Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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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...
Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace
1st Edition
Edited
By Kristin M.S. Bezio, Scott Oldenburg
May 31, 2023
Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between the geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice. By examining the religiously motivated markets and marketplace practices in the sixteenth and ...
Seventeenth Century Practical Mathematics: Navigation by Greenvill Collins
1st Edition
By Paul Hughes
May 31, 2023
This exciting Greenvill Collins biography is about seventeenth century navigation, focusing for the first time on mathematics practised at sea. This monograph argues the Restoration kings’, Charles II and James II, promotion of cartography for both strategy and trade. It is aimed at the academic, ...
Artistic and Political Patronage in Early Stuart England: The Career of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, 1580-1630
1st Edition
By Brian O'Farrell
January 09, 2023
Artistic and Political Patronage in Early Stuart England explores the remarkable life and career of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke. Pembroke was one of the most influential aristocrats during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I. He was a great patron, a prominent politician ...
Bringing the People Back In: State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Knut Dørum, Mats Hallenberg, Kimmo Katajala
January 09, 2023
The formation of states in early modern Europe has long been an important topic for historical analysis. Traditionally, the political and military struggles of kings and rulers were the favoured object of study for academic historians. This book highlights new historical research from Europe’s ...
Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500–1630
1st Edition
Edited
By Tracey A. Sowerby, Christopher Markiewicz
January 09, 2023
In the sixteenth century, the Ottoman court in Constantinople emerged as the axial centre of early modern diplomacy in Eurasia. Diplomatic Cultures at the Ottoman Court, c.1500-1630 takes a unique approach to diplomatic relations by focusing on how diplomacy was conducted and diplomatic ...
William the Silent and the Dutch Revolt: Comparative Starting Points and Triggering of Insurgencies
1st Edition
By Nick Ridley
January 09, 2023
William the Silent and the Dutch Revolt examines the first stages of the Dutch struggle against Spanish rule during the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The book analyses the causes of growing discontent in the Netherlands and the various stages of the revolt, focusing on the key ...
The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain
1st Edition
By Joseph J. Krulder
December 19, 2022
According to Voltaire's Candide, Admiral John Byng's 1757 execution went forward to 'encourage the others'. Of course, the story is more complicated. This microhistorical account upon a macro-event presents an updated, revisionist, and detailed account of a dark chapter in British naval&...
Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes
1st Edition
By Mehmet Karabela
September 26, 2022
Early modern Protestant scholars closely engaged with Islamic thought in more ways than is usually recognized. Among Protestants, Lutheran scholars distinguished themselves as the most invested in the study of Islam and Muslim culture. Mehmet Karabela brings the neglected voices of post-Reformation...
Negotiating Exclusion in Early Modern England, 1550–1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Naomi Pullin, Kathryn Woods
September 26, 2022
This edited volume examines how individuals and communities defined and negotiated the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion in England between 1550 and 1800. It aims to uncover how men, women, and children from a wide range of social and religious backgrounds experienced and enacted exclusion...
The Scramble for Italy: Continuity and Change in the Italian Wars, 1494-1559
1st Edition
By Idan Sherer
August 29, 2022
The Scramble for Italy offers fresh insights on the set of conflicts known as the Italian Wars of 1494-1559. The aim of this book is to explore the trends of continuity and change that characterized the sixteenth century in order to demonstrate the significance of the Italian Wars as an especially ...
From Classical to Modern Republicanism: Reflections on England, Scotland, America, and France
1st Edition
By Mark Hulliung
August 01, 2022
In 1955 Louis Hartz published a volume titled The Liberal Tradition in America, in which he argued that liberalism was the one and only American tradition. Since then scholars of New Left and neoconservative persuasion have offered an alternative account based on the notion that the civic notions ...