Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece
1st Edition
By Artemis Yagou
June 22, 2026
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 Female Convents of Lisbon, 1640 to 1750
1st Edition
By Ben James
June 18, 2026
Female convents in early modern Lisbon were important economic, cultural, social and even political spaces, which housed generations of elite women. Until now, they have received much less attention than comparable institutions across the early modern Roman Catholic world. This book begins to tell ...
Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand: Melancholy, Medicines, and the Information of the Soul
1st Edition
By James Dougal Fleming
May 22, 2026
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...
Houses, Families, and Cohabitation: Swedish Towns in the Eighteenth Century
1st Edition
By Dag Lindström, Göran Tagesson
May 21, 2026
This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources to explore the dynamic relations between dwelling houses, social organization of households, and patterns of cohabitation during the eighteenth century....
Exploring Sixteenth-Century Italy Through the Poems of Giulio Cesare Croce
1st Edition
By Lena Breda
April 20, 2026
This volume translates the poems of Giulio Cesare Croce: a sixteenth-century street poet and singer who plied his trade on the bustling streets of Bologna. Though widely popular in his time, Croce’s work has been largely neglected by modern scholarship, and his poems remain largely untranslated ...
The Bible Interpreted by Women in Early Modern Italy: Promoting Dignity and Agency
1st Edition
By Erminia Ardissino
March 27, 2026
This volume studies initial attempts by Italian women of the early modern period to assert their dignity and gender equality through skillful interpretation of the Bible. It shows how the holy text represented a means to self-awareness and self-valorization, both through the role models of female ...
Colonel Philip Jones, Oliver Cromwell and the British Revolutions in South Wales
1st Edition
By David Farr
March 24, 2026
This volume centres on Colonel Philip Jones but touches on others – most notably, Griffith Lloyd and Rowland Dawkins – who were part of his political network. These three men, all from Glamorgan and linked as kin, emerged from lives on the fringes of Welsh gentry status to imprint themselves on the...
The British and German Worlds in an Age of Divergence (1600–1850): Ambiguous Entanglements
1st Edition
Edited
By Niels Grüne, Stefan Ehrenpreis
December 26, 2025
The question of 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 ...
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 ...