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VIII distributing Bibles. 

Detail from the handcoloured 

title page 

to Hagiographa from 

the 1539 edition of 

The Byble in Englyshe 

(The Great Bible) held 

at St John’s College 

Library (Bb.8.30). By 

permission of the 

Master and Fellows 

of St John’s College, 

Cambridge. 

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Early Modern History............................................................................................2 

SERIES: 

St Andrews Studies in Reformation History series..............................................4 

Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700 series ...............................................................9 

Politics and Culture in North-western Europe 1650–1720 series......................11 

The History of Medicine in Context series ..........................................................14 

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World series......................................16 

Variorum Collected Studies series .......................................................................22 

Index............................................................................................................................................26 

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Early Modern History 

NEW 

Altarpieces and Their Viewers 

in the Churches of Rome from 

Caravaggio to Guido Reni 

Pamela Jones, University of Massachusetts, Boston 

Visual Culture in Early Modernity 

“Richly documented, subtly conceived, and lucidly 

argued, Pamela M. Jones’s important new book 

reconstructs the viewing audiences of five major reform 

altarpieces commissioned between 1595 and 1625. 

Her efforts to embed the act of beholding within various 

registers of cultural experience and socioeconomic 

‘horizons of expectation,’ result in compelling analyses 

of the altarpieces, which are seen to enliven, indeed, 

to instrumentalize the full spectrum of religious life.” 

—Walter Melion, Emory University 

A social history of reception, this study focuses on art 

and Catholicism in early modern Rome. The five public 

altarpieces examined here—by Caravaggio, Guercino, 

Guido Reni, Tommaso Laureti and Andrea Commodi— 

are seen anew through the eyes of female and male 

viewers from all walks of life. In treating officially 

sanctioned and unorthodox responses, Jones illuminates 

problems churchmen faced when trying to channel the 

power of images to reform Catholic society. 

Includes 16 color, 85 b&w illustrations, 

3 line drawings and 2 maps 

February 2008 390 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-6179-5 $99.95/£60.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Art and Communication 

in the Reign of Henry VIII 

Tatiana C. String, University of Bristol, UK 

Through in-depth analysis of a wide variety of works of 

art—including portraits, pageants, and prints—Tatiana 

String analyzes Henry VIII’s use of art to communicate 

with his subjects. Looking at Henrician England as a 

case study, String enriches our understanding of the 

fundamental contribution of imagery to communication, 

and provides a model for the study of the dissemination 

of ideas and the patron-artist relationship in other courts 

and historical periods. 

Includes 42 b&w illustrations 

May 2008 c. 172 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-6305-8 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 

2 Early Modern History 2008 

FORTHCOMING 

Art and Identity 

in Early Modern Rome 

Edited by Jill Burke and Michael Bury, 

both at University of Edinburgh, UK 

Considering identity creation and artistic development 

in Rome during this period, this collection adroitly 

demonstrates how the exceptional quality of Roman 

court and urban culture interacted with developments 

in the visual arts. With its distinctive chronological 

span and uniquely interdisciplinary approach, Art 

and Identity in Early Modern Rome puts forward an 

alternative history of the visual arts in early modern 

Rome, one that questions traditional periodization 

and stylistic categorization. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5690-6 c. $99.95/ c. £60.00 

The Atlantic Slave Trade 

Volume II Seventeenth Century 

Edited by Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, UK 

The Atlantic Slave Trade 

“…both beginners and specialists will find 

much to interest them in this large and wideranging 

anthology…” 

—Itinerario 

Includes 21 previously published essays 

2006 496 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-2576-6 $225.00/£110.00 

For information on the full series, please visit www.ashgate.com 

Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, 

and Music in Leipzig, 1650–1750 

Tanya Kevorkian, Millersville University 

Drawing upon a rich array of sources from archives in 

Leipzig, Dresden and Halle, Tanya Kevorkian illuminates 

culture in Leipzig before and during J.S. Bach’s time 

in the city. Working with these sources, she has been 

able to reconstruct the contexts of Baroque and Pietist 

cultures at key periods in their development much more 

specifically than has been done previously. Kevorkian 

shows that high Baroque culture emerged through a 

combination of traditional frameworks and practices, 

and an infusion of change that set in after 1680. 

Contents: Introduction; PART I: CONGREGANTS’ EVERYDAY 

PRACTICES: The experience of the service; Seating the 

religious public: church pews and society. PART II: THE 

PRODUCERS: The clergy, the city council, and Leipzig 

inhabitants; Elites in and beyond Leipzig: the Dresden 

court and the consistories; Leipzig’s cantors: status, 

politics and the adiaphora. PART III: THE PIETIST ALTERNATIVE: 

Sociability and religious protest: the collegia pietatatis 

of 1689–1690; The Pietist shadow network. PART IV: 

THE CONSTRUCTION BOOM AND BEYOND: Social change 

and religious life; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 


August 2007 266 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5490-2 $99.95/£55.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Before Bruegel 

Sebald Beham and the Origins 

of Peasant Festival Imagery 

Alison G. Stewart, University of Nebraska 

Peasant festival imagery began in sixteenth-century 

Nuremberg, when the city played host to a series of 

religious and secular festivals. The peasant festival 

images were first produced as woodcut prints in the 

decade between 1524 and 1535 by Sebald Beham. 

In Before Bruegel, Alison Stewart takes a fresh look 

at these images and explores them within their 

historical and cultural contexts, including the 

introduction of the Lutheran Reformation into 

the town’s institutions and the accompanying 

re-evaluation of the town’s popular festivals. 

Includes 4 color and 101 b&w illustrations 

June 2008 c. 256 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-3308-2 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 

The Beholder 

The Experience of Art in Early Modern Europe 

Edited by Thomas Frangenberg, Leicester 

University, UK and Robert Williams, 

University of California, Santa Barbara 

Histories of Vision 


2006 244 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-0679-6 $99.95/£55.00 

Biblical Scholarship 

and the Church 

A Sixteenth-Century Crisis of Authority 

Allan K. Jenkins and Patrick Preston, 

University of Chichester, UK 

Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, 

Theology and Biblical Studies 

This book traces how the authority of the Septuagint and 

later that of the Vulgate was called into question by the 

return to the original languages of scripture, and how 

linguistic scholarship was seen to pose a challenge to 

the authority of the teaching and tradition of the church. 

It shows how issues that remained unresolved in the 

early church re-emerged in first half of the sixteenth 

century with the publication of Erasmus’ Greek-Latin 

New Testament of 1516. After examining the differences 

between Erasmus and his critics, the authors contrast 

the situation in England, where Reformation issues were 

dominant, and Italy, where the authority of Rome was 

never in question. Focusing particularly on the dispute 

between Thomas More and William Tyndale in England, 

and between Ambrosius Catharinus and Cardinal 

Cajetan in Italy, this book brings together perspectives 

from biblical studies and church history and provides 

access to texts not previously translated into English. 

July 2007 340 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-3703-5 $99.95/£50.00

FORTHCOMING 

The Birth of Mankind 

Otherwise Named, The Woman’s Book 

Edited by Elaine Hobby, Loughborough 

University, UK 

Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity 

Between 1540 and 1654, The Byrth of Mankynde was 

a huge commercial success. Offering information on 

fertility, pregnancy, birth and infant care, and written 

in a chatty, colloquial style, it influenced most other 

literary works of the period bearing on sex, reproduction 

and childcare. Until now, this important work has been 

unavailable except for a microfilm of the 1654 edition. 

For this new annotated edition of the 1560 version, 

Elaine Hobby has modernized the spelling and 

included informative notes. 

Contents: Introduction: The history of The Birth of 

Mankind; Humoral theory; Other common medical 

beliefs in the early-modern period; New anatomy 

in The Birth of Mankind; Illustrations in The Birth 

of Mankind; The ‘authors’ of The Birth of Mankind; 

Note on textual history. The Birth of Mankind: 

otherwise named the Woman’s Book; Preface (albeit 

some Aristarchus may perhaps find some lack); Here 

beginneth the table of the present book; A prologue 

to the women readers; The first book; The second 

book; The third book; The fourth book. Appendices; 

Medical glossary; Bibliography; Index. 


September 2008 c. 240 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-3818-6 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 

NEW 

Black Lives in the English 

Archives, 1500–1677 

Imprints of the Invisible 

Imtiaz Habib, Old Dominion University 

“Imtiaz Habib’s meticulous examination of English 

sources, both manuscript and printed, will profoundly 

reshape the ongoing arguments about ‘race’ in 

sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England…For 

decades to come, scholars in many fields will gratefully 

mine Habib’s chronological chart of 448 records of 

‘black people’ between 1500 and 1677 and debate his 

extensive analysis. Black Lives in the English Archives is 

a major contribution.” 

—Alden T. Vaughan, Columbia University and author of 

Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 

1500–1776 (2006) 

Containing an urgently needed archival database 

of historical evidence, this volume includes both a 

consolidated presentation of the documentary records 

of black people in Tudor and Stuart England and an 

interpretive narrative that confirms and significantly 

extends the insights of current theoretical excursus 

on race in early modern England. The systematic, 

chronological descriptive index combined with the 

interpretive scholarship provides a strong framework 

from which future historical debates on race in early 

modern England can proceed. 

Includes 4 b&w illustrations and 2 maps 

January 2008 432 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5695-1 $99.95/£60.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Bolognese Instrumental Music, 

1660–1710 

Spiritual Comfort, Courtly Delight, 

and Commercial Triumph 

Gregory Barnett, Rice University 

This book, the first of its kind, is a study of Bolognese 

instrumental music during the height of the city’s 

musical activity in the late seventeenth century. 

It not only illustrates the historically significant 

and defining features of the music, but also links the 

surviving repertory to the flourishing musical culture 

in which it was created 

Includes 2 color illustrations, 19 b&w illustrations 

and 185 music examples 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5871-9 c. $114.95/c. £60.00 

Borders and Travellers 

in Early Modern Europe 

Edited by Thomas Betteridge, Oxford 

Brookes University, UK 

Early modern Europe was obsessed with borders and 

travel—concepts that appealed and appalled in equal 

measure. Adopting a broad cultural approach, this 

collection presents a series of essays dealing with travel 

in the near east, Venice and Germany, travel writing and 

texts across Europe and specific border zones, such as 

the Irish Pale, and the border between Christians and 

Turks. Through a shared awareness of the way in which 

traveling and border crossing in the early modern world 

inevitably raised questions about identity, order and 

power, the contributors to this volume underline the 

shifting and uncertain nature of borders and traveling, 

and offer a fascinating insight into the cultural and 

social world of early modern Europe. 

Contents: Introduction: borders, travel and writing, 

Tom Betteridge. PART I: BORDERS: Highways, hospitals 

and boundary hazards, Margaret Healy; Alien desires: 

travellers and sexuality in early modern London, 

Duncan Salkeld; Rogue traders: national identity, empire 

and piracy 1580–1640, Claire Jowitt. PART II: EUROPE: Life 

and death on the Habsburg-Ottoman frontier: Bálint 

Balassi’s ‘In Laudem Confiniorum’ and other soldiersongs, 

Mike Pincombe; Unwanted travellers: the 

tightening of city borders in early modern Germany, 

Maria R. Boes; Translation and the migration of texts, 

Andrew Pettegree. PART III: TRAVELLERS: ‘Idiote’: politics 

and friendship in Thomas Coryate, David J. Baker; 

Returning from Venice to England: Sir Henry Wotton 

as diplomat, pedagogue, and Italian cultural connoisseur, 

Melanie Ord; Sacred cannibals and golden kings: 

travelling the borders of the New World with Hans 

Staden and Walter Ralegh, Neil L. Whitehead. 

Afterword: Did cannibals have a Renaissance?, 

Andrew Hadfield; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5351-6 $99.95/£55.00 


Botanical Riches 

Stories of Botanical Exploration 

Richard Aitken 

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 

“This is a book to treasure. Lavishly illustrated, lovingly 

written, globally inclusive…Readers will find some 

wonderfully compelling cultural-botanical juxtapositions 

…readable, informative text. Essential. All levels.” 

—Choice 

Includes 300 color illustrations 

2006 256 pages 

Hardback 978-0-85331-955-9 $50.00/£25.00 

The Boyle Papers 

Understanding the Manuscripts 

of Robert Boyle 

Michael Hunter, Birkbeck College, 

University of London, UK 

The papers, letters and ancillary manuscripts of the 

influential scientist, Robert Boyle (1627–91) have been 

at the Royal Society since 1769—a catalog of them first 

published in 1992. This volume presents that catalog 

in completely revised form, updated to do justice to 

the extensive use made of the archive in the definitive 

editions of Boyle’s Works and Correspondence published 

between 1999 and 2001. The book also includes studies 

of the history of the archive and its components, in which 

significant conclusions are drawn about the development 

of Boyle’s ideas. This book will be indispensable 

to anyone with a serious interest in Boyle. 

Include 16 b&w illustrations 

March 2007 688 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5568-8 $134.95/£75.00 

The Burghs and Parliament 

in Scotland, c. 1550–1651 

Alan R. MacDonald, University of Dundee, UK 

Existing studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus 

on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from 

the sixteenth century, a unique national representative 

assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, 

provided an insight into the activities of another key 

group in society. Drawing extensively on local and 

national sources, this book sheds new light upon the 

way in which parliament acted as a point of contact— 

a place where legislative business was done, 

relationships formed and status affirmed. 


April 2007 254 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5328-8 $99.95/£55.00 

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SERIES 

ST ANDREWS STUDIES IN REFORMATION HISTORY 

Series Editors: Bruce Gordon, Andrew Pettegree and Roger Mason, University 

of St Andrews, UK, Amy Nelson Burnett, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 

Euan Cameron, Union Theological Seminary, New York and Kaspar von Greyerz, 

University of Basel, Switzerland 

For more information on this series, please visit www.ashgate.com 

NEW 

The Chancery of God 

Protestant Print, Polemic and Propaganda 

against the Empire, Magdeburg 1546–1551 

Nathan Rein, Ursinus College 

St Andrews Studies in Reformation History 

The Chancery of God is the first English language 

study of the city of Magdeburg’s resistance to Emperor 

Charles V’s drive to consolidate Habsburg hegemony 

and reinstitute uniform Roman Catholic worship 

throughout Germany. The book offers an analysis of 

the flood of printed material published in Magdeburg 

during the crucial years of 1546–1551, articulating a 

broad spectrum of arguments for resistance. More than 

this, however, the pamphlets and broadsides suggest a 

coherent identity and worldview that is characteristically 

and self-consciously Protestant. 

Contents: Introduction; Pamphlets and policy;’German 

liberty’; ‘God’s Word, pure and clear’—the interim 

controversy; Urban theology and the siegeworks; 

Religion and the ‘Magdeburg worldview’; Afterword; 

Sources; Index. 

Includes 5 b&w images 

March 2008 c. 274 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5686-9 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

The Correspondence 

of Reginald Pole 

Volume 4: A Biographical Companion: 

The British Isles 

Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College 


Reginald Pole (1500–1558), cardinal and archbishop 

of Canterbury, was at the center of reform controversies 

in the mid 16th century—antagonist of Henry VIII, a 

leader of the reform group in the Roman Church, and 

nearly elected pope (Julius III was elected in his stead). 

His voluminous correspondence—more than 2,500 

items, including letters to him—forms a major source 

for historians not only of England, but of Catholic 

Europe and the early Reformation as a whole. The 

entries in this and the next volume identify all the 

persons mentioned in any significant way in the 

previous three volumes of correspondence. 

Contents: Abbreviations; Introduction A-Z; Errata/ 

Corrige; Addenda. 

March 2008 656 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-0329-0 $144.95/£75.00 

For full information on this collection 

please visit, www.ashgate.com 


Catholic Belief and Survival 

in Late Sixteenth-Century Vienna 

The Case of Georg Eder (1523–87) 

Elaine Fulton, University of Birmingham, UK 


Dr. Georg Eder was an extraordinary figure who rose 

from humble origins to hold a number of high positions 

at Vienna University and the city’s Habsburg court 

between 1552 and 1584. Pivoting around a dramatic 

incident in 1573, when Eder’s ferocious anti-Lutheran 

polemic, the Evangelical Inquisition, fell under sharp 

Imperial condemnation, this book investigates key 

aspects of his career and adds significantly to the wider 

canon of Reformation history by re-examining the 

nature and extent of Catholicism at the Viennese 

court in the latter half of the sixteenth century. 

May 2007 216 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5652-4 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

The Cosmographia 

of Sebastian Münster 

Describing the World in the Reformation 

Matthew McLean 


Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia was an immensely 

influential book that attempted to describe the entire 

world across all of human history and analyze its 

constituent elements of geography, history, ethnography, 

zoology and botany. Through this examination of 

Münster, his publications and scholarly networks, the 

conflicts and continuities between medieval scholarly 

traditions and the widening horizons of the sixteenth 

century are explored and revealed. Of interest to 

scholars of humanist culture, the Reformation and book 

history, this ambitious work throws into relief previously 

overlooked aspects of the intellectual and religious 

culture of the time. 

Contents: Introduction; Sebastian Münster: a brief 

biography; 16th-century cosmography: its sources, 

development and ambitions; The Cosmographia: 

genesis of an idea, methods of realisation, versions of 

the text; From centre to periphery: the organisation, 

topics and content of the Cosmographiae Universalis; 

Understanding the world of Münster’s Cosmographia: 

evaluating man, celebrating his works and interpreting 

the book of the world; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 


October 2007 392 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5843-6 $99.95/£60.00 

NEW 

Adaptations of Calvinism 

in Reformation Europe 

Essays in Honour of Brian G. Armstrong 

Edited by Mack P. Holt, George Mason University 


Traditional historiography has always viewed Calvin’s 

Geneva as the benchmark against which all other 

Reformed communities must inevitably be measured, 

judging those communities who did not follow Geneva’s 

institutional and doctrinal example as somehow inferior 

and incomplete. This book builds upon recent scholarship 

that challenges this concept and instead offers a more 

positive view of Reformed communities beyond Geneva. 

Contents: Introduction, Mack P. Holt; PART I: CALVIN, BEZA, 

AND GENEVA: John Calvin’s interpretation of Psalm 22, 

Bernard Roussel; Was Calvin a crypto-Zwinglian?, 

Anthony N.S. Lane; Development and coherence in 

Calvin’s Institutes: the case of baptism (Institutes 4:15– 

4:16), David F. Wright; God’s eternal decree and its 

temporal execution: the role of this distinction in 

Theodore Beza’s theology, Donald Sinnema. PART II: 

REFORMED IDEAS OUTSIDE GENEVA: A lay voice in 16thcentury 

‘ecumenics’: Katharina Schütz Zell in dialogue 

with Johannes Brenz, Conrad Pellican and Caspar 

Schwenckfeld, Elsie Anne McKee; Vera Ecclesiae 

Concordia: Martin Bucer’s blueprint for the Reformation 

in France, Willem van’t Spijker; Politique and spiritualist 

tolerance: Bodin’s Heptaplomeres and Coornhert’s 

Synodus, Gerrit. Voogt. PART III: THE REFORMATION IN FRANCE: 

The Genevan model and Gallican originality in the French 

reformed tradition, Raymond A. Mentzer; Divisions 

within French Calvinism: Philippe Duplessis-Mornay 

and the Eucharist, Mack P. Holt; The Jacques Royer affair, 

1604–1624: an argument over liturgy in Geneva and 

France, Robert M. Kingdon. PART IV: THE REFORMATIONS 

IN ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND: A Calvinist bishop at the 

court of King Charles I, Daniel J. Steere; Popular polity?: 

the imposition of Elizabethan church discipline in the 

Deanery of Stottesden, Brett G. Armstrong; Marginal 

at best: John Knox’s contribution to the Geneva Bible, 

1560, Dale Walden Johnson; Index. 

December 2007 266 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5149-9 $99.95/£55.00 

Catholic Activism in South-West 

France, 1540–1570 

Kevin Gould, Nottingham Trent Universtiy, UK 


“…a brilliantly researched and well-written book that 

breaks new ground in our understanding of local and 

regional strategies prior to and during the Wars of 

Religion…This book should be mandatory reading for 

all scholars of sixteenth-century religious history.” 

—Renaissance Quarterly 

2006 204 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5226-7 $99.95/£50.00

NEW 

Defending Royal Supremacy 

and Discerning God’s Will 

in Tudor England 

Daniel Eppley, Thiel College, Greenville 


This book highlights and explores the important 

relationship between the Tudor supremacy over the 

church and the hermeneutics of discerning God’s will. 

