Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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The Scramble for Italy: Continuity and Change in the Italian Wars, 1494-1559
1st Edition
By Idan Sherer
August 29, 2022
The Scramble for Italy offers fresh insights on the set of conflicts known as the Italian Wars of 1494-1559. The aim of this book is to explore the trends of continuity and change that characterized the sixteenth century in order to demonstrate the significance of the Italian Wars as an especially ...
From Classical to Modern Republicanism: Reflections on England, Scotland, America, and France
1st Edition
By Mark Hulliung
August 01, 2022
In 1955 Louis Hartz published a volume titled The Liberal Tradition in America, in which he argued that liberalism was the one and only American tradition. Since then scholars of New Left and neoconservative persuasion have offered an alternative account based on the notion that the civic notions ...
German Imperial Knights: Noble Misfits between Princely Authority and the Crown, 1479–1648
1st Edition
By Richard J. Ninness
August 01, 2022
The German imperial knights were branded disobedient, criminal, or treasonous, but instead of finding themselves on the wrong side of history, they resisted marginalization and adapted through a combination of conservative and progressive strategies. The knights tried to turn the elite world on its...
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: History, Memory, Legacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrzej Chwalba, Krzysztof Zamorski
August 01, 2022
This volume provides a fresh perspective of the history and legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the often-disputed memory of it in contemporary Europe. The unions between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania have fascinated many readers ...
The Political Discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Concepts and Ideas
1st Edition
By Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz
August 01, 2022
This book makes a contribution to ongoing European research into the political discourse of the early modern era, analyzing the political discourse of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569–1795). The sources comprise the broadly understood political literature from the end of the sixteenth ...
Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: “The King is Listening”
1st Edition
Edited
By Nancy Christie, Michael Gauvreau, Matthew Gerber
August 01, 2022
Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: "The King is Listening" offers, through the contribution of thirteen original chapters, a sustained analysis of judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas expansion. The overall goal of this volume is to ...
Frederik Hendrik and the Triumph of the Dutch Revolt: Comparative Insurgencies
1st Edition
By Nick Ridley
May 06, 2022
Frederik Hendrik and the Triumph of the Dutch Revolt describes a crucial period in European history. During the early seventeenth century the Dutch, led by Frederik Hendrik, were engaged in a struggle for independence from the mighty Spanish Empire. But Spain was allied with its fellow Hapsburg ...
The English Exorcist: John Darrell and the Shaping of Early Modern English Protestant Demonology
1st Edition
By Brendan C. Walsh
May 06, 2022
In 1598, the English clergyman John Darrell was brought before the High Commission at Lambeth Palace to face charges of fraud and counterfeiting. The ecclesiastical authorities alleged that he had "taught 4. to counterfeite" demonic possession over a ten-year period, fashioning himself into a ...
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
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
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
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 ...