Routledge Research in Early Modern History
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The Dirty Secret of Early Modern Capitalism: The Global Reach of the Dutch Arms Trade, Warfare and Mercenaries in the Seventeenth Century
1st Edition
By Kees Boterbloem
June 30, 2021
This book shows how the Dutch accumulation of great wealth was closely linked to their involvement in warfare. By charting Dutch activity across the globe, it explores Dutch participation in the international arms trade, and in wars both at home and abroad. In doing so, it ponders the issue of how ...
The Peace of Augsburg and the Meckhart Confession: Moderate Religion in an Age of Militancy
1st Edition
By Adam Glen Hough
June 30, 2021
Taking the religiously diverse city of Augsburg as its focus, this book explores the underappreciated role of local clergy in mediating and interpreting the Peace of Augsburg in the decades following its 1555 enactment, focusing on the efforts of the preacher Johann Meckhart and his heirs in ...
The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies: Barbarism and Political Order
1st Edition
By Natsuko Matsumori
June 30, 2021
The School of Salamanca in the Affairs of the Indies explores the significance of Salamancans, such as Vitoria and Soto, and related thinkers, such as Las Casas and Sepúlveda, in the formation of the early modern political order. It also analyses early modern understandings of political order, with...
The Turks and Islam in Reformation Germany
1st Edition
By Gregory J. Miller
June 30, 2021
Although their role is often neglected in standard historical narratives of the Reformation, the Ottoman Turks were an important concern of many leading thinkers in early modern Germany, including Martin Luther. In the minds of many, the Turks formed a fearsome, crescent-shaped horizon that ...
The English Woollen Industry, c.1200-c.1560
1st Edition
By John Oldland
December 18, 2020
This is the first book to describe the early English woollens’ industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-sixteenth century, as English trade was transformed from dependence on wool to value-added woollen cloth. It compares English and continental draperies, ...
Criminal Justice During the Long Eighteenth Century: Theatre, Representation and Emotion
1st Edition
Edited
By David Lemmings, Allyson N. May
June 30, 2020
This book applies three overlapping bodies of work to generate fresh approaches to the study of criminal justice in England and Ireland between 1660 and 1850. First, crime and justice are interpreted as elements of the "public sphere" of opinion about government. Second, "performativity" and speech...
Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic: Fabricating Community in the Southern Netherlands, 1300-1800
1st Edition
By Bert De Munck
December 17, 2019
This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, ...
Women and Jewish Marriage Negotiations in Early Modern Italy: For Love and Money
1st Edition
By Howard Tzvi Adelman
December 17, 2019
This book examines the role of women in Jewish family negotiations, using the setting of Italy from the end of the Renaissance to the Baroque. In ghettos at night and under the scrutiny of inquisitions, Jews flourished. Life and learning were enriched by Jews from the Iberian Peninsula, the Ottoman...
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania: From the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Empires
1st Edition
By Zenonas Norkus
December 12, 2019
An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania is an interdisciplinary study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that is historical in subject but social scientific in approach. It is also the first study to apply this comparative and social scientific method to the GDL. In this book, ...
Cities and Solidarities: Urban Communities in Pre-Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Justin Colson, Arie van Steensel
December 12, 2019
Cities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban communities as dynamic interconnections of solidarities in medieval and early modern Europe. This volume sheds new light on the socio-economic conditions, the formal and ...
Dreams in Early Modern England
1st Edition
By Janine Riviere
December 12, 2019
Dreams in Early Modern England offers an in-depth exploration of the variety of different ways in which early modern people understood and interpreted dreams, from medical explanations to political, religious or supernatural associations. Through examining how dreams were discussed and presented in...
Dynastic Colonialism: Gender, Materiality and the Early Modern House of Orange-Nassau
1st Edition
By Susan Broomhall, Jacqueline Van Gent
December 12, 2019
Dynastic Colonialism analyses how women and men employed objects in particular places across the world during the early modern period in order to achieve the remarkable expansion of the House of Orange-Nassau. Susan Broomhall and Jacqueline Van Gent explore how the House emerged as a leading force ...