Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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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 ...
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. ...
The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Lee, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
May 27, 2024
This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494–c.1559. Far from being a purely modern phenomenon, regime change was a common feature of life in Renaissance Italy – no more so than during the Italian Wars (1494–1559). During those turbulent years, ...
The Eye of the Crown: The Development and Evolution of the Elizabethan Secret Service
1st Edition
By Kristin M.S. Bezio
May 27, 2024
This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion of professional agents and spies in the early modern English government. In the government’s attempts to control religious practices, wage war, and expand their mercantile ...
Brokerage and Networks in London’s Global World: Kinship, Commerce and Communities through the experience of John Blackwell
1st Edition
By David Farr
January 29, 2024
The Londoner John Blackwell (1624-1701), shaped by his parents’ Puritanism and merchant interests of his iconoclast father, became one of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army captains. Working with his father in Parliament’s financial administration both supported the regicide and benefitted ...
The Early Modern State: Drivers, Beneficiaries and Discontents: Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Marjolein 't Hart
1st Edition
Edited
By Pepijn Brandon, Lex Heerma van Voss, Annemieke Romein
January 29, 2024
In the course of the early modern period, the capacity of European states to raise finances, wage wars, subject their own and far away populations, and exert bureaucratic power over a variety of areas of social life increased dramatically. Nevertheless, these changes were far less absolute and ...
The Making of the Modern Corporation: The Casa di San Giorgio and its Legacy (1446-1720)
1st Edition
By Carlo Taviani
January 29, 2024
This book traces the origins of a financial institution, the modern corporation, in Genoa and reconstructs its diffusion in England, the Netherlands, and France. At its inception, the Casa di San Giorgio (1407–1805) was entrusted with managing the public debt in Genoa. Over time, it took on powers ...