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Weixuan Li

Painters' Playbooks in the Art Market of Early Modern Amsterdam

The art market in seventeenth-century Amsterdam emerged as a competitive, multi-layered arena where artists of all kinds vied for a diverse and expanding clientele. How did this complex market function? A…

A Cultural History of Plants in the Early Modern Era

Covering the period from 1400 to 1650, this volume looks at how Renaissance learning and exploration irrevocably changed both our botanical knowledge and human impact on plants.

A Cultural History of Genocide in the Early Modern World

Historical studies of genocide in the 20th century trace the roots back to the sociopolitical, economic, and cultural developments of the early modern period. From globalization to urbanization, to imperi…

Diana Berruezo-Sánchez

Black Voices in Early Modern Spanish Literature, 1500-1750

Diana Berruezo-Sánchez recovers key chapters in the history of Afro-Iberian diasporas by exploring the literary contributions and life experiences of black African communities and individuals in early mod…

Teresa Grant

Apes and Monkeys on the Early Modern Stage, 1603-1659

This book is the first full-length study of apes and monkeys on the early modern stage. It broadens the scope of existing scholarship by situating the apes glimpsed in Shakespeare's plays in the wider con…

Jan De Vries

Life, Death, and Migration in the Early Modern City

Julianne Sandberg

Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots of the Eucharistic controversy in 16th c…

Isabella Lazzarini, Luciano Piffanelli, Diego Pirillo

Reframing Treaties in the Late Medieval and Early Modern West

The history of peacemaking has traditionally been reduced to isolated case studies and seen as the prelude to the presumed 'universal' and 'modern' international order. Countering this one-dimensional and…

Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern China and Japan

The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in…

Joad Raymond Wren

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe

'Highly ambitious and impressive ... a rich, multifaceted and thought-provoking book' Noel Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement News moves. It is a battle, a scandal, a disaster. It is a letter, a newspaper…

Karen O'Brien

Cursing, Crisis and Customary Knowledge in Early Modern English Townships

This book provides a historical and socio-legal investigation into the prevalence of litigation arising from cursing and interpersonal hostility in the under-explored region of Northwest England during a …

Malissa Taylor

Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Using Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources drawn from three genres of legal text, this book is the first full-length study in decades to investigate the evolution of Ottoman land law from its "classica…

The Power to Pardon in Medieval and Early Modern Christian Europe

In medieval and early modern Christian Europe, the power to exercise pardon over rigor of justice was one of the strongest manifestations of sovereignty and, as such, it was almost ubiquitous. For mercifu…

Hyun-Ah Kim

Music, Rhetoric and Christian Hebraism in Early Modern Europe

This book presents the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between music, rhetoric and Christian Hebraism, by re-appraising the significance of the "first German humanist" Johannes Re…

Moral Psychology in History: From the Ancient to Early Modern Period

This book provides a comprehensive study of major issues of moral psychology throughout history, from ancient to early modern philosophy. The volume focuses primarily on the Western history of philosophy …

Common Good and Self-Interest in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy

This open access volume provides an in-depth analysis of philosophical discussions concerning the common good and its relation to self-interest in the history of Western philosophy. The thirteen chapters …

Anastasia Stouraiti

War, Communication, and the Politics of Culture in Early Modern Venice

Provides an original interpretation of the politics of knowledge in early modern Venice, weaving together cultural history and critical imperial studies to show how war and territorial expansion shaped se…

Julianne Sandberg,

Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist

Examining what the eucharist taught early modern writers about their bodies and how it shaped the bodies they wrote about, this book shows how the exegetical roots of the Eucharistic controversy in 16th c…

Lara Dodds, Michelle M Dowd

Early Modern Women's Writing and the Future of Literary History

Previous studies of English literary history often excluded women's writing or relegated it to a secondary, isolated tradition. This book argues that a full accounting of early modern women's literary act…