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Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece

Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece

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By Artemis Yagou
August 16, 2024

This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources. A printed book, a wine jug, an ecclesiastical embroidery, and a pocket watch are used as entry points to examine the consumer ...

The British and German Worlds in an Age of Divergence (1600–1850) Ambiguous Entanglements

The British and German Worlds in an Age of Divergence (1600–1850): Ambiguous Entanglements

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Edited By Niels Grüne, Stefan Ehrenpreis
August 02, 2024

Whether Britain is "apart from or a part of Europe" (D. Abulafia) has gained significance in recent years. This book reassesses an underexplored field of early modern transnational history: the variety of ways in which connections between Britain and German-speaking Europe shaped developments. ...

Interdisciplinary Edo Toward an Integrated Approach to Early Modern Japan

Interdisciplinary Edo: Toward an Integrated Approach to Early Modern Japan

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Edited By Joshua Schlachet, William C. Hedberg
July 11, 2024

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 ...

Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul

Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul

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By James Dougal Fleming
June 14, 2024

In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient...

Anti-Jacobitism and the English People, 1714–1746

Anti-Jacobitism and the English People, 1714–1746

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By Jonathan Oates
May 27, 2024

In both 1715 and 1745 there was a major military challenge in Britain to the thrones of George I and George II, posed by Jacobite supporters of the exiled Stuart claimant. This book examines the responses of those loyal to the Hanoverian dynasty, whose efforts have been ignored or disparaged ...

Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century Volume I: Representative Institutions and Political Motivation

Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century: Volume I: Representative Institutions and Political Motivation

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Edited By István M. Szijártó, Wim Blockmans, László Kontler
May 27, 2024

This volume investigates the history of the representative assemblies of Sweden (the riksdag), Poland (the sejm) and Hungary (the diaeta) in the final period of the ancien régime. It concentrates on the practices and ideas of parliamentarism and constitutionalism, and examines the ideologies that ...

Royal Journeys in Early Modern Europe Progresses, Palaces and Panache

Royal Journeys in Early Modern Europe: Progresses, Palaces and Panache

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Edited By Anthony Musson, J. P. D. Cooper
May 27, 2024

Authored by a unique combination of university academics and heritage professionals, this book offers new perspectives on journeys made by Henry VIII and other monarchs, their political and social impact and the logistics required in undertaking such trips. It explores the performance of kingship ...

Spain and the Protestant Reformation The Spanish Inquisition and the War for Europe

Spain and the Protestant Reformation: The Spanish Inquisition and the War for Europe

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By Wayne H. Bowen
May 27, 2024

For Charles V and Philip II, both of whom expected to continue the momentum of the Reconquista into a campaign against Islam, the theology and political successes of Martin Luther and John Calvin menaced not just the possibility of a universal empire, but the survival of the Habsburg monarchy. ...

The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559

The Culture and Politics of Regime Change in Italy, c.1494-c.1559

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Edited By Alexander Lee, Brian Jeffrey Maxson
May 27, 2024

This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494–c.1559. Far from being a purely modern phenomenon, regime change was a common feature of life in Renaissance Italy – no more so than during the Italian Wars (1494–1559). During those turbulent years, ...

The Eye of the Crown The Development and Evolution of the Elizabethan Secret Service

The Eye of the Crown: The Development and Evolution of the Elizabethan Secret Service

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By Kristin M.S. Bezio
May 27, 2024

This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion of professional agents and spies in the early modern English government. In the government’s attempts to control religious practices, wage war, and expand their mercantile ...

Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition

Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition

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By Jaska Kainulainen
February 27, 2024

This book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Jesuit contributions to the rhetorical tradition established by Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero and Quintilian. It analyses the writings of those Jesuits who taught rhetoric at the College of Rome, including Pedro Juan Perpiña, (1530–66), Carlo ...

Anglo-Prussian Relations 1701–1713 The Reciprocal Production of Status through Ceremony, Diplomacy, and War

Anglo-Prussian Relations 1701–1713: The Reciprocal Production of Status through Ceremony, Diplomacy, and War

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By Crawford Matthews
February 20, 2024

In 1701, Frederick I crowned himself the first King in Prussia. This title required a process of royal status construction in conjunction with other European rulers, and Frederick found his most willing partners in the English monarchy. This volume examines their ceremonial and military cooperation...

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