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The Figure of Ganymede in Early Modern Spanish Comedias
1st Edition
By Felipe E. Rojas
December 18, 2025
Abducted by Jupiter for his beauty and made cupbearer to the gods, Ganymede has long been interpreted as an emblem of pederasty and queer desire. While critics such as James M. Saslow and Leonard Barkan have emphasized the (homo)erotic readings of this mythological figure, they have largely ...
Anglo-Prussian Relations 1701–1713: The Reciprocal Production of Status through Ceremony, Diplomacy, and War
1st Edition
By Crawford Matthews
September 29, 2025
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...
Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition
1st Edition
By Jaska Kainulainen
September 29, 2025
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 ...
Academic Households in Early Modern Northern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Mari Välimäki
August 08, 2025
This volume explores academic households in early modern (c. sixteenth to eighteenth century) Northern Europe, examining changing dynamics of family and gender. During the Middle Ages, Christian scholars were expected to spend their lives unwed and instead focus on educating the young. However, a ...
Hospitality and the Enlightenment (Encountering China): A Conversation with Immanuel Kant and Jacques Derrida
1st Edition
By Anni Greve
July 31, 2025
With the change of power in Washington, the word ‘Enlightenment’ has taken on a dramatic topicality that no one could have wished for. The wisdom of the eighteenth century could not be more relevant. This book demonstrates a relationship between hospitality towards the foreigner and the European ...
Paper Heritage in Italy, France, Spain and Beyond (16th to 19th Centuries): Collector Aspirations & Collection Destinies
1st Edition
Edited
By Benedetta Borello, Laura Casella
July 31, 2025
This book takes a long-term approach, spanning from the end of the 16th to the end of the 19th centuries, to explore how men and women in Italy, France, and Spain collected, displayed, and passed down various types of papers. The contributors share a core interest in the relationship between ...
The Market Space of Portuguese Cities: Urbanism and Commercial Architecture, 15th–17th Centuries
1st Edition
By Daniela Nunes Pereira
May 27, 2025
This book explores the transformation of market spaces in Portuguese cities during the intensification of trade driven by increasing profits from overseas exchanges, and how architectural structures and urban planning were directly impacted by these changes to accommodate the new economic dynamics....
The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux: Contexts, Relations, and Commodities
1st Edition
Edited
By Charles C. Ludington
May 06, 2025
The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux is a collection of ten essays by internationally known scholars of Irish, British, French, and Atlantic History that covers the entire period in which there was a substantial Irish colony in Bordeaux (1689–1815). Among the topics discussed are the growth and...
Parliamentarism in Northern and East-Central Europe in the Long Eighteenth Century: Volume II: Practices of Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By István M. Szijártó, Wim Blockmans, László Kontler
April 21, 2025
This volume investigates the history of the parliamentary assemblies of Sweden, Poland and Hungary in the final period of the ancien régime, offering an analysis of these three representative assemblies in a systematic comparative framework for the first time. The book studies the Polish sejm, the ...
Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration
1st Edition
By David Farr
April 14, 2025
This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608–80), Henry Ireton (1611–51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618–92). It seeks to develop our picture of their positions from ...
Swedish and Finnish Historiographies of the Swedish Realm, c. 1520–1809: Shared Past, Different Interpretations?
1st Edition
Edited
By Miia Kuha, Petri Karonen
April 14, 2025
In the early modern era, two Nordic countries that are neighbours today, Sweden and Finland, formed one realm. Yet, modern history writing has largely ignored this unity, instead developing analysis and discussion in close connection to nationalistic ideas, national politics, and processes of ...
Roots of Sustainability in the Iberian Empires: Shipbuilding and Forestry, 14th - 19th Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Koldo Trapaga Monchet, Álvaro Aragón-Ruano, Cristina Joanaz de Melo
December 18, 2024
This book sheds light on the roots of sustainability in the Iberian Peninsula that lie in the interrelations between shipbuilding and forestry from the 14th to the 19th centuries, combining various geographical scales (local, regional and national) and different timespans (short-term and long-term ...