edasi...
Now long-forgotten, the brain disease frenzy was frightening, not just because it killed its sufferers, but because it changed them beyond recognition. This book offers a fresh perspective on early modern understandings of mental illness, and deep...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9798880704682)
The Ryukyu islands have been inhabited by humans for over 30,000 years. Their modern population, however, did not come from stone-age ancestors, nor did distinctive forms of Ryukyuan culture, such as sacred groves or stone-walled castles, emerge fro...Loe edasi...
Calvin and Perception in Early Modern Visual Culture is the first monograph to return John Calvins Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559) to its original visual culture. AnnMarie Bridges draws on early modern optics, art theory, rhetoric, psyc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009562041)
Calvin and Perception in Early Modern Visual Culture is the first monograph to return John Calvins Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559) to its original visual culture. AnnMarie Bridges draws on early modern optics, art theory, rhetoric, psyc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Church Publishing Inc, ISBN-13: 9781640658592)
A provocative exploration of the life of Anne Boleyn through a feminist lens, examining her influence on the reformation and relevance for a new generation.In a story that has intrigued readers for generations this Queen of England...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: James Clarke & Co Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780227180990)
The he descended into hell phrase of the Apostles Creed caused a major controversy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, yet this debate has been largely overlooked in modern scholarship. Camlin reapproaches the descensus clause in the conte...Loe edasi...
This collection of nine essays presents new research exploring the significance and forms of labour involved in food production across the early modern world from c. 1500 to 1800. This collection of nine essays presents new research...Loe edasi...
Refugees have existed since ancient times, but it was in the early modern era that they were first recognized as a social category. This open access book maps the invention of the refugee and uncovers their impact on local, regional, and tr...Loe edasi...
The prize-winning author uncovers the revelatory global story of Tudor and Stuart England - told through the merchants, migrants, sailors, travellers and spies who helped forge a nation....Loe edasi...
Sari: Proceedings of the Privy Council of Elizabeth I
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Boydell Press, ISBN-13: 9781843836537)
By 1540, the Privy Council had been established as the Crowns principal policy-making and executive arm. Under the later Tudors, it governed England on the sovereigns behalf, functioning as an elite corporate board, and imbued with a sense of colle...Loe edasi...
The New York Times bestselling author of the Six Tudor Queens series explores the dramatic, mysterious life of Katherine Carey, niece of Anne Boleyn, in this surprising novel that delves into one of the deepest secrets of Henry VIIIs court...Loe edasi...