It addresses this topic by considering defenses of the 

Henrician and Elizabethan royal supremacies over the 

English church made by Christopher St. German and 

Richard Hooker. Both of these men were in broad 

agreement that it was the responsibility of English 

Christians to subordinate their subjective understandings 

of God’s will to the interpretation of God’s will 

propounded by the church authorities. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Henrician 

supremacy and the definition of doctrine; Defending 

royal supremacy apart from the definition of doctrine; 

Christopher St German: defending royal supremacy over 

the definition of doctrine; The Elizabethan supremacy 

and the admonition controversy; Richard Hooker: royal 

supremacy over the definition of doctrine reaffirmed; 

Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 

November 2007 260 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-6013-2 $99.95/£55.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Humanism and the 

Reform of Sacred Music 

in Early Modern England 

John Merbecke the Orator and 

The Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550) 

Hyun-Ah Kim, University of Toronto 


This book provides a new interpretation of John 

Merbecke (c.1505–c.1585), the Tudor musician, copyist 

and writer. Providing a new contextual study of Merbecke, 

this book re-interprets his work in the light of humanist 

rhetoric. It shows how Merbecke embodied the ideal of 

the “Christian-musical orator,” and his 1550 publication 

The Booke of Common Praier Noted was an Anglican 

epitome of the Erasmian synthesis of eloquence, 

theology and music. The book thus explores the work of 

Merbecke as a humanist reformer, through re-evaluation 

of his contributions to the developments of vernacular 

music and literature in early modern England. As such 

it will be of interest, not only to church musicians, 

but also to historians of the Reformation and students 

of wider Tudor culture. 

Contents: Introduction; A humanist John Merbecke; 

Erasmian humanism and the reform of sacred music; 

Anglican plainchant in the making; Rhetoric and the 

reform of plainchant in The Booke of Common Praier 

Noted; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. 

Includes 17 b&w illustrations and 4 music examples 

August 2008 c. 296 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-6268-6 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 

NEW 

From Judaism to Calvinism 

The Life and Writings of Immanuel Tremellius 

(c.1510–1580) 

Kenneth Austin, University of Bristol, UK 


This book provides the first full-length study of the 

influential biblical scholar Immanuel Tremellius (1510– 

1580) since the late nineteenth century. It traces his 

conversion from Judaism, through Catholicism, to 

Protestantism, where he established a reputation as the 

leading scholar of Hebraic studies in Europe. Tremellius’s 

life not only reveals much about Reformation scholarship, 

but also about its attitudes to Jews and Jewish studies 

in an age of rapidly shifting theological doctrines. 

Contents: Preface: Introduction; A Jew in a renaissance 

city; Conversion and the flight into exile; Beginning 

a life in exile; Regius professor; Bridging the gap: 

Zweibrücken and Hornbach; Professor of the Old 

Testament at Heidelberg; The Novum Testamentum; 

The Testamenti Veteris Biblia Sacra; The last years; 

Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. 

September 2007 254 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5233-5 $99.95/£55.00 

FORTHCOMING 

The Idol in the Age of Art 

Objects, Devotions and the Early Modern World 

Edited by Michael W. Cole, University of Pennsylvania 

and Rebecca E. Zorach, University of Chicago 


Conflicting attitudes towards devotional art was a major 

factor in the confessional divisions that split Reformation 

Europe. In this volume, the notion of idols is approached 

from a broad interdisciplinary front, that explores art and 

religion and shows how these perceptions were exported 

to the new worlds explored by European adventurers. 

Contents: Introduction, Michael Cole and Rebecca Zorach; 

Capricious arts: idols in Renaissance era Africa and 

Europe: the case of Sapi and Kongo, Suzanne Blier; 

Reforming idols and viewing history in Pieter 

Saenredam’s perspectives, Celeste Brusati; Perpetual 

exorcism in Sistine Rome, Michael Cole; The golden 

calf in America, Thomas Cummins; The grotesque 

idol: imaginary, symbolic and real, Claire Farago and 

Carol Komadina Parenteau; The shadow of the wolf: the 

survival of an ancient god in Filippino Lippi’s Strozzi 

chapel and the discourse of the idol in Florence around 

1500, Philine Helas and Gerhard Wolf; Ex-votos: 

materiality, memory, and cult, Megan Holmes; Ad 

fontes: iconoclasm by water, Donald McColl; ‘Nor my 

praise given to graven images’: divine artifice and the 

heart’s idols in Georg Mack the Elder’s painted print 

of the Trinity, Walter S. Melion; Idolatry and Westerninspired 

painting in Japan, Mia Mochizuki; Creaturelyinvented 

letters and dead Chinese idols, Dawn Odell; 

Full of grace: ‘Mariolatry’ in post-Reformation Germany, 

Larry Silver; Mediation, idolatry, mathematics: the printed 

image in Europe around 1500, Rebecca Zorach. Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5290-8 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 


FORTHCOMING 

The Impact of the 

European Reformation 

Princes, Clergy and People 

Edited by Bridget Heal, University of St Andrews, 

UK and Ole Grell, The Open University, UK 


Recent decades have witnessed the fragmentation of 

Reformation studies. High-level research has tended to 

be confined within specific geographical, confessional 

or chronological boundaries. By bringing together 

scholars working on a wide variety of topics, this 

volume aims to counteract this centrifugal trend and 

to provide a broad perspective on the impact of the 

European reformation. The essays present new research 

from historians of politics, of the church and of belief. 

Their geographical scope ranges from Scotland and 

England via France and Germany to Transylvania 

and their chronological span from the 1520s to the 

1690s. They indicate the diverse directions in which 

Reformation scholarship is now moving, while 

reminding us of the need to understand particular 

developments within a broader European context. 

Together, they demonstrate that movements for religious 

reform left no sphere of European life untouched. 

Contents: Introduction, Bridget Head; PART 1: PRINCES: 

Hubmaier, Schappeler, and Hergot on social revolution, 

Tom Scott; The politics of law and gospel: the Protestant 

prince and the Holy Roman Empire, C. Scott Dixon; 

Rich and poor in Reformation Augsburg: the city 

council, the Fugger bank and the formation of a 

biconfessional society, Bernd Roeck; The contest for 

control of urban centres in Southwest France during 

the early years of the Wars of Religion, Kevin Gould. 

PART 2: CLERGY: The ‘new’ clergies in Europe: Protestant 

pastors and Catholic Reform clergy after the Reformation, 

Luise Schorn-Schütte; The clergy and parish discipline 

in England, 1570–1640, Christopher Haigh; The Virgin 

Mary and the publican: Lutheranism and social order 

in Transylvania, Christine Peters; Kirk in danger: 

Presbyterian political divinity in 2 eras, Michael F. Graham. 

PART 3: PEOPLE: Fairies, Egyptians and elders: multiple 

cosmologies in Post-Reformation Scotland, Margo Todd; 

Sacred spas? Healing springs and religion in Post- 

Reformation Britain, Alexandra Walsham; The 

reformation of astronomy, Adam Mosley; French 

books at the Frankfurt fair, Andrew Pettegree; Index. 

Includes 4 b&w illustrations and 1 map 


Hardback 978-0-7546-6212-9 c. $114.95/c. £60.00 

Enforcing Reformation in Ireland 

and Scotland, 1550–1700 

Edited by Elizabethanne Boran 

and Crawford Gribben, both at Trinity 

College Dublin, Ireland 


2006 272 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5582-4 $120.00/£60.00 

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NEW 

Johann Sleidan and the 

Protestant Vision of History 

Alexandra Kess, University of Zurich, Switzerland 


Johann Sleidan (1506–1556) was the author of the 

first great history of the Protestant movement, and as 

such did much to influence how it was perceived by 

Catholics and Protestants alike. In this new study his 

life and works are comprehensively analyzed for the 

first time, exploring his roles as both diplomat and 

historian. In so doing, much is revealed about how 

many moderate statesmen and scholars sought to 

bridge the growing confessional divide and promote 

coexistence. Simultaneously, it also investigates how 

Protestantism began to search for, and manufacture, 

its own history independent of that espoused by the 

Catholic Church. By following these themes, this book 

offers a fascinating and timely look at an influential, 

yet largely forgotten, figure of the Reformation. 

Contents: Introduction; The making of a historian; 

Historian of the Schmalkaldic League; In the service of 

Strasbourg; Sleidan’s De statu religionis et reipublicae, 

Carolo Quinto, Caesare, Commentarii—an official 

Protestant view of history?; Sleidan and the German 

historians; Sleidan’s reception in France; Conclusion; 

Appendix: Sleidan’s correspondance and related 

documents; Bibliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5770-5 $99.95/£55.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Life Writing in Reformation Europe 

Lives of Reformers by Friends, 

Disciples and Foes 

Irena Backus, University of Geneva, Switzerland 


This engaging study brings to light a largely neglected 

genre of Reformation literature, the Lives of various 

Reformers written after their death by contemporaries. 

Utilizing this important canon of reformation writing 

raises intriguing questions about the role of the 

individual and of Protestant hagiography, as well as 

the influence of classical and humanist traditions that 

stress the importance of the “great” individual in setting 

an example for others to follow. This ambitious book 

provides a fascinating insight into the intersection of 

hagiography, literature, theology and polemical debate 

across the key years of the European Reformation. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-6055-2 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 


Local Politics in the 

French Wars of Religion 

The Towns of Champagne, the Duc de Guise, 

and the Catholic League, 1560–95 

Mark W. Konnert, University of Calgary 


“This is a persuasive and lucid addition to the 

ever-growing body of local studies of the French 

Wars of Religion.” 

—Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique 

Includes 7 maps 

2006 316 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5593-0 $120.00/£60.00 

NEW 

The Monarchical Republic 

of Early Modern England 

Essays in Response to Patrick Collinson 

Edited by John F. McDiarmid, 

New College of Florida 


“This wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection 

opens up rich vistas in our understanding of early 

modern politics, political thought and culture… 

A significant and welcome contribution.” 

—Natalie Mears, University of Durham, UK 

In this volume, a distinguished international group 

of scholars examines the idea of the “monarchical 

republic” from the 1530s to the 1640s, and tests the 

concept from a variety of points of view. 

Contents: Introduction, John F. McDiarmid; The two 

republics: conflicting views of participatory local 

government in early Tudor England, Ethan H. Shagan; 

Sir William Cecil, Sir Thomas Smith, and the 

monarchical republic of Tudor England, Dale Hoak; 

Common consent, latinitas and the ‘monarchical 

republic’ in mid-Tudor humanism, John F. McDiarmid; 

The political creed of William Cecil, Stephen Alford; 

‘Let none such office take, save he that can for right his 

prince forsake’: A Mirror for Magistrates, resistance theory 

and the Elizabethan monarchical republic, Scott Lucas; 

Rhetoric and citizenship in the monarchical republic of 

Queen Elizabeth I, Markku Peltonen; The monarchical 

republic of Queen Elizabeth I (and the fall of Archbishop 

Grindal) revisited, Peter Lake; The political significance 

of the 1st tetralogy, Andrew Hadfield; Challenging the 

monarchical republic: James I’s articulation of kingship, 

Anne McLaren; Reading for magistracy: the mental 

world of Sir John Newdigate, Richard Cust; English 

and Roman liberty in the monarchical republic of 

early Stuart England, Johann P. Sommerville; American 

corruption, Andrew Fitzmaurice; The monarchical 

republic enthroned, Quentin Skinner; Afterword, 

Patrick Collinson; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5434-6 $99.95/£60.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Patents, Pictures and Patronage 

John Day and the Tudor Book Trade 

Elizabeth Evenden, Newnham College, 

University of Cambridge, UK 


John Day (1522–1584) is generally acknowledged to 

be the foremost English printer of the latter sixteenthcentury. 

As well as printing some of the most important 

books of his day, most notably John Foxe’s Acts and 

Monuments, he also pioneered enormous advances 

in English typography and book illustration. Yet despite 

his legacy, this book is the first full-length study 

to investigate Day’s life and legacy. 

Contents: Early activities in the book trade; The reign 

of Mary Tudor; 1558–1563: the return to Protestant 

printing; 1563–1568: innovation and reputation; 

Day’s technical achievments: improvements in book 

illustration; 1569–1576: premier printer to the Protestant 

regime; 1576–1584: the final years; Day’s achievments 

and legacy; Select bibliography. 


July 2008 c. 270 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5480-3 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 

Philip Melanchthon 

and the English Reformation 

John Schofield 


2006 250 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5567-1 $99.95/£55.00 

Reforming the Art of Dying 

The ars moriendi in the German 

Reformation (1519–1528) 

Austra Reinis, Missouri State University, Springfield 


This study focuses on the earliest of Protestant 

handbooks that addressed the subject of death and 

dying. Beginning with Luther’s Sermon on Preparing 

to Die in 1519 and ending with Jakob Otter’s Christlich 

leben vnd sterben in 1528, it explores how Luther and 

his colleagues adopted traditional themes and motifs, 

transforming them to accord with their conviction that 

Christians could be certain of their salvation. It further 

shows how Luther’s colleagues drew on his writings, not 

only on dying, but also his sermons on the sacraments. 

The study concludes that the assurance of salvation that 

these works offered represented a significant change 

from traditional teaching on death. 

February 2007 304 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5439-1 $99.95/£55.00

Religious Identities 

in Henry VIII’s England 

Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, UK 


“…students of Tudor religion and culture will find this 

volume highly appetizing and immensely enjoyable.” 

—Church History 

2006 312 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5390-5 $99.95/£60.00 

Restoring Christ’s Church 

John a Lasco and the Forma ac ratio 

Michael S. Springer, University 

of Central Oklahoma 


This book examines the struggle for Protestant 

consensus through the work of John a Lasco (1499– 

1560), particularly his book Forma ac ratio. Published 

in 1555, it records the rites and practices of the London 

Strangers’ Church and was intended to provide a model 

for uniting the disparate Protestant communities on 

the continent. By putting Lasco’s unique model for 

Protestant churches into the wider European context 

and assessing his impact on the struggle for unity, this 

book helps to re-establish Lasco as a pivotal figure 

of the reformation. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5601-2 $99.95/£55.00 

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FORTHCOMING 

The Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific 

Edited by Anthony Reid, National 

University of Singapore 

The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples 

and History of the Pacific, 1500–1900: 16 

Contents: Introduction; CONCEPTS AND OVERVIEW: 

Conceptualizing Chinese diasporas 1842 to 1949, 

Adam McKeown; The distribution and occupations 

of overseas Chinese, Sen-Dou Chang. MIGRATION, 

INTERACTION AND HYBRIDITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Change and 

persistence in Chinese culture overseas: a comparison 

of Thailand and Java, Chingho A. Chen; The Chinaman 

abroad: an account of the Malayan Archipelago, 

particularly of Java, Tae-Hae Ong [Dahai Wang]; The 

Chinese mestizo in Philippine history, Edgar Wickberg. 

AROUND THE PACIFIC: Chinese coolie emigration to countries 

within the British Empire, Persia Crawford Campbell; 

The Chinese struggle for civil rights in 19th-century 

America: the first phase, 1850–1870, Charles McClain; 

Origins of the Chinese in the South Pacific islands, 

W.E. Willmott; From gold mountain women to 

astronauts’ wives: challenges to New Zealand Chinese 

women, Manying Ip. BETWEEN NATIONALISMS: A note on the 

origins of ‘Hua-Chiao’, Gungwu Wang; The overseas 

Chinese and the 1911 revolution, Ching-hwang Yen; 

Pigtail: a pre-history of Chineseness in Siam, 

Kasian Tejapira. Index 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5749-1 c. $154.95/c. £80.00 

The City and the Senses 

Urban Culture Since 1500 

Edited by Alexander Cowan and Jill Steward, 

Northumbria University, UK 

Historical Urban Studies Series 

“This is an interesting and important book on a hitherto 

rather neglected subject…The editorial introduction 

offers both a useful theoretical survey and an overview 

of trends from the Renaissance onwards…a raft of 

lively and informative studies follows…the editors, 

Alex Cowan and Jill Steward, are to be congratulated 

on producing an excellent pioneering work.” 

—H-Albion 

The essays in this volume take an interdisciplinary 

and wide ranging look at urban history through the 

five senses of sight, sound, touch, taste and smell. 

By spanning pre-industrial and modern cities it enables 

the reader to establish major contrasts and continuities 

in what is still an evolving urban experience. 


January 2007 264 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-0514-0 $99.95/£55.00 


Cabinets for the Curious 

Looking Back at Early English Museums 

Ken Arnold, The Wellcome Trust, UK 

Perspectives on Collecting 

“This bold and exhilarating study combines polemic 

relevant to the modern museum practitioner with 

historical insight that makes an important contribution 

to the study of early modern museums.” 

—Medical History 

2006 310 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-0506-5 $99.95/£55.00 

Colonial America 

and the Early Republic 

Edited by Philip N. Mulder, High Point University 

The International Library of Essays on Political History 

The articles in this collection explore aspects of 

colonial American, such as: Native American interests 

and encounters with settlers; diplomatic endeavours; 

environmental issues; legal debates and practiced law; 

women’s citizenship and rights; servitude and slavery; 

and popular political activity. The international and 

interdisciplinary perspectives illustrate the dynamic 

transformations of America during this era of settlement, 

conquest, development, revolution and nation building. 

Contents: Introduction; The Indians’ Old World: Native 

Americans and the coming of Europeans, Neal Salisbury; 

‘This evil extends especially…the feminine sex’: 

negotiating captivity in the New Mexico borderlands, 

James F. Brookes; King Philip’s herds: Indians, colonists, 

and the problem of livestock in early New England, 

Virginia DeJohn Anderson; Women and property across 

colonial America: a comparison of legal systems in New 

Mexico and New York, Deborah A. Rosen; Taking 

possession and reading texts: establishing the authority 

of overseas empires, Patricia Seed; Reading the runaways: 

self-fashioning, print culture, and confidence in slavery 

in 18th-century mid-Atlantic, David Waldstreicher; 

‘Damned scoundrels’ and ‘libertisme of trade’: freedom 

and regulation in colonial New York’s fur and grain 

trades, Cathy Matson; ‘Baubles of Britain’: the American 

consumer revolutions of the 18th century, T.H. Breen; 

Patriarchy reborn: the gendering of authority in the 

evangelical Church in revolutionary New England, 

Susan M. Juster; Food rioters and the American 

Revolution, Barbara Clark Smith; Between slavery and 

freedom: Virginia blacks in the American Revolution, 

Sylvia R. Frey; John Adams, diplomat, John Ferling; 

Thinking like a constitution, Jack N. Rakove; ‘Of every 

age sex and condition’: the representation of women 

in the constitution, Jan Lewis; Slander, poison, whispers, 

and fame: Jefferson’s ‘Anas’ and political gossip in the 

early republic, Joanne B. Freeman; Rites of rebellion, 

rites of assent: celebrations, print, culture and the 

origins of American nationalism, David Waldstreicher; 

Liberty, development, and union: visions of the West 

in the 1780s, Peter S. Onuf; Thinking and believing: 

nativism and unity in the ages of Pontiac and Tecumseh, 

Gregory E. Dowd; Name index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-2613-8 $275.00/£140.00 

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The Commodification 

of Textual Engagements 

in the English Renaissance 

Michael Saenger, Southwestern University 

“Saenger’s analyses are clear and insightful…the book 

makes an excellent case for further analysis of the front 

matter of Renaissance texts and lays a good critical 

foundation for doing so.” 



2006 182 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5413-1 $89.95/£45.00 

FORTHCOMING 

‘The Contending Kingdoms’ 

France and England 1430–1700 

Edited by Glenn Richardson, St Mary’s College, 

University of Surrey, UK. 

This book contains a collection of essays exploring the 

Anglo-French diplomatic, cultural and dynastic relations 

during the early modern period. It shows just how close 

early modern England’s connections with France were, 

even at times of crisis. 

