Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century: When Europe Lost Its Fear of Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Richter, Thomas Maissen, Manuela Albertone
June 30, 2021
Societies perceive "Reform" or "Reforms" as substantial changes and significant breaks which must be well-justified. The Enlightenment brought forth the idea that the future was uncertain and could be shaped by human beings. This gave the concept of reform a new character and new fields of ...
Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean: 1550-1810
1st Edition
Edited
By Mario Klarer
June 30, 2021
Piracy and Captivity in the Mediterranean explores the early modern genre of European Barbary Coast captivity narratives from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. During this period, the Mediterranean Sea was the setting of large-scale corsairing that resulted in the capture or enslavement of ...
Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment: Atheist’s Progress
1st Edition
By Eric MacPhail
June 30, 2021
This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The main ...
Social and Cultural Relations in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Microhistories
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Butterwick, Wioletta Pawlikowska
June 30, 2021
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was one of the largest and most linguistically, ethnically and religiously diverse polities in late medieval and early modern Europe. In the mid-1380s the Grand Duchy of Lithuania entered into a long process of union with the Kingdom of Poland. Since the destruction of ...
Spain, Rumor, and Anti-Catholicism in Mid-Jacobean England: The Palatine Match, Cleves, and the Armada Scares of 1612-1613 and 1614
1st Edition
By Calvin F. Senning
June 30, 2021
Geoffrey Parker has remarked that the Spanish Armada, though a disastrous defeat, was a considerable psychological success. Deep into the seventeenth century the specter of a returning armada haunted England. Twice in the middle of James I’s reign alarms occurred. One grew out of the king’s plan, ...
The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism: The Global Reach of the Dutch Arms Trade, Warfare and Mercenaries in the Seventeenth Century
1st Edition
By Kees Boterbloem
June 30, 2021
This book shows how the Dutch accumulation of great wealth was closely linked to their involvement in warfare. By charting Dutch activity across the globe, it explores Dutch participation in the international arms trade, and in wars both at home and abroad. In doing so, it ponders the issue of how ...
The Peace of Augsburg and the Meckhart Confession: Moderate Religion in an Age of Militancy
1st Edition
By Adam Glen Hough
June 30, 2021
Taking the religiously diverse city of Augsburg as its focus, this book explores the underappreciated role of local clergy in mediating and interpreting the Peace of Augsburg in the decades following its 1555 enactment, focusing on the efforts of the preacher Johann Meckhart and his heirs in ...
The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies: Barbarism and Political Order
1st Edition
By Natsuko Matsumori
June 30, 2021
The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies explores the significance of Salamancans, such as Vitoria and Soto, and related thinkers, such as Las Casas and Sepúlveda, in the formation of the early modern political order. It also analyses early modern understandings of political order, with...
The Turks and Islam in Reformation Germany
1st Edition
By Gregory J. Miller
June 30, 2021
Although their role is often neglected in standard historical narratives of the Reformation, the Ottoman Turks were an important concern of many leading thinkers in early modern Germany, including Martin Luther. In the minds of many, the Turks formed a fearsome, crescent-shaped horizon that ...
The English Woollen Industry, c.1200-c.1560
1st Edition
By John Oldland
December 18, 2020
This is the first book to describe the early English woollens’ industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-sixteenth century, as English trade was transformed from dependence on wool to value-added woollen cloth. It compares English and continental draperies, ...
Criminal Justice During the Long Eighteenth Century: Theatre, Representation and Emotion
1st Edition
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By David Lemmings, Allyson N. May
June 30, 2020
This book applies three overlapping bodies of work to generate fresh approaches to the study of criminal justice in England and Ireland between 1660 and 1850. First, crime and justice are interpreted as elements of the "public sphere" of opinion about government. Second, "performativity" and speech...
Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800
1st Edition
By Bert De Munck
December 17, 2019
This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, ...