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Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)

by Derek Massarella & by J. F. Moran

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost...

The Limits of Empire: European Imperial Formations in Early Modern World History: Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker

by Tonio Andrade & Reger

Exploring early-modern European empires within a global perspective, this collection focuses on the limits of empire: those centrifugal forces - sacral, dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical, informational...

Female Patients in Early Modern Britain: Gender, Diagnosis, and Treatment

by Wendy D. Churchill

This investigation contributes to the existing scholarship on women and medicine in early modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of female patients by male professional medical practitioners...

The Woman of the Eighteenth Century: Her Life, from Birth to Death, Her Love and Her Philosophy in the Worlds of Salon, Shop and Street

by Edmond de Goncourt & Jules de Goncourt

This translation of the French Femme au dix-huitiéme siécle from 1862, first published in English in 1928, traces the life of the Eighteenth Century woman in an historical account. Through discussion of evidence...

Women as Mothers in Pre-Industrial England

by Valerie Fildes

Originally published in 1990, this book met the rising interest in the subject of women in pre-industrial England, bringing together a group of scholars with diverse and wide-ranging interests; experts in social...

Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III: Representing the Counter-Reformation Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years' War

by H. Weaver

Ferdinand III played a crucial role both in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in re-establishing Habsburg sovereignty within his hereditary lands. Ferdinand's accomplishments came not through diplomacy...

Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766

by Fred Anderson

In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson...

Newton and the Origin of Civilization

by Jed Z. Buchwald & Mordechai Feingold

Isaac Newton's Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, published in 1728, one year after the great man's death, unleashed a storm of controversy. And for good reason. The book presents a drastically revised...

Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Meeting

by Mike Dash

From the bestselling author of Tulipomania comes Batavia’s Graveyard, the spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, murder, and survival.

It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India...

Revealing Bodies: Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century

by Erin M. Goss

Revealing Bodies considers three thinkers not often read together in order to ask a question with continued relevance in the present: how is it that we claim to know the body? Reading their work in relation...

Lesbian Dames: Sapphism in the Long Eighteenth Century

by C. Beynon & Gonda

Lesbian Dames is the first multi-authored volume to examine the representation of lesbians and lesbianism in the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. This groundbreaking collection presents...

Queer Renaissance Historiography: Backward Gaze

by Nardizzi & Guy-Bray

Queer Renaissance Historiography examines the distinctive arrangement of sexuality during the Renaissance period and the role that queer theory has played in our understanding. This book sets the tone for future...

Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire: The Politics of Bektashi Shrines in the Classical Age

by Yürekli

The shrine complexes examined in this book were established as independent institutions in medieval Anatolia and became the primary centres of the Bektashi order of dervishes in the classical Ottoman period....

A Linking of Heaven and Earth: Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M.N. Eire

by Michelson & K. Taylor

Carlos M.N. Eire's deeply innovative publications have helped to shape new fields of study of the Reformation, intertwining social, intellectual, cultural, and religious history to reveal how, lived beliefs...

Plague Hospitals: Illness and Isolation in Early Modern Venice

by L. Stevens Crawshaw

Lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease. An in-depth study of the Venetian lazaretti in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book asks what...

Black Ranching Frontiers: African Cattle Herders of the Atlantic World, 1500-1900

by Andrew Sluyter

In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas. In so doing, he provides...

Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522-1657

by Christina H. Lee

Covering the transpacific period--in between Magellan's opening of the transpacific route to the Far East and the eventual dominance of the region by the British and the Dutch--this collection provides a broad...

A King Translated: The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries, 1593-1603

by Astrid Stilma

King James is well known as the most prolific writer of all the Stuart monarchs. It was not just in English that his works were read, many were also translated into other languages, including Dutch. The book...

Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain

by Jessica Martin & Alec Ryrie

Exploring the lived experience of early modern religion in its domestic settings, as it was practised in England and Scotland c. 1500-1700, this volume furthers our understanding of this subject. A sister volume...

George Buchanan: Political Thought in Early Modern Britain and Europe

by Caroline Erskine & Roger A. Mason

George Buchanan (1506-82) was the most distinguished Scottish humanist of the sixteenth century with an unparalleled contemporary reputation as a Latin poet, playwright, historian and political theorist. This...