Contents: Introduction: the contending kingdoms: 

England and France 1420–1700, Glenn Richardson; 

2 kingdoms,1 king: the Treaty of Troyes (1420) and 

the creation of a double monarchy of England and 

France, Anne Curry; France and England at peace, 

1475–1513, Charles Giry-Deloison; The French and 

the English nobilities in the 16th century: a comparison, 

Robert J. Knecht; Pomp and circumstance: state prelates 

under Francis I and Henry VIII, Cédric Michon; The 

French connection: Francis I and England’s break 

with Rome, Glenn Richardson; Elizabeth I and 

Catherine de’ Medici, Susan Doran; Richelieu and 

Britain (1634–1642), Loïc Bienassis; ‘A stranger born’: 

female usage of international networks in times of war, 

Sonja Kmec; Anglo-French negotiations on the Spanish 

partition treaties (1698–1700): a re-evaluation, 

David Onnekink; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5789-7 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 


The Counts of Laval 

Culture, Patronage and Religion 

in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France 

Malcolm Walsby, University of St Andrews, UK 

The Lavals were one of the most important families in 

late medieval France, rising to a position of unsurpassed 

eminence by the mid sixteenth century when all was 

put at risk by the dual challenges of dynastic failure 

and the Reformation. This monograph offers a fresh look 

at several of the critical questions facing historians of 

late medieval and early modern France. It re-examines 

the patronage of a rising and enterprising family 

and provides a new insight into the nature of noble 

Protestantism. It also considers the events of wars 

of religion in western France from the perspective 

of a noble leadership that simultaneously played 

a vital role in sustaining the cause and undermining it. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5811-5 $99.95/£55.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Court Politics, Culture 

and Literature in Scotland 

and England, 1500–1540 

Jon Robinson, Northumbria University, UK 

and The Open University, UK 

The focus of this study is court literature in early 

sixteenth-century England and Scotland. Author Jon 

Robinson examines courtly poetry and drama in 

the context of a complex system of entertainment, 

education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda 

and patronage. He places selected works under close 

critical scrutiny to explore the symbiotic relationship 

that existed between court literature and important 

socio-political, economic and national contexts 

of the period 1500 to 1540. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-6079-8 c. $99.95/c. £50.00 

Craft Guilds in the Early 

Modern Low Countries 

Work, Power, and Representation 

Edited by Maarten Prak, Universiteit Utrecht, 

The Netherlands, Jan Lucassen, Vrije Universiteit 

Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Catharina Lis, 

and Hugo Soly, both at Vrije Universiteit 

Brussel, Belgium 

“The volume is a seminal contribution to several 

literatures, a must-read for scholars interested in the 

economy of early modern Europe, and filled with 

insights likely to influence scholars interested in a wide 

range of nations, topics, and time periods…” 

—EH.NET 


2006 282 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5339-4 $99.95/£50.00 

FORTHCOMING 

The Culture of Cloth 


Textual Construction of a National Identity 

Roze Hentschell, Colorado State University 

Exploring the intersections between the culture of the 

wool broadcloth industry and the imaginative literature 

of the early modern period, this study shows how the 

culture of the cloth industry was intrinsically connected 

to the development of emerging English nationalism. Each 

chapter ties a particular genre with a specific issue of 

the cloth industry, demonstrating the distinct work different 

literary genres contributed to the “culture of cloth.” 


Hardback 978-0-7546-6301-0 c. $99.95/c. £50.00 

Curiosity and Wonder from the 

Renaissance to the Enlightenment 

Edited by R.J.W. Evans, Oxford University, UK 

and Alexander Marr, St Andrews University, UK 

“Each of these writers constructs an analysis of 

how curiosity and wonder can throw light on the 

construction of the self…This shift of emphasis from 

objects to subjects suggested by this book may have 

profound implications for the study of collections, 

notably moving the study of curiosity and wonder 

out of the Kunstkammer and into the archives.“ 

—Journal of the History of Collections 


2006 282 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-4102-5 $99.95/£55.00 

Defining the Holy 

Sacred Space in Medieval 

and Early Modern Europe 

Edited by Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University, 

UK and Sarah Hamilton, University of Exeter, UK 

“…The volume makes a major contribution in exploring 

the spatial boundaries between the ecclesiastical 

and domestic realms, the personal piety of the home 

and the public religious acts of the church…Given 

its interdisciplinary approach and the diversity of its 

contributors, this volume targets a vast array of specialist 

audiences as well as a broader readership at both 

graduate and undergraduate levels.” 

—History 


2006 364 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5194-9 $99.95/£55.00

SERIES 

CATHOLIC CHRISTENDOM, 1300–1700 

Series Editor: Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College 

Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700 will appeal to academics and students interested in the history 

of late medieval and early modern western Christianity in global context. The series embraces any 

and all expressions of traditional religion from many approaches. For more information on this series, 

please visit www.ashgate.com 

NEW 

Catholic Resistance 

in Elizabethan England 

Robert Persons’s Jesuit Polemic, 1580–1610 

Victor Houliston, University of the Witwatersrand, 

South Africa 

Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700 

This book provides a study of the writing career 

of Robert Persons, leader of the Elizabethan Jesuits, 

and seen as an apostolate as well as a polemical 

contestation. It relates Persons’s interventions in various 

controversies during the period 1580–1610 to the 

formative purposes of the Christian Directory (1582), his 

famous and phenomenally successful work of devotion. 

Contents: Preface; The legend of Father Parsons; The 

English mission: writing The Christian Directory; The 

Spanish connection: satirizing Burghley: The myth of 

England’s Catholic destiny: Persons’s political vision; 

Reclaiming the past: combating Foxe and Coke; A Jesuit 

apologia: appellant abuse; Making England safe for 

Catholicism: liberty of conscience under James; Mastering 

the polemical scene; Appendix—a chronology of Persons’s 

printed works, 1580–1622; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5840-5 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Church, State and Dynasty 

in Renaissance Poland 

The Career of Cardinal Fryderyk Jagiellon 

(1468–1503) 

Natalia Nowakowska, Somerville College Oxford, UK 


This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the 

career of cardinal-prince Fryderyk Jagiellon and offers a 

new interpretation of the evolving relationship between 

the Polish Crown, Jagiellonian dynasty and the Latin 

church at the close of the fifteenth century. 

Contents: Series Editor’s preface; Introduction; Towards 

renaissance monarchy?: The Jagiellonians and the 

Polish crown, 1386–1492; ‘Supremus consiliarius huius 

regni’: Fryderyk Jagiellon’s role in royal government; 

‘Reformanda reformare’: Fryderyk Jagiellon and the Polish 

church; ‘Imperiun sine fine’: Fryderyk Jagiellon, imagemaking 

and propoganda; ‘Cardinalis Cracoviensis’: 

Fryderyk Jagiellon and the Papacy; ‘Vita cardinalis’: 

Fryderyk Jagiellon’s legacy in Poland 1503–35; Dynastic 

bishops and cardinal-ministers: Fryderyk Jagiellon in 

European context; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5644-9 $99.95/£55.00 

The Church of Mary Tudor 

Edited by Eamon Duffy, Cambridge University, UK 

and David Loades, University of Sheffield, UK 


“This handsome volume is fluent and engaging church 

history at its best, at once meticulously researched and 

persuasive in its presentation of the bigger picture… 

The Church of Mary Tudor is a thorough, convincing 

and always well-written account…” 

—New Directions 

2006 384 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-3070-8 $114.95/£60.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Female Monasticism 


An Interdisciplinary View 

Edited by Cordula van Wyhe, University of York, UK 


This volume of eleven interdisciplinary essays addresses 

the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in 

early modern Europe. By dismantling the boundaries 

between the academic disciplines of history, art history, 

musicology and literary studies it offers new crosscultural 

readings essential to a more comprehensive 

understanding of the complexity of female spirituality 

in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 

Contents: Introduction, Cordula van Wyhe; Femininity 

and Sanctity: Nuns, relics, and spiritual authority in 

post-Tridentine Italy, Helen Hills; Clara Hortulana of 

Embach or how to suffer martyrdom in the cloister, 

Ulrike Strasser; How to look like a (female) saint: the 

early iconography of St Teresa of Avila, Margit Thøfner. 

Convent Theatre and Music-Making: Music and 

misgiving in female monasteries in early modern Spain, 

Colleen Baade; Traditions and priorities in Claudia 

Rusca’s motet book, Robert Kendrick; The wise and 

foolish virgins in Italian convent theatre, Elissa Weaver. 

Spiritual Directorship: Soul mates: spiritual friendship 

and life-writing in early modern Spain (and beyond), 

Jodi Bilinkoff; Barbe Acarie and her spiritual daughters: 

women’s spiritual authority in 17th-century France, 

Barbara Diefendorf; The Idea Vitae Teresianæ (1686): 

The Teresian mystic life and its visual representation 

in the Low Countries, Cordula van Wyhe. Community 

and Conflict: ‘Little angels’: young girls in discalced 

Carmelite convents (1562–1582), Alison Weber; 

Securing souls or telling tales? The politics of cloistered 

spirituality, Claire Walker; Writing the 30 Years’ War: 

convent histories by Maria Anna Junius and Elisabeth 

Herold, Charlotte Woodford; Bibliography; Index. 


January 2009 c. 240 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5337-0 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 


Juan de Mariana and Early Modern 

Spanish Political Thought 

Harald E. Braun, University of Liverpool, UK 


Juan de Mariana’s 1599 treatise On the King and the 

Education of the King has generally been regarded 

as one of the early stepping stones towards a modern 

pluralist and democratic thought. Yet when his work is 

studied in detail and put into the context of Spanish and 

the wider European politics, and the ongoing dynamics 

of the Catholic Reformation, it can convincingly be 

argued that this is a misleading view. Instead, this book 

presents the case for viewing Mariana as a champion 

of Christian moral reform, concerned with the 

transformation of the Spanish monarchy under 

the leadership of the Church. 

June 2007 214 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-3962-6 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Law and Conscience 

Catholicism in Early Modern England, 

1570–1625 

Stefania Tutino, University of California, 

Santa Barbara 


Examining Catholic elaboration on the relationship 

between state and Church in late Elizabethan and 

Jacobean England, this book casts light on the ways in 

which a distinctive religious minority was able to adapt 

itself within a singular political context. In so doing, it 

contributes to the significant question of how different 

religious affiliations could (or might) be integrated 

within one national reality, and how political allegiance 

and religious belief began to be perceived as two 

different identities within one context. 

Contents: Series editor’s preface; Introduction; The 

debate before and after the excommunication; The 

political significance of the first mission of the Society 

of Jesus to England; Old ideas and new interpretations 

at the end of Elizabeth’s reign; ‘Smile (Muses) smile! 

A noble one succeeds/ Eliza lawfull heire in vertuous 

deedes’: the ascent of James Stuart; The Oath of 

Allegiance; Bellarmine’s solution; A change in the 

political debate; A change in the theological debate; 

Conclusions; Selected bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5771-2 $99.95/£55.00 

The Theology and Spirituality 

of Mary Tudor’s Church 

William Wizeman, SJ, Corpus Christi Church 


2006 302 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5360-8 $99.95/£50.00 

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FORTHCOMING 

Saint Cicero and the Jesuits 

The Influence of the Liberal Arts 

on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism 

Robert A. Maryks 


Over the past decade various historians have examined 

the consequences of Ignatius Loyola’s decision to 

involve his newly approved Society of Jesus in various 

educational enterprises on the order’s self-identity and 

ministries. The first Jesuits emphasized the importance 

of spiritual conversation, preaching, and reconciliation, 

horizontally and vertically. In this monograph, Dr Maryks 

argues that Jesuit interest in classical learning, especially 

the works of Cicero, prompted them to re-examine their 

own concepts of conscience and confession, leading 

them to increasingly abandon traditional concepts 

of putting the demands of the law above the calls of 

their own conscience. Within a generation, Jesuits 

had abandoned the tutioristic approach which they 

had inherited. By integrating concepts of theology 

and classical humanism, this book offers a compelling 

account of how diverse forces could act upon 

a religious order to alter the central beliefs they 

held and promulgated. 

Contents: Introduction; Early Jesuit ministries; Polanco’s 

Directory and Jesuit tutiorism; Jesuit engagement with 

education; Cicero, the liberal arts and the adoption of 

probabilism; The aftermath of the Jesuit probabilism; 

Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-6293-8 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual 

Poetics of the Italian Reformation 

Abigail Brundin, University of Cambridge, UK 


The first full length study of Vittoria Colonna in English 

for a century, this book will be essential reading for 

scholars interested in issues of gender, literature, 

religious reform or the dynamics of cultural transmission 

in sixteenth century Italy. It also provides an excellent 

background and contextualization to anyone wishing 

to read Colonna’s writings or to know more about 

her role as a mediator between the worlds of courtly 

Petrachism and religious reform. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The making of a 

Renaissance publishing phenomenon; The influence 

of reform; The canzoniere spirituale for Michelangelo 

Buonarroti; The gift manuscript for Marguerite de 

Navarre; Marian prose works; Colonna’s readers: the 

perception of reformed Petrarchism; The fate of the 

canzoniere spirituale; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-4049-3 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 


FORTHCOMING 

Italian Reform and English 

Reformations, c.1535–c.1585 

M. Anne Overell, The Open University, UK 


The argument of this book is that English interest in 

Italian reform created a nexus of Anglo-Italian contacts, 

an ‘Italian Connection’ which, in turn, influenced 

the development of the English Reformation. In three 

recurring themes, the book explores how humanism, 

persecution and the creation of myth all served to 

strengthen the connection. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5579-4 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 

Early and Medieval Rituals 

and Theologies of Baptism 

From the New Testament 

to the Council of Trent 

Bryan D. Spinks, Yale University 

� 

Liturgy, Worship & Society Series 

“[Bryan Spinks] has produced the most comprehensive 

history of Christian baptism available, perhaps the most 

complete ever published.” 

—Touchstone 

2006 204 pages 

Paperback 978-0-7546-1428-9 $29.95/£16.99 

Examination copies are available 

Reformation and Modern Rituals 

and Theologies of Baptism 

From Luther to Contemporary Practices 

Bryan D. Spinks, Yale University 

Liturgy, Worship & Society Series 

“Reformation and Modern Rituals is highly 

recommended for all seminary collections in 

conjunction with Early and Medieval Rituals 

if not already part of the library collection.” 

—Catholic Library World 

2006 266 pages 

Paperback 978-0-7546-5697-5 $29.95/£16.99 

Examination copies are available 

Early Modern Confraternities 

in Europe and the Americas 

International and 

Interdisciplinary Perspectives 

Edited by Christopher Black, University of Glasgow, 

UK and Pamela Gravestock, University of Toronto 


2006 302 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5174-1 $110.00/£55.00 

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NEW 

The English Civil War 

Edited by Stanley Carpenter, United States 

Naval War College 

The International Library of Essays on Military History 

The essays in this volume explore the military, political, 

social, religious, economic and constitutional context 

within which the Royalist and Parliamentarian forces 

struggled. Additionally, the essays examine the nature 

of armies and of war in mid-seventeenth century Britain, 

as well as selected campaigns and battles that shaped 

the eventual outcome. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-2480-6 $250.00/£130.00 

NEW 

Estates, Enterprise and 

Investment at the Dawn of the 

Industrial Revolution 

Estate Management and Accounting in the 

North-East of England, c.1700–1780 

David Oldroyd, University of Newcastle, UK 

Modern Economic and Social History 

It is generally accepted that Britain’s formative 

industrial development took place on landed estates 

where the labour, minerals and space was available to 

support fledgling industry. Yet despite this consensus, 

surprisingly little attention has been played to the 

management and accountancy practices of these estates. 

It is the purpose of this book to fill this gap, examining 

the issues through the lens of estate accounts and 

supporting documentation. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-3455-3 $99.95/£55.00

NEW 

Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning 

and Evening Prayers 

Edited by Susan M. Felch, Calvin College 

The Early Modern Englishwoman, 1500–1750: 

Contemporary Editions 

This volume presents critical, old-spelling editions 

of two versions of Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and 

Evening Prayers. The edition also includes an extensive 

introduction that provides background on Tyrwhit’s 

life and family and sets her work within the context 

of sixteenth-century English prayerbooks; an autograph 

note by Tyrwhit; and several versions of the rhymed 

Hours of the Cross as background to Tyrwhit’s rendition 

entitled, “An Hymne of the Passion of Christ.” 

Includes 2 b&w illustrations and 3 figures 

April 2008 216 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-0661-1 c. $89.95/c. £45.00 

FORTHCOMING 

The Fiscal Military State 

in Eighteenth-Century Europe 

Edited by Christopher Storrs, University 

of Dundee, UK 

In recent decades, historians of early modern Europe, 

and above all those who study the eighteenth century, 

elaborated the concept of what has been called the 

fiscal-military state. This volume of essays by leading 

authorities, all of whom have published widely on 

their chosen topic, explores the subject of the fiscalmilitary 

state by focusing on its leading exemplars 

in eighteenth century Europe. In addition, a further 

chapter considers the fiscal-military state in a broader, 

comparative international context, in the arena 

of international relations. 

Contents: Introduction, Christopher Storrs; The fiscalmilitary 

state and international rivalry during the long 

18th century, 1680s–1815, Hamish Scott; The Habsburg 

monarchy from ‘military-fiscal’ state to ‘ militarisation,’ 

Michael Hochedlinger; Prussia as a fiscal-military state, 

1640–1806, Peter Wilson; Russia, Janet Hartley; The 

French experience, 1661–1815, Joel Felix and Frank Tallet; 

The triumph and denouement of the British fiscal state: 

taxation for the wars against Revolutionary and 

Napoleonic France, 1793–1815, Patrick O’Brien; 

The Savoyard fiscal-military state in the long 18th 

century, Christopher Storrs. Index. 

Includes 7 tables and 2 maps 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5814-6 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 

SERIES 

POLITICS AND CULTURE 

IN NORTH-WESTERN 

EUROPE 1650–1720 

Series Editors: Tony Claydon, University 

of Wales, Bangor, UK , Hugh Dunthorne, 

University of Wales Swansea, UK, 

Charles-Edouard Levillain, Université 

de Lille 2, France, Esther Mijers, University 

of Reading, UK and David Onnekink, 

Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands 

The Anglo-Dutch Favourite 

The Career of Hans Willem Bentinck, 

1st Earl of Portland (1649–1709) 

David Onnekink, Universiteit Utrecht, 

The Netherlands 

Politics and Culture in North-Western Europe 

1650–1720 

“…an extremely valuable contribution both to broadening 

and especially deepening our understanding of the 

impact of King William III’s statecraft…an excellent piece 

of often ground-breaking research, fully vindicating the 

business of patient work in widely dispersed archives…” 

—Jonathan I. Israel, Princeton University 

Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649–1709) 

was the closest confidant of William III and arguably 

the most important politician in Williamite Britain. 

This book not only provides a biographical account of 

Portland’s life, but also explores wider political themes 

within a European context. It connects Dutch and 

British historiography and significantly contributes to 

our understanding of British politics during the 1690s. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5545-9 $114.95/£60.00 

Redefining William III 

The Impact of the King-Stadholder 

in International Context 

Edited by Esther Mijers, University of Reading, 

UK and David Onnekink, Universiteit Utrecht, 



1650–1720 

William III’s (1650–1702) reign as Stadholder in the 

United Provinces and King of England, Scotland and 

Ireland has always intrigued historians. This volume 

contains a number of innovative essays from specialists 

in the field, moving historical discussion away from 

the traditional analysis of single events to encompass 

William’s entire reign from a variety of political, 

religious, intellectual and cultural positions. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5028-7 $99.95/£55.00 


NEW 

War, Religion and Service 

Huguenot Soldiering, 1685–1713 

Edited by Matthew Glozier, The University 

of Sydney, Australia and David Onnekink, 

Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands 


1650–1720 

The book addresses a little considered aspect of Early 

Modern soldiering—the role of the Huguenots as an 

international force both before and after the infamous 

revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. No scholarly, 

book-length appraisal of Huguenot soldiering has 

ever appeared and this volume presents a number 

of thematic and biographical studies that offer a useful 

insight into the unique experience of one of Europe’s 

best-known contemporary minorities and (later on) 

the people that gave the word “refugee” to the 

English language. 

