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Early Modern History 

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Early Modern History 2013 

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

SerieS Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers .....4 

SerieS Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700 .........................6 

SerieS Hakluyt Society. ........................................9 

SerieS The History of Medicine in Context .......................10 

SerieS Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity .........11 

SerieS Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650–1750 .................13 

SerieS St Andrews Studies in Reformation History ...............14 

SerieS Transculturalisms, 1400–1700 ............................17 

SerieS Visual Culture in Early Modernity ........................20 

SerieS Women and Gender in the Early Modern World ............22 

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Architecture and Hagiography 

in the Ottoman Empire 

The Politics of Bektashi Shrines 

in the Classical Age 

Zeynep Yürekli, University of Oxford, UK 

BIrMINGHAM BYZANTINE AND OTTOMAN STUDIES 

The shrine complexes examined in this book were 

established as independent institutions in medieval 

Anatolia and became the primary centres of the 

Bektashi order of dervishes in the classical Ottoman 

period. Based on a thorough examination of the 

buildings, their inscriptions, archival documents 

and Bektashi hagiographies, this book uncovers the 

particular political significance of Bektashi shrines in 

the Ottoman imperial age, and thus provides a fresh 

and comprehensive account of the formative process 

of the Bektashi network. 

Contents: Introduction: legends and shrines; 

The Bektashis, their shrines and the Ottomans; 

The hagiographic framework; The remodelling of 

the shrines; Architecture and meaning; Epilogue; 

Appendices; Bibliography; Index. 

Includes 57 b&w illustrations 

November 2012 222 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1106-2 $119.95 

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The Art of religion 

Sforza Pallavicino and 

Art Theory in Bernini’s rome 

Maarten Delbeke, Ghent University, Belgium 

and University of Leiden, The Netherlands 

HISTOrIES OF VISION 

“A long-awaited book that sets new standards 

in the understudied history of baroque art theory.” 

—Frank Fehrenbach, Harvard University 

Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit 

cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal 

courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which 

Bernini was the principal artist. The analysis of 

Pallavicino’s writings offers a new perspective on 

Bernini’s art and artistry and allow us to understand 

the visual arts in papal rome as a “making manifest” 

of the fundamental truths of faith. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction: art theory in 

Bernini’s rome; Sforza Pallavicino and roman 

baroque; The pope, the bust, the sculptor and 

the fly; Art as revelation: the revelation of art; The 

image of the pope; The composite work; Sacred 

art; Conclusion: Sforza Pallavicino and art theory 

in Bernini’s rome; Bibliography; Index. 


August 2012 258 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-3485-0 $114.95 

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The Ashgate research 

Companion to the 

Counter-reformation 

Edited by Alexandra Bamji, University of Leeds, 

UK, Geert H. Janssen, University of Oxford, UK 

and Mary Laven, University of Cambridge, UK 

“The Ashgate research Companion to the Counterreformation 

is a valuable handbook for all scholars 

and students of early modern Catholicism. Leading 

scholars take on a wide variety of topics and relate 

important directions in current research, while the 

work as a whole expands the concept of Counter- 

Reformation. Comprehensive in scope, the volume 

focuses on the varieties of religious experience and 

highlights the complexities of Catholic identities 

during a dynamic age. This is a work that makes sense 

of recent scholarship and sends it in new directions.” 

—Charles H. Parker, Saint Louis University 

The Ashgate Research Companion to the Counter- 

Reformation presents a comprehensive examination 

of recent scholarship on early modern Catholicism 

in its many guises. It examines how the Tridentine 

reforms inspired conflict and conversion, and 

evaluates lives and identities, spirituality, culture 

and religious change. This wide-ranging and original 

research guide is a unique resource for scholars 

and students of European and transnational history. 

Contents: Introduction, Mary Laven. Part I: 

ConflICt, CoexIstenCe and ConversIon: Tridentine 

Catholicism, Simon Ditchfield; Confessionalization, 

Ute Lotz-Heumann; religious coexistence, Keith Luria; 

The exile experience, Geert H. Janssen; The Inquisition, 

Nicholas S. Davidson; Catholic pamphleteering, 

Andrew Pettegree; Catholic missions to Asia, 

Tara Alberts; Catholic missions to the Americas, 

Karin Velez. Part II: CatholIC lIves and devotIonal 

IdentItIes: Being a Catholic in early modern 

Europe, Judith Pollmann; The Catholic life-cycle, 

Alexandra Bamji; The sacred landscape, 

Alexandra Walsham; Sanctity, Clare Copeland; The 

Counter-reformation of the senses, Wietse de Boer; 

Lay spirituality, Nicholas Terpstra; Catholic piety 

and community, Simone Laqua-O’Donnell. Part III: 

Ideas and Cultural PraCtICes: Intellectual culture, 

Michael Edwards; Science and the Counterreformation, 

Nick Wilding; Music and the Counterreformation, 

Noel O’Regan; Counter-reformation 

drama, Paul Shore; Art and the Counter-reformation, 

Andrea Lepage; Material culture, Silvia Evangelisti. 

Part Iv: relIgIous Change: Catholic reformations: 

a medieval perspective, John H. Arnold; The 

globalization of reform, Karen Melvin; Legacies 

of the Counter-reformation and the origins 

of modern Catholicism, Mary Laven; Index. 

Includes 21 b&w illustrations and 3 maps 

March 2013 496 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-2373-7 $149.95 

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The Ashgate research 

Companion to Women and 

Gender in Early Modern Europe 

Edited by Allyson Poska, University of Mary 

Washington, Jane Couchman, York University 

and Katherine A. McIver, University of Alabama 

“This is an excellent introduction to a fast-moving 

field. Uniting theoretical and practical approaches, 

a series of essays ranges across the mind, body and 

spirit of women in early modern Europe, illuminating 

differences of culture, religion, age and status. 

It provides an essential handbook for researchers 

in the field and a wonderful introduction to the range 

of women’s experience.” 

—Laura Gowing, King’s College London, UK 

This Ashgate Research Companion presents 

an authoritative review of the current research 

on women and gender in early modern Europe 

from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors 

examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender and 

the differences between ideology and reality through 

the recent research across many disciplines, including 

history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history 

of science and medicine, and religious studies. 

Contents: Introduction, Allyson M. Poska, 

Jane Couchman and Katherine A. McIver. 

seCtIon 1: relIgIon: The permeable cloister, 

Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt; Literature by women religious 

in early modern Catholic Europe and the New world, 

Alison Weber; Convent creativity, Marilynn Dunn; 

Convent music: an examination, Kimberlyn Montford; 

Lay patronage and religious art, Catherine E. King; 

Female religious communities beyond the convent, 

Susan E. Dinan; Protestant movements, 

Merry Wiesner-Hanks; Protestant women’s voices, 

Jane Couchman. seCtIon 2: embodIed lIves: Maternity, 

Lianne McTavish; Upending patriarchy: rethinking 

marriage and family in early modern Europe, 

Allyson M. Poska; The economics and politics 

of marriage, Jutta Gisela Sperling; Before the 

law, Lyndan Warner; Permanent impermanence: 

continuity and rupture early modern sexuality studies, 

Katherine Crawford; Women and work, Janine Lanza; 

Old women in early modern Europe: age as an 

analytical category, Lynn A. Botelho; Women on the 

margins, Elizabeth S. Cohen; Women and political 

power in early modern Europe, Carole Levin and 

Alicia Meyer. seCtIon 3: Cultural ProduCtIon: The 

Querelle des femmes, Julie D. Campbell; Intellectual 

women in early modern Europe, Diana Robin; Women 

in science and medicine, 1400–1800, Alisha Rankin; 

Early modern women artists, Sheila ffolliott; Beyond 

Isabella and beyond: secular women patrons of 

art in early modern Europe, Sheryl E. Reiss; Material 

culture: consumption, collecting and domestic 

goods, Katherine A. McIver; Images of women, 

Andrea Pearson; Women, gender, and music, 

Linda Phyllis Austern; Index. 


April 2013 576 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1817-7 $149.95 

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Aspects of Book Culture 

in Early Modern England 

Tom A. Birrell and Jos Blom, both at radboud 

University Nijmegen, The Netherlands 

VArIOrUM COLLECTED STUDIES SErIES: CS1025 

Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924–2011) was a man 

of many parts but first and foremost he was a 

bibliographer and a book historian. The present 

collection contains fifteen of his book-historical 

articles, two reviews and one published version 

of a lecture for the illustrious “Association 

Internationale de Bibliophilie.” 

Contents: Editorial preface. Part I: the sIgnIfICanCe 

of book auCtIons: John Dryden’s purchase at two 

book auctions; Books and buyers in 17th century 

English auction sales; John Locke at three English 

book auctions. Part II: book ColleCtors and readIng 

habIts: The reconstruction of the library of Isaac 

Casaubon; The printed books of Dame Margaret 

Nicollson; reading as pastime: the place of light 

literature in some gentlemen’s libraries of the 17th 

century; review of P.S. Morrish, Bibliotheca Higgsiana 

(Oxford, 1990); review of r.J. Fehrenbach and 

E. Leedham-Green, Private Libraries in Renaissance 

England (Binghampton/New York, 1992/3); 

Mary of Nemmegen: provenance, context, genre; The 

library of Sir Edward Sherburne. Part III: PublIshers 

and theIr InfluenCe: The influence of 17th century 

publishers on the presentation of English literature; 

The making of a bookseller: the journals of John 

Petheram; The circle of John Gage; ‘A sentimental 

journey’ through Holland and Flanders by John Gage. 

Part Iv: bIblIograPhers and lIbrarIes: Anthony Wood, 

John Bagford and Thomas Hearne as bibliographers; 

Some rare Scottish books in the Old royal Library; 

The British library: custodian of the unique; The BM 

duplicate sales 1769–1832; Index. 



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The Career of Cardinal 

Giovanni Morone (1509–1580) 

Between Council and Inquisition 

Adam Patrick robinson 

Providing a re-assessment of Giovanni Morone 

(1509–1580) this book addresses the key moments 

in the cardinal’s career. Focusing particularly on 

the period after his release from charges of heresy 

and his subsequent role as principal legate to the 

Council of Trent (1563) this study will be welcomed 

by scholars with an interest in the sixteenth-century 

Catholic Church. 

May 2012 270 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-1783-5 $124.95 

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Astrology and Magic from 

the Medieval Latin and Islamic 

World to renaissance Europe 

Theories and Approaches 

Paola Zambelli, University of Florence, Italy 


Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin and 

Islamic World to Renaissance Europe brings together 

ten of Paola Zambelli’s papers on the subject, four 

of which are published in English for the first time. 

