Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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The Solemn League and Covenant of the Three Kingdoms and the Cromwellian Union, 1643-1663
1st Edition
By Kirsteen M. Mackenzie
December 12, 2019
This book provides the first major analysis of the covenanted interest from an integrated three kingdoms perspective. It examines the reaction of the covenanted interest to the actions and policies of the Commonwealth and Protectorate, drawing particular attention to links, similarities and ...
Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Susan Broomhall, Sarah Finn
December 12, 2019
Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe examines the purposes for which specific forms of violence and particular emotional states functioned, how they operated in relation to each other, or indeed how one provoked, sustained or diminished the other.These twelve original essays demonstrate the...
Church and Censorship in Eighteenth-Century Italy: Governing Reading in the Age of Enlightenment
1st Edition
By Patrizia Delpiano
December 10, 2019
Dealing with the issue of ecclesiastical censorship and control over reading and readers, this study challenges the traditional view that during the eighteenth century the Catholic Church in Italy underwent an inexorable decline. It reconstructs the strategies used by the ecclesiastical leadership ...
The Discourse of Exile in Early Modern English Literature
1st Edition
By J. Seth Lee
December 10, 2019
This volume examines the literary works of English exiles seeking to navigate what Edward Said calls "the perilous territory of not-belonging." The study opens by asking, "How did exile impact the way an early modern writer defined and constructed their personal and national identity?" In seeking ...
Murder, Justice, and Harmony in an Eighteenth-Century French Village
1st Edition
By Nancy Locklin
October 08, 2019
In 1718, a young woman named Moricette Nayl fought with her brother’s mother-in-law and accidentally killed her. Ruled a homicide, the incident set in motion an investigation, a trial, Moricette's flight from justice, an execution in effigy and, ultimately, the pardon of the killer and her ...
Edwin Sandys and the Reform of English Religion
1st Edition
By Sarah L. Bastow
August 29, 2019
This book examines the complexities of reformed religion in early-modern England, through an examination of the experiences of Edwin Sandys, a prominent member of the Elizabethan Church hierarchy. Sandys was an ardent evangelical in the Edwardian era forced into exile under Mary I, but on his ...
Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Lure of the Other
1st Edition
Edited
By Claire Norton
May 23, 2019
The topic of religious conversion into and out of Islam as a historical phenomenon is mired in a sea of debate and misunderstanding. It has often been viewed as the permanent crossing of not just a religious divide, but in the context of the early modern Mediterranean also political, cultural and ...
Witchcraft, the Devil, and Emotions in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Charlotte-Rose Millar
May 23, 2019
This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It provides a rereading of English witchcraft, one which moves away from an older historiography which underplays ...
Individuality in Early Modern Japan: Thinking for Oneself
1st Edition
By Peter Nosco
April 25, 2019
Two of the most commonly alleged features of Japanese society are its homogeneity and its encouragement of conformity, as represented by the saying that the nail that sticks up gets pounded. This volume’s primary goal is to challenge these and a number of other long-standing assumptions regarding ...
The English Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change: The Changing Concept of the Land in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By George Yerby
March 22, 2019
This study brings a new perspective to a pivotal debate: the causes of the English Revolution. It pinpoints the economic motives behind the opposition to the crown, and shows their connection to the changing mind-set and political transitions of the time. Distinctively, it identifies the radicalism...
The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era
1st Edition
By Germano Maifreda
March 21, 2019
Established in 1542, the Roman Inquisition operated through a network of almost fifty tribunals to combat heretical and heterodox threats within the papal territories. Whilst its theological, institutional and political aspects have been well-studied, until now no sustained work has been undertaken...
Enlightenment in Scotland and France: Studies in Political Thought
1st Edition
By Mark L. Hulliung
July 19, 2018
Enlightenment in Scotland and France: Studies in Political Thought provides comparative analysis of the Scottish and French Enlightenments. Studies of the two Enlightenments have previously focused on the transnational, their story one of continuity between Scottish intellectuals and French ...