Early Modern History 1500-1750

Considering the fact that Charles Pigott's satirical A Political Dictionary (1795) is regularly quoted and referred to in analyses of late eighteenth-century radical culture, it is surprising that until now it has remained unavailable to readers outside of specialised research libraries. Until his ..

In this collection, the result of a lifetime’s study, Brendan Bradshaw provides an insight into how concepts of ’nationalism’ and ’national identity’ can be understood and applied to pre-modern Ireland. Drawing upon a selection of his most provocative and pioneering essays, together with three new p..

Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed a commercialisation of culture as the marketing of culture became separated from its production and new cultural entrepreneurs entered the stage. Cultural consumption also played a substantial role in creating social identity. In this book, Michael North systemati..

This collection of essays explores the Anglo-French diplomatic, cultural and dynastic relations during the early modern period and examines just how close early modern England's connections with France were, even at times of crisis...

Drawing upon previous historiography, a wealth of printed primary sources (including government documents, pamphlets, rogue literature, and plays), and archival material, the book argues that the construction of gypsy identity was part of a wider discourse concerning the increasing vagabond populati..

From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern England. Poets, princesses, or pirates, the women found in these pages are indeed worth knowing and this volume will introduce many female figures to even the..

A Brief Summe of Geographie, by Roger Barlow..

In 1517, the usually tranquil friary in Körmend, Hungry found itself at the centre of controversy when its Augustinian friars, charged with drunkenness, sexual abuses and liturgical negligence, were driven out and replaced with Franciscans. Based on the surviving interrogations of a papal enquiry in..

A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland..

This volume makes available the 1926 reissue of Captain Smith's fifth edition of A Complete History of the Highwaymen. The accounts and confessions are drawn from imprisoned villains who awaited their fate at the gallows...

A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century, by Duarte Barbosa, a Portuguese..

First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, dwarfs in the Baroque period in order to set these images in their context and explain this obsession with difference...