Contents: Preface. Part 1: astrology and magIC 

as theorIes: Theories on astrology and magic 

(1348–1586) in recent interpretations; Imagination 

and its power: desire and transitive or psychosomatic 

imagination; Pietro Pomponazzi’s De immortalitate 

and his clandestine De incantionibus: Aristotelianism, 

eclecticism or libertinism? Part 2: bIrth, CatastroPhe, 

CyCles and other astrologICal themes: ‘Creating 

worlds and then laying them waste’: the cyclical 

nature of history: notes on historians and on Giovanni 

Pico della Mirandola; ‘The earth was like a sponge and 

men lived within it’: ideas on spontaneous generation 

of man among Islamic and Latin thinkers. Part 3: 

astrologers and magICIans In theIr hIstorICal 

role: Astrologers’ theory of history; Many ends 

for the World: Luca Gaurico, instigator of the 

debate in Italy and Germany. Part 4: methodologICal 

notes: Alexandre Koyré and Lucien Lévy-Bruhl: from 

collective representations to paradigms of scientific 

thought; From Menocchio to Piero della Francesca: 

the work of Carlo Ginzburg; From the quaestiones 

to the essais: on the autonomy and methods of the 

history of philosophy; Bibliography of Zambelli’s 

writings; Indexes. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-2514-4 $165.00 


PrIzewInner 

Ballads and Broadsides 

in Britain, 1500–1800 

Edited by Patricia Fumerton, University 

of California, Santa Barbara, Anita Guerrini, 

Oregon State University and Kris McAbee, 

University of Arkansas 

shortlIsted for the katharIne brIggs award, 

2011, sPonsored by the folklore soCIety (uk) 

“A hog-faced woman, murderous wives, blackface 

pirates—this rich collection of essays offers the 

latest word on British ballads from a wide spectrum 

of scholars in literature, ethnomusicology, folklore 

and history. Required reading for anyone with a 

sophisticated interest in pre-1800 popular culture 

in Britain and America.” 

—Leah Marcus, Vanderbilt University 

Includes 35 b&w illustrations and 6 music examples 

2010 374 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-6248-8 $119.95 



Communes and Despots in 

Medieval and renaissance Italy 

Edited by John E. Law, Swansea University, UK 

and Bernadette Paton, Oxford University Press, UK 

“This volume includes contributions by the finest 

historians of late-medieval and Renaissance Italy 

on topics of abiding concern for history and political 

thought. Following the lead of the late Philip Jones, 

the contributors show how the old dichotomies of order 

versus political violence and liberty versus despotism 

no longer hold. No other work represents the dynamism 

of the historiography of Italy as well as this.” 

—Edward Muir, Northwestern University 


2010 376 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-6508-3 $99.95 


Cultural Exchange in 

Seventeenth-Century 

France and England 

Gesa Stedman, Humboldt 

University of Berlin, Germany 

This ambitious new study is a comprehensive 

account of cross-channel cultural exchanges between 

seventeenth-century France and England, and 

includes discussion of literary texts, poems, historical 

figures, garden design, fashion, music, dance, food, 

the book market and the theater. Gesa Stedman 

investigates actual exchange processes in order 

to shed light on the connection between actual and 

symbolic exchange, and provides welcome insight 

into seventeenth-century cultural exchange. 

Contents: Introduction: theories of cultural exchange; 

A wise and happy mediator? Queen Henrietta Maria 

as cultural ambassador; So much æmulacion, poverty, 

and the vices of swearing, drinking and whoring— 

Charles II and Anglo-French culture; Vanquishing 

with our pens as our ancestors have with their 

swords—textual and visual representations of cultural 

exchange; Summary and outlook; Bibliography; Index. 


January 2013 306 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-6938-8 $134.95 


Custom, Improvement 

and the Landscape 

in Early Modern Britain 

Edited by richard W. Hoyle, 

University of reading, UK 


October 2011 328 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-0052-3 $124.95 


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rEFErENCE 

AsHgATe CriTiCAl essAYs 

On eArlY englisH lexiCOgrApHers 

Series Editor: Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto 

This series of five volumes enshrines the collective achievement of English lexicographers from the 

Old English period to the eighteenth century. These author-scholars are unique in that they witnessed 

and analyzed the growth of English vocabulary over nine hundred years. 

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

Ashgate Critical Essays on 

Early English Lexicographers 

Volume 1: Old English 

Edited by Christine Franzen 

ASHGATE CrITICAL ESSAYS 

ON EArLY ENGLISH LExICOGrAPHErS 

Includes 26 previously published articles and essays and 

10 b&w illustrations 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5691-3 $325.00 




Volume 2: Middle English 

Edited by Christine Franzen 



Includes 25 previously published articles and essays 

December 2012 578 pages 

Hardback 978-1-4094-2661-5 $325.00 




Volume 3: The Sixteenth Century 

Edited by roderick McConchie, 

University of Helsinki, Finland 



The sixteenth century in English lexicography formed 

a bridge between the glossarial compilations which 

had slowly evolved during the Middle Ages, and the 

more recognizably modern dictionary incorporating 

synonymy, illustrative citations and other standard 

features. The essays in this volume review the state 

of research in this field during the period and cover 

a fascinating and diverse collection of lexicographers, 

from the well-known to the obscure. 

Includes 27 previously published articles 

and 1 newly translated article 

July 2012 496 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-5692-0 $325.00 



Ashgate Reference 



Volume 4: The Seventeenth Century 

Edited by John Considine, University of Alberta 



Ashgate’s reference program comprises multivolume 

themed collections of key and classic 

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Three major developments in English lexicography 

took place during the seventeenth century: the 

emergence of the first free standing monolingual 

English dictionaries; the making of new kinds 

of English lexicons that investigated dialect or 

etymology or that keyed English to invented 

“philosophical” languages; and the massive 

expansion of bilingual lexicography, which not only 

placed English alongside the European vernaculars 

but also handled the languages of the new world. 

The essays in this volume discuss not only the 

internal history of lexicography but also its wider 

relationships with culture and society. 

Includes 2 b&w illustrations and 22 previously published 

articles, 3 new essays and 2 newly translated articles 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5693-7 $325.00 




Volume 5: The Eighteenth Century 

Edited by Anne C. McDermott, 

University of Birmingham, UK 



Includes 30 previously published articles and essays 


Hardback 978-0-7546-5694-4 $325.00 



Early English Lexicographers: 

5-Volume Set 

Edited by Ian Lancashire, University of Toronto 




Hardback 978-0-7546-6884-8 $1525.00 


forthComIng 

Defending the revolution 

The Church of Scotland 1689–1716 

Jeffrey Stephen 

Exploring the ecclesiastical settlement in Scotland, 

this book provides a thorough and thoughtful 

account of how Presbyterians seized the 

opportunities presented by Glorious revolution, 

and then the Act of Union, to establish the national 

Church in accordance with their ideals, at the 

expense of the Episcopalian model. 

Contents: Introduction; Presbyterianism’s Glorious 

revolution; The Kirk, by law established; Purging and 

planting: the Commissions for the North and South; 

Coping with union; Anti-Jacobite and anti-union: 

the Presbyterian dilemma; Home an foreign mission; 

Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 


Hardback 978-1-4094-0134-6 $124.95 

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Democracies and 

the Shock of War 

The Law as a Battlefield 

Marc Cogen, Ghent University and 

Free University of Brussels, Belgium 

Over the course of the twentieth century, 

democracies demonstrated an uncanny ability to 

win wars when their survival was at stake. As this 

book makes clear, this success cannot be explained 

merely by superior military equipment or a particular 

geographical advantage. Instead, it is argued that the 

legal frameworks imbedded in democratic societies 

offered them a fundamental advantage over their 

more politically restricted rivals. 


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Devising, Dying and Dispute 

Probate Litigation in Early Modern England 

Lloyd Bonfield, New York Law School 

“An authoritative introduction to one of the richest 

and least explored sources for English social history, 

and in particular the history of family relationships.” 

—Keith Wrightson, Yale University 

Focusing on property law as reflected in cases 

of disputed wills, this book provides a fascinating 

glimpse into English seventeenth-century society. 

As well as charting shifting conceptions of property 

and inheritance law, accounts taken from the 

numerous cases quoted offer a poignant reminder 

of how the law had to cope with difficult situations 

affecting real lives. 


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Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615 

A Celebration of the Habsburg 

and Bourbon Unions 

Edited by Margaret M. McGowan, 

University of Sussex, UK 

EUrOPEAN FESTIVAL STUDIES: 1450–1700 

“This volume examines the Habsburg-Bourbon 

marriages of 1612/1615 for the first time in depth, 

drawing both on the wealth of extant documentation 

of all kinds and on the expertise of a wide range of 

scholars. Politics, history, equitation, ballet and music 

are some of the topics which are discussed in their 

European context.” 

—Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, Exeter College, 

Oxford University, UK 

The union of the two royal houses—the Habsburgs 

and the Bourbons—in the early seventeenth century 

illustrates the extent to which marriage was a tool 

of government in renaissance Europe, and festivals 

a manifestation of power and cultural superiority. 

With contributions from scholars representing 

a range of disciplines, this volume provides an 

all-round view of the sequence of festivals and events 

surrounding the dynastic marriages which were 

agreed upon in 1612 but not celebrated until 1615 

owing to the constant interruption of festivities 

by protestant uprisings. 

Contents: Introduction, Margaret M. McGowan; 

The political context of the 1612–1615 Franco-Spanish 

Treaty, J.H. Elliott; A time of frenzy: Dreams of union 

and aristocratic turmoil (1610–1615), Nicolas Le Roux; 

Festivities during Elizabeth’s journey to Madrid, 

David Sánchez-Cano; Celebrations in Naples and 

other Italian cities, Maria Ines Aliverti; The carrousel 

of 1612 and the festival book, Marie Baudière; 

The carrousel on the Place royale: production, 

costumes and décor, Monique Chatenet; The ballet 

of Antoine de Pluvinel and the Maneige royal, 

Patrice Franchet d’Espèrey; Competition and emulation: 

music and dance for the celebrations in Paris, 1612– 

1615, Iain Fenlon; The dazzle of chivalric devices— 

carrousel on the Place royale, Paulette Choné; Literary 

traditions and their afterlife, Margaret M. McGowan; 

Ambivalent fictions: the Bordeaux celebrations 

of the wedding of Louis xIII and Anne d’Autriche, 

Marie-Claude Canova-Green; Firework displays 

in Paris, London and Heidelberg (1612–1615), 

Paulette Choné; The fêtes of 1612–1615 in history 

and historiography, Chantal Grell; Dynastic weddings 

in personal and political context: two instances, 

J.R. Mulryne; Epilogue, Margaret M. McGowan; 

Bibliography; Index. 



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Dynasty and Piety 

Archduke Albert (1598–1621) and Habsburg 

Political Culture in an Age of religious Wars 

Luc Duerloo, University of Antwerp, Belgium 

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Through an investigation of Archduke Albert’s 

(1559–1621) reign as ruler of the Spanish Netherlands, 

this book offers a new and fuller understanding of 

international events of the time, and the Habsburg 

role in them. Drawing on a wide range of archival and 

visual material, the resulting study of political culture 

demonstrates how the House of Habsburg functioned 

as a dynasty during critical years of increasing 

religious tensions. Based on extensive research 

in the archives left by the archducal regime and 

its diplomatic partners or rivals, it bridges the gap 

between the reigns of Philip II and Philip IV and puts 

research into the period onto a fascinating new basis. 



