Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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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...
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&...