Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge
About the Book Series
This series explores Renaissance and Early Modern worlds of knowledge (c.1400-c.1700) in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa. The volumes published in this series study the individuals, communities and networks involved in making and communicating knowledge during the first age of globalization. Authors investigate the perceptions, practices and modes of behaviour which shaped Renaissance and Early Modern intellectual endeavour and examine the ways in which they reverberated in the political, cultural, social and economic sphere.
The series is interdisciplinary, comparative and global in its outlook. We welcome submissions from new as well as existing fields of Renaissance Studies, including the history of literature (including neo-Latin, European and non-European languages), science and medicine, religion, architecture, environmental and economic history, the history of the book, art history, intellectual history and the history of music. We are particularly interested in proposals that straddle disciplines and are innovative in terms of approach and methodology.
The series includes monographs, shorter works and edited collections of essays. The Society for Renaissance Studies (https://www.rensoc.org.uk/publications/srs-book-series/) provides an expert editorial board, mentoring, extensive editing and support for contributors to the series, ensuring high standards of peer-reviewed scholarship. We welcome proposals from early career researchers as well as more established colleagues.
SRS Board Members: Mordechai Feingold (California Institute of Technology, USA); Andrew Hadfield (Sussex); Stefania Tutino (UCLA, USA); Richard Wistreich (Royal College of Music, UK).
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact the series editors: Harald Braun ([email protected]) and Emily Michelson ([email protected]), or Michael Greenwood at Routledge ([email protected]).
Disaster in the Early Modern World: Examinations, Representations, Interventions
1st Edition
Edited
By Ovanes Akopyan, David Rosenthal
April 13, 2025
How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster, and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period ca. 1300-1750. Covering topics that range from new ...
Atlantic Circulations: Literature, Reception and Imperial Identities, 1650-1750
1st Edition
By Edward Holberton
April 02, 2025
Atlantic Circulations investigates literary conversations about empire in the British Atlantic world, c. 1650–1750. Reading texts by Anne Bradstreet, John Milton, Daniel Defoe, and Benjamin Franklin, as well as writing by overlooked authors who deserve more attention, such as the Quaker ...
The World of the Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Vincenzo Ferrone
March 24, 2025
The Enlightenment was a laboratory of modernity that changed the history of the Western world, helping to bring about globalisation and the rise of a powerful intellectual class. It gave the scientific revolution new methods and a new purpose by ushering in the sciences of man. At the same time, it...
Franciscans and Scotists on War: John Duns Scotus’s Theology, Anti-Judaism, and Holy War in Early Modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Campbell, Todd Rester
November 29, 2024
Franciscan friars were everywhere in the early modern Catholic world, a world that stretched from the Americas, through Western and Central Europe, to the Middle East and Asia. This global brotherhood was as deeply entangled in the great religious wars that convulsed Europe during the sixteenth and...
Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe, 1544–1669
1st Edition
By Nil Ö. Palabıyık
October 07, 2024
Silent Teachers considers for the first time the influence of Ottoman scholarly practices and reference tools on oriental learning in early modern Europe. Telling the story of oriental studies through the annotations, study notes, and correspondence of European scholars, it demonstrates the central...
Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World
1st Edition
Edited
By Sjoerd Levelt, Esther van Raamsdonk, Michael D. Rose
August 26, 2024
This ground-breaking collection reveals the networks of interrelation between Early Modern England and the Dutch Republic. As people, ideas and goods moved back and forth across the North Sea – or spread further afield in the vanguard of globalisation and empire – Anglo-Dutch relations shaped all ...
Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Patrick Murray
May 27, 2024
Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history, namely the two centuries between Columbus’s arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution, this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers, writers ...
Niccolò Ridolfi and the Cardinal's Court: Politics, Patronage and Service in Sixteenth-Century Italy
1st Edition
By Lucinda Byatt
May 27, 2024
Niccolò Ridolfi (1501–50), was a Florentine cardinal, nephew and cousin to the Medici popes Leo X and Clement VII, and he owed his status and wealth to their patronage. He remained actively engaged in Florentine politics, above all during the years of crisis that saw the Florentine state change ...
Selected Essays on George Gascoigne
1st Edition
Edited
By Gillian Austen
May 27, 2024
This collection of essays situates George Gascoigne in context as the pre-eminent writer of the early part of Queen Elizabeth’s reign. His ceaseless experimentation was hugely influential on those later Elizabethans - including Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare - who represent the great flowering of ...
Juan Luis Vives: Politics, Rhetoric, and Emotions
1st Edition
By Kaarlo Havu
January 29, 2024
By looking at rhetoric and politics, this book offers a novel account of Juan Luis Vives’ intellectual oeuvre. It argues that Vives adjusted rhetorical theory to a monarchical context in which direct speech was not a possibility, demonstrated how Erasmian languages of ethical self-government and ...
Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin: Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Ian Campbell, Floris Verhaart
September 25, 2023
The Reformed (or Calvinist) universities of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Europe hosted rich, Latin-language conversations on the nature of politics, the powers of kings and magistrates, resistance, revolution, and religious warfare. Nevertheless, it is too often assumed that Reformed political...
Mathematics and the Craft of Thought in the Anglo-Dutch Renaissance
1st Edition
By Eleanor Chan
May 31, 2023
The development of a coherent, cohesive visual system of mathematics brought about a seminal shift in approaches towards abstract thinking in western Europe. Vernacular translations of Euclid’s Elements made these new and developing approaches available to a far broader readership than had ...