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Objects in Conflict: The Material Culture of Intercultural Diplomacy, 1600–1830
1st Edition
Edited
By Volker Depkat, Harriet Rudolph
October 01, 2026
This book presents case studies that analyse the diplomatic uses and functions of robes, furniture, weapons, tools, jewelry, paintings, sculptures, books, food, and other material objects in early modern inter-cultural diplomatic encounters in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific world. ...
The Post-Tridentine Apostolic Nunciatures (1562–1605): A Prosopographical and Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Dorota Gregorowicz, Tomáš Černušák, Paolo Carta
September 02, 2026
This book offers the first comprehensive prosopographical and comparative study of permanent apostolic nunciatures in post-Tridentine Europe (1562–1605), substantially extending earlier chronological repertories. During this period of institutional reconfiguration, apostolic nuncios operated at ...
Britain under the Shadow of Arthur: The Arthurian Myth as a Political Theory of Empire (1461–1612)
1st Edition
By Julián González de León Heiblum
September 01, 2026
Few myths are as famous as Arthur’s, and few empires rival the reach of the British Empire. Yet the two share a history: from the Wars of the Roses to the consolidation of James I’s rule, the idea of a British Empire developed in conversation with the Arthurian myth. The vision of a British ...
Children and Young People in Eighteenth-Century Malta, ca. 1740 to 1798
1st Edition
By Rakele Fiott
September 01, 2026
Set within the complex social world of Hospitaller Malta, this book explores how early modern Mediterranean childhood was understood, regulated and experienced. It situates Maltese young people within broader historiographical debates while foregrounding the island’s distinctive archival richness. ...
Roman Ambitions: Bishop Thomas James at the Renaissance Papal Court
1st Edition
By Diane E. Booton
August 25, 2026
Roman Ambitions explores papal politics and humanist culture through the biographical framework of Thomas James (d. 1504), a Breton cleric who spent nearly two decades in Rome. The Italian Wars (1494–98) waged by King Charles VIII are often considered a seminal turning point in the reception of ...
Diplomacy and the Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy: The missions of Bernardino de Rebolledo and Antonio Pimentel in Denmark and Sweden, 1648 - 1660
1st Edition
By Enrique J. Corredera Nilsson
July 31, 2026
This book explores the resilience of the Spanish monarchy by uncovering the practices that sustained Philip IV’s monarchy as a major diplomatic power between 1648 and 1660. Adopting an innovative approach, the study does not evaluate whether the resilience of the Spanish monarchy was a success or a...
Soldiers and Migrants: Foreign Mercenaries in the Principality of Transylvania (1541-1690)
1st Edition
By Florin Nicolae Ardelean
June 23, 2026
This book provides a detailed account of foreigners who performed military service in the Principality of Transylvania over almost one-and-a-half centuries. It explores their social and cultural background, their motivation for seeking employment in these parts of the continent and their ...
Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece
1st Edition
By Artemis Yagou
June 22, 2026
This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources. A printed book, a wine jug, an ecclesiastical embroidery, and a pocket watch are used as entry points to examine the consumer ...
The Female Convents of Lisbon, 1640 to 1750
1st Edition
By Ben James
June 18, 2026
Female convents in early modern Lisbon were important economic, cultural, social and even political spaces, which housed generations of elite women. Until now, they have received much less attention than comparable institutions across the early modern Roman Catholic world. This book begins to tell ...
Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul
1st Edition
By James Dougal Fleming
May 22, 2026
In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient...
Houses, Families, and Cohabitation: Swedish Towns in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Dag Lindström, Göran Tagesson
May 21, 2026
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....
Exploring Sixteenth-Century Italy Through the Poems of Giulio Cesare Croce
1st Edition
By Lena Breda
April 20, 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 ...