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forthComIng 

Elizabethan Naval 

Administration 

Edited by C.S. Knighton, 

and D.M. Loades, University of Wales 

NAVY rECOrDS SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS 

This is the first general selection from the substantial 

body of surviving documents about Elizabeth’s navy. 

It stands alongside The Navy of Edward VI and Mary I 

with which it shares much common apparatus 

and complements the other NrS volumes that deal 

specifically with the Spanish Armada. This collection 

concentrates (though not exclusively) on the early 

years of Elizabeth’s reign when there was no formal 

war. The documents selected emphasize the financial 

and administrative processes that supported 

these operations, such as mustering, victualing, 

demobilization and ship maintenance and repair. 

Contents: Preface; Technical introduction; General 

introduction. Texts: First naval business in the State 

papers; The Navy Treasurer’s Quarter Book for 1562– 

3; The Navy Treasurer’s declared Account for 1562–3; 

Extracts from James Humphrey’s Book of Forms 1568; 

Papers relating to wages and wage rates; The Navy 

Victualler’s 1585 contract and related papers; Papers 

relating to Sir John Hawkins as Treasurer to the Navy; 

Edward Fenton’s notebook PDF and other papers 

relation to the expedition of 1590; Appendices; 

List of sources; Index. 


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England’s Wars 

of religion, revisited 

Edited by Charles W.A. Prior 

and Glenn Burgess, University of Hull, UK 

“John Morrill claims the war that broke out between 

Charles I and his subjects in 1642 ‘was not the first 

European revolution: it was the last of the Wars of 

Religion.’ The authors in this book take this no longer 

controversial statement as their point of departure. 

The essay that opens this volume examines how 

the ‘master narrative of the English Revolution’ 

has evolved since the 17th century…Recommended…” 

—Choice 


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English Students at Leiden 

University, 1575–1650 

‘Advancing your abilities in learning 

and bettering your understanding 

of the world and state affairs’ 

Daniela Prögler 

This book is a valuable contribution to the history 

of early modern universities and will appeal to a wide 

international readership interested in cultural and 

intellectual history as well as in Anglo-Dutch relations. 

Contents: Introduction; Universities; English 

students at home; English students abroad; England 

and the Netherlands; Fame and success of Leiden 

University; English students at Leiden; Conclusions’ 

Appendix; Bibliography; Index. 

Includes 16 color and 15 b&w illustrations 

February 2013 340 pages 

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European Perceptions 

of Terra Australis 

Edited by Anne M. Scott, University of Western 

Australia, Alfred Hiatt, Queen Mary, University of 

London, Claire McIlroy and Christopher Wortham, 

both at University of Western Australia 

Terra Australis, the southern land, was one of the 

most widespread concepts in European geography 

from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. 

Through interdisciplinary contributions, ranging 

across history, the visual arts, literature and popular 

culture, this volume considers the continuities 

and discontinuities between the imagined space 

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SErIES 

CATHOliC CHrisTenDOm, 1300–1700 

Series Editor: Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College 

Catholic Christendom, 1300—1700 addresses all varieties of religious behavior extending beyond traditional 

institutional and doctrinal church history. It is interdisciplinary, comparative and global, as well as nonconfessional. 

It understands religion, primarily of the “Catholic” variety, as a broadly human phenomenon, 

rather than as a privileged mode of access to superhuman realms. 

For more information on Catholic Christendom, 1300—1700, visit www.ashgate.com/catholicchristendomseries 

Bridging the Medieval- 

Modern Divide 

Medieval Themes in the World 

of the reformation 

Edited by James Muldoon, 

rutgers University, Camden 

CATHOLIC CHrISTENDOM, 1300–1700 

Covering a broad range of topics—encompassing 

legal, social, cultural, theological and political 

history—the volume asks fundamental questions 

about how we regard history, and what historians can 

learn from colleagues working in other fields that may 

not at first glance appear to offer any obvious links. 

Contents: Preface, James Muldoon; Introduction, 

James Muldoon; Medieval roots of the modern image 

of Islam: fact and fiction, Meriem Pages; Toleration in 

medieval Europe: theoretical principles and historical 

lessons, Cary Nederman; ‘Atheism’ in medieval travel 

writings, Margaret Kim; Purgatory and modernity, 

George Dameron; The revival of medieval biblical 

exegesis in the early modern world: the example 

of Carolingian biblical commentaries, 

Burton Van Name Edwards; Continuity or radical 

change? Care of the poor, medieval and early modern, 

Jeannine Olson; rights, property, and the creation of 

international law, James Muldoon; ‘A divine precept 

of fraternal union’: the maxim Quod omnes tangit 

in Anglo-American thought to the ratification 

of the constitution, Bruce Braisington; Afterward, 

Paul Monod; Index. 


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Communities of Devotion 

religious Orders and Society 

in East Central Europe, 1450–1800 

Edited by Maria Craciun, University 

of Cluj, romania and Elaine Fulton, 

University of Birmingham, UK 




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The Divisions of French 

Catholicism, 1629–1645 

‘The Parting of the Ways’ 

Anthony D. Wright, University of Leeds, UK 


“Scholars interested in conflicts between regular 

and secular clergy will…find here a wealth of new 

material…Recommended.” 

—Choice 


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English Catholics and the 

Supernatural, 1553–1829 

Francis Young 


In spite of an upsurge in interest in the social history 

of the Catholic community and an ever-growing 

body of literature on early modern “superstition” and 

popular religion, the English Catholic community’s 

response to the invisible world of the preternatural 

and supernatural has remained largely neglected. 

Addressing this oversight, this book explores 

Catholic responses to the supernatural world, setting 

the English Catholic community in the contexts of 

the wider Counter-reformation and the confessional 

culture of early modern England. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Early modern 

Catholics and ‘superstition’; Catholicism, 

Enlightenment, and ‘superstition’; Ghosts and 

apparitions in the English Catholic community; 

Catholics, witchcraft, and magic in reformation 

England; Catholics and witchcraft in the age of 

Enlightenment; Dealing with the Devil: Catholic 

exorcisms; Appendices; Bibliography; Index. 


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Forbidden Prayer 

Church Censorship and Devotional 

Literature in renaissance Italy 

Giorgio Caravale, Università di roma Tre, Italy 


FIrST EDITION IN ENGLISH 

“…a substantial contribution to the history 

of the vernacular religious book in early modern 

Italy…Recommended.” 

—Choice 

This book provides one of the first studies 

on ecclesiastical censorship entirely based on 

documents from the Holy Office Archives that up 

to 1998 were inaccessible to the great majority of 

the scholars. It provides for the first time a general 

overview of ecclesiastical political strategies toward 

a crucial field of sixteenth-century religious book 

production, the vernacular devotional literature. In so 

doing it offers a fascinating insight into the Church’s 

attempt to purge Catholic devotional works of 

heterodox beliefs and superstitious elements. 


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Jesuit Civil Wars 

Theology, Politics and Government 

under Tirso González (1687–1705) 

Jean-Pascal Gay, University of Strasbourg, France 


Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus quickly 

established itself as one of the most influential 

but divisive orders within early-modern Catholicism. 

Covering the generalate of Tirso González (1687–1705) 

this book offers a window into Jesuit politics and 

theology during this much less documented period 

in the Society’s history. 

June 2012 336 pages 

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Purgatory and Piety in Brittany 

1480–1720 

Elizabeth C. Tingle, University of Plymouth, UK 


Drawing upon printed pamphlets, tracts, advice 

manuals, diocesan statutes and other literary 

material, the study traces the evolution of writing 

and teaching about Purgatory and the fate of the 

soul between 1480 and 1720. By examining the 

subject across this extended period it is argued 

that belief in Purgatory continued to be important, 

although its role in the scheme of salvation changed 

over time, and was not simply a story of inevitable 

decline. Offering a fascinating insight into popular 

devotional practices, the book opens new vistas onto 

the impact of Catholic revival and Counter reform 

on beliefs about the fate of the soul after death. 


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reforming reformation 

Edited by Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College 


The reformation used to be singular: a unique event 

that happened within a tidily circumscribed period 

of time, in a tightly constrained area and largely 

because of a single individual. Few students of early 

modern Europe would now accept this view. Offering 

a broad overview of current scholarly thinking, this 

collection undertakes a fundamental rethinking of 

the many and varied meanings of the term concept 

and label “reformation,” particularly with regard to 

the Catholic Church. This volume will prove essential 

reading to anyone interested in early modern 

religious history. 

Contents: Introduction. Part I: long-term PersPeCtIves 

toward the Present: reforming the reformation: 

God’s truth and the exercise of power, Brad S. Gregory; 

Confessionalization, confessionalism and confusion 

in the English reformation, Peter Marshall; Sacramental 

realism: relocating the sacred, Ronald F. Thiemann. 

Part II: from the general to the PartICular and 

baCk: ‘Local knowledge’ and Catholic reform in early 

modern Spain, Lu Ann Homza; First friar, problematic 

founder: John of the Cross in his earliest biographies, 

Jodi Bilinikoff; Soul talk and reformation in England, 

Anne Overell; Fray Bartolomé Carranza’s blueprint for 

a reformed Catholic Church in England, John Edwards. 

Part III: trent and Its ImPaCt: German Catholics, 

Catholic sermons, and roman Catholicism in 

reformation Germany: reconfiguring Catholicism in 

the Holy roman Empire, John M. Frymire; re-writing 

Trent, or what happened to Italian literature in 

the wake of the first Indexes of prohibited books?, 

Abigail Brundin; After Trent: the Catholic reform 

of paintings, Marcia B. Hall; Index. 



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Sacred Music as Public Image 

for Holy roman Emperor 

Ferdinand III 

representing the Counter-reformation 

Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years’ War 

Andrew H. Weaver, The Catholic 

University of America 


“Andrew H. Weaver’s lucid, jargon-free and admirably 

interdisciplinary study places the much-maligned 

younger Ferdinand in a new light…a book that will 

quickly establish itself as essential reading for anyone 

concerned with 17th-century Austria…Altogether a 

delight, this book should appeal not only to specialists 

but to everyone with an interest in Catholic Church 

music of the period.” 

—Early Music review 

Ferdinand III played a crucial role both in helping 

to end the Thirty Years’ War and in re-establishing 

Habsburg sovereignty within his hereditary lands. 

Ferdinand’s accomplishments came not through 

diplomacy or strong leadership but through a skillful 

manipulation of the arts. Drawing upon recent 

methodological approaches to the representation 

of other early modern monarchs as well as upon 

the theory of confessionalization, Andrew Weaver 

places the sacred vocal music composed by imperial 

musicians into the rich cultural, political and religious 

contexts of mid-seventeenth-century Central Europe. 



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The Society of Jesus 

in Ireland, Scotland, 

and England, 1589–1597 

Building the Faith of Saint Peter 

upon the King of Spain’s Monarchy 

Thomas M. McCoog, S.J., Fordham University 


“This work is highly praised, and recommended for 

its fair and balanced reporting, and for the meticulous 

research undertaken by its author.” 