Contents: Introduction, Matthew Glozier and 

David Onnekink; Huguenot soldiering c. 1560–1685: 

the origins of a tradition, D.J.B. Trim; Huguenots and 

Huguenot regiments in the British army, 1660–1702: 

‘Cometh the moment, cometh the men,’ John Childs; 

A study in misplaced loyalty: Louis de Durfort-Duras, 

Earl of Feversham (1640–1709), Philip Rambaut; ‘The 

good Lord Galway’: the English and Irish careers of 

a Huguenot leader, Randolph Vigne; ‘Janisaries and 

spahees and pretorian band’: perceptions of Huguenot 

soldiers in Williamite England, David Onnekink; 

Schomberg, Ruvigny and the Huguenots in Ireland: 

William III’s Irish wars, 1689–91, Harman Murtagh; 

Huguenot soldiers in Dutch service: ‘a good captain 

to disperse the royal troops’, Matthew Glozier and 

David Onnekink; Au réfugié: Huguenot officers in 

the Hague, 1687, Dianne W. Ressinger; The refugees 

in the army of Brandenburg-Prussia: ‘those unfortunate 

banished people from France,’ Helmut Schnitter; 

Integration and social ascent of Huguenot soldiers 

in Brandenburg-Prussia: the impact of the Edict 

of Potsdam, Detlef Harms; Huguenot soldiers in 

Brandenburg-Prussia under Friedrich Wilhelm and 

Friedrich III (1640–1713): the state of research in 

German military, migration and confessional history, 

Matthias Asche; ‘The court at Celle…is completely 

French’: Huguenot soldiers in the Duchy of Brunswick- 

Lüneburg, Andreas Flick; Huguenots in the army 

of Savoy-Piedmont: Protestant soldiers and civilians 

in the Savoyard state in the 17th and 18th century, 

Paola Bianchi; Huguenot soldiers in Russia: a study 

in military competence, Matthew Glozier; 

Bibliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5444-5 $99.95/£60.00 

For more information on this series, 

please visit www.ashgate.com 

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Food in Shakespeare 

Early Modern Dietaries and the Plays 

Joan Fitzpatrick, University of Loughborough, UK 

Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity 

“This study is succinct and refreshingly devoid of 

abstruse critical theory. We are invited to think anew 

about Falstaff’s gluttony, the witches’ brew in Macbeth, 

vegetarian references in As You Like It as well as 

references in several other lesser-known plays. A 

welcome addition to the burgeoning field of food 

and literature studies.” 

—Ken Albala, University of the Pacific and author of 

Eating Right in the Renaissance 

A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare’s 

plays, this book is the first to explore early modern 

English dietary literature to better understand the uses, 

as well as the social and moral implications, of food 

in Shakespearean drama. Food in Shakespeare provides 

an historically accurate account of the range of, and 

conflicts between, contemporary ideas that informed 

the representations of foodstuff in the plays. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5547-3 $89.95/£45.00 

NEW 

George Goring (1608–1657) 

Caroline Courtier and Royalist General 

Florene S. Memegalos, Hunter College, City 

University of New York 

This first modern biography of George Goring, traces 

his life from its comfortable Sussex beginnings to the 

intrigues of court life, where he developed a reputation 

for drinking, gambling and fighting. It also charts his 

exploits on the continent, where he commanded 

a regiment in the service of the Dutch service, 

culminating in the siege of Breda. The remainder of 

the book relates his service to the Royalist cause during 

the English Civil War, and subsequent exile during 

the Commonwealth period. By reassessing the life of 

George Goring, not only do we learn more about an 

extraordinary individual, but much light is thrown upon 

the social, political, military and international history 

of the first half of the seventeenth century. 

Contents: Introduction; Family fortunes, to 1628; A 

young man of the world, 1628–1633; In the service of 

the Dutch, 1633–1637; Service at Portsmouth and in 

the Bishops’ Wars, 1638–1640; Colonel Goring and 

the army plot, November 1640–December 1641; The 

outbreak of war: choosing sides, 1642; Victory, defeat 

and imprisonment, January 1643–March 1644; Return 

to the North and Marston Moor, April–July 1644; 

Campaigning with King Charles at Lostwithiel and 

second Newbury, July–October 1644; An independent 

command, November 1644–April 1645; Generalissimo 

of the West, May–June 1645; Defeat and withdrawal, 

July–December 1645; Years of exile: sword for hire, 

1646–1657; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5299-1 $99.95/£60.00 


NEW 

‘Gold Tried in the Fire’. 

The Prophet TheaurauJohn Tany 

and the English Revolution 

Ariel Hessayon, Goldsmiths, 

University of London, UK 

“This work brilliantly extends our understanding of 

the radical protestant mind opened up by Christopher 

Hill and Paul Seaver—it will become a standard 

work for anyone wishing to explore radical sectarian 

mentalities of the English Revolution…The name Tany 

will become as familiar as that of William Walwyn, 

Lodwick Muggleton and Gerard Winstanley.” 

—Justin Champion, University of London, UK 

This is a study of the most fascinating and idiosyncratic 

of all seventeenth-century figures: Thomas Totney 

(1608–1659), a London puritan, goldsmith and veteran 

of the Civil War. In November 1649, after fourteen 

weeks of self-abasement, fasting and prayer, Totney 

experienced a profound spiritual transformation and 

declared himself TheaurauJohn Tany, “a Jew of the Tribe 

of Reuben” descended from Aaron the High Priest. 

During his prophetic phase Tany enacted a millenarian 

mission to restore the Jews to their own land and 

wrote a number of remarkable, but elusive works. By 

contextualizing and then unraveling the mind of this 

exceptional person, this book provides a clearer view 

of what it was like living in the wake of the English 

Revolution, when freed men and women spoke their 

minds and challenged the times. 

Contents: Introduction: TheaurauJohn Tany and the 

English Revolution. PART I: GENESIS: Genesis; The 

bitterness of the godly; The wilderness of Zin; Birth 

of the Prophet. PART II: GENEALOGY OF THE HIGH PRIEST: 

TheaurauJohn; Genealogy of the High Priest; Justice; 

Hell. PART III: KING OF THE JEWS: King of the Jews; 

Canonical and extra-canonical sources; Son of the 

morning stars; The book of Theos-ologi according 

to TheaurauJohn; To your tents, O Israel; Gold Tried 

in the Fire. Bibliography; Indexes. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5597-8 $89.95/£45.00 

Growing Old 


Cultural Representations 

Edited by Erin Campbell, University of Victoria 


2006 260 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5083-6 $94.95/£47.50 

Gunpowder, Explosives 

and the State 

A Technological History 

Edited by Brenda J. Buchanan, 

University of Bath, UK 

“This book belongs on the shelf of anyone 

with an interest in gunpowder providing 

an outstanding reference of the subject 

and showing its global importance.” 

—Black Powder 

Includes 81 b&w illustrations and 8 tables 

2006 456 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5259-5 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Imagination and Politics in 

Seventeenth-Century England 

Todd Butler, Washington State University 

“Revisionist in the best sense of the word, Todd Butler’s 

study challenges long-standing stereotypes about the 

seventeenth-century’s hostility to the imagination, 

eloquently showing that even more than the Caroline 

court masquers, Bacon, Milton, and Hobbes made 

analyzing, defending, redefining, and shaping the 

popular imagination central to their political programs 

and ideals. A must-read for a wide range of specialists— 

literary, historical, cultural—in the period.” 

—Catherine Gimelli Martin, University of Memphis 

Grounded in the language of early moderns themselves, 

this study proposes a new epistemology of early modern 

politics, which sees human thought as a precursor 

to political action. In analyzing a wide variety of 

seventeenth-century English texts, Todd Butler reveals 

an early modern English society deeply concerned with 

the fundamentally imaginative nature of politics. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5883-2 $99.95/£50.00 

An Intrepid Scot 

William Lithgow of Lanark’s Travels 

in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa 

and Central Europe, 1609–21 

C. Edmund Bosworth, University of Manchester, UK 

“The text is clearly written and well-organized. It 

carefully reconstructs the fascinating story of Lithgow’s 

peregrinations, and the scholarly apparatus that 

supplements this story will be of great help to readers 

interested in Lithgow and in crosscultural texts from 

early modern Britain.” 



2006 218 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5708-8 $89.95/£45.00

James Ussher and John Bramhall 

The Theology and Politics of Two Irish 

Ecclesiastics of the Seventeenth Century 

Jack Cunningham, Bishop Grosseteste University 

College, UK 

This book provides a comparative study of the 

theologies and politics of two leading seventeenth 

century ecclesiastics, James Ussher (1581–1656) and 

John Bramhall (1594–1663). The works, thoughts and 

careers of these two important figures in the English 

and Irish established churches are analyzed in parallel 

to examine the religious differences and similarities 

between the two men. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5566-4 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Jesuits and the Politics 

of Religious Pluralism in 

Eighteenth-Century Transylvania 

Culture, Politics and Religion, 1693–1773 

Paul Shore, Saint Louis University 

This book tells the story of the Jesuit mission to Cluj, 

Transylvania (now Romania) from 1693, when the 

Jesuits were allowed to return after almost a century 

of restricted activity in the region, until 1773, when the 

order was suppressed. Cluj, a city where the cultures 

of Eastern and Western Europe meet, represented the 

furthermost penetration into Orthodox Europe of the 

Baroque aesthetic and of the domination of the 

Habsburgs, supported and glorified by the Jesuits. 

The successes and failures of this religious order 

helped shape the history of the region for the next 

two centuries. 

Contents: Preface; Uneasy neighbors; The Uniate 

Church; The institution of union; Schooling; Jesuitae 

Fabri: the society constructs a presence; Theatre in 

the Jesuit schools; Social order; Community: looking 

westward?; The 1743 mission to Moldavia; Conclusion; 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5764-4 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Jesse Ramsden (1735–1800) 

London’s Leading Scientific 

Instrument Maker 

Anita McConnell 

Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945 

Jesse Ramsden was one of the most prominent 

manufacturers of scientific instruments in the latter half 

of the eighteenth century. In this, the first biography of 

Jesse Ramsden, Dr Anita McConnell reconstructs the 

great instrument maker’s life and career and presents us 

with a detailed account of the instrument trade in this 

period. 

Includes 4 colour and 68 b&w illustrations 


Hardback 978-0-7546-6136-8 $99.95/£60.00 

NEW 

Jewish Identity 

in Early Modern Germany 

Memory, Power and Community 

Dean Phillip Bell, Spertus Institute 

of Jewish Studies 

Drawing on a wide range of sources, including 

chronicles, liturgical works, books of customs, 

memorybooks, biblical commentaries, rabbinic 

responsa and community ledgers, this study offers a 

timely reassessment of Jewish community and identity 

during the frequently turbulent Reformation era. 

Contents: Introduction; Memory, history and Jewish 

identity; Reconsidering early modern German Jewish 

memory and history; Community, memory, and 

governance; Jewish social organization: the role of 

memory, power, and honor; Politics, polemics, and 

history: assessing Jewish identity; From law to legend: 

narrating Jewish and Christian encounters; Conclusion, 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5897-9 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

John Owen � 

Reformed Catholic, Renaissance Man 

Carl R. Trueman, Westminster Theological Seminary 

Great Theologians Series 

John Owen is considered one of the sharpest theological 

minds of the seventeenth century and a significant 

theologian in his own right, particularly in terms of 

his contributions to pneumatology, christology and 

ecclesiology. In this book, Carl Trueman presents a 

major study of the key elements of John Owen’s writings 

and his theology. Presenting his theology in its historical 

context, Trueman explores the significance of Owen’s 

work in ongoing debates on seventeenth century 

theology, and examines the contexts within which 

Owen’s theology was formulated and the shape of his 

mind in relation to the intellectual culture of his day— 

particularly in contemporary philosophy, literature 

and theology. 

Contents: Preface; John Owen: reformed Catholic, 

renaissance man; The knowledge of the Trinitarian God; 

Divine covenants and Catholic Christology; The article 

by which the Church stands or falls; Conclusion; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-1469-2 $99.95/£50.00 

Paperback 978-0-7546-1470-8 $29.95/£16.99 

Examination copies are available in paperback 

James VI and I 

Ideas, Authority, and Government 

Edited by Ralph Houlbrooke, 

University of Reading, UK 

2006 212 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5410-0 $99.95/£55.00 


NEW 

Lady Anne Halkett 

Selected Self-Writings 

Edited by Suzanne Linda Trill, 

University of Edinburgh, UK 



In this long overdue edition of her selected writings, 

the combination of Lady Anne Halkett’s texts presented 

here provides the first opportunity for scholars to place 

Halkett’s “Memoirs” within the context of her other 

writings. Trill’s original scholarly introduction to this 

edition revises our understanding of the significance 

of Halkett’s life and writing, paying particular attention 

to questions of religion, nationality and gender. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5052-2 $99.95/£50.00 

Last Witnesses 

The Muggletonian History, 1652–1979 

William Lamont, University of Sussex, UK 

“…a fascinating study of a group of bizarrely remarkable 

people, which manages both to make perfect sense 

of them and to convey the excitement of the business 

of research.” 

—Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol, UK 


2006 296 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5532-9 $99.95/£55.00 

Letters of Sir Robert Moray 

to the Earl of Kincardine, 1657–73 

Edited by David Stevenson, 

University of St Andrews, UK 

“These letters give many insights into the attitudes 

and aims of the 17th-century scientific community. 

Ranging across subjects which include medicine, fishing 

and literature, this collection highlights many facets 

of Restoration society.” 

—The Scots Magazine 

This volume provides a complete modern edition of 

the letters written by Sir Robert Moray to Alexander 

Bruce, Earl of Kincardine between 1657 and 1673. 

The letters range widely across subjects including 

medicine, horology, politics, current affairs, industry, 

fishing, heraldry, freemasonry, literature, and symbolism, 

and display Moray’s knowledge of many subjects and 

authors. As one of the most active founding members 

of the Royal Society, Moray’s letters provide a fascinating 

insight into the attitudes and aspirations of the scientific 

community in seventeenth-century Britain. 

Includes 6 line drawings 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5497-1 $114.95/£60.00 

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SERIES 

THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN CONTEXT 

Series Editors: Andrew Cunningham, University of Cambridge, UK 

and Ole Peter Grell, The Open University, UK 

For more than a decade the History of Medicine in Context series has provided a unique platform for the 

publication of research pertaining to the study of medicine from broad social, cultural, political, religious 

and intellectual perspectives. Offering cutting-edge scholarship on a range of medical subjects that cross 

chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries, the series consistently challenges received views 

about medical history and shows how medicine has had a much more pronounced effect on western society 

then is often acknowledged. For more information on this series, please visit www.ashgate.com 

Hospital Politics 

in Seventeenth-Century France 

The Crown, Urban Elites and the Poor 

Tim McHugh, Oxford Brookes University, UK 

The History of Medicine in Context 

This book explores poor relief and charitable health 

care in French cities during the seventeenth century, 

a period that witnessed much reform and change in the 

way these services were administered. By reintegrating 

the social aspirations of urban elites into the history of 

French poor relief, it shows how they initiated reform 

in towns and cities when it suited them, but where 

such reforms were not perceived as needed, or not 

affordable, they ignored central government edicts 

to build new institutions. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5762-0 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Maritime Quarantine 

The British Experience, c.1650–1900 

John Booker 


As a maritime trading nation, the issue of quarantine 

was one of constant concern to Britain. While 

naturally keen to promote international trade, there 

was a constant fear of importing potentially devastating 

diseases into British territories. This groundbreaking 

study examines the methods by which British authorities 

sought to keep their territories free from contagious 

diseases, and the reactions to, and practical 

consequences of, these policies. 

Contents: Preface; The 17th century; The Baltic crisis, 

1709–1714: policy and procedure; The Baltic crisis, 

1709–1714: mercantile worries; The Marseilles crisis 

1720–1723; Gibraltar and Minorca, 1720–1814; The 

Messina crisis, and legislation, 1728–1754; Indecision 

in Britain, 1756–1788; The foul-bill dilemma, 

1786–1800; Land or sea? The lazaretto debate, 

1793–1800; British Board of Health and Kentish fiasco, 

1803–1820; Malta: war, peace and plague, 1640–1814; 

Anti-contagionism in Britain, 1805–1825; Malta and 

the Ionian islands, 1815–1826; Mediterranean misery, 

plus cholera, 1825–1835; International deliberation, 

1835–1853; Malta, 1826–1851, and the demise of 

quarantine; Glossary Bibliography Appendices; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-6178-8 $124.95/£65.00 


NEW 

Medicine and Religion 

in Enlightenment Europe 

Edited by Ole Peter Grell, The Open University, 

UK and Andrew Cunningham, University 

of Cambridge, UK 


This volume explores the relationship between 

medicine and religion during the Enlightenment Period, 

here understood as covering the years 1650 to 1789. 

It looks at this multi-faceted relationship with respect 

to: medical care and death in hospitals, religious 

vocation and nursing, chemical medicine and religion, 

the clergy and medicine and religious dissent and 

medical innovation, among others. Within these 

significant areas the volume provides a European 

perspective which will make it possible to draw 

comparisons and determine differences. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5638-8 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

With Words and Knives 

Learning Medical Dispassion 


Lynda Payne, University of Missouri, Kansas City 


In practice, medical practitioners, especially physicians 

and surgeons, have always had to learn some type 

of detachment or dispassion. To elucidate what was 

medical dispassion in seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury 

England, how and why it was taught, to whom, 

and in what spaces, each chapter of this book examines 

a community of practitioners and explores different 

patterns of medical education, clinical practice, social 

institutions, and philosophical and religious ideas. 

Contents: Introduction; Faithful eyes; Rational 

minds; Godly hearts; Disciplined hands; Necessary 

inhumanity; Conversant with the dead; Epilogue; 




Hardback 978-0-7546-3689-2 $99.95/£55.00 

Melancholy and the 

Care of the Soul 

Religion, Moral Philosophy and Madness 


Jeremy Schmidt, University of Victoria 


“…an original and important reassessment of madness 

and religion in early modern England. Jeremy Schmidt 

gracefully elucidates the intertwining of medicine, 

religion, and moral philosophy in the creation of the 

melancholic individual, whose ‘disease of the soul’ 

was a product of the wider cultural crisis of the 

seventeenth century. Highly recommended.” 

—Anita Guerrini University of California, Santa Barbara 

This book furthers our understanding of the issue of 

melancholy in early modern culture by examining the 

extensive discussions of melancholy in seventeenthand 

eighteenth-century religious and moral philosophical 

publications, many of which have received only scant 

attention from modern scholars. As a study in intellectual 

history, Melancholy and the Care of the Soul offers 

new insights into a wide variety of early modern texts, 

including literary representations and medical works, 

and critically engages with a broad range of current 

scholarship in addressing some of the central 

interpretive issues in the history of early modern 

medicine, psychiatry, religion and culture. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5748-4 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

The Life and Career of William 

Paulet (c.1475–1572) 

Lord Treasurer and First Marquis 

of Winchester 

David Loades, University of Sheffield, UK 

Despite his remarkable, long life at the center of the 

Tudor court politics and English political life, this is the 

first full-length biography of Sir William Paulet. Born in 

Wiltshire in 1475, he lived to the advanced age of 97, 

during which time he held the posts of Lord Treasurer, 

Master of the King’s Wards, Controller of the Household, 

Lord Chamberlain and President of the Council. His 

intimate involvement with royal government under 

three successive monarchs makes Paulet one of the 

most influential men of his age, and a fascinating 

subject with which to explore the economic, political 

and ecclesiastical landscape of Tudor England. 

Contents: Introduction; The early years; An officer 

of the king’s household; Lord St John; Lord President 

of the Council; Lord Treasurer, 1550–1558; The 

ancient of days, 1558–1572; Epilogue; Appendices; 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5246-5 $99.95/£55.00

FORTHCOMING 

Literature and Identity 

in Baroque Italian Travel Writing 

Nathalie Hester, University of Oregon 

Filling a significant gap in the English language 

bibliography on the topic, this is the first full length 

study in English dedicated to seventeenth-century Italian 

travel writing, a fertile period for Italian contributions to 

the genre. Hester argues that many of the characteristic 

qualities of the Italian travel writing examined can be 

understood in terms of the larger question of Italian 

cultural and literary identity during this era. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-6194-8 c. $99.95/£c. £55.00 

Mary Astell 

Reason, Gender, Faith 

Edited by William Kolbrener and Michal Michelson, 

both at Bar Ilan University, Israel 

Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith includes essays from 

a variety of disciplinary perspectives to consider the full 

range of Astell’s political, theological, philosophical and 

poetic writings. The volume’s contributors show Astell 

to have had few parallels among her contemporaries, 

bestowing upon her the attention that she deserves— 

not merely as a proto-feminist, but as a major figure 

of the early modern period. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5264-9 $99.95/£50.00 

Lives of Spirit 

English Carmelite Self-Writing 

of the Early Modern Period 

Nicky Hallett, University of Sheffield, UK. 



“These Carmelite documents are largely unpublished 

and have been hitherto inaccessible to lay scholars… 

We look forward to promised future volumes.” 

—Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland 

Yielding a wealth of new material concerning the lives 

of English nuns in exile in the Low Countries between 

1619 and 1794, this volume of religious women’s 

Lives is based on previously unpublished manuscripts. 

