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John Stearne’s Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft Text, Context and Afterlife

John Stearne’s Confirmation and Discovery of Witchcraft: Text, Context and Afterlife

1st Edition

By Scott Eaton
April 29, 2022

Between 1645-7, John Stearne led the most significant outbreak of witch-hunting in England. As accusations of witchcraft spread across East Anglia, Stearne and Matthew Hopkins were enlisted by villagers to identify and eradicate witches. After the trials finally subsided in 1648, Stearne wrote his ...

Major-General Hezekiah Haynes and the Failure of Oliver Cromwell’s Godly Revolution, 1594–1704

Major-General Hezekiah Haynes and the Failure of Oliver Cromwell’s Godly Revolution, 1594–1704

1st Edition

By David Farr
April 29, 2022

Hezekiah Haynes was shaped by the Puritanism of his father’s network and experienced emigration to New England as part of a community removing themselves from Charles I’s Laudianism. Returning to fight in the British Civil Wars, Haynes rose to become Cromwell’s ruler of the east of England, tasked ...

Manila, 1645

Manila, 1645

1st Edition

By Pedro Luengo
April 29, 2022

Manila, 1645 reconstructs what the city of Manila was like before the earthquakes of the mid-seventeenth century. The book demonstrates the importance of addressing the history of Southeast Asia as a multi-layered framework, rather than a series of entangled histories. In doing so, Manila is ...

The Renaissance of Plotinus The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on the Enneads

The Renaissance of Plotinus: The Soul and Human Nature in Marsilio Ficino’s Commentary on the Enneads

1st Edition

By Anna Corrias
April 29, 2022

Plotinus (204/5–270 C.E.) is a central figure in the history of Western philosophy. However, during the Middle Ages he was almost unknown. None of the treatises constituting his Enneads were translated, and ancient translations were lost. Although scholars had indirect access to his philosophy ...

Making the Union Work Scotland, 1651–1763

Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651–1763

1st Edition

By Alexander Murdoch
April 28, 2020

Making the Union Work: Scotland, 1651–1763, explores and analyses existing narratives of Jacobitism and Unionism in late seventeenth to mid-eighteenth century Scotland. Using in-depth archival research, the book questions the extent to which the currency of kinship patronage politics persisted in ...

Protestant Resistance in Counterreformation Austria

Protestant Resistance in Counterreformation Austria

1st Edition

By Peter Thaler
March 04, 2020

Protestant Resistance in Counterreformation Austria examines Austrian Protestants who actively resisted the Habsburg Counterreformation in the early seventeenth century. While a determined few decided early on that only military means could combat the growing pressure to conform, many more did not ...

Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice “And Must They All Be Hanged?”

Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice: “And Must They All Be Hanged?”

1st Edition

By Drew D. Gray
February 21, 2020

This volume uses four case studies, all with strong London connections, to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England. Each reveals evidence of how attempts were made to negotiate a path through the justice system to avoid conviction, and so avoid a sentence of ...

Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment Atheist’s Progress

Religious Tolerance from Renaissance to Enlightenment: Atheist’s Progress

1st Edition

By Eric MacPhail
November 27, 2019

This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The main ...

The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism The Global Reach of the Dutch Arms Trade, Warfare and Mercenaries in the Seventeenth Century

The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism: The Global Reach of the Dutch Arms Trade, Warfare and Mercenaries in the Seventeenth Century

1st Edition

By Kees Boterbloem
October 30, 2019

This book shows how the Dutch accumulation of great wealth was closely linked to their involvement in warfare. By charting Dutch activity across the globe, it explores Dutch participation in the international arms trade, and in wars both at home and abroad. In doing so, it ponders the issue of how ...

Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century When Europe Lost Its Fear of Change

Languages of Reform in the Eighteenth Century: When Europe Lost Its Fear of Change

1st Edition

Edited By Susan Richter, Thomas Maissen, Manuela Albertone
October 21, 2019

Societies perceive "Reform" or "Reforms" as substantial changes and significant breaks which must be well-justified. The Enlightenment brought forth the idea that the future was uncertain and could be shaped by human beings. This gave the concept of reform a new character and new fields of ...

Murder, Justice, and Harmony in an Eighteenth-Century French Village

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 ...

The Economic Causes of the English Civil War Freedom of Trade and the English Revolution

The Economic Causes of the English Civil War: Freedom of Trade and the English Revolution

1st Edition

By George Yerby
September 05, 2019

This is a coordinated presentation of the economic basis of revolutionary change in 16th- and early-17th century England, addressing a crucial but neglected phase of historical development. It traces a transformation in the agrarian economy and substantiates the decisive scale on which this took ...

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