Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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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 ...
Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition
1st Edition
By Jaska Kainulainen
February 27, 2024
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 ...
Anglo-Prussian Relations 1701–1713: The Reciprocal Production of Status through Ceremony, Diplomacy, and War
1st Edition
By Crawford Matthews
February 20, 2024
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...
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 ...
The Trial of Giordano Bruno
1st Edition
By Germano Maifreda
January 29, 2024
In 1600, Giordano Bruno, one of the leading intellectuals of the Renaissance, was burned at the stake on the charge of heresy by the Roman Inquisition. He is remembered primarily for his cosmological theories, particularly that the universe was infinite with the Earth not being at its centre. Today...
Maurits of Nassau and the Survival of the Dutch Revolt: Comparative Insurgences
1st Edition
By Nick Ridley
November 27, 2023
This book describes the crucial period in the monumental eighty-year Dutch struggle against the Spanish Empire, through which a small nation gained its independence from one of the mightiest European powers. Dr. Ridley shows how even though the Dutch Revolt was at its lowest point, Maurits of ...
Deposing Monarchs: Domestic Conflict and State Formation, 1500-1700
1st Edition
By Cathleen Sarti
September 25, 2023
Deposing Monarchs analyses depositions in Northern Europe between 1500 and 1700 as a type of frequent political conflict which allows to present new ideas on early modern state formation, monarchy, and the conventions of royal rulership. The book revises earlier conceptualizations of depositions ...
Losing Face: Shame, Society and the Self in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos
September 25, 2023
This book is a study of shame in English society in the two centuries between c.1550 and c.1750, demonstrating the ubiquity and powerful hold it had on contemporaries over the entire era. Using insights drawn from the social sciences, the book investigates multiple meanings and manifestations of ...
The Politics of Obscenity in the Age of the Gutenberg Revolution: Obscene Means in Early Modern French and European Print Culture and Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Frei, Nelly Labère
September 25, 2023
What does obscene mean? What does it have to say about the means through which meaning is produced and received in literary, artistic and, more broadly, social acts of representation and interaction? Early modern France and Europe faced these questions not only in regard to the political, religious...