An extensive introduction provides historical and 

cultural contexts for an understanding of the Lives, 

and a reappraisal of the self-representation of religious 

women and of paradigms of life-writing in, and beyond, 

the early modern period. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-0675-8 $99.95/£55.00 

Monarchy, Political Culture, 

and Drama in Seventeenth- 

Century Madrid 

Theater of Negotiation 

Jodi Campbell, Texas Christian University 

2006 182 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5418-6 $99.95/£50.00 

NEW 

Marriage, Manners and Mobility 

in Early Modern Venice 

Alexander Cowan, Northumbria University, UK 


Throughout history, marriage has been used as a 

method of creating and strengthening bonds between 

society’s ruling elites. Nowhere is this more apparent 

than in early modern Venice, where members of the 

urban patrician class looked to marital alliances to help 

maintain their position and social distinction in a fluid 

society. This book explores these social relationships 

and the ways in which they were mediated through 

the links created by marriage. It looks at the changing 

composition of the Venetian ruling elite during the 

sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, examining the 

complex relationship between the patrician class 

and the rest of society. 

Contents: Foreword; Noble status and social 

differentiation in early modern Europe; The Avogaria di 

Comun and the Prove di Nobilità; Outsider brides and 

their families; Huomini civili and patrician marriage; 

The social dimensions of acceptability; Concubinage 

and natural daughters; Gender and honourable and 

dishonourable behaviour; Marriage and the patriciate; 

Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5728-6 $99.95/£55.00 

FORTHCOMING 

‘Material Delight and the 

Joy of Living’ 

Cultural Consumption in the Age 

of Enlightenment in Germany 

Michael North, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität, 

Germany translated by Pamela Selwyn 

Eighteenth-century Europe witnessed a 

commercialisation of culture. The marketing of 

culture separated itself from the production of culture 

and new cultural entrepreneurs entered the stage. 

Cultural consumption played a substantial role in 

creating social identity. In this book Michael North 

systematically explores this field for the first time in 

regard to the Continent, and especially to eighteenthcentury 

Germany. Chapters focus on the new forms 

of entertainment (concerts, theatre, opera, reading 

societies, travelling) on the one hand and on the new 

material culture (fashion, gardens, country houses, 

furniture) on the other. For this reason the reception of 

English culture on the Continent is in the centre of the 

discussion, whereby the competition of English and 

French fashions in the homes of German elites and 

burghers attracts special attention. The book closes with 

an investigation of the role of cultural consumption 

for identity formation, demonstrating the integration 

of Germany into a European cultural identity/ taste 

discourse during the eighteenth century. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5842-9 c. $99.95/c. £50.00 


NEW 

Material and Symbolic Circulation 

between Spain and England, 

1554–1604 

Edited by Anne J. Cruz, University of Miami 

Transculturalisms, 1400–1700 

Through analyses of the modes of exchange of material 

goods between early modern England and Spain, 

and the circulation of symbolic systems of meaning, 

the contributors to the anthology investigate the two 

nations’ points of contact and conflict during these 

historically crucial fifty years. 

Contents: Introduction: ‘crossing the Channel,’ Anne J. Cruz; 

PART 1: MATERIAL AND SYMBOLIC EXCHANGES: The frustrated 

unity of Atlantic Europe: the roles of Spain and England, 

William D. Phillips Jr; The view from Spain: distant images 

and political reality, Magdalena de Pazzis Pi Corrales; 

From Drake to Draque: and Elizabethan hero with a 

Spanish Accent, Elizabeth Wright; Vindicating the vulnerata: 

Cádiz and the circulation of religious imagery as weapons 

of war, Anne J. Cruz. PART 2: CIRCULATING FICTIONS OF THE 

OTHER: Sketches of Spain: early modern England’s 

‘orientalizing’ of Iberia, Barbara Fuchs; ‘The body of a 

weak and feeble woman’: courting Elizabeth in Antonio 

Coello’s El conde de Sex, Maria Cristina Quintero; 

Heretical stars: the politics of astrology in Cervantes’ 

La Gitanilla and La Española Inglesa, Frederick de Armas. 

PART 3: WARS OF DISCOURSE, DISCOURSES OF WAR: The politics 

of providence: the ‘Englishing’ of Spanish narratives 

about Spain and the New World, David A. Boruchoff; 

Libels and other weapons: the written word as an 

adjunct to naval warfare, Carla Rahn Phillips; Peace 

with England, from convenience to necessity (1596– 

1603), Bernado García García; Bibliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-6215-0 $99.95/£50.00 

NEW 

Monuments and Memory 


Peter Sherlock, University of Melbourne, Australia 

This book is a study of the material culture of memory 

in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, in the 

form of monuments to the dead. By interpreting 

messages of their images and inscriptions, it explores 

how early modern people wanted to be remembered— 

their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and 

political values. Through careful reading of monuments, 

Dr Sherlock shows that much can be learned about how 

men and women conceived of the world around them 

and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the 

place of humans within the universe. 

Contents: Introduction; Family fictions; Monumental 

bodies; Life and death; Reformation; Renaissance; 

Law and order; Word and image; Memory; 




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SERIES 

WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD 

Series Editors: Allyson Poska, University of Mary Washington 

and Abby Zanger, Tufts University 

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World reaches beyond geographical limitations to explore the 

experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa. 

For more information on this series, please visit www.ashgate.com 

NEW 

Dominican Women 

and Renaissance Art 

The Convent of San Domenico of Pisa 

Ann Roberts, Lake Forest College 

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World 

“Especially noteworthy in this study is the extent to which 

the author has been able to identify works from the internal 

spaces of the convent and to reconstruct decorative 

programs based on inventories and archival documents.” 

—Marilyn Dunn, Loyola University Chicago 

Ann Roberts here identifies and examines thirty 

objects from the convent of San Domenico of Pisa, 

commissioned for and made by fifteenth-century nuns. 

Roberts analyzes the social and religious functions of 

the images, firmly grounding her interpretation in the 

values of the nuns’ Order, and in the political and social 

concerns of their city. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5530-5 $99.95/£60.00 

NEW 

From Wives to Widows 

in Early Modern Paris 

Gender, Economy, and Law 

Janine M. Lanza, Wayne State University 


“Based on painstaking and original archival research, 

Lanza has uncovered rare and precious documents 

regarding widows’ lives; she offers new and significant 

conclusions…a well-written, exciting and highly 

original study.” 

—Clare Crowston, University of Illinois, 

Urbana-Champaign 

Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in 

early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the 

social and cultural structures that shaped widows’ lives 

as well as the experiences these women had day-to-day. 

It dramatically alters our understanding of gender 

and engages the historiographical issue of women’s 

participation in the world of work, and explicitly examines 

the place of the law in the lived experience of the period. 

Contents: Introduction; Law in early modern France; 

Widows and religious institutions; Women’s place 

in Guilds; Widows in the workshop; The calculus 

of remarriage; The trap of poverty; Conclusion; 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5643-2 $99.95/£55.00 


Boccaccio’s Heroines 

Power and Virtue in Renaissance Society 

Margaret Franklin, Wayne State University 


“Richly researched and clearly written, and 

accompanied by illustrations of the images discussed, 

Boccaccio’s Heroines offers a fine contribution to 

Boccaccio studies and women’s studies for both 

students and scholars.” 

—Janet L. Smarr, University of California, San Diego 


2006 216 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5364-6 $110.00/£55.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Gender and the Garden in Early 

Modern English Literature 

Jennifer Munroe, University 

of North Carolina, Charlotte 


“The dual focus—on physical and imagined gardens, 

constructed by both male and female gardeners—makes 

Munroe’s literary interpretation into a gorgeous tapestry, 

that weaves together material and ideological concerns, 

as well as giving non-literary materials aesthetic and 

ideological significance.” 

—Ilona Bell, Williams College 

An investigation into early modern gardens, gender 

and writing, this study considers not only published 

literary representations of gardens, but also actual 

garden landscapes and unpublished evidence of 

everyday gardening practice. Jennifer Munroe here 

analyzes how writers appropriated the developing 

gendered tension in gardening that stemmed from a shift 

from the garden as a means of feeding a family, to the 

garden as an aesthetic object imbued with status. 

Contents: Introduction: laying the groundwork; 

Gardens, gender and writing; ‘Planting English’ 

and cultivating the gentleman: Spenser’s gardens; 

Inheritance, land, and the garden space for women 

in Aemelia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (Hail, 

God, King of the Jews); ‘In this strang labyrinth how 

shall I turn?’: needlework, gardens, and writing in Mary 

Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus; Works cited; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5826-9 c. $89.95/c. £45.00 

NEW 

Gender, Race and Religion in 

the Colonization of the Americas 

Edited by Nora E. Jaffary, Concordia University 


“…Nora Jaffary’s compilation is a welcome contribution 

to the rapidly expanding field of ‘Trans-Atlantic’ studies.” 

—Christine Hunefeldt, University of California, 

San Diego 

The essays in this collection provide a coherent 

perspective on the comparative history of European 

colonialism in the Americas through their treatment of 

four central themes: gender; non-European women and 

religion; race-mixing; and social networks established 

by women. Geographic regions covered include the 

Caribbean, Brazil, English America and New France. 

Contents: Introduction: Contextualizing race, gender, 

and religion in the New World, Nora E. Jaffary. PART 1: 

FRONTIERS: Women as go-betweens? Patterns in 16thcentury 

Brazil, Alida C. Metcalf; Gender and violence: 

conquest, conversion, and culture on new Spain’s 

imperial frontier, Bruce A. Erickson; The very sinews 

of a new Colony: demographic determinism and the 

history of early Georgia women, 1732–52, Ben Marsh. 

PART 2: FEMALE RELIGIOUS: The convent as missionary in 

17th-century France, Susan Broomhall; ‘Although I am 

black, I am beautiful’: Juana Esperanza de San Alberto, 

Black Carmelite of Puebla, Joan C. Bristol; Andean 

women in religion: Beatas, ‘decency’, and the defense 

of honour in colonial Cuzco, Kathryn Burns. PART 3: 

RACE MIXING: Incest, sexual virtue, and social mobility 

in late colonial Mexico, Nora E. Jaffary; ‘An empire 

founded on libertinage’: The mulâtresse and colonial 

anxiety in Saint Domingue, Yvonne Fabella; Mediating 

Mackinac: métis women’s cultural persistence in the 

Upper Great Lakes, Bethany Fleming. PART 4: NETWORKS: 

Circuits of knowledge among women in early-17thcentury 

Lima, Nancy E. van Deusen; Waters of faith, 

currents of freedom: gender, religion, and ethnicity in 

inter-imperial trade between Curaçao and Tierra Firme, 

Linda M. Rupert; Afterword: women in the Atlantic 

world, Patricia Seed. Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5189-5 $89.95/£55.00 

Re-membering Masculinity 

in Early Modern Florence 

Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture 

Allison Levy, University College London, UK 


“…Strikingly original…breaks new ground through 

its remarkably original observations. Without doubt 

this provocative book makes a major contribution 

to the fields of gender, art history, history, literature 

and disability studies.” 

—Diane Wolfthal, Arizona State University 

and author of Images of Rape 


2006 214 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5404-9 $99.95/£60.00

FORTHCOMING 

Henrietta Maria 

Piety, Politics and Patronage 

Edited by Erin Griffey, University of Auckland, 

New Zealand 


“… an open-minded and original contribution 

to the current scholarly debate.” 

—Barbara Ravelhofer, Durham University, UK 

Thoroughly interdisciplinary in scope, this collection 

reconsiders Queen Henrietta Maria and her multifaceted 

roles and responsibilities, ranging from 

her patronage of performing and visual arts to her 

sentiments at the outbreak of the English Civil War. 

What becomes strikingly evident is that Henrietta Maria 

had a distinct and profound influence on material and 

political culture that deserves the attention of art history, 

literature, theatre and musicology scholars. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Erin Griffey; Religion, 

European politics and Henrietta Maria’s circle, 1625–41, 

Malcolm Smuts; The Secretary of Ladies and feminine 

friendship at the court of Henrietta Maria, Diana Barnes; 

Queen Henrietta Maria’s theatrical patronage, 

Karen Britland; ‘The rare and excellent partes of Mr 

Walter Montague’: Henrietta Maria and her playwright, 

Sarah Poynting; The 3 Marys: the Virgin, Marie de 

Médicis and Henrietta Maria, Jessica Bell; ‘By our 

direction and for our use’: the Queen’s patronage 

of artists and artisans seen through her household 

accounts, Caroline Hibbard; Merely ornamental? Van 

Dyck’s portraits of Henrietta Maria, Gudrun Raatschen; 

Devotional jewellery in portraits of Henrietta Maria, 

Erin Griffey; Sounds of piety and devotion: music 

in the Queen’s chapel, Jonathan Wainwright. Index. 



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Ottoman Women Builders 

The Architectural Patronage 

of Hadice Turhan Sultan 

Lucienne Thys-Senocak, Koc University, Turkey 


“Painstakingly and exhaustively researched… 

This study is novel, original, timely and important— 

a superb achievement.” 

—Heghnar Watenpaugh, University of California, Davis 

and author of The Image of an Ottoman City 

An examination of the historical figure and architectural 

patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan, this study shows 

how a queen mother from the Ottoman court shaped 

the political and cultural agenda of the empire during 

the latter half of the seventeenth century. Based 

on archival research and archaeological fieldwork, 

this study makes original contributions to current 

debates in the fields of art history, cultural history 

and gender studies. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-3310-5 $99.95/£60.00 

NEW 

Midwifery, Obstetrics 

and the Rise of Gynaecology 

The Uses of a Sixteenth- 

Century Compendium 

Helen King, University of Reading, UK 


“…King brings to light a huge but largely neglected 

body of work on gynaecology and obstetrics… 

in short, the best book ever written on the history 

of early modern women’s medicine.” 

—Monica H. Green, Arizona State University 

and author of Making Women’s Medicine Masculine: 

The Rise of Male Authority in Premodern Gynaecology 

The Gynaeciorum libri, a compendium of ancient and 

contemporary texts on gynaecology, is the inspiration 

for this intensive exploration of the origins of a subfield 

of medicine. Focusing on its readers in the period from 

the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, when men and 

women were in competition for control over childbirth, 

Helen King sheds new light on how the claim of female 

difference was shaped by specific social and cultural 

conditions. 

Contents: Introduction:towards gynaecology; Prefacing 

women: owners and users; Medical history and obstetric 

practice in William Smellie; Guilty of ‘male-practice’? 

Burton’s attack on Smellie; Delighting in a ‘bit of 

antiquity’: Sir James Young Simpson; Conclusion; 




Hardback 978-0-7546-5396-7 $99.95/£55.00 

Sibling Relations and Gender 

in the Early Modern World 

Sisters, Brothers and Others 

Edited by Naomi J. Miller, Smith College 

and Naomi Yavneh, University of South Florida 


Winner of the Society for the Study of Early 

Modern Women Award for a Collaborative 

Project published in 2006 

“Exploring a wide range of cultural documents…the 

essays collected in this well-edited interdisciplinary 

volume work together to create an original and complex 

picture of siblings interacting with each other.” 

—Margaret Ferguson, University of California, Davis 


2006 254 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-4010-3 $99.95/£50.00 

Women and the Pamphlet 

Culture of Revolutionary 

England, 1640–1660 


Marcus Nevitt, University of Sheffield, UK 


“…remarkable study…With its innovative blend of 

materialists scholarship and rhetorical analysis, Nevitt’s 

study opens a new window on Civil War women 

writers…With grace and intelligence, Nevitt moves 

past the gendered dichotomies that have governed our 

understanding of the English Renaissance and toward 

a more fluid and amibiguous formulation of female 

agency in the early modern period.” 

�Renaissance Quarterly 


2006 230 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-4115-5 $89.95/£45.00 

Women and Poor Relief in 

Seventeenth-Century France 

The Early History of the Daughters of Charity 

Susan E. Dinan, University Honors College, 

William Paterson University 


“In addition to providing a much needed study of the 

particular history of the Daughters of Charity, Dinan’s 

book deepens our understanding of women’s religious 

experience and their contribution to religious change 

in Catholic Reformation France.” 

—H-France Review 

2006 200 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5553-4 $100.00/£50.00 

NEW 

Women and Portraits 


Gender, Agency, Identity 

Edited by Andrea Pearson, Bloomsburg University 


“Making a significant contribution to the field of early 

modern European visual culture, this volume focusing 

on portraits of women asks…how image-making 

functioned as an act of agency in Renaissance 

and Baroque Europe.” 

—Julia Marciari Alexander, Yale University 

As one of the first books to treat portraits of early 

modern women as a discrete subject, this volume 

considers the possibilities and limits of agency and 

identity for women in history and, with particular 

attention to gender, as categories of analysis for 

women’s images. Nine original essays on Italy, the 

Low Countries, Germany, France and England deepen 

the usefulness of these analytical tools for portraiture. 



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Women, Art, and Architecture 

in Northern Italy, 1520–1580 

Negotiating Power 

Katherine A. McIver, University 

of Alabama, Birmingham 


Co-winner of the Society for the Study of Early 

Modern Women Book Award for a work 

published in 2006 

“…a fine and welcome study…provides a new model 

for understanding what women bought, displayed, 

collected and commissioned. Carefully integrating 

extensive archival research with a set of important 

critical inquiries, McIver offers up a well-balanced 

picture of domestic space, subject and object in 

and against what might be called the unbalanced 

field of Italian Renaissance art history.” 

—Allison Levy, Wheaton College 


2006 300 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5411-7 $99.95/£50.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Women, Imagination 

and the Search for Truth 

in Early Modern France 

Rebecca M. Wilkin, 

Indiana University, Bloomington 


Grounded in medical, juridical and philosophical 

texts (both Latin and French) of early modern France, 

this innovative study tells the story of how the idea 

of woman contributed to the emergence of modern 

science. Rebecca Wilkin re-visits and revises deeply 

held notions about the place of women in the search for 

truth, their role in the development of rational thought, 

and the way early modern intellectuals dealt with the 

emergence of an influential female public. 

Contents: Introduction; Common sense: Johann Weyer 

and the psychology of witchcraft; The touchstone 

of truth: Jean Bodin’s torturous hermeneutics; Masle 

morale in the body politic: Guillaume du Vair and 

André du Laurens; The suspension of difference: 

Michel de Montaigne’s lame lovers; ‘Even women’: 

Cartesian rationalism reconsidered; Conclusion; 


Includes c.14 b&w illustrations 


Hardback 978-0-7546-6138-2 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 


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Women, Identities 

and Communities 


Edited by Stephanie Tarbin and Susan Broomhall, 

both at The University of Western Australia 


“…makes an original contribution by arguing how 

community and identity constitute power relationships.” 

—Amy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore 

and author of Never Married: Singlewomen 


Exploring the contradictory forces shaping women’s 

identities and experiences, this collection examines 

the possibilities for commonalities and the forces of 

division between women in early modern Europe. 

The contributors analyze the critical power of gender 

to structure identities and experiences, adding new 

depth to our understanding of early modern women’s 

senses of exclusion and belonging. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Stephanie Tarbin 

and Susan Broomhall; PART 1: READING COMMUNITIES IN 

HISTORY: Real and imagined communities in the lives 

of women in 17th-century Ireland: identity and gender, 

Anne Laurence; The abuse of history? Identity politics, 

disordered identity and the ‘really real’ in French cases 

of demonic possession, Sarah Ferber. PART 2: DOMESTIC 

POLITIES: ‘In myn own house’: the troubled connections 

between servant marriages, late-medieval English 

household communities, and early modern historiography, 

Philippa Maddern; Recusants, daughters, and sisters 

in Christ: English nuns and their communities in the 

17th century, Claire Walker. PART 3: SOCIAL NETWORKS: 

‘Charity is worth it when it looks that good’: rural 

women and bequests of clothing in early modern England, 

Dolly MacKinnon; Female magic and women’s social 

relations in 18th-century Sweden, Jacqueline van Gent. 

PART 4: NEGOTIATING THE CITY: The gorgon of Augsburg, 

Lyndal Roper; Giving birth at the magistrate’s gate: 

single mothers in the early modern city, Laura Gowing. 

