Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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Academic Households in Early Modern Northern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Mari Välimäki
August 08, 2025
This volume explores academic households in early modern (c. sixteenth to eighteenth century) Northern Europe, examining changing dynamics of family and gender. During the Middle Ages, Christian scholars were expected to spend their lives unwed and instead focus on educating the young. However, a ...
Paper Heritage in Italy, France, Spain and Beyond (16th to 19th Centuries): Collector Aspirations & Collection Destinies
1st Edition
Edited
By Benedetta Borello, Laura Casella
July 31, 2025
This book takes a long-term approach, spanning from the end of the 16th to the end of the 19th centuries, to explore how men and women in Italy, France, and Spain collected, displayed, and passed down various types of papers. The contributors share a core interest in the relationship between ...
The Market Space of Portuguese Cities: Urbanism and Commercial Architecture, 15th–17th Centuries
1st Edition
By Daniela Nunes Pereira
May 27, 2025
This book explores the transformation of market spaces in Portuguese cities during the intensification of trade driven by increasing profits from overseas exchanges, and how architectural structures and urban planning were directly impacted by these changes to accommodate the new economic dynamics....
The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles C. Ludington
May 06, 2025
The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux is a collection of ten essays by internationally known scholars of Irish, British, French, and Atlantic History that covers the entire period in which there was a substantial Irish colony in Bordeaux (1689–1815). Among the topics discussed are the growth and...
Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century: Volume II: Practices of Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By István M. Szijártó, Wim Blockmans, László Kontler
April 21, 2025
This volume investigates the history of the parliamentary assemblies of Sweden, Poland and Hungary in the final period of the ancien régime, offering an analysis of these three representative assemblies in a systematic comparative framework for the first time. The book studies the Polish sejm, the ...
Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration
1st Edition
By David Farr
April 14, 2025
This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608–80), Henry Ireton (1611–51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618–92). It seeks to develop our picture of their positions from ...
Swedish and Finnish Historiographies of the Swedish Realm, c. 1520–1809: Shared Past, Different Interpretations?
1st Edition
Edited
By Miia Kuha, Petri Karonen
April 14, 2025
In the early modern era, two Nordic countries that are neighbours today, Sweden and Finland, formed one realm. Yet, modern history writing has largely ignored this unity, instead developing analysis and discussion in close connection to nationalistic ideas, national politics, and processes of ...
Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th - 19th Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Koldo Trapaga Monchet, Álvaro Aragón-Ruano, Cristina Joanaz de Melo
December 18, 2024
This book sheds light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from the 14th to the 19th centuries, combining various geographical scales (local, regional and national) and different timespans (short-term and long-term ...
The Episteme of the Gallic Past: French Historical Research in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Lisa Regazzoni
December 02, 2024
This book aims to reconceive the field of knowledge of the “Gallic past” in French discourse of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by focusing on the monument as an object capable of underpinning insights into that past, the evolution of the concept, and the epistemic practices used to ...
Establishment Eschatology in England’s Reformation: Evidence from the Doctrinally-Binding Formularies of Faith, 1534–1571
1st Edition
By Tim Patrick
November 28, 2024
Exploring what the early English Protestants came to believe about the afterlife, and how they arrived at their positions, this much-needed book fills a gap in the scholarly literature. In surveying the authorised doctrinal works of the English church through the Reformation period, the progress of...
Images of Change: Visual Representations of Papal Power in Rome Following the Council of Trent
1st Edition
By Teresa Delgado-Jermann
November 28, 2024
Images of Change focuses on the visual propaganda employed by Catholic popes in Rome during the time of Tridentine Reform. In 1563, at the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church decided to reform its own use of imagery, in response to Protestant criticism. This volume examines how different ...
Houses, Families, and Cohabitation: Swedish Towns in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Dag Lindström, Göran Tagesson
November 05, 2024
This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns of cohabitation during the eighteenth century....