Crime, Evidence, and Forensics in the Early Modern Mediterranean illustrates the range of questions we can put to archival sources from the early modern Mediterranean, with plentiful insights as to how legal sources can illuminate history from below...Daugiau...
Colonial Scholasticism: Interpreting Nature, Society, and Philosophy in Spanish America explores the enduring influence of scholasticism beyond Europe, tracing its evolution in the intellectual and educational institutions of colonial Latin America....Daugiau...
This volume explores academic households in early modern (c. sixteenth- to eighteenth-century) Northern Europe, examining changing dynamics of family and gender....Daugiau...
This book describes the development of the literary riddle in Renaissance Italy. It includes an original theoretical framework for the investigation of riddles, a section about the social uses of riddles in early modern Italy, and an examination of...Daugiau...
Prophets and Witches offers an exploration of female prophecy and witchcraft during the political and religious upheavals of the English Revolutionary period from 1640 to 1660....Daugiau...
This social history explores the lives of urban commoners in early modern Kyoto during the dramatic political shift from famine to revolution in the final decades of the Tokugawa regime, through an extensive survey of the detailed record changes fro...Daugiau...
Global Trade in the Premodern World offers an authoritative and expansive history of exchange and interaction across Eurasia from the prehistoric origins of trade to the integration of large parts of this world-system by the fifteenth century CE....Daugiau...
The Routledge History of the Senses presents readers an overview of the field. As well as pointing to directions for the future of the discipline, it illustrates the extent to which the subject offers a considerable space for the exploration of dive...Daugiau...
This volume explores how Martin Luthers life and teachings reshaped and redefined masculinity during the Reformation, offering a more nuanced portrayal of him as a man grappling with the complexities of fatherhood, marriage, and the battlegrounds of...Daugiau...
Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production....Daugiau...
During the eighteenth century, Englands landowners played a vital role in the growth of the national economy. First published in 1989, Town and Countryside draws together important research on the ways in which both urban and rural landed classes pr...Daugiau...
This book explores the transformation of market spaces in Portuguese cities during the intensification of trade driven by increasing profits from overseas exchanges, and how architectural structures and urban planning were directly impacted by these...Daugiau...
Commercial Relations between India and England (1924) is a comprehensive study of the beginnings of the English relations with India and the East. It examines the East India Companys long struggles to build up trade, leading to Britains political an...Daugiau...
Many books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 had an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects title-pages which represent theology, philosophy, history, poetry, medicine and explains that these pages were not m...Daugiau...
Since its first appearance in 1925, Elizabethan Life in Town and Country (1961) has securely established itself both for the general reader and the student as an accepted authority for the social history of the age....Daugiau...
The Star-Crossed Renaissance (1941) examines the attitude of the thinkers of Renaissance England toward astrology, Was Shakespeare, for example, a believer in astrology? This book provides a comprehensive and thoroughly-researched answer....Daugiau...
First published in 1964, The Paradise of Travellers devotes particular attention to travel books. Not only the records of such celebrated tourists as Fynes Moryson and John Evelyn, but those of many others, equally interesting, are examined....Daugiau...
This work examines how beauty standards, specifically the ideology of fairness, contributed to the racialization of bodies in early modern England. Schoel emphasizes the need to dismantle whitenesss invisibility in historical criticism, noting th...Daugiau...
Early Modern Womens Work examines the contributions of female writers, artists, scientists, religious leaders, and patrons who engaged in entrepreneurial, intellectual, and emotional labor in German-speaking Europe....Daugiau...
This innovative collection examines how European queens participated in the conceptualisation, mobilisation, and transformation of natural resources from the fifteenth to the end of the eighteenth century....Daugiau...
