Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology
1st Edition
By Brendan C. Walsh
May 06, 2022
In 1598, the English clergyman John Darrell was brought before the High Commission at Lambeth Palace to face charges of fraud and counterfeiting. The ecclesiastical authorities alleged that he had "taught 4. to counterfeite" demonic possession over a ten-year period, fashioning himself into a ...
John Stearne’s Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft: Text, Context and Afterlife
1st Edition
By Scott Eaton
April 29, 2022
Between 1645-7, John Stearne led the most significant outbreak of witch-hunting in England. As accusations of witchcraft spread across East Anglia, Stearne and Matthew Hopkins were enlisted by villagers to identify and eradicate witches. After the trials finally subsided in 1648, Stearne wrote his ...
Major-General Hezekiah Haynes and the Failure of Oliver Cromwell’s Godly Revolution, 1594–1704
1st Edition
By David Farr
April 29, 2022
Hezekiah Haynes was shaped by the Puritanism of his father’s network and experienced emigration to New England as part of a community removing themselves from Charles I’s Laudianism. Returning to fight in the British Civil Wars, Haynes rose to become Cromwell’s ruler of the east of England, tasked ...
Manila, 1645
1st Edition
By Pedro Luengo
April 29, 2022
Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century. The book demonstrates the importance of addressing the history of Southeast Asia as a multi-layered framework, rather than a series of entangled histories. In doing so, Manila is ...
The Renaissance of Plotinus: The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on the Enneads
1st Edition
By Anna Corrias
April 29, 2022
Plotinus (204/5–270 C.E.) is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. However, during the Middle Ages he was almost unknown. None of the treatises constituting his Enneads were translated, and ancient translations were lost. Although scholars had indirect access to his philosophy ...
Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651–1763
1st Edition
By Alexander Murdoch
December 13, 2021
Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651–1763, explores and analyses existing narratives of Jacobitism and Unionism in late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century Scotland. Using in-depth archival research, the book questions the extent to which the currency of kinship patronage politics persisted in ...
The Economic Causes of the English Civil War: Freedom of Trade and the English Revolution
1st Edition
By George Yerby
December 13, 2021
This is a coordinated presentation of the economic basis of revolutionary change in 16th- and early-17th century England, addressing a crucial but neglected phase of historical development. It traces a transformation in the agrarian economy and substantiates the decisive scale on which this took ...
Protestant Resistance in Counterreformation Austria
1st Edition
By Peter Thaler
September 30, 2021
Protestant Resistance in Counterreformation Austria examines Austrian Protestants who actively resisted the Habsburg Counterreformation in the early seventeenth century. While a determined few decided early on that only military means could combat the growing pressure to conform, many more did not ...
Science in an Enchanted World: Philosophy and Witchcraft in the Work of Joseph Glanvill
1st Edition
By Julie Davies
September 30, 2021
Best known as the Saducismus triumphatus (1681), Joseph Glanvill’s book on witchcraft is among the most frequently published from the seventeenth century, and its arguments for the reality of diabolic witchcraft elicited passionate responses from critics and supporters alike. Davies untangles the ...
Early Modern English Noblewomen and Self-Starvation: The Skull Beneath the Skin
1st Edition
By Sasha Garwood
June 30, 2021
Early Modern English Noblewomen and Self-Starvation: The Skull Beneath the Skin is a unique exploration of why early modern noblewomen starved themselves, how they understood their behaviour, and how it was interpreted and received by their contemporaries. The first study of its kind, the book ...
Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World
1st Edition
Edited
By Lauren Beck
June 30, 2021
For centuries, historians have narrated the arrival of Europeans using terminology (discovery, invasion, conquest, and colonization) that emphasizes their agency and disempowers that of Native Americans. This book explores firsting, a discourse that privileges European and settler-colonial presence...
Incombustible Lutheran Books in Early Modern Germany
1st Edition
By Avner Shamir
June 30, 2021
This book discusses the early modern engagement with books that survived intentional or accidental fire in Lutheran Germany. From the 1620s until the middle of the eighteenth century, unburnt books became an attraction for princes, publishers, clergymen, and some laymen. To cope with an event that ...