Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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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
Edited
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, ...
Women and Jewish Marriage Negotiations in Early Modern Italy: For Love and Money
1st Edition
By Howard Tzvi Adelman
December 17, 2019
This book examines the role of women in Jewish family negotiations, using the setting of Italy from the end of the Renaissance to the Baroque. In ghettos at night and under the scrutiny of inquisitions, Jews flourished. Life and learning were enriched by Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, the Ottoman...
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania: From the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Empires
1st Edition
By Zenonas Norkus
December 12, 2019
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subject but social scientific in approach. It is also the first study to apply this comparative and social scientific method to the GDL. In this book, ...
Cities and Solidarities: Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Justin Colson, Arie van Steensel
December 12, 2019
Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume sheds new light on the socio-economic conditions, the formal and ...
Dreams in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Janine Riviere
December 12, 2019
Dreams in Early Modern England offers an in-depth exploration of the variety of different ways in which early modern people understood and interpreted dreams, from medical explanations to political, religious or supernatural associations. Through examining how dreams were discussed and presented in...
Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau
1st Edition
By Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent
December 12, 2019
Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force ...
Early Professional Women in Northern Europe, c. 1650-1850
1st Edition
Edited
By Johanna Ilmakunnas, Marjatta Rahikainen, Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen
December 12, 2019
This book focuses on early examples of women who may be said to have anticipated, in one way or another, modern professional and/or career-oriented women. The contributors to the book discuss women who may at least in some respect be seen as professionally ambitious, unlike the great majority of ...
Honourable Intentions?: Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c 1750 to 1850.
1st Edition
Edited
By Penny Russell, Nigel Worden
December 12, 2019
Honourable Intentions? compares the significance and strategic use of ‘honour’ in two colonial societies, the Cape Colony and the early British settlements in Australia, between 1750 and 1850. The mobile populations of emigrants and sojourners, sailors and soldiers, merchants and traders, slaves ...
India in the Italian Renaissance: Visions of a Contemporary Pagan World 1300-1600
1st Edition
By Meera Juncu
December 12, 2019
India in the Italian Renaissance provides a systematic, chronological survey of early Italian representations of India and Indians from the late medieval period to the end of the 16th century, and their resonance within the cultural context of Renaissance Italy. The study focuses in particular on ...