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The Post-Tridentine Apostolic Nunciatures (1562–1605): A Prosopographical and Comparative Study
1st Edition
By Dorota Gregorowicz, Tomáš Černušák, Paolo Carta
September 04, 2026
This book offers the first comprehensive prosopographical and comparative study of permanent apostolic nunciatures in post-Tridentine Europe (1562–1605), substantially extending earlier chronological repertories. During this period of institutional reconfiguration, apostolic nuncios operated at ...
Britain under the Shadow of Arthur: The Arthurian Myth as a Political Theory of Empire (1461–1612)
1st Edition
By Julián González de León Heiblum
September 01, 2026
Few myths are as famous as Arthur’s, and few empires rival the reach of the British Empire. Yet the two share a history: from the Wars of the Roses to the consolidation of James I’s rule, the idea of a British Empire developed in conversation with the Arthurian myth. The vision of a British ...
Children and Young People in Eighteenth-Century Malta, ca. 1740 to 1798
1st Edition
By Rakele Fiott
July 30, 2026
Set within the complex social world of Hospitaller Malta, this book explores how early modern Mediterranean childhood was understood, regulated and experienced. It situates Maltese young people within broader historiographical debates while foregrounding the island’s distinctive archival richness. ...
Roman Ambitions: Bishop Thomas James at the Renaissance Papal Court
1st Edition
By Diane E. Booton
June 29, 2026
Roman Ambitions explores papal politics and humanist culture through the biographical framework of Thomas James (d. 1504), a Breton cleric who spent nearly two decades in Rome. The Italian Wars (1494–98) waged by King Charles VIII are often considered a seminal turning point in the reception of ...
Diplomacy and the Resilience of the Spanish Monarchy: The missions of Bernardino de Rebolledo and Antonio Pimentel in Denmark and Sweden, 1648 - 1660
1st Edition
By Enrique J. Corredera Nilsson
July 06, 2026
This study explores how the Spanish monarchy under Philip IV developed into a major diplomatic power between 1648 and 1660. Based on archival research in Spain, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden, and drawing on concepts from multilingual historiography and sociology, the book examines in detail the ...
Soldiers and Migrants: Foreign Mercenaries in the Principality of Transylvania (1541-1690)
1st Edition
By Florin Nicolae Ardelean
June 23, 2026
This book provides a detailed account of foreigners who performed military service in the Principality of Transylvania over almost one-and-a-half centuries. It explores their social and cultural background, their motivation for seeking employment in these parts of the continent and their ...
The Female Convents of Lisbon, 1640 to 1750
1st Edition
By Ben James
June 11, 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...