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A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era

Covering the period from 1400 to 1650, this volume looks at how Renaissance learning and exploration irrevocably changed both our botanical knowledge and human impact on plants.

Teresa Grant

Apes and Monkeys on the Early Modern Stage, 1603-1659

This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. It broadens the scope of existing scholarship by situating the apes glimpsed in Shakespeare's plays in the wider con…

Joad Raymond Wren

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe

News moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper, a proclamation. News is a material thing, but also something between us, something we take into us and feel.This book tells …

Jan De Vries

Life, Death, and Migration in the Early Modern City

In this rich study of early modern Würzburg, Jan de Vries reconstructs the demographic life of a pre-industrial city. Utilising modern demographic techniques, he analyses data about thousands of families …

John Samuel Harpham

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World

A landmark account of the origins of American slavery, revealing how ancient Roman ideas were used to defend the establishment of a slave empire in the English Atlantic world.The period from 1550 to 1700 …

The Power to Pardon in Medieval and Early Modern Christian Europe

In medieval and early modern Christian Europe, the power to exercise pardon over rigor of justice was one of the strongest manifestations of sovereignty and, as such, it was almost ubiquitous. For mercifu…

Malissa Taylor

Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its "classica…

Isabella Lazzarini, Luciano Piffanelli, Diego Pirillo

Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West

The history of peacemaking has traditionally been reduced to isolated case studies and seen as the prelude to the presumed 'universal' and 'modern' international order. Countering this one-dimensional and…

Joad Raymond Wren

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe

'Highly ambitious and impressive ... a rich, multifaceted and thought-provoking book' Noel Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement News moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper…

Julianne Sandberg,

Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist

Choice 2025 Outstanding Academic Title Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots o…

Common Good and Self-Interest in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters …

Anastasia Stouraiti

War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice

Provides an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in early modern Venice, weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies to show how war and territorial expansion shaped se…

Cathy Shrank

Dialogue in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, C. 1400-1680

This book is the first major study of dialogue in England from the fifteenth to the late seventeenth century: a 'golden age' of dialogue, and a crucial period for its development. The spread of humanist e…

Marion A. Wells

Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature

Drawing both on historical accounts of the emotions and on contemporary affect theory, this book explores the intersection of social constructions of sex and gender with the development of norms for emoti…

Lara Dodds, Michelle M Dowd

Early Modern Women's Writing and the Future of Literary History

Previous studies of English literary history often excluded women's writing or relegated it to a secondary, isolated tradition. This book argues that a full accounting of early modern women's literary act…

Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time

There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a w…

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Kelly Kaelin

Women, Race, and the Moravian Church in the Early Modern Atlantic World

"Women , Race, and the Moravian Church in the Early Modern Atlantic World is an important and timely study marking a new direction for scholarship on the intersection of gender, race, and religion in…

The Cambridge Urban History of Europe: Volume 2, Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Volume II charts European urbanism between 700-1850, the millennium during which Europe became the world's most urbanised region. Featuring thirty-six chapters from leading scholars working on all the maj…