Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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Cross-Cultural Politics and the Suspension of the Portuguese Inquisition 1674–81: Legitimacy, Negotiation and Agency in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
By Ana Paula Lloyd
November 19, 2026
This book tells the story of the unprecedented suspension of the Portuguese Inquisition (1674-81), a negotiation that started with a request for a general pardon but quickly developed into a crisis over the legitimacy of the Inquisition itself. This analysis of the denouement in the long struggle ...
Objects in Conflict: The Material Culture of Intercultural Diplomacy, 1600–1830
1st Edition
Edited
By Volker Depkat, Harriet Rudolph
October 01, 2026
This book presents case studies that analyse the diplomatic uses and functions of robes, furniture, weapons, tools, jewelry, paintings, sculptures, books, food, and other material objects in early modern inter-cultural diplomatic encounters in Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Pacific world. ...
Connecting the Renaissance: Italy and East Central Europe (1300–1600)
1st Edition
Edited
By Leslie Carr-Riegel, Anna Horeczy, Michael T Lo Piano, Adam Zapała
September 28, 2026
Why did Italian culture come to occupy such privileged status and interest among the societies of East-Central Europe during the period 1300–1600? In 1300 East-Central Europe regarded Italy not necessarily as an undisputed center of cultural emulation but drew from a much wider range of models ...
The Post-Tridentine Apostolic Nunciatures (1562–1605): A Prosopographical and Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Dorota Gregorowicz, Tomáš Černušák, Paolo Carta
September 02, 2026
This book offers the first comprehensive prosopographical and comparative study of permanent apostolic nunciatures in post-Tridentine Europe (1562–1605), substantially extending earlier chronological repertories. During this period of institutional reconfiguration, apostolic nuncios operated at ...
Britain under the Shadow of Arthur: The Arthurian Myth as a Political Theory of Empire (1461–1612)
1st Edition
By Julián González de León Heiblum
September 01, 2026
Few myths are as famous as Arthur’s, and few empires rival the reach of the British Empire. Yet the two share a history: from the Wars of the Roses to the consolidation of James I’s rule, the idea of a British Empire developed in conversation with the Arthurian myth. The vision of a British ...
Children and Young People in Eighteenth-Century Malta, ca. 1740 to 1798
1st Edition
By Rakele Fiott
September 01, 2026
Set within the complex social world of Hospitaller Malta, this book explores how early modern Mediterranean childhood was understood, regulated and experienced. It situates Maltese young people within broader historiographical debates while foregrounding the island’s distinctive archival richness. ...
Roman Ambitions: Bishop Thomas James at the Renaissance Papal Court
1st Edition
By Diane E. Booton
August 25, 2026
Roman Ambitions explores papal politics and humanist culture through the biographical framework of Thomas James (d. 1504), a Breton cleric who spent nearly two decades in Rome. The Italian Wars (1494–98) waged by King Charles VIII are often considered a seminal turning point in the reception of ...
Diplomacy and the Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy: The missions of Bernardino de Rebolledo and Antonio Pimentel in Denmark and Sweden, 1648 - 1660
1st Edition
By Enrique J. Corredera Nilsson
July 31, 2026
This book explores the resilience of the Spanish monarchy by uncovering the practices that sustained Philip IV’s monarchy as a major diplomatic power between 1648 and 1660. Adopting an innovative approach, the study does not evaluate whether the resilience of the Spanish monarchy was a success or a...
Interdisciplinary Edo: Toward an Integrated Approach to Early Modern Japan
1st Edition
Edited
By Joshua Schlachet, William C. Hedberg
July 20, 2026
Interdisciplinary Edo brings together scholars from across the methodological spectrum to explore new approaches to innovative humanistic research on early modern Japan (1603–1868). It makes an intervention in the field by thinking across conventional disciplinary boundaries toward a holistic and ...
Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century: Volume II: Practices of Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By István M. Szijártó, Wim Blockmans, László Kontler
July 20, 2026
This volume investigates the history of the parliamentary assemblies of Sweden, Poland and Hungary in the final period of the ancien régime, offering an analysis of these three representative assemblies in a systematic comparative framework for the first time. The book studies the Polish sejm, the ...
The Episteme of the Gallic Past: French Historical Research in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
1st Edition
By Lisa Regazzoni
July 20, 2026
This book aims to reconceive the field of knowledge of the “Gallic past” in French discourse of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by focusing on the monument as an object capable of underpinning insights into that past, the evolution of the concept, and the epistemic practices used to ...
Soldiers and Migrants: Foreign Mercenaries in the Principality of Transylvania (1541-1690)
1st Edition
By Florin Nicolae Ardelean
June 23, 2026
This book provides a detailed account of foreigners who performed military service in the Principality of Transylvania over almost one-and-a-half centuries. It explores their social and cultural background, their motivation for seeking employment in these parts of the continent and their ...