PART 5: GENTRY COMMUNITIES: Neighbourhood as female 

community in the life of Anne Dormer, Sara Mendelson; 

A revolution correspondence: Elizabeth Packer Geddes 

and Elizabeth Burnet, Frances Harris. PART 6: QUEENS 

AND COURT: Gendering the culture of honour at the 15thcentury 

Burgundian court, Susan Broomhall; Public 

identity and public memory: case studies of 2 Tudor 

women, Judith Richards; In praise of queens: the public 

presentation of the virtuous consort in 17th-centry 

Britain, Sybil Jack; Select bibliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-6184-9 c. $99.95/c. £50.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Natural Law and Laws of Nature 


Jurisprudence, Theology, Moral 

and Natural Philosophy 

Edited by Lorraine Daston and 

Michael Stolleis, Max-Planck-Institut 

für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Germany 

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look 

at the intertwined histories of natural law and the 

laws of nature in early modern Europe. It will stimulate 

new debate in the areas of intellectual history and the 

history of philosophy, as well as the natural and human 

sciences in general. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction: Nature, law, and 

natural law in early modern Europe, Lorraine Daston 

and Michael Stolleis; From limits to laws: the 

transformation of ancient atomism in early modern 

philosophy, Catherine Wilson; Expressing nature’s 

regularities and their determinations in the late 

Renaissance, Ian Maclean; The legitimation of law 

through God, tradition, will, nature and constitution, 

Michael Stolleis; The concept of (natural) law in the 

doctrine of law and natural law of the early modern era, 

Jan Schröder; ‘Lex certa’ and ‘ius certum’: the search for 

legal certainty and security, Heinz Mohnhaupt; Crimen 

contra naturam, Andreas Roth; Nature’s regularity in some 

Protestant natural philosophy textbooks 1530–1630, 

Sachiko Kusukawa; Natural order and divine salvation: 

Protestant conceptions in early modern Germany (1550– 

1750), Anne-Charlott Trepp; Natural law and celestial 

regularities from Copernicus to Kepler, Gerd Grasshof; 

The approach to a physical concept of law in the early 

modern period: a comparison between Matthias 

Bernegger and Richard Cumberland, Hubert Treiber; 

Leibniz’s concept of jus naturale and lex naturalis – 

defined ‘with geometric certainty,’ Klaus Luig; 

Controversies on nature as universal legality (1680– 

1710), Sophie Roux; From principles to regularities: 

tracing ‘laws of nature’ in early modern France and 

England, Friedrich Steinle; Unruly weather: natural law 

confronts natural variability, Lorraine Daston; In search 

of the Newton of the moral world, Cathérine Larrère; 

Deus legislator, Jean-Robert Armogathe; 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5761-3 c. $114.95/c. £60.00 

Others and Outcasts 


Picturing the Social Margins 

Edited by Tom Nichols, University of Aberdeen, UK 

Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe is the first 

book to focus directly on the visual representation of 

marginal and outcast people in early modern Europe. 

The collection offers a comprehensive analysis of 

imagery featuring a wide range of marginalized types 

including Jews, roguish beggars, black slaves and 

prostitutes, among others. Contributors highlight how 

poor and marginal people came to play a significant 

role in European art in the early modern period. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5557-2 $99.95/£55.00

NEW 

The Notebooks of Nehemiah 

Wallington, 1618–1654 

A Selection 

Edited by David Booy 

“David Booy has made an admirable selection from the 

notebooks, sympathetic to Wallington’s own priorities 

and preoccupations…Generations of readers will turn 

to this edition with gratitude.” 

—Paul Seaver, Stanford University 

This book provides substantial excerpts from the seven 

surviving notebooks of London wood-turner and puritan 

Nehemiah Wallington. Covering the period 1618 to 

1654, the writings touch on a broad range of everyday 

and spiritual concerns. Accounts of incidents in his 

domestic, working and religious life sit side-by-side 

with sustained meditations on his spiritual state and 

reports on national events. This collection provides 

a unique window into everyday life in seventeenth 

century England. 

Contents: Preface; Glossary; Introduction; A Record of 

Gods Marcys, or a Thankfull Remembrance, (Guildhall 

library manuscript 204); A Memoriall of Gods Judgments 

upon Sabbath breakers, Drunkerds and other vile livers, 

(British Library, Sloane manuscript 1457); A Bundel of 

Marcys, (British Library, additional manuscript 21 935); 

The groth of a Christian, (British Library, additional 

manuscript 40 883); A Record of marcys continued 

or yet God is good to Israel, (Tatton Park manuscript 

68.20); Profitable and comfortabl letters, (British Library, 

Sloane manuscript 922); An Extract of the passages 

of my life or the Booke of all my writting books, 

(Folger Shakespeare library manuscript V.a.436); 

References; Indexes. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5186-4 $99.95/£60.00 

NEW 

Papal Banking 

in Renaissance Rome 

Benvenuto Olivieri and Paul III, 1534–1549 

Francesco Guidi Bruscoli, 

University of Florence, Italy. 

Studies in Banking and Financial History 

This work is concerned with the activities of the 

Florentine merchants active in Rome during the midsixteenth 

century, and their connections and relations 

with the Apostolic Chamber, particularly during the 

pontificate of Pope Paul III. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction. PART 1: ROME, FLORENCE 

AND THE OLIVIERI: Florentines in Rome; The ascent of 

the Olivieri family. PART 2: BENVENUTO OLIVIERI AND THE 

APOSTOLIC CHAMBER: The depositary and loans to the 

pontiff; The papal public debt: venal offices and Monti; 

The customs of Rome; The provincial treasuries; Indirect 

and direct taxes; Other activities; The business turnover. 

Conclusion; Appendix; Manuscript sources; List of cited 

references; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-0732-8 $99.95/£55.00 

Perceptions of Retailing 


Nancy Cox and Karin Dannehl, 

both at University of Wolverhampton, UK 

The History of Retailing and Consumption 

Whilst there has been much recent scholarly work on 

retailing during the early-modern period, much less is 

known about how people at the time perceived retailing. 

Centered around the general theme of perceptions, this 

book addresses this gap in our knowledge, looking at 

a different aspect of consumption. This book will prove 

essential reading for anyone interested in British social 

and economic history in the early modern period and 

among those interested with the history of retailing and 

of consumption. Although first and foremost a book 

written by historians for historians, it nevertheless 

borrows concepts and approaches from various 

disciplines concerned with theories of consumption, 

material culture, and representational art. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-3771-4 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Performance, Poetry and 

Politics on the Queen’s Day 

Catherine de Médicis and 

Pierre de Ronsard at Fontainbleau 

Virginia Scott and Sara Sturm-Maddox, 

both at University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama 

“This book is remarkable in the way an isolated and 

specific moment is explored to expose rich political and 

cultural reverberations which stretch out across Europe, 

before and after the event…This refreshing reappraisal 

of the royal policy of moderation and toleration binds 

together all the works created for Fontainebleau. Scott 

and Sturm-Maddox’s conclusion is both unexpected 

and original.” 

—Margaret M. McGowan, University of Sussex, UK 

This collaborative, interdisciplinary study explores issues 

in theatrical and literary history that converge in two 

performances during the fabled Fêtes de Fontainebleau, 

produced for Catherine de Médicis by Pierre de Ronsard 

and other artists and courtiers. The authors also use 

their focus on the Queen’s Day to consider a range of 

questions including the circumstances of the festival, 

its political program, and its relationship to court 

performance practices. 



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Performing Early Modern Trauma 

from Shakespeare to Milton 

Thomas P. Anderson, Mississippi State University 

“A stunningly intelligent, deeply provocative book 

that intervenes in many different areas of early modern 

studies simultaneously.” 

—Peter C. Herman, San Diego State University 

and author of Destabilizing Milton: ‘Paradise Lost’ 

and the Poetics of Incertitude 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5564-0 $100.00/£50.00 

Pictures and Popery 

Art and Religion in England, 1660–1760 

Clare Haynes, University of East Anglia, UK 

“…this is an excellent guide to a neglected aspect of the 

interplay between art and religion in England…” 

—Art and Christianity 


2006 238 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5506-0 $99.95/£55.00 

Pieties in Transition 

Religious Practices and Experiences, 

c.1400–1640 

Edited by Robert Lutton, University of Nottingham, 

UK and Elisabeth Salter, University of Wales, 

Aberystwyth, UK 

This significant and innovative collection explores the 

changing piety of townspeople and villagers before, 

during, and after the Reformation. Focusing particularly 

on the county of Kent, it brings together leading and 

new scholars from England and the Netherlands to 

present new research on a subject of importance to 

historians of society and religion in late medieval and 

early modern Europe. Contributors examine the diverse 

evidence for transitions in piety and the processes of 

these changes and incorporate a range of approaches 

including social, cultural and religious history, literary 

and manuscript studies, social anthropology 

and archaeology. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5616-6 $99.95/£55.00 

Print and Power in France 

and England, 1500–1800 

Edited by David Adams and Adrian Armstrong, 

both at University of Manchester, UK 


2006 166 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5591-6 $89.95/£45.00 

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Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, 

c. 1500–1900 

Patrick O’Flanagan, University College Cork, Ireland 

Charting the evolution of the seaports of Atlantic 

Spain and Portugal over four centuries, this book 

examines the often dynamic interaction between the 

large privileged ports of Lisbon, Seville and Cadiz (the 

Metropoles) and the smaller ports of, among others, 

Porto, Galicia and Santander (the Second Tier). With 

the long-term privileging and monopolies of the larger 

ports in decline, a new era of tremendous economic 

and entrepreneurial dynamism ensued for the coastal 

provinces of both countries. 

Contents: PART 1: Introduction; Iberian Urban 

Contexts; Formation and Geography of the Atlantic 

and Transatlantic Economies. PART 2: The Metropoles; 

Cádiz and La Bahía de Cádiz; The Atlantic Archipelagos; 

Another Metropole: Lisboa and Portugal; Castilla and 

the Atlantic. PART 3: A SECOND TIER: Introduction; Porto: 

Fortified Wine and Colonial Commerce; A Coruña: 

Not Even a Provincial Port; Santander: Wheat and 

Wool Emporium; Basque Maritime Heritage and Port 

Development; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-6109-2 c. $144.95/c. £75.00 

Portrait of a Patron 

The Patronage and Collecting of James 

Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1674–1744) 

Susan Jenkins 

“Susan Jenkins’s brilliant and scholarly account of this 

parvenu prince of patrons sheds new light on almost 

every aspect of the extraordinarily rich culture 

of Augustan England.” 

—Desmond Shawe-Taylor, 

Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures 

Remembered by history as a man of extravagant bad 

taste, this book reassesses the reputation of James 

Brydges, first Duke of Chandos (1674–1744). Through 

a close examination of the documentary sources and 

contemporary accounts a picture is instead created of 

an influential figure at the center of a web of patronage, 

a builder of a celebrated house and supporter of public 

architectural projects, who played a leading role in 

establishing a taste for Palladianism in England which 

was to define the Georgian period. 


May 2007 232 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-4156-8 $99.95/£55.00 

The Religious Culture 

of the Huguenots, 1660–1750 

Edited by Anne Dunan-Page, Université 

de Montpellier III, France 

2006 240 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5495-7 $99.95/£55.00 


NEW 

The Printed Image 

in Early Modern London 

Urban Space, Visual Representation, 

and Social Exchange 

Joseph Monteyne, State University of New York, 

Stony Brook 

“…Here, for the first time, the sensational depictions 

of the anti-Catholic processions of the early1680s, 

the extraordinary Frost Fair held on the Thames during 

the winter of 1683/4, the important new institution 

of the Coffee House, the Great Fire and the periodic 

plagues are discussed in proper detail. This is a book 

no historian of seventeenth-century English culture 

can afford to ignore.” 

—Malcolm Jones, University of Sheffield, UK 

Presenting an inventive body of research that explores 

the connections between urban movements, space, 

and visual representation, this study offers the first 

sustained analysis of the vital interrelationship between 

printed images and urban life in early modern London. 

It is distinguished by its close and sustained readings 

of individual prints, complemented with a thorough 

examination of the dynamics of print production 

as a commercial exchange. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-6019-4 $99.95/£60.00 

NEW 

Protestant Nonconformist Texts 

Volume 1 

1550 to 1700 

Edited by R. Tudur Jones 

with Arthur Long and Rosemary Moore 

Protestant Nonconformist Texts 

Like the other volumes in the four-volume series of 

which it is a part, this book breaks new ground in 

gathering and introducing texts relating to the origins 

of English and Welsh Dissent. Through contemporary 

writings it provides a lively insight into the life and 

thought of early Presbyterians, Congregationalists, 

Baptists and Quakers, as well as of smaller groups 

no longer extant. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-3864-3 $144.95/£75.00 

FORTHCOMING 

The Quest for the Invisible 

Microscopy in the Enlightenment 

Marc J. Ratcliff, University of Geneva, Switzerland 

This study offers a definitive account of the state of 

microscopy in the eighteenth century, of the main 

concerns of those involved in the field and how 

microscopists learned to communicate their findings to 

each other. It will be essential reading for all historians 

of microscopy and for those studying life sciences of the 

modern period. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-6150-4 c. $114.95/c. £60.00 

The Renaissance Palace 

in Florence 

Magnificence and Splendour 

in Fifteenth-Century Italy 

James R. Lindow, AXA Art Insurance, London, UK 

“A great achievement. This book re-establishes links 

between classical revival and Renaissance material 

culture, and demonstrates for the first time the close 

relationship between the ‘magnificence’ of Renaissance 

palaces and the ‘splendor’ of their interiors…Teachers, 

students and the general reader will find this book 

a pleasure to read.” 

—Alison Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London 

Highlighting how classical theory and Renaissance 

practice intersected in quattrocento Florence, this 

book offers a more nuanced understanding of the early 

modern urban palace. Using unpublished inventories, 

private documents and surviving domestic objects, 

Lindow’s groundbreaking study considers fifteenthcentury 

palazzi as complete entities, demonstrating 

how magnificence extended beyond the exterior 

to the splendid interior where virtuous expenditure 

could and should be displayed. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-6092-7 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Restoration Ireland 

Always Settling and Never Settled 

Edited by Coleman Dennehy, University College 

Dublin, Republic of Ireland 

In recent decades, the historiography of early modern 

Ireland in general, and of the seventeenth century in 

particular, has been revitalized. However, while much 

of this new work has focused either on the critical 

decades of the 1640s or the Williamite wars, the 

Restoration period still remains largely neglected. 

As such this volume provides an opportunity to explore 

the period between 1660 and 1688, and reassess some 

of the crucial events it witnessed. 

Contents: Preface; Restoration Ireland—themes 

and problems, Tim Harris; The Irish restoration land 

settlement and its historians, Michael Perceval-Maxwell; 

The Restoration land settlement in Ireland: a statistical 

interpretation, Kevin McKenny; The Restoration Irish 

parliament, 1661–6, Coleman A. Dennehy; A play 

supposedly fitter for the fire than for the stage: the 

fiction of Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery and the recasting 

of history, John Cronin; Changing their path: 

Quaker adaptation to the challenge of Restoration, 

1660–80, Sandra Maria Hynes; Catholic clerical 

responses to the Restoration: the case of Nicholas 

French, Jason McHugh; ‘A proportionable mixture’: 

William Petty, political arithmetic, and the transmutation 

of the Irish, Ted McCormick; ‘Grace and favour’: the 

Cabal ministry and Irish Catholic politics, 1667–73, 

Anne Creighton; ‘Dividing the bear’s skin before she 

is taken’: Irish Catholics and land in the late Stuart 

monarchy, 1683–91, Eoin Kinsella; Conclusion: 

Restoration Ireland, Toby Barnard; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5887-0 $99.95/£55.00

The Rise of the Amsterdam 

Market and Information Exchange 

Merchants, Commercial Expansion 

and Change in the Spatial Economy 

of the Low Countries, c.1550–1630 

Clé Lesger, University of Amsterdam, 


Includes 14 figures 

2006 338 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5220-5 $114.95/£60.00 

NEW 

Roger L’Estrange and the 

Making of Restoration Culture 

Edited by Anne Dunan-Page, Université Paul Valéry, 

Montpellier III, France and Beth Lynch, Newnham 

College, UK 

Roger L’Estrange (1616–1704) was one of the most 

remarkable, significant and colorful figures in seventeenthcentury 

England. This collection of essays by leading 

scholars of the period highlights the instrumental role 

he played in the shaping of the political, literary and 

print cultures of the Restoration period. Taking an 

interdisciplinary approach the volume covers all the 

major aspects of his career, as well as situating them in 

their broader historical and literary context. By examining 

his career in this way the book offers insights that will 

prove of worth to political, social, religious and cultural 

historians, as well as those interested in seventeenthcentury 

literary and book history. 

Contents: Introduction, Anne Dunan-Page and 

Beth Lynch; Rhetoricating and identity in L’Estrange’s 

early career, 1659–1662, Beth Lynch; L’Estrange’s Milton, 

Nicholas von Maltzan; L’Estrange, Marvell and The 

Directions to a Painter: the evidence of Bodleian Library, 

MS Gough London 14, Martin Dzelzainis; Roger 

L’Estrange’s Observator and the exorcism of the plot, 

Mark Goldie; ‘Tales and romantick stories’: ‘Impostures,’ 

trustworthiness, and the credibility of information in the 

late 17th century, Peter Hinds; Roger L’Estrange and the 

Huguenots: continental Protestantism and the Church 

of England, Anne Dunan-Page; ‘The art of schooling 

mankind’: the uses of the fable in Sir Roger L’Estrange’s 

Aesop’s Fables (1692), Line Cottegnies; ‘My fiddle 

is a bass viol’: music in the life of Roger L’Estrange, 

Andrew Ashbee; L’Estrange, Joyce and the dictates of 

typography, Harold Love; The works of Roger L’Estrange: 

an annotated biography, Geoff Kemp; Bibliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5800-9 $99.95/£55.00 

Scripture and Scholarship 


Edited by Ariel Hessayon, Goldsmiths College, 

University of London, UK and Nicholas Keene, 

Royal Holloway, University of London, UK 

2006 268 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-3893-3 $99.95/£50.00 

FORTHCOMING 

Science and Spectacle in the 

European Enlightenment 

Edited by Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Université 

Paris X, France and Christine Blondel, CNRS, 

France 

Science, Technology and Culture, 1700–1945 

The essays in this volume consider the interplay of 

science and spectacle in eighteenth-century Europe, 

describing the variety of public demonstrations of 

science in sites ranging from academies and laboratories 

to shops and streets. 


July 2008 170 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-6370-6 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 

The Sidneys of Penshurst 

and the Monarchy, 1500–1700 

Michael G. Brennan, University of Leeds, UK 

“This is the book we did not know we were waiting 

for…one of the most important works in Sidney studies 

to have appeared in years. Rich, learned, informative 

and analytical, it leaves students of any or all of this 

remarkable family’s members with a group portrait 

the Sidneys themselves would have recognized 

and appreciated.” 



2006 202 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5060-7 $89.95/£50.00 

Sir Walter Ralegh’s 

Discoverie of Guiana 

Edited by Joyce Lorimer, Wilfrid Laurier University 

Hakluyt Society, Third Series: 15 

Sir Walter Ralegh’s account of his 1595 expedition 

in search of the fabled empire of El Dorado was an 

immediate publishing success and is one of the most 

important pieces of Elizabethan travel literature. This 

edition presents the annotated texts of an unpublished 

copy of Ralegh’s draft of The Discoverie of the Large, 

Rich, and Bewtifvl Empyre of Gviana and the subsequent 

printed versions. It demonstrates how the manuscript 

was altered for publication, to focus its appeal 

to investors in gold mines for which Ralegh 

had very little evidence. 



Hardback 978-0-904180-87-9 $99.95/£55.00 


NEW 

Six Renaissance Men and Women 

Innovation, Biography and Cultural Creativity 

in Tudor England, c.1450–1560 

Elisabeth Salter, University of Wales, 

Aberystwyth, UK 

In this innovative study, Elisabeth Salter reconstructs the 

lives of six men and women of the early Renaissance 

and leads us on a quest to reconstruct their lost cultural 

worlds. The six men and women are all figures from the 

margins of the royal courts during the reigns of Henry 

VII and Henry VIII. This book will appeal to historians 

of the late-medieval period and the Renaissance, 

and will serve as an exemplary model to scholars 

of biographical reconstruction. 

Contents: Introduction; Critical Introduction; Gilbert 

Banaster; Elizabeth Philip; The anonymous witness; 

William Cornysh; Katherine Styles; William Buckley; 

Conclusion. Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5440-7 $99.95/£55.00 

The Spanish Match 

Prince Charles’s Journey to Madrid, 1623 

Edited by Alexander Samson, University College 

London, UK 


2006 274 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-4087-5 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Spenser’s Irish Work 

Poetry, Plantation and Colonial Reformation 

Thomas Herron, East Carolina University 

“A scholarly look beyond the debilitating anxieties 

of some Spenser criticism towards Spenser’s Irish 

elements…A superb addition to the gathering wave of 

historical approaches to Spenser. The effective entry of 

real history into reading Spenser has profound results for 

interpretation and understanding…Herron sets a high 

example which cannot be ignored.” 

