Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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The Bible Interpreted by Women in Early Modern Italy: Promoting Dignity and Agency
1st Edition
By Erminia Ardissino
March 27, 2026
This volume studies initial attempts by Italian women of the early modern period to assert their dignity and gender equality through skillful interpretation of the Bible. It shows how the holy text represented a means to self-awareness and self-valorization, both through the role models of female ...
Colonel Philip Jones, Oliver Cromwell and the British Revolutions in South Wales
1st Edition
By David Farr
March 24, 2026
This volume centres on Colonel Philip Jones but touches on others – most notably, Griffith Lloyd and Rowland Dawkins – who were part of his political network. These three men, all from Glamorgan and linked as kin, emerged from lives on the fringes of Welsh gentry status to imprint themselves on the...
Exploring Sixteenth-Century Italy Through the Poems of Giulio Cesare Croce
1st Edition
By Lena Breda
February 23, 2026
This volume translates the poems of Giulio Cesare Croce: a sixteenth-century street poet and singer who plied his trade on the bustling streets of Bologna. Though widely popular in his time, Croce’s work has been largely neglected by modern scholarship, and his poems remain largely untranslated ...
The British and German Worlds in an Age of Divergence (1600–1850): Ambiguous Entanglements
1st Edition
Edited
By Niels Grüne, Stefan Ehrenpreis
December 26, 2025
The question of whether Britain is "apart from or a part of Europe" (D. Abulafia) has gained significance in recent years. This book reassesses an underexplored field of early modern transnational history: the variety of ways in which connections between Britain and German-speaking Europe shaped ...
The Figure of Ganymede in Early Modern Spanish Comedias
1st Edition
By Felipe E. Rojas
December 18, 2025
Abducted by Jupiter for his beauty and made cupbearer to the gods, Ganymede has long been interpreted as an emblem of pederasty and queer desire. While critics such as James M. Saslow and Leonard Barkan have emphasized the (homo)erotic readings of this mythological figure, they have largely ...
Anglo-Prussian Relations 1701–1713: The Reciprocal Production of Status through Ceremony, Diplomacy, and War
1st Edition
By Crawford Matthews
September 29, 2025
In 1701, Frederick I crowned himself the first King in Prussia. This title required a process of royal status construction in conjunction with other European rulers, and Frederick found his most willing partners in the English monarchy. This volume examines their ceremonial and military cooperation...
Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition
1st Edition
By Jaska Kainulainen
September 29, 2025
This book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jesuit contributions to the rhetorical tradition established by Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian. It analyses the writings of those Jesuits who taught rhetoric at the College of Rome, including Pedro Juan Perpiña, (1530–66), Carlo ...
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 ...
Hospitality and the Enlightenment (Encountering China): A Conversation with Immanuel Kant and Jacques Derrida
1st Edition
By Anni Greve
July 31, 2025
With the change of power in Washington, the word ‘Enlightenment’ has taken on a dramatic topicality that no one could have wished for. The wisdom of the eighteenth century could not be more relevant. This book demonstrates a relationship between hospitality towards the foreigner and the European ...
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...