Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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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...
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 ...
Establishment Eschatology in England’s Reformation: Evidence from the Doctrinally-Binding Formularies of Faith, 1534–1571
1st Edition
By Tim Patrick
November 28, 2024
Exploring what the early English Protestants came to believe about the afterlife, and how they arrived at their positions, this much-needed book fills a gap in the scholarly literature. In surveying the authorised doctrinal works of the English church through the Reformation period, the progress of...
Images of Change: Visual Representations of Papal Power in Rome Following the Council of Trent
1st Edition
By Teresa Delgado-Jermann
November 28, 2024
Images of Change focuses on the visual propaganda employed by Catholic popes in Rome during the time of Tridentine Reform. In 1563, at the Council of Trent, the Catholic Church decided to reform its own use of imagery, in response to Protestant criticism. This volume examines how different ...
A Genlis Education and Enlightenment Values: Mrs Chinnery (1766–1840) and her Children
1st Edition
By Denise Yim
October 09, 2024
Offering a unique approach to the study of late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century education, this book explores the life and motivations of a strong-minded, self-educated and enlightened English gentlewoman, Mrs Margaret Chinnery, who put Madame de Genlis’s educational ideas into practice...
Children at the Birth of Empire: British Law, Liberty, and the Global Migration of Destitute Children, c. 1607–1760
1st Edition
By Kristen McCabe Lashua
October 09, 2024
This is the first study to focus specifically on destitute children who became part of the early British Empire, uniting separate historiographies on poverty, childhood, global expansion, forced migration, bound labor, and law. Britons used their nascent empire to employ thousands of destitute ...
Apprenticeship, Work, Society in Early Modern Venice
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Bellavitis, Valentina Sapienza
August 26, 2024
Apprenticeship in early modern Europe has been the subject of important research in the last decades, mostly by economic historians; but the majority of the research has dealt with cities or countries in Northern Europe. The organization, evolution and purpose of apprenticeship in Southern Europe ...