—J. B. Lethbridge, Tübingen University 

Exploring Spenser’s work within the historical and 

aesthetic context of colonial agricultural reform in 

Ireland, this study demonstrates how Irish events operate 

in more of Spenser’s poetry than previously suspected. It 

explores neglected Irish material in the work of Spenser’s 

contemporaries and Elizabethan pageantry in the 1590s. 

Taking in history, religion, geography, classics and 

colonial studies, as well as early modern literature 

and Irish and bardic studies, this book constitutes 

a valuable addition to Spenser scholarship. 

Includes 1 color, 4 b&w illustrations and 1 map 


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Each title in the Variorum Collected Studies series brings together for the first time a selection of articles 

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NEW 

Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome 

Challenge, Conversion, and Private Life 

Kenneth Stow, University of Haifa, Israel 

Variorum Collected Studies Series: CS879 

The essays in this second volume by Kenneth Stow 

examine why in 1555, Pope Paul IV collected Rome’s 

established Jewish population—whose members 

were legally cives and integrated into the city’s Italian 

culture—in a ghetto, there to remain for three hundred 

years, in the hope for their conversion. At the same time, 

he explores the social and family life of this community, 

and shows how, though increasingly impoverished and 

powerless, these Jews managed to salvage much of their 

internal culture and institutions. 

Contents: Introduction; PART 1: THE PAPAL CHALLENGE: 

The burning of the Talmud in 1553, in the light of 16th 

century Catholic attitudes toward the Talmud; The 

consciousness of closure: Roman Jewry and its ghet; 

Expulsion Italian style: the case of Lucio Ferraris; The 

good of the Church, the good of the state: the Popes 

and Jewish money. PART 2: IN SEARCH OF CONVERSION: 

Church, conversion and tradition: the problem of Jewish 

conversion in 16th century Italy; A tale of uncertainties: 

converts in the Roman ghetto; Neofiti and their families, 

or perhaps, the good of the state; Delitto e castigo nello 

stato della chiesa: gli ebrei nelle carceri romane dal 

1572 al 1659. PART 3: THE JEWS OF ROME: Prossimità o 

distanza: etnicità, sefarditi e assenza di conflitti etnici 

nella Roma del sedicesimo secolo; Ethnic rivalry or 

melting pot: the ‘edot’ in the Roman ghetto; Ethnic 

amalgamation, like it or not: inheritance in early 

modern Jewish Rome; Abramo ben Aaron Scazzocchio, 

another kind of Rabbi; The knotty problem of Shem Tov 

Soporto: male honor, marital initiation, and disciplinary 

structures in mid-16th-century Jewish Rome; The new 

fashioned from the old: parallels in public and learned 

memory and practice in 16th century Jewish Rome; 

Corporate double talk: Kehillat Kodesh and Universitas 

in the Roman Jewish 16th century environment; 

Marriages are made in heaven: marriage and the 

individual in the Roman Jewish ghetto; Writing in 

Hebrew, thinking in Italian; Jewish pre-emancipation: 

ius commune, the Roman communità, and marriage 

in the early modern Papal State; Index. 



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Studies on Ottoman Society 

and Culture, 16th–18th Centuries 

Rhoads Murphey, University of Birmingham, UK 


The studies presented in this collection are concerned 

with the material conditions of life in the mature Ottoman 

state of the 16th–18th centuries. They range from the 

evaluation of sources of livelihood and conditions in the 

workplace on the one hand, to notions of domesticity 

and organization of the private sphere on the other, and 

deal with the provinces, in both the Balkans and in Asia, 

as much as with Istanbul. 

Contents: Preface; PART 1: CULTURAL RELATIONS AND 

EXCHANGE OF IDEAS: Ottoman medicine and transculturalism 

from the 16th through the 18th century; Westernisation 

in the 18th-century Ottoman empire: how far, how fast?; 

Bigots or informed observers? A periodization of precolonial 

English and European writing on the Middle 

East; The Ottoman attitude towards the adoption of 

Western technology: the role of the efrenci technicians 

in civil and military applications. PART 2: URBAN LIVING: 

Provisioning Istanbul: the state and subsistence in the 

early modern Middle East; Communal living in Ottoman 

Istanbul: searching for the foundations of an urban 

tradition; Disaster relief practices in 17th-century 

Istanbul: a brief overview of organizational aspects of 

urban renewal projects undertaken in the aftermath of 

catastrophic fires; The city of Belgrade in the early years 

of Serbian self-rule and dual administration with the 

Ottomans: vignettes from Rashid’s History illuminating 

the transformation of a Muslim metropolis of the 

Balkans. PART 3: POPULATION GROUPS, POPULATION 

MOVEMENTS, PRODUCTION AND ORGANISATION OF LABOUR: 

Some features of nomadism in the Ottoman empire: 

a survey based on tribal census and judicial appeal 

documentation from archives in Istanbul and Damascus; 

Ottoman census methods in the mid-16th century: 3 

case histories; The conceptual and pragmatic uses of 

the ‘summary’ (idjmal) register in 16th-century Ottoman 

administrative practice; Population movements and 

labor mobility in Balkan contexts: a glance at post-1600 

Ottoman social realities; Silver production in Rumelia 

according to an official Ottoman report circa 1600; 

Tobacco cultivation in northern Syria and conditions of 

its marketing and distribution in the late 18th century; 

The construction of a fortress at Mosul in 1631: a case 

study of an important facet of Ottoman military 

expenditure; Index. 


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Councils of the Catholic Reformation 

Pisa I (1409) to Trent (1545–63) 

Nelson H. Minnich, The Catholic University of America 


This new collection by Nelson Minnich deals with the 

general councils of the Catholic Reformation in the late 

medieval and early modern periods. 

Contents: From Constance to Trent: a historical 

overview; The first printed edition of the modern 

councils: from Konstanz to Lateran V (1499–1526); The 

official edition (1521) of the 5th Lateran Council; The 

changing status of the theologians in the Councils of the 

West: Pisa (1409) to Trent (1545–1563); The voice of the 

theologians in General councils from Pisa to Trent; Wie 

in dem basilischen Concilio den Behemen gescheen’? 

The status of the Protestants at the Council of Trent; The 

role of schools of theology in the Councils of the late 

medieval and renaissance periods: Konstanz to Lateran 

V’ Prophecy and the 5th Lateran Council (1512–1517); 

Rite convocare ac congregare procedereque: the 

struggle between the Councils of Pisa-Milan-Asti-Lyon 

and Lateran V; The images of Julius II in the Acta of 

the Councils of Pisa-Milan-Asti-Lyons (1511–12) and 

Lateran V (1512–17); The priesthood of all believers at 

the Council of Trent; The last 2 Councils of the Catholic 

Reformation: the influence of Lateran V on Trent; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5951-8 $124.95/£65.00 

NEW 

Travellers and Cosmographers 

Studies in the History of Early Modern 

Travel and Ethnology 

Joan-Pau Rubiés, London School of Economics, UK 


Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies 

that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the 

transformation of early modern European culture 

towards the concerns of the Enlightenment. 

Contents: Introduction; PART I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: Travel 

writing as a genre: facts, fictions and the invention of a 

scientific discourse in early modern Europe; New worlds 

and renaissance ethnology; Instructions for travellers: 

teaching the eye to see; Travel writing and ethnography. 

PART II: TEXTS AND DEBATES: Giovanni di Buonagrazia’s 

letter to his father concerning his participation in the 

2nd expedition of Vasco da Gama (1502–1503); The 

oriental voices of Mendes Pinto, or the traveller as 

ethnologist in Portuguese India; Futility in the New 

World: narratives of travel in 16th-century America; The 

Jesuit discovery of Hinduism: Antonio Rubino’s account 

of the history and religion of Vijayanagara (1608); The 

concept of cultural dialogue and the Jesuit method of 

accommodation: between idolatry and civilisation; The 

Spanish contribution to the ethnology of Asia in the 16th 

and 17th centuries; Hugo Grotius’s dissertation on the 

origin of the American peoples and the use of comparative 

methods; Addenda and corrigenda; Index. 



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Turks, Tatars and Russians 

in the 13th–16th Centuries 

István Vásáry, Institute of Oriental Studies, Hungary 


The setting for the studies collected here is the West- 

Eurasian steppe region, extending from present-day 

Kazakhstan through southern Russia, Ukraine and 

Moldavia to the Carpathian Basin. Articles deal with 

pre-Mongol, Turkic peoples of the region and their 

relations with the Byzantine Empire to the south, the 

history of the Golden Horde and its successor states 

and the rise of the Russian state. Particular articles look 

at Mongol institutions and terminology, others at the 

interaction of the medieval Tatar and Russian worlds. 

Contents: Preface; The role of the Turkic peoples 

in the ethnic history of Eastern Europe; Origins and 

possible Cuman affiliations of the Asen dynasty; 

Cuman warriors in the fight of Byzantium with the 

Latins; The Hungarians or Možars and the Mešcers/ 

Mižers of the Middle Volga region; The Golden Horde 

term daruga and its survival in Russia; The institution of 

foster-brothers (emildäš and kökäldäš) in the Chingisid 

states; The origin of the institution of basqaqs; Susun 

and süsün in Middle Turkic texts; Notes on the term 

tartanaq in the Golden Horde; Bemerkungen zum 

uigurischen Schrifttum in der Goldenen Horde und bei 

den Timuriden; Mongolian impact on the terminology of 

the documents of the Golden Horde; Immunity charters 

of the Golden Horde granted to the Italian towns Caffa 

and Tana; Oriental languages of the Codex Cumanicus: 

Persian and Cuman as linguae francae in the Black Sea 

region (13th–14th centuries) A contract of the Crimean 

Khan Mängli Giräy and the inhabitants of Qïrq-Yer 

from 1478/79; Two Kazan Tatar edicts (Ibrahim’s and 

Sahib Girey’s yarliks) (with Shamil Muhamedyarov); 

Orthodox Christian Qumans and Tatars of the Crimea 

in the 13th–14th centuries; ‘History and legend’ in 

Berke Khan’s conversion to Islam; Andrzej Taranowskis 

Bericht über seine Gesandschaftsreise in der Tartarei 

(1569) (with L. Tardy); Russian and Tatar genealogical 

sources on the origin of the Iusupov family; Clans of 

Tatar descent in the Muscovite elite of the 14th–16th 

centuries; Muscovite diplomacy with the states of the 

Orient; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5929-7 $124.95/£65.00 

NEW 

The Virgilian Tradition 

Book History and the History of Reading 


Craig Kallendorf, Texas A&M University 


The essays in this collection approach the reception 

of the Roman poet Virgil in early modern Europe from 

the perspective of two areas at the center of current 

scholarly work in the humanities: book history and 

the history of reading. The first group of essays looks 

at broader questions, of traditional notions of literary 

practice and value, or how rhetoric helps shape literary 

criticism. The author then focuses on how title pages 

and illustrations help shape interpretation, and the 

comments that early modern readers regularly entered 

into the margins of their books. The volume concludes 

with four more specialized studies that show how these 

larger issues play out in specific neo-Latin works of the 

early modern period. 

Contents: Preface; Philology, the reader and the 

nachleben of classical texts; Marginalia and the rise of 

early modern subjectivity; The rhetorical criticism of 

literature in early Italian humanism from Boccaccio to 

Landino; Virgil’s post-classical legacy; Proverbs, censors 

and schools: neo-Latin studies and book history; The 

Virgilian title page as interpretive frame; or, through the 

looking glass; The Aeneid transformed: illustration as 

interpretation from the renaissance to the present; In 

search of a patron: Anguillara’s vernacular Virgil and the 

print culture of renaissance Italy; In the margins of Virgil: 

Venetian renaissance books in the Biblioteca Nazionale 

Marciana and their early readers; Cristoforo Landino, 

Andrea Tordi and the reading practices of renaissance 

humanism; Virgil, Dante and empire in Italian thought, 

1300–1500; Inclyta Aeneis: a 16th-century neo-Latin 

tragicomedy; Ascensius, Landino and Virgil: continuity 

and transformation in renaissance commentary; Aeneas 

and the ‘new world’: Stella’s Columbeis and Virgilian 

pessimism; Indexes. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5923-5 $119.95/£62.50 


NEW 

Text/Events in Early 

Modern England 

Poetics of History 

Sandra Logan, Michigan State University 

Engaging with the mutually constitutive conjunctions 

of experience and inscription in Elizabethan England— 

what Sandra Logan calls the “text/event”—this study 

considers multiple accounts of four historical events: 

Elizabeth’s 1558 coronation entry; the 1575 Kenilworth 

entertainments; the reign of Richard II; and the 1601 

Essex trial. The book traces an emergent trend in 

representational practice, whereby popular accounts 

produce a sense of immediate experience that is richer 

and more intimate than the event itself. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5586-2 $99.95/£50.00 

Textual Patronage in English 

Drama, 1570–1640 

David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas 

”This important book will reorient the study of early 

English drama to include more sustained consideration 

of the plays as texts…Highly recommended.” 

—Choice 


2006 258 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5405-6 $89.95/£45.00 

Theatricality and Narrative 

in Medieval and Early 

Modern Scotland 

John J. McGavin, University of Southampton, UK 


John McGavin here analyzes narrative accounts of 

public theatricality in late medieval and early modern 

Scottish culture (pre-1645). He shows that journals, 

memoirs and chronicles record events which were 

often ambiguous in genre, confrontational in action and 

aimed at both present and future “spectators.” McGavin 

demonstrates that early Scottish culture is revealed 

as much in its processes of witnessing as in that 

which it claims to witness. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-0794-6 $99.95/£50.00 

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NEW 

Theology and Science 

in the Thought of Francis Bacon 

Steven Matthews, University of Minnesota 

Although many books have been published on Francis 

Bacon there is still no scholarly consensus on his 

religious beliefs and how they may have affected his 

work. This monograph contributes possible answers 

to the questions of what Bacon believed and how it 

may have affected the development of his program for 

scientific reform, the ‘Great Instauration.’ The work 

also offers a new approach to the question of the 

interaction of religion and science in early modern 

England by considering the effect of patristic theology 

on the development of new ways of considering the 

relationship of God and nature, and the place of human 

beings in the cosmos. 

Contents: Preface; Breaking with a puritan past; 

Bacon’s turn toward the ancient faith; In the beginning: 

the creation of nature and the nature of the fall; On 

the ways of salvation: Bacon’s 2-fold via salutis; In the 

autumn of the world: features of the age of instauration; 

Bacon’s circle and his legacy; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-6252-5 c. $99.95/c. £50.00 

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Urban Societies in East-Central 

Europe, 1500–1700 

Jaroslav Miller, Palacký University, Czech Republic 


This book looks at urban development in East-Central 

Europe from the middle ages to the early modern period. 

Dealing primarily with Bohemia, Hungary and the 

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and to a lesser 

degree with parts of Austria and Germany, this book 

provides an insight into a number of key issues 

concerning the economic, social and demographic 

trends in early modern East-Central European urban 

history. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, it 

examines the effects of migration, Reformation, state 

building and economic change on the transformation 

of medieval urban communities into early 

modern societies. 

Contents: Introduction: the closed society and its 

enemies; Urbanization trends and urban landscape; 

Urban immigration; Integrity of urban society 

challenged I: unassimilated groups in cities; Integrity 

of urban society challenged II: urban conflicts and city 

autonomy in the context of reformation; Building a 

Leviathon: early modern city and early modern state; 

Urban economy: its basic parameters; Conclusion; 

Bibliography; Appendices; Index. 

Includes 2 Maps 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5739-2 c. $99.95/c. £55.00 


Visualizing Medieval Medicine 

and Natural History, 1200–1550 

Edited by Jean A. Givens, University of Connecticut, 

Karen M. Reeds, Princeton Research Forum/ 

National Coalition of Independent Scholars 

and Alain Touwaide, Smithsonian Institution, 

National Museum of Natural History 

AVISTA Studies in the History of Medieval Technology, 

Science and Art: 5 


2006 300 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5296-0 $99.95/£55.00 

Warfare in Early Modern Europe 

1450–1660 

Edited by Paul E.J. Hammer, 

University of St Andrews, UK 

The International Library of Essays on Military History 

The early modern period saw gunpowder weapons 

reach maturity and become a central feature of 

European warfare, on land and at sea. This exciting 

collection of essays brings together a distinguished 

and varied selection of modern scholarship on the 

transformation of war—often described as a “military 

revolution”—during the period between 1450 and 1660. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-2529-2 $250.00/£125.00 

Warrior, Courtier, Singer 

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio 

and the Performance of Identity 

in the Late Renaissance 

Richard Wistreich, Newcastle University, UK 

Giulio Cesare Brancaccio was a Neapolitan nobleman 

with long practical experience of military life. He was 

also a virtuoso bass singer whose performances were 

praised by both Tasso and Guarini. Richard Wistreich 

examines Brancaccio’s life in detail and considers the 

mental and social world of a warrior and courtier with 

musical skills in a broader context. He also illustrates 

the use of music in the process of “self-fashioning” and 

the role of performance of all kinds in the construction 

of male noble identity within court culture, including 

the nature and currency of honour, chivalric virtù 

and sixteenth-century notions of gender and virility 

in relation to musical performance 

Includes 7 figures and 5 music examples 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5414-8 $99.95/£55.00 

William Percy’s 

Mahomet and His Heaven 

A Critical Edition 

Edited by Matthew Dimmock, 

University of Sussex, UK 

“Matthew Dimmock’s stated aim is to recover Mahomet 

and His Heaven ‘for any consideration of early English 

mythologies of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.’ It is 

a task he performs admirably—his edition contributes 

to an important and growing field of scholarship.” 

—Times Literary Supplement 

2006 262 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5406-3 $99.95/£50.00 

Witchcraft, Exorcism and 

the Politics of Possession in 

a Seventeenth-Century Convent 

‘How Sister Ursula was once Bewiched 

and Sister Margaret Twice’ 

Nicky Hallett, University of Sheffield, UK. 



Presenting a remarkable set of previously unpublished 

papers, this book concerns the bewitchment, possession 

and exorcism of two seventeenth-century nuns living in 

exile in an English convent in the Spanish Netherlands. 

The papers reveal unprecedented detail about their lives 

before, during and after exorcism so that, for the first 

time in 350 years, we can hear their voices—and their 

silences—resound in all their vibrancy. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-3150-7 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Women, Medicine 

and Theatre 1500–1750 

Literary Mountebanks 

and Performing Quacks 

M.A. Katritzky, The Open University, UK 


“…the author’s assiduous research has assembled as 

much as could be hoped for on the extremely elusive 

presence of women in early modern performative 

medicine. This detailed study provides a storehouse of 

invaluable information, as well as decisive interventions 

in debates over the nature of early modern theatre.” 

—Margaret Pelling, University of Oxford 

Drawing on a comprehensive range of early modern 

British, German and other European images and texts, 

this study offers the first interdisciplinary gendered 

assessment of early modern performing itinerant quacks. 

The contribution of women is taken as the focus for an 

investigation of the nature of the links between the 

theatrical and the medical, in the activities of quack 

troupes as they went about curing, selling and performing. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5084-3 $99.95/£55.00

NEW 

William Blake and the Cultures of 

Radical Christianity 

Robert Rix, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 

A detailed and historically-grounded study of a key 

literary figure, this book should appeal to Blake scholars 

and historians with an interest in the radical and 

religious culture of late eighteenth and early nineteenth 

century England. New research on Blake’s links to, and 

reaction against, the Swedenborg New Church make 

this study a valuable addition to scholarship in this area. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5600-5 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW IN PAPERBACK 

Women Players in England, � 

1500–1660 

Beyond the All-Male Stage 

Edited by Pamela Allen Brown, 

University of Connecticut and Peter Parolin, 

University of Wyoming 


“The essays come packed with revelatory evidence 

gleaned from an impressive compilation of recent 

research—material that adds a sense of fresh discovery 

to the scrupulous historical examination and analyses… 

This book will appeal to those exploring women’s 

studies as well as to those probing early modern 

drama…Highly recommended.” 

—Choice 

Offering evidence of women’s extensive contributions to 

the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges 

the assumption that the stage was “all male” in early 

modern England. The editors and contributors argue 

that the pervasiveness of female performance affected 

cultural production, even on the professional London 

stages that used men and boys for women’s parts. In 

short, Women Players in England 1500–1660 shows 

that women were dynamic cultural players in the 

early modern world. 



