Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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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 ...
James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603
1st Edition
Edited
By Miles Kerr-Peterson, Steven J. Reid
December 12, 2019
James VI and Noble Power in Scotland explores how Scotland was governed in the late sixteenth century by examining the dynamic between King James and his nobles from the end of his formal minority in 1578 until his accession to the English throne in 1603. The collection assesses James’ ...
London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery
1st Edition
By Jacob F. Field
December 12, 2019
The Great Fire of 1666 was one of the greatest catastrophes to befall London in its long history. While its impact on London and its built environment has been studied and documented, its impact on Londoners has been overlooked. This book makes full and systematic use of the wealth of manuscript ...
Penury into Plenty: Dearth and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Ayesha Mukherjee
December 12, 2019
Penury into Plenty: Dearth and the Making of Knowledge in Early Modern England is an original examination of cultural meanings of dearth and famine in England at the turn of the sixteenth century. It focuses on the socio-economic and ecological crises of the 1590s, investigating the effects of ...
Plural Pasts: Power, Identity and the Ottoman Sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle
1st Edition
By Claire Norton
December 12, 2019
Through a study of a variety of Ottoman and modern Turkish accounts of the Ottoman-Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle (1600-01) including official documents, correspondence, histories, and more literary genres such as gazavatnames [campaign narratives], Plural Pasts explores Ottoman literacy ...