Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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A Genlis Education and Enlightenment Values: Mrs Chinnery (1766–1840) and her Children
1st Edition
By Denise Yim
October 09, 2024
Offering a unique approach to the study of late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century education, this book explores the life and motivations of a strong-minded, self-educated and enlightened English gentlewoman, Mrs Margaret Chinnery, who put Madame de Genlis’s educational ideas into practice...
Children at the Birth of Empire: British Law, Liberty, and the Global Migration of Destitute Children, c. 1607–1760
1st Edition
By Kristen McCabe Lashua
October 09, 2024
This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced migration, bound labor, and law. Britons used their nascent empire to employ thousands of destitute ...
Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Bellavitis, Valentina Sapienza
August 26, 2024
Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians; but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe. The organization, evolution and purpose of apprenticeship in Southern Europe ...
Remarriage and Stepfamilies in East Central Europe, 1600-1900
1st Edition
Edited
By Gabriella Erdélyi, András Péter Szabó
August 26, 2024
Due to high adult mortality and the custom of remarriage, stepfamilies were a common phenomenon in pre-industrial Europe. Focusing on East Central Europe, a neglected area of Western historiography, this book draws essential comparisons in terms of remarriage patterns and stepfamily life between ...
Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece
1st Edition
By Artemis Yagou
August 05, 2024
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 British and German Worlds in an Age of Divergence (1600–1850): Ambiguous Entanglements
1st Edition
Edited
By Niels Grüne, Stefan Ehrenpreis
July 22, 2024
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 ...
Interdisciplinary Edo: Toward an Integrated Approach to Early Modern Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Joshua Schlachet, William C. Hedberg
July 11, 2024
Interdisciplinary Edo brings together scholars from across the methodological spectrum to explore new approaches to innovative humanistic research on early modern Japan (1603–1868). It makes an intervention in the field by thinking across conventional disciplinary boundaries toward a holistic and ...
Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul
1st Edition
By James Dougal Fleming
June 14, 2024
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...
Anti-Jacobitism and the English People, 1714–1746
1st Edition
By Jonathan Oates
May 27, 2024
In both 1715 and 1745 there was a major military challenge in Britain to the thrones of George I and George II, posed by Jacobite supporters of the exiled Stuart claimant. This book examines the responses of those loyal to the Hanoverian dynasty, whose efforts have been ignored or disparaged ...
Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century: Volume I: Representative Institutions and Political Motivation
1st Edition
Edited
By István M. Szijártó, Wim Blockmans, László Kontler
May 27, 2024
This volume investigates the history of the representative assemblies of Sweden (the riksdag), Poland (the sejm) and Hungary (the diaeta) in the final period of the ancien régime. It concentrates on the practices and ideas of parliamentarism and constitutionalism, and examines the ideologies that ...
Royal Journeys in Early Modern Europe: Progresses, Palaces and Panache
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthony Musson, J. P. D. Cooper
May 27, 2024
Authored by a unique combination of university academics and heritage professionals, this book offers new perspectives on journeys made by Henry VIII and other monarchs, their political and social impact and the logistics required in undertaking such trips. It explores the performance of kingship ...
Spain and the Protestant Reformation: The Spanish Inquisition and the War for Europe
1st Edition
By Wayne H. Bowen
May 27, 2024
For Charles V and Philip II, both of whom expected to continue the momentum of the Reconquista into a campaign against Islam, the theology and political successes of Martin Luther and John Calvin menaced not just the possibility of a universal empire, but the survival of the Habsburg monarchy. ...