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]).
Staging Favorites: Theatrical Representations of Political Favoritism in the Early Modern Courts of Spain, France, and England
1st Edition
By Francisco Gómez Martos
April 29, 2022
Staging Favorites explores theatrical representations of royal favorites in Spanish, French, and English dramatic production during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this time, the courts of Spain, France, and England were dominated by all-powerful ministers who enjoyed royal ...
Representing Masculinity in Early Modern English Satire, 1590–1603: "A Kingdom for a Man"
1st Edition
By Per Sivefors
September 30, 2021
Engaging with Elizabethan understandings of masculinity, this book examines representations of manhood during the short-lived vogue for verse satire in the 1590s, by poets like John Donne, John Marston, Everard Guilpin and Joseph Hall. While criticism has often used categorical adjectives like "...
Corporate Culture: National and Transnational Corporations in Seventeenth-Century Literature
1st Edition
By Liam D. Haydon
June 30, 2021
The corporation – an immortal collective bound to act for the common good – was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications. This work combines corporate history with literary analysis to demonstrate how corporations, and the ...
Florence After the Medici: Tuscan Enlightenment, 1737-1790
1st Edition
Edited
By Corey Tazzara, Paula Findlen, Jacob Soll
June 30, 2021
Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane’s Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan Academies (1961) and his Enlightenment Florence in the Forgotten Centuries (1973). It is high time ...
Francesco Robortello (1516-1567): Architectural Genius of the Humanities
1st Edition
By Marco Sgarbi
June 30, 2021
This book explores the intellectual world of Francesco Robortello, one of the most prominent scholars of the Italian Renaissance. From poetics to rhetoric, philology to history, topics to ethics, Robortello revolutionised the field of humanities through innovative interpretations of ancient texts ...
Machiavelli and Political Conspiracies: The Struggle for Power in the Italian Renaissance
1st Edition
By Alessandro Campi
June 30, 2021
The theme of conspiracy is central to Machiavelli's writing. His work offers observations and analysis of conspiracy as part of the armoury of the Renaissance politician. Surprisingly, the theme has not yet received the attention it merits. This volume corrects an interpretation which reduces ...
Political Representation in the Ancien Régime
1st Edition
Edited
By Joaquim Albareda, Manuel Herrero Sánchez
June 30, 2021
What kind of political representation existed in the Ancien Régime? Which social sectors were given a voice, and how were they represented in the institutions? These are some of the issues addressed by the authors of this book from different institutional angles (monarchies and republics; ...
Precarious Identities: Studies in the Work of Fulke Greville and Robert Southwell
1st Edition
Edited
By Vassiliki Markidou, Afroditi-Maria Panaghis
June 30, 2021
This book investigates the construction of identity and the precarity of the self in the work of the Calvinist Fulke Greville (1554–1628) and the Jesuit Robert Southwell (1561–1595). For the first time, a collection of original essays unites them with the aim to explore their literary production. ...
Spain and the Irish Mission, 1609-1707
1st Edition
By Cristina Bravo Lozano
June 30, 2021
Spain and the Irish Mission, 1609-1707 examines Spanish confessional policy in 17th-century Ireland. Cristina Bravo Lozano provides an innovative perspective on Spanish-Irish relations during a crucial period for Early Modern European history. Key historical actors and events are brought to the ...
The Elizabethan Secretariat and the Signet Office: The Production of State Papers, 1590-1596
1st Edition
By Angela Andreani
December 10, 2019
This book investigates the work of the Elizabethan secretariat during the fascinating decade of the 1590s, when, after the death of Francis Walsingham, the place of principal secretary remained vacant for six years. Through original sources in the collections of the State Papers and Cecil Papers, ...