—Catholic Books review 

Based on extensive archival research, this book 

builds on previous studies for the first thorough 

investigation of the Jesuit mission to England during 

a critical period between the unsuccessful armadas 

of 1588 and 1597, a period during which the mission 

was threatened as much by Catholic and Jesuit 

opponents as it was by the crown. 


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Everyday Objects 

Medieval and Early Modern Material 

Culture and its Meanings 

Edited by Tara Hamling, University of 

Birmingham and Catherine richardson, 

University of Kent, UK 

“This research represents an important step toward 

the further affirmation of material culture studies… 

It also has potential to benefit other fields greatly 

and is a ‘must read’ for students of medieval 

and early-modern history and culture.” 

—Journal of Folklore research 


2010 378 pages 

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The Experience of Domestic 

Service for Women in Early 

Modern London 

Edited by Paula Humfrey, Eastern Oregon 

University and Laurentian University 

THE EArLY MODErN ENGLISHWOMAN, 1500–1750: 

CONTEMPOrArY EDITIONS 

“…Humfrey succeeds in providing an illuminating 

new perspective on the experiences of female domestic 

servants within early modern London.” 

—New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century 



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From Oikonomia 

to Political Economy 

Constructing Economic Knowledge from 

the renaissance to the Scientific revolution 

Germano Maifreda, Università 

degli Studi di Milano, Italy 

Through an interrogation of the relationship between 

economic and scientific developments in sixteenth, 

and seventeenth century Western Europe, this book 

demonstrates how a new economic epistemology 

appeared that was to have profound consequences 

both at the time, and for subsequent generations. 

Contents: Introduction; Exchange of value: 

value of exchange; Genealogies of value; Talking, 

looking, portraying the marketplace; Demanding 

and offering; Work, the yardstick of value; The 

economic system; A systemic view of nature; 

Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. 


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Experiences of Poverty in Late 

Medieval and Early Modern 

England and France 

Edited by Anne M. Scott, 

The University of Western Australia 

Exploring a range of poverty experiencessocioeconomic, 

moral and spiritual—this collection 

presents new research by a distinguished group 

of scholars working in the medieval and early 

modern periods. Using new sources—and adopting 

new approaches to known sources—the authors 

share insights into the management and the 

self-management of the poor, and search out 

aspects of the experience of poverty worthy of note, 

from which can be traced lasting influences on the 

continuing understanding and experience of poverty 

in pre-modern Europe. 

Contents: Preface; Experiences of poverty, 

Anne M. Scott. Part I: survIval strategIes: The 

experience of being poor in late medieval England, 

Christopher Dyer; ‘Oppressed by utter poverty’: 

survival strategies for single mothers and their 

children in late medieval England, Philippa C. Maddern; 

Pauper apprenticeship in South Derbyshire: a 

positive experience?, Ann Minister; The experience 

of single women in early modern Norwich: ‘rank 

beggars, gresse maydes and harlots,’ Lesley Silvester. 

Part II: forms of Poor relIef: ‘The names of all the 

poore people’: corporate and parish relief in Exeter, 

1560s–1570s, Nicholas D. Brodie; The politics of 

charitable men: governing poverty in 16th-century 

Paris, Susan Broomhall; Charitable ‘intent’ in late 

16th-century France: the Nevers foundation and 

single poor Catholic girls, Lisa Keane Elliott; reckless 

endangerment?: feeding the poor prisoners of 

London in the early 18th century, Margaret Dorey; 

Inoculation of the poor against smallpox in 18thcentury 

England, Michael Bennett. Part III: textual 

and vIsual rePresentatIons: Poverty as a mobile 

signifier: Waldensians, Lollards, Dives and Pauper, 

Mark Amsler; Le Chastel de Labour, la Voie de Povreté 

ou de Richesse and a luxury book, Widener 1, Free 

Library of Philadelphia, Anne M. Scott; The gifts of the 

poor: worth and value, poverty and justice in robert 

Daborne’s The Poor Man’s Comfort, Mike Nolan; 

‘The sounds of population fail’: changing perceptions 

of rural poverty and plebian noise in 18th-century 

Britain, Peter Denney; Select bibliography; Index. 

Includes 5 color illustrations 


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Gated Communities? 

regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities 

Edited by Bert De Munck, Universiteit Antwerpen, 

Belgium and Anne Winter, Vrije Universiteit 

Brussel, Belgium 

In this volume, the theme of early-modern European 

urban migration is explored through a series of 

historical contexts. Each chapter demonstrates how 

the presence of diverse and often temporary groups 

of migrants was a core feature of everyday urban 

life, and explores the ways in which city authorities 

attempted to control the moral, political, religious 

and economic life of these newcomers. 


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The Guild and Guild Buildings 

of Shakespeare’s Stratford 

Society, religion, School and Stage 

Edited by J.r. Mulryne, University of Warwick, UK 

The guild buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford 

represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of 

buildings which draw together the threads of the town’s 

civic life. With its multi-disciplinary perspectives on this 

remarkable group of buildings, this volume provides 

a comprehensive account of the religious, educational, 

legal, social and theatrical history of Stratford, focusing 

on the sixteenth century and Tudor reformation. 

Contents: Introduction, J.R. Mulryne; The Guild of 

the Holy Cross and its buildings, Mairi Macdonald; 

reformation: priests and people, Sylvia Gill; ‘Where 

one is a scolemaster of grammar’: the Guild school 

and teaching in Stratford-upon-Avon c. 1420–1558, 

Sylvia Gill; ‘More polite learning’: humanism and 

the new Grammar School, Ian Green; The Guildhall, 

Stratford-upon-Avon: the focus of civic governance 

in the 16th century, Robert Bearman; The Stratford 

Court of record 1553–1601, M.A. Webster; The 

archaeology of the Guild buildings of Shakespeare’s 

Stratford-upon-Avon, Kate Giles and Jonathan Clark; 

Professional theatre in the Guildhall 1568–1620: 

players, Puritanism and performance, J.R. Mulryne; 

The Queen’s Men in Stratford and The Troublesome 

Reign of John, King of England, Oliver Jones; 

The repertoire of professional players in Stratfordupon-Avon, 

1568–1597, Margaret Shewring; Index. 



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Gulliver in the Land of Giants 

A Critical Biography and the Memoirs of 

the Celebrated Dwarf Joseph Boruwlaski 

Anna Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz, Warsaw University, 

Poland and the Polish Academy of Sciences 

“This Gulliverian perspective on late Enlightenment 

Europe and Regency Britain is thought-provoking. The 

critical biography, though brief, is exemplary and takes 

great care in the comparison and analysis of sources 

while remaining redolent with empathy…” 

—richard Butterwick, University College London, UK 

Polish-born Józef Boruwlaski was the most famous 

dwarf of the Enlightenment age. He traveled 

extensively throughout Europe, appearing and 

performing at royal courts and salons, before settling 

in Durham in his later life until his death at the age 

of 97. His memoirs, published in a bilingual (French 

and English) version in 1788, show him to have been 

an intelligent observer of the world he inhabited and 

explored. The life story of this miniature gentleman is 

not only interesting in its own right, but also offers a 

new perspective on the culture of the Enlightenment. 



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Henry VIII and History 

Edited by Thomas Betteridge, Oxford Brookes 

University, UK and Thomas S. Freeman, 

University of Essex, UK 

Henry VIII remains the most iconic, controversial and 

enigmatic of all English Kings. For over four-hundred 

years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but 

rarely ignored. In this collection, Henry’s historical 

reputation is systematically examined, charting the 

various ways it has been manipulated and presented 

since the sixteenth century, constantly being 

reinvented at different times to reflect the cultural, 

political and religious needs of the moment. 

Contents: Introduction: all is true—Henry VIII 

in and out of history, Thomas Betteridge and 

Thomas S. Freeman; Harry’s peregrinations: an 

Italianate defence of Henry VIII, Brett Foster; From 

perfect prince to ‘wise and pollitike’ king: Henry VIII 

in Edward Hall’s chronicle, Scott Lucas; ‘It is perilous 

stryvinge withe princes’: Henry VIII in works by Pole, 

roper and Harpsfield, Carolyn Colbert; Hands defiled 

with blood: Henry VIII in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, 

Thomas S. Freeman; Fallen Prince and Pretender 

of the Faith: Henry VIII as seen by Sander and 

Persons, Victor Houliston; ‘It is unpossible to draw 

his picture well who hath severall countenances’: 

Lord Herbert of Cherbury and The Life and Reign 

of King Henry VIII, Christine Jackson; Henry VIII in 

history: Gilbert Burnet’s History of the Reformation 

(v.1), 1679, Andrew Starkie; ‘Unblushing falsehood’: 

the Strickland sisters and the domestic history of 

Henry VIII, Judith M. Richards; Ford Madox Ford’s 

Fifth Queen and the modernity of Henry VIII, 

Anthony Monta and Susannah Brietz Monta; 

The ‘sexual everyman’? Maxwell Anderson’s 

Henry VIII, Glenn Richardson; Drama king: the 

portrayal of Henry VIII in robert Bolt’s A Man 

for All Seasons, Ruth Ahnert; ‘Anne taught him 

how to be cruel’: Henry VIII in modern historical 

fiction, Megan L. Hickerson; Booby, baby or classical 

monster? Henry VIII in the writings of G.r. Elton and 

J.J. Scarisbrick, Dale Hoak; Through the eyes of a 

fool: Henry VIII and Margaret George’s 1986 novel 

The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by 

His Fool, Will Somers, Kristen Post Walton; Index. 


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Japanese Travellers in 

Sixteenth-Century Europe 

A Dialogue Concerning the Mission 

of the Japanese Ambassadors 

to the roman Curia (1590) 

Edited by Derek Massarella, Chuo University, 

Japan, Translated by J.F. Moran 

HAKLUYT SOCIETY, THIrD SErIES 

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano, the Visitor to the Jesuit 

mission in the East Indies, sent four Japanese boys 

to Europe. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe, 

the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost 

exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. This 

book is an account of their travels, their long journeys 

out and back, and the 20 months in Europe being 

received by popes and kings. It was published in 

Macao in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm 

Iaponensium ad Romanum curiam. The present 

edition is the first complete version of this rich, 

complex and impressive work to appear in English, 

and is accompanied with maps and illustrations 

of the mission, and an introduction discussing its 

context and the subsequent reception of the book. 

Contents: Preface; A note on currency; romanization 

of Japanese and Chinese names; Introduction: 

Background to De Missione; Objectives of the 

Embassy and the individuals chosen; Publication 

of De Missione; Authorship of De Missione; Sources 

of De Missione; Contextualizing De Missione; 

Evaluating De Missione and the Tensho embassy; 

The boys after their return to Japan; Conclusion. Text: 

A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese 

Ambassadors to the roman Curia: Imprimatur; Nihil 

obstat; Alessandro Valignan of the Society of Jesus 

to the pupils of the Japanese seminaries; Duarte 

de Sande to Claudio Aquaviva, Superior General of 

the Society of Jesus; Contents of these Colloquia; 

Colloquium I–xxxIV; Bibliography; Index. 



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Pedro Páez’s History 

of Ethiopia, 1622 

Edited by Isabel Boavida, ISCTE—Lisbon 

University Institute, Portugal, Hervé Pennec, 

CNrS and Centre d’Études des Mondes Africains, 

Paris, France and Manuel João ramos, ISCTE— 

Lisbon University Institute, Portugal 

HAKLUYT SOCIETY, THIrD SErIES 

Volume I 



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Volume II 


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richard Hakluyt and Travel 

Writing in Early Modern Europe 

Edited by Daniel Carey, National University of 

Ireland, republic of Ireland and Claire Jowitt, 

University of Southampton, UK 

HAKLUYT SOCIETY, ExTrA SErIES 

ClassIfIed as “researCh essentIal” 

by baker & taylor ybP lIbrary servICes 

richard Hakluyt, best known as editor of The 

Principal Navigations (1589; expanded 1598–1600), 

was a key figure in promoting early modern English 

colonial and commercial expansion. His work 

spanned every area of English activity and aspiration, 

from Muscovy to America, from Africa to the Near 

East, and India to China and Japan, providing upto-date 

information and establishing an ideological 

framework for English rivalries with Spain, Portugal, 

France and the Netherlands. This interdisciplinary 

collection of 24 essays brings together the best 

international scholarship on Hakluyt, revising our 

picture of the influences on his work, his editorial 

practice and his impact. 

Contents: Introduction, Daniel Carey and Clare Jowitt. 

seCtIon I: hakluyt In Context: Hakluyt’s London: 

discovery and overseas trade, Anthony Payne; 

From the History of Travayle to the history of travel 

collections: the rise of an early modern genre, 

Joan-Pau Rubiés. seCtIon II: early modern travel 

ColleCtIons: A world seen through another’s 

eyes: Hakluyt, ramusio, and the narratives of the 

Navigationi e Viaggi, Margaret Small; Three tales 

of the New World: nation, religion, and colonialism 

in Hakluyt, de Bry, and Hulsius, Sven Trakulhun; 

Hakluyt in France: Pierre Bergeron and travel writing 

collections, Grégoire Holtz; ‘Honour to our nation’: 

nationalism, The Principal Navigations and travel 

collections in the long 18th century, Matthew Day; 

richard Hakluyt and the visual world of early modern 

travel narratives, Peter C. Mancall. seCtIon III: 

edItorIal PraCtICes: ‘[T]ouching the state of the 

country of Guiana, and whether it were fit to be 

planted by the English’: Sir robert Cecil, richard 

Hakluyt and the writing of Guiana, 1595–1612, 

Joyce Lorimer; richard Hakluyt’s two Indias: textual 

sparagmos and editorial practice, Nandini Das; 

Forming the captivity of Thomas Saunders: 

Hakluyt’s editorial practices and their ideological 

effects, Julia Schleck; Framing ‘the English nation’: 

reading between text and paratext in The Principal 

Navigations (1598–1600), Colm MacCrossan; ‘The 

strange and wonderfull discoverie of russia’: Hakluyt 

and censorship, Felicity Stout. seCtIon Iv: allegIanCes 

and IdeologIes, PolItICs, relIgIon, natIon: ‘We (upon 

peril of my life) shall make the Spaniards ridiculous 

to all Europe’: richard Hakluyt’s ‘discourse’ of Spain, 

Francisco J. Borge; Balance of power and freedom 

of the seas: richard Hakluyt and Alberico Gentili, 

Diego Pirillo; richard Hakluyt and the demands 

of Pietas Patriae, David A. Boruchoff; ‘To deduce 

a colonie’: richard Hakluyt’s Godly mission in its 

contexts, c.1580–1616, David Harris Sacks; Hakluyt’s 

multiple faiths, Matthew Dimmock. seCtIon v: 

hakluyt: rhetorIC and wrItIng: ‘His dark materials’: 

the problem of dullness in Hakluyt’s collections, 

Mary C. Fuller; ‘To pot straight way wee goe’: 

robert Baker in Guinea, 1562–64, Bernhard Klein; 

Hakluyt, Purchas, and the romance of Virginia, 

Daniel Carey; ‘Accidentall restraints’: straits and 

passages in richard Hakluyt’s The Principal 

Navigations, Elizabeth Heale; Hakluyt’s Oceans: 

Maritime rhetoric in The Principal Navigations, 

Steve Mentz; Hakluyt’s legacy: armchair travel in 

English renaissance drame, Claire Jowitt. Coda: The 

legacy of richard Hakluyt: reflections on the history 

of the Hakluyt Society, Roy Bridges; Works cited; Index. 



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Henry VIII and the Court 

Art, Politics and Performance 

Edited by Thomas Betteridge, Oxford Brookes 

University, UK and Suzannah Lipscomb, 

New College of the Humanities, UK 

After 500 years Henry VIII still retains a public 

fascination unmatched by any monarch before 

or since. Through this wide-ranging, yet thematically 

coherent approach, a fascinating window is opened 

into the world of Henry VIII and his court. In particular, 

building on research undertaken over the last ten 

years, a number of contributors focus on topics 

that have been neglected by tradition historical 

writing, for example gender, graffiti and clothing. 

With contributions from many of the leading 

scholars of Tudor England, the collection 

offers not only a snapshot of the latest historical 

thinking, but also provides a starting point for future 

research into the world of this colorful, but often 

misrepresented monarch. 

Contents: Introduction, Suzannah Lipscomb and 

Thomas Betteridge. Part I: wrItIng about henry vIII: 

reflecting on the King’s reformation, G.W. Bernard. 

Part II: materIal Culture: rich pickings: Henry VIII’s 

use of confiscation and its significance for the 

development of the royal collection, Maria Hayward; 

‘As presence did present them’: personal gift giving 

at the Field of Cloth of Gold, Glenn Richardson; 

Cultures of the body, medical regimen, and physic 

at the Tudor court, Elizabeth Hurren. Part III: 

Images: Architectural culture and royal image at the 

Henrician court, Kent Rawlinson; Wishful thinking: 

reading the portraits of Henry VIII’s queens, 

Brett Dolman; Henry VIII and Holbein: patterns and 

conventions in early modern writing about artists, 

Tatiana C. String. Part Iv: Court Culture: Naming 

in Wyatt’s post-incarceration poetry and the influence 

of prison graffiti, Ruth Ahnert; receiving the king: 

Henry VIII at Cambridge, Susan Wabuda; Performing 

Henry at the court of rome, Catherine Fletcher. Part v: 

reaCtIons: Henry VIII and Cardinal Pole, Eamon Duffy; 

Henry VIII and the crusade against England, 

Susan Brugden; One survived: the account 

of Katherine Parr in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, 

Thomas S. Freeman. Part vI: PerformanCe: Gender 

and status in John Heywood’s The Play of the 

Weather, Eleanor Rycroft; Dramatic genre and the 

court of Henry VIII, Peter Happé; The fall of Anne 

Boleyn: a crisis of gender relations at the Tudor 

court?, Suzannah Lipscomb; Afterword: Henry VIII: 

the view from 2009, Steven Gunn; Index. 

Includes 19 color and 2 b&w Illustrations 


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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 

than is often acknowledged. 

For more information on The History of Medicine in Context, visit www.ashgate.com/historyofmedicineseries 

Female Patients in 

Early Modern Britain 

Gender, Diagnosis, and Treatment 

Wendy D. Churchill, University 

of New Brunswick, Fredericton 

THE HISTOrY OF MEDICINE IN CONTExT 

This investigation contributes to the existing 

scholarship on women and medicine in early modern 

Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment 

of female patients by male professional medical 

practitioners from 1590 to 1740. In order to obtain a 

clearer understanding of female illness and medicine 

during this period, this study examines ailments that 

were specific and unique to female patients as well 

as illnesses and conditions that afflicted both female 

and male patients. 

Contents: Introduction; Investigating the records 

of British medical practice, circa 1590–1740; Male 

medical practitioners and female patients in early 

modern Britain: gendered clienteles, illnesses 

and relationships; The treatment of female-specific 

complaints by male hands; Prescribing for the sexed 

body: women, men, and disease in early modern 

British medical practice; Feminizing the ‘diseases 

of the head, nerves or spirits’: medical diagnosis of 

women’s minds, bodies, and emotions; Conclusion; 



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Healing, Performance and 

Ceremony in the Writings of 

Three Early Modern Physicians 

Hippolytus Guarinonius and the 

Brothers Felix and Thomas Platter 

M.A. Katritzky, The Open University, UK 


Exploring the interfaces between healing and 

performance in early modern Europe, this study 

focuses on three physicians, the Swiss Platter 

brothers and their Austrian colleague Guarinonius. 

Providing the first English language assessment 

of their substantial theatrical writings, the volume 

contextualizes these within an overview of the 

three physicians’ medical practice, careers and 

publications, and of the role of performance 

in the early modern healthcare economy. 



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Medical Consulting by 

Letter in France, 1665–1789 

robert Weston, University of Western Australia 


Ailing seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French 

men and women, members of their families, or their 

local physician or surgeon, could write to high profile 

physicians and surgeons seeking expert medical 

advice. This study, the first full-length examination of 

the practice of consulting by letter, provides a cohesive 

portrayal of some of the widespread ailments of French 

society in the latter part of the early modern period. 

Contents: Introduction. Part 1: Contexts: Textual, 

Professional and Social: Correspondence: practices 

and contexts; The dynamic medical marketplace; 

relationships between medical correspondents; 

Knowledge, status and power: negotiating authority. 

Part 2: body, health and Illness: University 

medical knowledge in epistolary practice; Patient’s 

perceptions of the body, health and illness; The 

deployment of therapies; From complaint to cure; 


Includes 5 tables 


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Medicine, Government and 

Public Health in Philip II’s Spain 

Shared Interests, Competing Authorities 

Michele L. Clouse, Ohio University 



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Plague Hospitals 

Public Health for the City 

in Early Modern Venice 

Jane L. Stevens Crawshaw, 

Oxford Brookes University, UK 


Lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role 

in early modern responses to epidemic disease. 

An in-depth study of the Venetian lazaretti in the 

sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book asks 

what these hospitals can tell us about early modern 

medicine and society. 

Contents: Introduction; ‘From a distance it looks 

like a castle’: first impressions and architectural 

design; The sick-poor; ‘Abandon hope, all you who 

enter here’: experiences of staff and the patients’ 

daily routine; Syrups and secrets: treating the 

plague; Dying in the lazaretti; returning to the 

city; Conclusion; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. 



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Secrets and Knowledge 

in Medicine and Science, 

1500–1800 

Edited by Elaine Leong, University of Cambridge, 

UK and Alisha rankin, Tufts University 



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ASHGATE

History and Nature 

in the Enlightenment 

Praise of the Mastery of Nature in 

Eighteenth-Century Historical Literature 

Nathaniel Wolloch 

“With exceptional command of the key texts, 

the author adds a significant dimension to our 

understanding of the Enlightenment. By focusing 

in an illuminating way on the Enlightenment’s belief 

in the need for humanity’s mastery of Nature, this 

is a work that adds historical depth and resonance 

to many of our present concerns.” 

—John Gascoigne,University 

of New South Wales, Australia 


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A History of Intelligence 

and ‘Intellectual Disability’ 

The Shaping of Psychology 

in Early Modern Europe 

C.F. Goodey 


“This superb interdisciplinary study analyzes a wide 

range of texts from antique philosophy, religion, 

medicine and psychology, to show how the history of 

disability is intertwined with that of social and cultural 

formations. A must read for all…” 

—Hans reinders, VU University, Amsterdam 


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Horses, People and Parliament 

in the English Civil War 

Extracting resources 

and Constructing Allegiance 

Gavin robinson 

Horses played a major role in the military, economic, 

social and cultural history of early-modern England. 

This book uses the supply of horses to English Civil 

War armies as a case study to demonstrate the 

importance not only of resources, but the ways in 

which these resources could be efficiently extracted 

from an often reluctant population. In so doing, 

the book sheds further light on the quixotic nature 

of allegiance during a time of civil war. 

Contents: Introduction; The propositions; 

The other side; Seizure; Quotas; Purchase; 



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SErIES 


liTerArY AnD sCienTifiC CulTures 

Of eArlY mODerniTY 

Series Editors: Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College and Henry Turner, rutgers University 

For more than a decade now, Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity has provided a forum for 

groundbreaking work on the relations between literary and scientific discourses in Europe, during a period 

when both fields were in a crucial moment of historical formation. We welcome proposals that address the 

many overlaps between modes of imaginative writing typical of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries— 

poetics, rhetoric, prose narrative, dramatic production, utopia—and the vocabularies, conceptual models and 

intellectual methods of newly emergent “scientific” fields such as medicine, astronomy, astrology, alchemy, 

psychology, mapping, mathematics or natural history. In order to reflect the nature of intellectual inquiry 

during the period, the series is interdisciplinary in orientation and publishes monographs, edited collections 

and selected critical editions of primary texts relevant to an understanding of the mutual implication of literary 

and scientific epistemologies. 

For more information on Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity, visit www.ashgate.com/liTsCi 

rhetoric and Medicine 


Edited by Stephen Pender, University 

of Windsor and Nancy S. Struever, 

The Johns Hopkins University 

LITErArY AND SCIENTIFIC CULTUrES 

OF EArLY MODErNITY 

Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic 

communities, and intellectual history, the papers in 

this collection for the first time, propose a dynamic 

relationship between rhetoric and medicine as 

discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern 

Europe. Although the range of theoretical approaches 

and methodologies represented here is diverse, 

the essays explore various ways in which the 

interventionist disciplines and practices of medicine, 

moral philosophy and rhetoric were thought 

consanguine in early modernity. 

Contents: Introduction: reading physicians, 

Stephen Pender; Between medicine and rhetoric, 

Stephen Pender; The promotion of Bath Waters by 

physicians in the renaissance, Jean Dietz Moss; The 

anatomical web: literary dissection from Castiglione 

to Cromwell, Richard Sugg; Medical humanism, 

rhetoric, and anatomy at Padua, circa 1540, 

Andrea Carlino; Political pathology, Daniel M. Gross; 

responses to vulnerability: medicine, politics, and 

the body in Descartes and Spinoza, Amy Schmitter; 

The many rhetorical personae of an early modern 

physician: Girolamo Cardano on truth and persuasion, 

Guido Giglioni; You’ve got to have soul: understanding 

the passions in early modern culture, Julie R. Solomon; 

‘The Babel event’: language, rhetoric, and Burton’s 

infinite symptom, Grant Williams; Medicine’s political 

rhetoric: the case of Bertini’s La medicina difesa, 

Nancy S. Struever; Afterword: the place of medicine 

in a general account of early modern intellectual 

history, Nancy S. Struever; Bibliography; Index. 


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forthComIng 

Studies of Skin Color 

in the Early royal Society 

Boyle, Cavendish, Swift 

Cristina Malcolmson, Bates College 

LITErArY AND SCIENTIFIC CULTUrES 

OF EArLY MODErNITY 

“…offers an original, nuanced and deeply compelling 

investigation into the pre-history of modern 

understandings of race…Combining a meticulous 

attention to 17th century theories such as pre- 

Adamism and polygenesis with a careful regard to the 

institutional trappings of the new science, this study 

reveals how material practices, such as colonialism, 

gender politics and of course the brutalities of the 

slave trade, were bound up with the scientific practice 

of Boyle and others.” 

—Patricia Cahill, Emory University 

Arguing that the early royal Society moved science 

toward racialization by giving skin color a new 

prominence as an object of experiment and 

observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first 

book-length examination of studies of skin color in 

the Society. She places the genre of the voyage to 

the moon in the context of early modern discourses 

about human difference, and argues that Cavendish’s 

Blazing World and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels satirize 

the Society’s emphasis on skin color. 


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Humanism and 

renaissance Civilization 

Charles G. Nauert, University of Missouri, Columbia 


The essays collected in this volume represent many 

years of Professor Nauert’s research and teaching 

on the history of renaissance humanism, and more 

particularly on humanism north of the Alps. Much 

of the early work involved the significant but oftenoverlooked 

history of humanism at the University 

of Cologne, notoriously the most anti-humanist of 

the German universities. Later essays deal with the 

most famous humanist of the early sixteenth century, 

Erasmus of rotterdam, and natural philosophy, a 

broad term covering many subjects now associated 

with natural science, is the topic of three of the 

pieces published here. Taken as a whole, the book 

presents a detailed study of intellectual development 

among European elites. 


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The Inquisitor in the Hat Shop 

Inquisition, Forbidden Books 

and Unbelief in Early Modern Venice 

Federico Barbierato, Università di Verona, Italy 

FIrST EDITION IN ENGLISH 

Drawing on a vast store of primary sources— 

particularly those of the Inquisition—this book 

recreates the social fabric of Venice between 1640 

and 1740. It brings to life a wealth of minor figures 

who inhabited the city and fostered ideas of dissent, 

unbelief and atheism in the teeth of the Counter 

reformation. It will be of interest not only to scholars of 

Venice, but all those with an interest in the intellectual, 

cultural and religious history of early-modern Europe. 


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Inside the Illicit Economy 

reconstructing the Smugglers’ 

Trade of Sixteenth Century Bristol 

Evan Jones, University of Bristol, UK 

While the popular image of smugglers remains an 

essentially romantic one, this book makes clear that 

smuggling was a large-scale systematic business 

reliant upon the connivance of well-connected 

merchants. Taking the port of Bristol as a case study, 

it provides the most sophisticated historical study 

of the smugglers’ trade, ever undertaken anywhere 

in the world. 

Includes 3 maps 


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Inventing Americans 

in the Age of Discovery 

Narratives of Encounter 

Michael Householder, Marshall University 



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Jeremias Drexel’s 

‘Christian Zodiac’ 

Seventeenth-Century Publishing Sensation. 

A Critical Edition, Translated 

and with an Introduction & Notes 

Translated by Nicholas J. Crowe, Centre for 

Medieval & renaissance Studies, Oxford, UK 

First published in 1622, Jeremias Drexel’s Zodiacus 

christianus (or Christian Zodiac) was a remarkable 

work of religious iconography and spiritual self-help. 

Offering the first modern translation into English since 

the early seventeenth century, this critical edition reacquaints 

Anglophone audiences with a sample of the 

spiritual and philosophical writings of a figure whose 

significant publication record made him a bestseller 

during his lifetime and for many decades afterwards. 

Contents: Introduction: Jeremias Drexeland and 

the ‘Christian Zodiac’; Select bibliography; A note 

on the text; A note on the translation; Translation: 

‘Christian Zodiac; Index. 

Includes 16 b&w Illustrations 


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John Owen, richard Baxter 

and the Formation 

of Nonconformity 

Tim Cooper, University of Otago, New Zealand 

“Tim Cooper’s accomplished study of the acrimonious 

relationship between Richard Baxter (1615–91) 

and John Owen (1616–83) sheds much light on 

the development of English Nonconformity…the 

theological ideas of the book are explained with a clarity 

and accessibility that will appeal to anyone interested 

in religious debate in the seventeenth century.” 

—renaissance Quarterly 


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Land, Proto-Industry 

and Population in Catalonia, 

c. 1680–1829 

An Alternative Transition to Capitalism? 

Julie Marfany, University of Oxford, UK 

MODErN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTOrY 

This monograph makes a fresh contribution 

to a longstanding but far from exhausted debate 

concerning the transition to capitalism in Europe. The 

work investigates key aspects of this transformation: 

the changes on the land, the origins of the industrial 

revolution, the modern rise of population and the 

growth of markets. 

Contents: Part I: transItIons to CaPItalIsm?: 

rethinking the transition to capitalism; A transition 

to agrarian capitalism?; Proto-industry and the 

origins of the industrial revolution; Family formation 

and population growth. Part II: IndustrIous 

Consumers?: Production in the household economy: 

Consumption in the household economy; Conclusion; 




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Landscape and Identity in 

North America’s Southern 

Colonies from 1660 to 1745 

Catherine Armstrong, Manchester 

Metropolitan University, UK 

Through an analysis of textual representations of the 

American landscape, this book looks at how North 

America appeared in books printed on both sides 

of the Atlantic between the years 1660 and 1745. 

A variety of literary genres are examined to discover 

how authors described the landscape, climate, 

flora and fauna of America, particularly of the 

new southern colonies of Carolina and Georgia. 

Contents: Introduction; cataloguing and 

communicating; Belief and identity; trade 

and authority; Borderlands and others; place 

and potential; Surveying and possessing; 




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ASHGATE

SErIES 

pOliTiCs AnD CulTure in eurOpe, 1650–1750 

Series Editors: Tony Claydon, Bangor University, UK, Hugh Dunthorne, Swansea 

University, UK, Charles-Edouard Levillain, Université de Lille 2, France, Esther Mijers, 

University of reading, UK and David Onnekink, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands 

Focusing on the years between the end of the Thirty Years’ War and the end of the War of the Austrian 

Succession, this series seeks to broaden scholarly knowledge of this crucial period that witnessed the 

solidification of Europe into centralized nation states and created a recognizably modern political map. 

Bridging the gap between the early modern period of the reformation and the eighteenth century of colonial 

expansion and industrial revolution, these years provide a fascinating era of study in which nationalism, 

political dogma, economic advantage, scientific development, cultural interests and strategic concerns 

began to compete with religion as the driving force of European relations and national foreign policies. 

For more information on Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650–1750, visit www.ashgate.com/politicsandcultureseries 

British and Irish Experiences 

and Impressions of Central 

Europe, c.1560–1688 

David Worthington, University 

of the Highlands and Islands, UK 

POLITICS AND CULTUrE IN EUrOPE, 1650–1750 

While much recent scholarly work has sought to 

place early modern British history within a broader 

continental context, most of this has focused on 

western Europe. In order to redress the balance, 

this new study by David Worthington explores the 

connections linking British and Irish emigrants, 

exiles, travelers and merchants with the two major 

dynastic conglomerates east of the rhine, the 

Austrian Habsburg lands and Poland-Lithuania. 



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Ideology and Foreign Policy 


(1650–1750) 

Edited by David Onnekink, Universiteit Utrecht, 

The Netherlands and Gijs rommelse, The 

Netherlands Institute of Military History, The 

Hague, The Netherlands 



September 2011 334 pages 

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forthComIng 

European Contexts 

for English republicanism 

Edited by Gabby Mahlberg, Northumbria 

University, UK and Dirk Wiemann, 

Universität Potsdam, Germany 


European Contexts for English Republicanism 

offers new perspectives on early modern English 

republicanism through its focus on the Continental 

reception of and engagement with seventeenthcentury 

English thinkers and political events. Bringing 

together a range of fresh and original essays by British 

and European scholars in the field of early modern 

intellectual history and English studies, this collection 

of essays revises a one-sided approach to English 

republicanism and widens the scope of study beyond 

linguistic and national boundaries by looking at English 

republicans and their continental networks and legacy. 

Contents: Introduction, Gaby Mahlberg and 

Dirk Wiemann. Part I: englIsh rePublICanIsm and 

ContInental thought In the 1650s: Liberty for export: 

‘republicanism’ in England 1500–1800, Blair Worden; 

Spectacles of astonishment: tragedy and the regicide 

in England and Germany, 1649–1663, Dirk Wiemann; 

Marchamont Nedham and the mystery of state, 

Rachel Foxley; Harrington, Grotius, and the 

Commonwealth of the Jews, 1656–1660, 

Marco Barducci; Irenic secularization and the 

Hebrew republic in Harrington’s Oceana, Mark Somos; 

Why the Dutch didn’t read Harrington: Anglo-Dutch 

republican exchanges, c.1650–1670, Arthur Weststeijn; 

Popular government before democracy, Hans Blom. 

Part II: the wansleben manusCrIPt of harrIngton’s 

works (1665): The Wansleben manuscript, 

Thérèse-Marie Jallais; Wansleben’s Harrington, or ‘The 

Fundations and Modell of a Perfect Commonwealth,’ 

Gaby Mahlberg; A ‘republican’ Englishman in 

Leghorn: Charled Longland, Stefano Villani; English 

Harringtonian republicanism in France and Italy: 

changing perspectives, Thérèse-Marie Jallais. 

Part III: an englIsh rePublICan tradItIon In euroPe?: 

The Harringtonian legacy in Britain and France, 

Rachel Hammersley; Lost in [French] translation: 

Sidney’s elusive republicanism, Pierre Lurbe; Prussian 

republicanism? Friedrich Bucholz’z reception 

of James Harrington, Iwan-Michelangelo d’Aprile; 




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Landscape and religion 

from Van Eyck to rembrandt 

Boudewijn Bakker, University 

of Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

“This important book is the product of a lifetime of 

scholarship…Exploring the work of talented artists 

from Bosch and Bruegel to Ruisdael and Rembrandt, 

this study elucidates the metaphorical, political and 

religious connotations that early modern viewers 

found in landscape imagery. The new English edition, 

richly illustrated, brings Bakker’s stimulating ideas 

to a wider audience.” 

—Stephanie Dickey, Queen’s University 

Exploring the thought of historical figures seldom 

consulted by art historians-including Dionysius the 

Carthusian, John Calvin and Constantijn Huygens- 

Boudewijn, Bakker sheds new light on the history and 

significance of landscape in Netherlandish painting. 

Through his analysis of these writers’ conceptions 

of landscape, Bakker identifies an unexpected 

dimension of landscape art, one which has its roots 

in late medieval perceptions of God and creation. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The early landscape: 

background or subject?; The art of painting and 

the cosmos; The visible world: from semblance to 

reality; The beauty of the world as a path to God; The 

landscape of the mind: the world as allegory; Bosch, 

Patinir and Bles: worlds of allegory; The painter 

as geographer: cartographic and topographical 

landscapes; Meanings old and new: Bruegel, Ortelius 

and Calvin; A painter writing on landscape painting: 

Karel van Mander; The Dutch landscape as an arthistorical 

problem; Didactic landscapes: Zacharias 

Heyns and Claes Jansz Visscher; Two poets and the 

theory of landscape painting: Huygens and Vondel; 

The painter and the landscape: rembrandt van rijn; 

Bibliography; Indexes. 



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Life Stories of Women Artists, 

1550–1800 

An Anthology 

Julia K. Dabbs, University of Minnesota, Morris 

“…a wonderful collection…The biographies included 

here are foundation texts for art history, yet the vast 

majority have, until now, only to be found in rare, 

difficult-to-find volumes, and precious few had been 

translated into English…What Dabbs’ publication 

does so well is to tell the fascinating stories of women 

artists from the early modern period and, in so doing, 

she reminds us of the challenges that women faced 

then and now. It is a timely reminder, and excellent 

piece of scholarship, and it does its job brilliantly.” 

—The Art Book 


2009 504 pages 

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SErIES 

sT AnDreWs sTuDies 

in refOrmATiOn HisTOrY 

Series Editors: Bruce Gordon, Yale Divinity School, Andrew Pettegree, Bridget Heal 

and roger A. Mason, all at University of St Andrews, UK, Amy Nelson Burnett, 

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Euan Cameron, Union Theological Seminary, New York, 

Kaspar von Greyerz, University of Basel, Switzerland and Alec ryrie, Durham University, UK 

With the publication of its 100th book in 2012, the St Andrews Studies in Reformation History series celebrated 

an impressive publishing achievement. Since its establishment in 1995 the series has consistently offered 

high-quality, innovative and thought-provoking research in the field of early modern religious history. By 

encouraging authors to adopt a broad and inclusive interpretation of “reformation,” the resultant publications 

have done much to help shape current interdisciplinary interpretations of early-modern religion, expanding 

attention far beyond narrow theological concerns. 

For more information on St Andrews Studies in Reformation History, visit www.ashgate.com/standrewsseries 

Baal’s Priests 

The Loyalist Clergy 

and the English revolution 

Fiona McCall 

ST ANDrEWS STUDIES IN rEFOrMATION HISTOrY 

Drawing upon an impressive array of sources— 

most notably the remarkable set of family and parish 

memories collected by John Walker in the early 

years of the eighteenth century—this book refocuses 

attention on the experiences of the sequestered 

loyalist clergy during the turbulent years of the 

1640s and 1650s. 

Contents: Introduction; Memories of ejection; 

In quiet till the breaking out of the civil wars; Drawn 

swords and pistols cocked—the contingencies of 

war; A long pilgrimage of affliction—the sufferings 

of the clergy: rhetoric and reality; A hard shift 

to live—responses to ejection; The world’s our 

storehouse now—the restoration of the loyalist 

clergy; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. 



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Catholic and Protestant 

Translations of the Imitatio 

Christi, 1425–1650 

From Late Medieval Classic 

to Early Modern Bestseller 

Maximilian von Habsburg, Oundle School, UK 



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The Curse of Ham in 

the Early Modern Era 

The Bible and the Justifications for Slavery 

David M. Whitford, United Theological Seminary 


“David M. Whitford’s outstanding exegetical and 

intellectual history completes the scholarly picture of 

the origins and uses of Genesis 9 to justify slavery…” 

—American Historical review 


2009 246 pages 

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Censorship and Civic Order 

in reformation Germany, 

1517–1648 

‘Printed Poison & Evil Talk’ 

Allyson F. Creasman, Carnegie Mellon University 


Drawing upon criminal court records, trial manuscripts 

and contemporary journals this book explores the 

impact of censorship on religious reform in German 

cities during the reformation. The study argues that 

censorship, while routinely compromised and often 

circumvented, nonetheless profoundly influenced 

how communities understood the reformation 

and its message. 

Contents: Introduction; ‘Words, works, or writings’: 

communication and the law of censorship; Policing 

the word: censorship and reformation; Keeping the 

peace: censorship and confessional relations under 

the Peace of Augsburg; ‘A fire started’: sedition, 

censorship, and the calendar conflict; ‘The times, 

they are so troubled’: censorship in wartime, 

1618–1648; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 



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forthComIng 

The Early reformation 

in Germany 

Between Secular Impact 

and radical Vision 

Tom Scott, University of St Andrews, UK 


Consisting of seven previously published essays, 

three new chapters and an historical afterword, 

Scott’s volume—put together with the explicit 

purpose of encouraging scholars to reengage with 

the early “storm years” of the German reformation— 

serves as a timely reminder of the importance 

of the early decades of the sixteenth century. 


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100th tItle In serIes 

From Priest’s Whore 

to Pastor’s Wife 

Clerical Marriage and the Process of 

reform in the Early German reformation 

Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, Western 

Kentucky University, Bowling Green 


From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife provides a fresh 

assessment of clerical marriage in the first half of 

the sixteenth century. It investigates the way that 

clerical marriage was received, and viewed in the 

dioceses of Mainz and Magdeburg under Archbishop 

Albrecht von Hohenzollern from 1513 to 1545. By 

concentrating on a cross-section of rural and urban 

settings from three key regions within this territory, 

Saxony, Franconia and Swabia, the study is able 

to present a broad comparison of reactions to this 

contentious issue. 



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ASHGATE

George Buchanan 

Political Thought in Early Modern 

Britain and Europe 

Edited by Caroline Erskine, University 

of Aberdeen, UK and roger A. Mason, 

University of St Andrews, UK 


George Buchanan (1506–82) was the most 

distinguished Scottish humanist of the sixteenth 

century with an unparalleled contemporary 

reputation as a Latin poet, playwright, historian 

and political theorist. This volume represents the 

first attempt to explore the subsequent influence 

and importance of his broader interests and ideas. 

An international cast of scholars explore Buchanan’s 

legacy as an historian and political theorist in the 

two centuries following his death, with particular 

emphasis on the reception of his remarkably radical 

views on popular sovereignty and tyrannicide. 



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Getting Along? 

religious Identities and Confessional 

relations in Early Modern England— 

Essays in Honour of Professor W.J. Sheils 

Edited by Nadine Lewycky, Manchester 

Metropolitan University, UK and 

Adam Morton, University of York, UK 


Examining the impact of the English and European 

reformations on social interaction and community 

harmony, this volume simultaneously highlights 

the tension and degree of accommodation among 

ordinary people when faced with religious and 

social upheaval. Building on previous literature, 

this volume furthers our understanding of the 

process of negotiation at the most fundamental 

social and political levels. 


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A King Translated 

The Writings of King James VI & I 

and their Interpretation in the 

Low Countries, 1593–1603 

Astrid Stilma, Canterbury Christ 

Church University, UK 


King James is well known as the most prolific writer 

of all the Stuart monarchs. It was not just in English 

that his works were read, many were also translated 

into other languages, including Dutch. This 

book contributes not only to the understanding 

of James works as political tools, but also to the 

preoccupations of publishers and translators, and the 

interpretative spaces in the works they were making 

available to an international audience. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Publishers 

and translators; Translation; The Battle of Lepanto; 

Basilikon Doron; Meditations; Daemonologie; 



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A Linking of Heaven and Earth 

Studies in religious and Cultural History 

in Honor of Carlos M.N. Eire 

Edited by Emily Michelson, University 

of St Andrews, UK, Scott K. Taylor, University 

of Kentucky and Mary Noll Venables 


Carlos M.N. Eire’s deeply innovative publications 

have helped to shape new fields of study of the 

reformation, intertwining social, intellectual, cultural 

and religious history to reveal how, lived beliefs had 

real and profound implications for social and political 

life in early modern Europe. reflecting these themes, 

this volume celebrates the intellectual legacy of 

Carlos Eire’s scholarship, applying his distinctive 

combination of cultural and religious history 

to new areas and topics. 

Contents: Introduction, Emily Michelson, 

Scott K. Taylor and Mary Noll Venables. Part I: 

exPlorIng boundarIes: ‘When Heaven hovered 

close to Earth’: images and miracles in early modern 

Spain, Alison Weber; An Italian explains the English 

reformation (with God’s help), Emily Michelson; 

The Gadarene demoniac in the English Enlightenment, 

H.C. Erik Midelfort; Miracles: an inconvenient 

truth, David D’Andrea. Part II: lIvIng one’s faIth: 

Principalities, powers, and Philosophia Christi: 

Erasmus on spiritual warfare, Darren Provost; 

Teresa of Avila: woman with a mission, Jodi Bilinkoff; 

responding to God’s anger: Sigismund Evenius and 

the siege of Magdeburg (1631), Mary Noll Venables; 

Telling the truth about vocation: the death notices 

of the Visitandines in Brussels, 1683–1714, 

Ping-Yuan Wang. Part III: the PhysICalIty of 

sPIrItualIty: Pueblo to Señor: intercession in 16thcentury 

Spain, William A. Christian, Jr.; ‘In my Father’s 

house there are many mansions’: Heinrich Bullinger 

on death and the afterlife, Bruce Gordon; Peyote, ever 

virgin: a case of religious hybridism in Mexico, 

Martin Nesvig; ‘A miserable captivity’ or ‘happily 

redeemed from captivity to liberty’: tobacco addiction 

and early modern bodies and minds, Scott K. Taylor; ‘He 

flew’: a concluding reflection on the place of eternity 

and the supernatural in the scholarship of Carlos 

M.N. Eire, Ronald K. Rittgers; Bibliography; Index. 


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Private and Domestic Devotion 


Edited by Jessica Martin, Trinity College 

Cambridge, UK and Alec ryrie, 

Durham University, UK 


Exploring the lived experience of early modern 

religion in its domestic settings, as it was practiced 

in England and Scotland c. 1500–1700, this volume 

furthers our understanding of this subject. A sister 

volume to Mears and ryrie (eds), Worship and 

the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain, these 

volumes focus and drive-forward scholarship on the 

lived experience of early modern religion, as it was 

practiced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 

Contents: Introduction: private and domestic devotion, 

Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie; Varieties of domestic 

devotion in early modern English Protestantism, 

Ian Green; ‘Hamely with God’: a Scottish view on 

domestic devotion, Jane E.A. Dawson; ‘My now solitary 

prayers’: Eikon basiliske and changing attitudes 

toward religious solitude, Erica Longfellow; Sleeping, 

waking and dreaming in Protestant piety, Alec Ryrie; 

Dismantling Catholic Primers and reforming private 

prayer: Anne Lock, Hezekiah’s Song and Psalm 50/51, 

Micheline White; English reformed responses to the 

Passion, Jessica Martin; Old robert’s Girdle: visual 

and material props for Protestant piety in post- 

reformation England, Tara Hamling; ‘Their practice 

bringeth little profit’: clerical anxieties about 

lay scripture reading in early modern England, 

Kate Narveson; ‘In my private reading of the 

scriptures’: Protestant Bible-reading in England, 

circa 1580–1720, Jeremy Schildt; Sobs for sorrowful 

souls: versions of the Penitential Psalms for domestic 

devotion, Hannibal Hamlin; Singing the Psalms for 

fun and profit, Beth Quitslund; Intimate worship: 

John Austin’s Devotions in the Ancient Way of Offices, 

Alison Shell; Index. 



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Worship and the Parish Church 


Edited by Natalie Mears and Alec ryrie, 

both at Durham University, UK 


In this volume, ten leading scholars of early modern 

religion explore the experience of parish worship 

in England during the reformation and the century 

that followed it. Including a variety of disciplinary 

approaches, the contributors demonstrate how parish 

worship in this period was of critical theological, 

cultural and even political importance. 

Contents: Introduction: worship and the parish 

church, Natalie Mears and Alec Ryrie; Teaching in 

praying words? Worship and theology in the early 

modern English parish, Hannah Cleugh; Special 

nationwide worship and the Book of Common Prayer 

in England, Wales and Ireland, 1533–1642, Natalie Mears; 

The Elizabethan Primers: symptoms of an ambiguous 

settlement or devotional weaning?, Bryan D. Spinks; 

The rise and fall of fasting in the British reformations, 

Alec Ryrie; Music reconciled to preaching: a Jacobean 

moment?, Peter McCullough; Protestant worship 

and the discourse of music in reformation 

England, Jonathan Willis; ‘At it ding dong’: 

recreation and religion in the English belfry, 

1580–1640, Christopher Marsh; Bodies at prayer 

in early modern England, John Craig; ‘As wise as 

serpents’: the form and setting of public worship 

at Little Gidding in the 1630s, Trevor Cooper; 

‘Extravagancies and impertinencies’: set forms, 

conceived and extempore prayer in revolutionary 

England, Judith Maltby; Index. 



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Lutheran Churches 


Edited by Andrew Spicer, 

Oxford Brookes University, UK 

Until recently the impact of the Lutheran reformation 

has been largely regarded in political and socioeconomic 

terms, yet for most people it was not the 

abstract theological debates that had the greatest 

impact upon their lives, but the physical alterations 

made to their local parish church. This collection 

of essays provides a coherent and interdisciplinary 

investigation of the impact that the Lutheran 

reformation had on the appearance, architecture and 

arrangement of early modern churches. By focusing 

on ecclesiastical “material culture” the collection 

helps to place the art and architecture of Lutheran 

places of worship into the historical, political and 

theological context of early modern Europe. 



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PrIzewInner 

Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth 

Margaret P. Hannay, Siena College 

wInner of the soCIety for the study of 

early modern women book award, 2011 

ClassIfIed as “basIC essentIal” 

by baker & taylor ybP lIbrary servICes. 

“This is a fascinating study of one of the most 

interesting and provocative writers of the English 

Renaissance…Highly recommended.” 

—Choice 


2010 430 pages 

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Marks of an Absolute Witch 

Evidentiary Dilemmas 


Orna Alyagon Darr, Carmel Academic 

Center Law School, Israel 

“…essential reading for anyone interested 

in the criminal aspects of the witchcraft trials 

and in the history of common law.” 

—H-Albion 



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The Limits of Empire: European 

Imperial Formations in Early 

Modern World History 

Essays in Honor of Geoffrey Parker 

Edited by Tonio Andrade, Emory University and 

William reger, Illinois State University, Normal 

Exploring early-modern European empires within 

a global perspective, this collection focuses on the 

limits of empire: those centrifugal forces—sacral, 

dynastic, military, diplomatic, geographical and 

informational—that plagued imperial formations 

during this period. It reveals how wrenching 

technological, demographic, climatic and economic 

change, combined with new religious movements, 

incipient nationalisms, new sea routes, new military 

technologies and an evolving state system with 

complex new rules of diplomacy to challenge the 

continued existence and development of empires. 

Contents: Geoffrey Parker and early modern history, 

Tonio Andrade and William Reger; The limits of empire: 

an introduction, Tonio Andrade and William Reger; 

‘Por Dios, por patria’: the sacral limits of empire 

as seen in Catalan political sermons, 1630–1641, 

Andrew Mitchell; Enlightened absolutism and new 

frontiers for political authority: building towards a 

state religion in 18th-century Spain, Andrea J. Smidt; 

The limits of faith in a maritime empire: Mennonites, 

trade and politics in the Dutch Golden Age, 

Mary S. Sprunger; Information, gossip and rumor: 

the limits of intelligence at the early modern court, 

1558–1585, Denice Fett; Philip II, information overload, 

and the early modern moment, Paul M. Dover; Italy 

and the limits of the Spanish empire, Michael J. Levin; 

The limits of dynastic power: Poland-Lithuania, 

Sweden and the problem of composite monarchy 

in the age of the Vasas, 1562–1668, Robert I. Frost; 

The artillery fortress was an engine of European 

expansion: evidence from East Asia, Tonio Andrade; 

The limits of empire: the case of Britain, Jeremy Black; 

The façade of order: claiming imperial space 

in early modern russia, Matthew P. Romaniello; 

renaissance diplomacy and the limits of empire: 

Eustace Chapuys, Habsburg imperialisms, and 

dissimulation as method, Richard Lundell; Distance 

and misinformation in the conquest of America, 

Bethany Aram; Brawling behaviors in the Dutch 

colonial empire: changing norms of fairness?, 

Pamela McVay; Isabel Clara Eugenia: daughter of 

the Spanish empire, Cristina Borreguero Beltrán; 

Messianic imperialism or traditional dynasticism? 

The grand strategy of Philip II and the Spanish failure 

in the wars of the 1590s, Edward Shannon Tenace; 

‘A man’s gotta know his limitations’: reflections 

on a misspent past, Geoffrey Parker; Index. 



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Michelangelo and 

the English Martyrs 

Anne Dillon, Lucy Cavendish 

College, Cambridge, UK 

“Michelangelo and the English Martyrs is a stunning 

piece of detective work. Anne Dillon’s impressive 

research unlocks the secrets of an extraordinary 

broadsheet and reconstructs in compelling detail 

the overlapping religious, intellectual, political and 

cultural worlds from which it emerged…To read 

this remarkable book is to be taken on a fascinating 

journey that starts in Henrician London and ends 

in Michelangelo’s studio.” 

—Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge, UK 

This book uses a broadsheet print of the martyrdom 

of the Cathusians of the London Charterhouse during 

the reign of Henry VIII as a springboard to investigate 

several aspects of the Counter reformation. Through 

an in-depth investigation of the text and images, 

Anne Dillon provides a lively account that connects 

Michelangelo, Cardinal Pole, Mary Tudor and Pope 

Julius III, and weaves them into a wider discussion 

of martyrology, polemic and the Catholic community 

in England and beyond. 

Contents: Introduction; