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The Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespin's Livre des Martyrs All The True Christians

The Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespin's Livre des Martyrs: All The True Christians

1st Edition

By Jameson Tucker
March 24, 2017

Between 1554 and 1570, the Genevan printer Jean Crespin compiled seven French-language editions of his martyrology. In The Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespin’s Livre des Martyrs, Jameson Tucker explores how this martyrology helped to shape a distinct Reformed identity for its ...

Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean The Lure of the Other

Conversion and Islam in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Lure of the Other

1st Edition

Edited By Claire Norton
February 16, 2017

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 ...

Plural Pasts Power, Identity and the Ottoman Sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle

Plural Pasts: Power, Identity and the Ottoman Sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle

1st Edition

By Claire Norton
February 16, 2017

Through a study of a variety of Ottoman and modern Turkish accounts of the Ottoman-Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle (1600-01) including official documents, correspondence, histories, and more literary genres such as gazavatnames [campaign narratives], Plural Pasts explores Ottoman literacy ...

Cities and Solidarities Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe

Cities and Solidarities: Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Justin Colson, Arie van Steensel
January 25, 2017

Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume sheds new light on the socio-economic conditions, the formal and ...

James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603

James VI and Noble Power in Scotland 1578-1603

1st Edition

Edited By Miles Kerr-Peterson, Steven J. Reid
January 06, 2017

James VI and Noble Power in Scotland explores how Scotland was governed in the late sixteenth century by examining the dynamic between King James and his nobles from the end of his formal minority in 1578 until his accession to the English throne in 1603.   The collection assesses James’ ...

The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era

The Business of the Roman Inquisition in the Early Modern Era

1st Edition

By Germano Maifreda
December 07, 2016

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...

Dynastic Colonialism Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau

1st Edition

By Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent
April 08, 2016

Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force ...

Honourable Intentions? Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c 1750 to 1850.

Honourable Intentions?: Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c 1750 to 1850.

1st Edition

Edited By Penny Russell, Nigel Worden
March 30, 2016

Honourable Intentions? compares the significance and strategic use of ‘honour’ in two colonial societies, the Cape Colony and the early British settlements in Australia, between 1750 and 1850. The mobile populations of emigrants and sojourners, sailors and soldiers, merchants and traders, slaves ...

Social Thought in England, 1480-1730 From Body Social to Worldly Wealth

Social Thought in England, 1480-1730: From Body Social to Worldly Wealth

1st Edition

By A.L. Beier
February 19, 2016

Authorities ranging from philosophers to politicians nowadays question the existence of concepts of society, whether in the present or the past. This book argues that social concepts most definitely existed in late medieval and early modern England, laying the foundations for modern models of ...

India in the Italian Renaissance Visions of a Contemporary Pagan World 1300-1600

India in the Italian Renaissance: Visions of a Contemporary Pagan World 1300-1600

1st Edition

By Meera Juncu
September 02, 2015

India in the Italian Renaissance provides a systematic, chronological survey of early Italian representations of India and Indians from the late medieval period to the end of the 16th century, and their resonance within the cultural context of Renaissance Italy. The study focuses in particular on ...

The English Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change The Changing Concept of the Land in Early Modern England

The English Revolution and the Roots of Environmental Change: The Changing Concept of the Land in Early Modern England

1st Edition

By George Yerby
September 01, 2015

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...

Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe

1st Edition

Edited By Susan Broomhall, Sarah Finn
August 03, 2015

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 ...

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