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