Paperback 978-0-7546-6535-9 $49.95/£25.00 

Hardback 978-0-7546-0953-7 $99.95/£60.00 

Examination copies are available in paperback 

NEW 

Women’s Work and Identity in 

Eighteenth-Century Brittany 

Nancy Locklin, Maryville College 

Based on a solid foundation of archival research that 

ranges from tax rolls to notarial records, this study adds 

an important chapter to our understanding of women in 

pre-industrial Europe. Through a rigorous examination 

of primary documents peculiar to eighteenth-century 

Brittany, the author demonstrates the difficulties 

engendered in broad generalities about European 

women, and makes a strong case for the necessity for 

historians to account for regional differences in women’s 

experiences. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5819-1 $99.95/£55.00 

NEW 

Writing North America 

in the Seventeenth Century 

English Representations in Print 

and Manuscript 

Catherine Armstrong, University of Warwick, UK 

Examining a range of seventeenth century literature, 

including travel narratives, promotional literature, plays, 

poetry and journals, this book examines the ways in 

which the geography and nature of the new colonies 

of North America were represented, both by the settlers 

themselves and commentators in Renaissance England. 

This is a valuable addition to literature of colonial 

history, transatlantic history, and the cultural world 

of early modern England. 

Contents: Prologue; ‘Printing and adventuring’: the 

convergence of literature and discovery; The geography 

and climate of North America; Representations of 

the American landscape; Colonists and the flora of 

America; The fauna of North America; Representations 

of English society in Virginia: intentions and realities; 

Representations of English society in New England: 

intentions and realities; Transmission and reception 

of American news in England; Conclusion; 

Bobliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-5700-2 $89.95/£55.00 


OTHER TITLES OF INTEREST… 

NEW 

The University of Google 

Education in the (Post) Information Age 

Tara Brabazon, University of Brighton, UK 

“The University of Google is my book of the year for 

2007…It will have a huge impact on everyone in higher 

education, helping those suspicious of new media to 

formulate their criticisms and those eager to adopt it 

better placed to introduce it appropriately.” 

—Frank Webster, City University London, UK 

Looking at schools and universities, it is difficult to 

pinpoint when education, teaching and learning started 

to hemorrhage purpose, aspiration and function. As the 

internet offers a glut of information; bored surfers fill 

their cursors and minds with irrelevancies, losing the 

capacity to sift, discard and judge. In The University of 

Google, Tara Brabazon projects a defiant and passionate 

vision of education as a pathway to renewal, where 

students are on a journey through knowledge, rather 

than consumers in the shopping center of cheap ideas. 

In doing so, she opens a new debate on how to make 

our educational system both productive and provocative 

in the (post-) information age. 


Hardback 978-0-7546-7097-1 $59.95/£30.00 

NEW 

How to Get Research 

Published in Journals 

Second Edition 

Abby Day 

Reviews of the previous edition: 

“Her pragmatic and humorous approach will be 

invaluable to novices trying to break into the world 

of journal article publishing and has lots also to offer 

to experienced writers, who can expect to get new 

perspectives and a re-energized approach. ” 

—Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 

Now in its second edition, this international bestselling 

book has been revised and updated. It focuses 

on helping people overcome some of the most common 

obstacles to successful publication. Lack of time? An 

unconscious fear of rejection? Conflicting priorities? 

In this, the first book to address the subject, Abby 

Day explains how to overcome these obstacles and 

create publishable papers for journals most likely 

to publish them. 


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Index 







A 

Adams, David ........................................................................19 

Adaptations of Calvinism in Reformation Europe ..................4 

Aitken, Richard .......................................................................3 

Altarpieces and Their Viewers in the Churches of Rome 

from Caravaggio to Guido Reni .........................................2 

Anderson, Thomas P. ............................................................19 

Anglo-Dutch Favourite, The ...................................................11 

Armstrong, Adrian ................................................................19 

Armstrong, Catherine ...........................................................25 

Arnold, Ken .............................................................................7 

Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIII ...............2 

Art and Identity in Early Modern Rome ..................................2 

Atlantic Slave Trade, The ..........................................................2 

Austin, Kenneth ......................................................................5 

B 

Backus, Irena ..........................................................................6 

Barnett, Gregory .....................................................................3 

Baroque Piety: Religion, Society, and Music 

in Leipzig, 1650–1750 ........................................................2 

Before Bruegel ..........................................................................2 

Beholder, The ...........................................................................2 

Bell, Dean Phillip ..................................................................13 

Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette ............................................21 

Bergeron, David M. ...............................................................23 

Betteridge, Thomas ................................................................3 

Biblical Scholarship and the Church ......................................2 

Birth of Mankind, The ..............................................................3 

Black, Christopher ................................................................10 

Black, Jeremy ..........................................................................2 

Black Lives in the English Archives, 1500–1677 ....................3 

Blondel, Christine .................................................................21 

Boccaccio’s Heroines ............................................................16 

Bolognese Instrumental Music, 1660–1710 ..........................3 

Booker, John .........................................................................14 

Booy, David ............................................................................19 

Boran, Elizabethanne .............................................................5 

Borders and Travellers in Early Modern Europe ......................3 

Bosworth, C. Edmund ..........................................................12 

Botanical Riches ......................................................................3 

Boyle Papers, The .....................................................................3 

Brabazon, Tara ......................................................................25 

Braun, Harald E. .....................................................................9 

Brennan, Michael G. ............................................................21 

Broomhall, Susan .................................................................18 

Brown, Pamela Allen ............................................................25 

Brundin, Abigail ....................................................................10 

Bruscoli, Francesco Guidi ....................................................19 

Buchanan, Brenda J. ...........................................................12 

Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c. 1550–1651, The ........3 

Burke, Jill .................................................................................2 

Burnett, Amy Nelson ..............................................................4 

Bury, Michael ..........................................................................2 

Butler, Todd ............................................................................12 

C 

Cabinets for the Curious .........................................................7 

Cameron, Euan .......................................................................4 

Campbell, Erin ......................................................................12 

Campbell, Jodi ......................................................................15 

Carpenter, Stanley ................................................................10 

Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540–1570 .............4 

Catholic Belief and Survival in Late 

Sixteenth-Century Vienna ..................................................4 

Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England ..........................9 

Chancery of God, The ..............................................................4 

Chinese Diaspora in the Pacific, The ......................................7 

Church, State and Dynasty in Renaissance Poland ..............9 

Church of Mary Tudor, The ......................................................9 

City and the Senses, The ........................................................7 

Claydon, Tony ........................................................................11 

Cole, Michael W. .....................................................................5 

Colonial America and the Early Republic ................................7 

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in the English Renaissance, The ......................................8 

Contending Kingdoms’, ‘The ..................................................8 

Correspondence of Reginald Pole, The ...................................4 

Cosmographia of Sebastian Münster, The ............................4 

Councils of the Catholic Reformation ...................................22 

Counts of Laval, The ................................................................8 

Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland 

and England, 1500–1540 ...................................................8 

Cowan, Alexander .............................................................7, 15 

Cox, Nancy ............................................................................19 

Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries ....................8 

Cruz, Anne J. .........................................................................15 

Culture of Cloth in Early Modern England, The ......................8 

Cunningham, Andrew ..........................................................14 

Cunningham, Jack ...............................................................13 

Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance 

to the Enlightenment ........................................................8 

D 

Dannehl, Karin ......................................................................19 

Daston, Lorraine ...................................................................18 

Day, Abby ...............................................................................25 

Defending Royal Supremacy and Discerning God’s 

Will in Tudor England .........................................................5 

Defining the Holy ....................................................................8 

Dennehy, Coleman ...............................................................20 

Dimmock, Matthew ..............................................................24 

Dinan, Susan E. ....................................................................17 

Dominican Women and Renaissance Art .............................16 

Duffy, Eamon ...........................................................................9 

Dunan-Page, Anne .........................................................20, 21 

Dunthorne, Hugh ..................................................................11 

E 

Early and Medieval Rituals and Theologies of Baptism .......10 

Early Modern Confraternities in Europe 

and the Americas ............................................................10 

Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers .............11 

Enforcing Reformation in Ireland 

and Scotland, 1550–1700 ..................................................5 

English Civil War, The ............................................................10 

Eppley, Daniel .........................................................................5 

Estates, Enterprise and Investment at the Dawn of the 

Industrial Revolution .......................................................10 

Evans, R.J.W. ...........................................................................8 

Evenden, Elizabeth .................................................................6 

F 

Felch, Susan M. ....................................................................11 

Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe .......................9 

Fiscal Military State in Eighteenth-Century Europe, The .....11 

Fitzpatrick, Joan ....................................................................12 

Food in Shakespeare ..............................................................12 

Frangenberg, Thomas ............................................................2 

Franklin, Margaret ................................................................16 

From Judaism to Calvinism ....................................................5 

From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris .......................16 

Fulton, Elaine ...........................................................................4 

G 

‘Gold Tried in the Fire’. The Prophet TheaurauJohn Tany 

and the English Revolution .............................................12 

Gender, Race and Religion in the Colonization 

of the Americas ................................................................16 

Gender and the Garden in Early Modern 

English Literature ............................................................16 

George Goring (1608–1657) ...................................................12 

Givens, Jean A. .....................................................................24 

Glozier, Matthew ...................................................................11 

Gordon, Bruce .........................................................................4 

Gould, Kevin ............................................................................4 

Gravestock, Pamela ..............................................................10 

Grell, Ole ............................................................................5, 14 

Greyerz, Kaspar von ................................................................4 

Gribben, Crawford ..................................................................5 








Griffey, Erin ............................................................................17 

Growing Old in Early Modern Europe ...................................12 

Gunpowder, Explosives and the State ..................................12 

H 

Habib, Imtiaz ...........................................................................3 

Hallett, Nicky ...................................................................15, 24 

Hamilton, Sarah ......................................................................8 

Hammer, Paul E.J. ................................................................24 

Haynes, Clare ........................................................................19 

Heal, Bridget ...........................................................................5 

Henrietta Maria ......................................................................17 

Hentschell, Roze .....................................................................8 

Herron, Thomas ....................................................................21 

Hessayon, Ariel ...............................................................12, 21 

Hester, Nathalie ....................................................................15 

Hobby, Elaine ..........................................................................3 

Holt, Mack P. ...........................................................................4 

Hospital Politics in Seventeenth-Century France .................14 

Houlbrooke, Ralph ................................................................13 

Houliston, Victor .....................................................................9 

How to Get Research Published in Journals ........................25 

Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music 

in Early Modern England ...................................................5 

Hunter, Michael ......................................................................3 

I 

Idol in the Age of Art, The ........................................................5 

Imagination and Politics in Seventeenth- 

Century England .............................................................12 

Impact of the European Reformation, The .............................5 

Intrepid Scot, An ....................................................................12 

Italian Reform and English Reformations, c.1535-c.1585 ....10 

J 

Jaffary, Nora E. ......................................................................16 

James Ussher and John Bramhall .......................................13 

James VI and I .......................................................................13 

Jenkins, Allan K. .....................................................................2 

Jenkins, Susan ......................................................................20 

Jesse Ramsden (1735–1800) ................................................13 

Jesuits and the Politics of Religious Pluralism 

in Eighteenth-Century Transylvania ...............................13 

Jewish Identity in Early Modern Germany ...........................13 

Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome ........................................22 

Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of History ............6 

John Owen .............................................................................13 

Jones, Pamela .........................................................................2 

Jones, R. Tudur ......................................................................20 

Juan de Mariana and Early Modern Spanish 

Political Thought ................................................................9 

K 

Kallendorf, Craig ...................................................................23 

Katritzky, M.A. .......................................................................24 

Keene, Nicholas ....................................................................21 

Kess, Alexandra ......................................................................6 

Kevorkian, Tanya .....................................................................2 

Kim, Hyun-Ah ..........................................................................5 

King, Helen ...........................................................................17 

Kolbrener, William ................................................................15 

Konnert, Mark W. ....................................................................6 

L 

Lady Anne Halkett .................................................................13 

Lamont, William ....................................................................13 

Lanza, Janine M. ...................................................................16 

Last Witnesses .......................................................................13 

Law and Conscience ...............................................................9 

Lesger, Clé .............................................................................21 

Letters of Sir Robert Moray to the Earl 

of Kincardine, 1657–73 ....................................................13 

Levillain, Charles-Edouard ...................................................11 

Levy, Allison ...........................................................................16







Life and Career of William Paulet (c.1475–1572), The ...........14 

Life Writing in Reformation Europe .........................................6 

Lindow, James R. ..................................................................20 

Lis, Catharina ..........................................................................8 

Literature and Identity in Italian Baroque Travel Writing .....15 

Lives of Spirit ..........................................................................15 

Loades, David ....................................................................9, 14 

Local Politics in the French Wars of Religion ..........................6 

Locklin, Nancy .......................................................................25 

Logan, Sandra .......................................................................23 

Long, Arthur ..........................................................................20 

Lorimer, Joyce .......................................................................21 

Lucassen, Jan .........................................................................8 

Lutton, Robert .......................................................................19 

Lynch, Beth ...........................................................................21 

M 

MacDonald, Alan R. ...............................................................3 

Maritime Quarantine .............................................................14 

Marr, Alexander .......................................................................8 

Marriage, Manners and Mobility in Early Modern Venice ....15 

Marshall, Peter ........................................................................7 

Mary Astell .............................................................................15 

Maryks, Robert A. .................................................................10 

Mason, Roger ..........................................................................4 

‘Material Delight and the Joy of Living’ ................................15 

Material and Symbolic Circulation between Spain 

and England, 1554–1604 .................................................15 

Matthews, Steven .................................................................24 

Mayer, Thomas F. .................................................................4, 9 

McConnell, Anita ..................................................................13 

McDiarmid, John F. .................................................................6 

McGavin, John J. ..................................................................23 

McHugh, Tim ........................................................................14 

McIver, Katherine A. .............................................................18 

McLean, Matthew ...................................................................4 

Medicine and Religion in Enlightenment Europe ................14 

Melancholy and the Care of the Soul ...................................14 

Memegalos, Florene S. .........................................................12 

Michelson, Michal ................................................................15 

Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology .............17 

Mijers, Esther ........................................................................11 

Miller, Jaroslav ......................................................................24 

Miller, Naomi J. .....................................................................17 

Minnich, Nelson H. ...............................................................22 

Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England, The ............6 

Monarchy, Political Culture, and Drama 

in Seventeenth-Century Madrid ......................................15 

Monteyne, Joseph ................................................................20 

Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England ...........15 

Moore, Rosemary .................................................................20 

Mulder, Philip N. .....................................................................7 

Munroe, Jennifer ..................................................................16 

Murphey, Rhoads ..................................................................22 

N 

Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe ....18 

Nevitt, Marcus .......................................................................17 

Nichols, Tom ..........................................................................18 

North, Michael ......................................................................15 

Notebooks of Nehemiah Wallington, 1618–1654, The .........19 

Nowakowska, Natalia .............................................................9 

O 

O’Flanagan, Patrick ..............................................................20 

Oldroyd, David .......................................................................10 

Onnekink, David ....................................................................11 

Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe .....................18 

Ottoman Women Builders .....................................................17 

Overell, Anne .........................................................................10 

P 

Papal Banking in Renaissance Rome ...................................19 

Parolin, Peter .........................................................................25 



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Patents, Pictures and Patronage .............................................6 

Payne, Lynda .........................................................................14 

Pearson, Andrea ...................................................................17 

Perceptions of Retailing in Early Modern England ...............19 

Performance, Poetry and Politics on the Queen’s Day ........19 

Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare 

to Milton ...........................................................................19 

Pettegree, Andrew ..................................................................4 

Philip Melanchthon and the English Reformation ................6 

Pictures and Popery ...............................................................19 

Pieties in Transition ...............................................................19 

Port Cities of Atlantic Iberia, c. 1500–1900 ...........................20 

Portrait of a Patron .................................................................20 

Poska, Allyson .......................................................................16 

Prak, Maarten ..........................................................................8 

Preston, Patrick .......................................................................2 

Print and Power in France and England, 1500–1800 ............19 

Printed Image in Early Modern London, The ........................20 

Protestant Nonconformist Texts Volume 1 ...........................20 

Q 

Quest for the Invisible, The ...................................................20 

R 

Ratcliff, Marc J. ....................................................................20 

Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence .........16 

Redefining William III .............................................................11 

Reeds, Karen M. ...................................................................24 

Reformation and Modern Rituals and Theologies 

of Baptism ........................................................................10 

Reforming the Art of Dying .....................................................6 

Reid, Anthony ..........................................................................7 

Rein, Nathan ...........................................................................4 

Reinis, Austra ..........................................................................6 

Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660–1750, The .........20 

Religious Identities in Henry VIII’s England ...........................7 

Renaissance Palace in Florence, The ....................................20 

Restoration Ireland ................................................................20 

Restoring Christ’s Church ......................................................7 

Richardson, Glenn ..................................................................8 

Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information 

Exchange, The .................................................................21 

Rix, Robert .............................................................................25 

Roberts, Ann .........................................................................16 

Robinson, Jon .........................................................................8 

Roger L’Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture ....21 

Rubiés, Joan-Pau ..................................................................22 

S 

Saenger, Michael ....................................................................8 

Saint Cicero and the Jesuits .................................................10 

Salter, Elisabeth ..............................................................19, 21 

Samson, Alexander ..............................................................21 

Schmidt, Jeremy ...................................................................14 

Schofield, John .......................................................................6 

Science and Spectacle in the European Enlightenment ......21 

Scott, Virginia ........................................................................19 

Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England ...........21 

Selwyn, Pamela .....................................................................15 

Sherlock, Peter ......................................................................15 

Shore, Paul ............................................................................13 

Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World ....17 

Sidneys of Penshurst and the Monarchy, 1500–1700, The ....21 

Sir Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana .............................21 

Six Renaissance Men and Women ........................................21 

Soly, Hugo ...............................................................................8 

Spanish Match, The ..............................................................21 

Spenser’s Irish Work ..............................................................21 

Spicer, Andrew ........................................................................8 

Spinks, Bryan D. ...................................................................10 

Springer, Michael S. ...............................................................7 

Stevenson, David ..................................................................13 

Steward, Jill .............................................................................7 

Stewart, Alison G. ...................................................................2 

Stolleis, Michael ...................................................................18 








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Storrs, Christopher ...............................................................11 

Stow, Kenneth .......................................................................22 

String, Tatiana C. .....................................................................2 

Studies on Ottoman Society and Culture, 

16th–18th Centuries ........................................................22 

Sturm-Maddox, Sara ............................................................19 

T 

Tarbin, Stephanie ..................................................................18 

Text/Events in Early Modern England ...................................23 

Textual Patronage in English Drama, 1570–1640 .................23 

Theatricality and Narrative in Medieval 

and Early Modern Scotland .............................................23 

Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon ......24 

Theology and Spirituality of Mary Tudor’s Church, The .........9 

Thys-Senocak, Lucienne ......................................................17 

Touwaide, Alain .....................................................................24 

Travellers and Cosmographers ..............................................22 

Trill, Suzanne Linda ..............................................................13 

Trueman, Carl R. ...................................................................13 

Turks, Tatars and Russians in the 13th–16th Centuries ......23 

Tutino, Stefania .......................................................................9 

U 

University of Google, The ......................................................25 

Urban Societies in East-Central Europe, 1500–1700 ...........24 

V 

van Wyhe, Cordula ..................................................................9 

Vásáry, István ........................................................................23 

Virgilian Tradition, The ............................................................23 

Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 

1200–1550 ........................................................................24 

Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics 

of the Italian Reformation ................................................10 

W 

Walsby, Malcolm .....................................................................8 

War, Religion and Service .......................................................11 

Warfare in Early Modern Europe 1450–1660 .........................24 

Warrior, Courtier, Singer .........................................................24 

Wilkin, Rebecca M. ...............................................................18 

William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity .......25 

William Percy’s Mahomet and His Heaven .........................24 

Williams, Robert .....................................................................2 

Wistreich, Richard ................................................................24 

Witchcraft, Exorcism and the Politics of Possession 

in a Seventeenth-Century Convent ................................24 

With Words and Knives ..........................................................14 

Wizeman, William ...................................................................9 

Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 

1520–1580 ........................................................................18 

Women, Identities and Communities 

in Early Modern Europe ...................................................18 

Women, Imagination and the Search for Truth 

in Early Modern France ....................................................18 

Women, Medicine and Theatre 1500–1750 ...........................24 

Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France ......17 

Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe .....................17 

Women and the Pamphlet Culture of Revolutionary 

England, 1640–1660 ........................................................17 

Women Players in England, 1500–1660 ................................25 

Women’s Work and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Brittany 25 

Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century ............25 

Y 

Yavneh, Naomi ......................................................................17 

Z 

Zanger, Abby .........................................................................16 

Zorach, Rebecca E. .................................................................5 

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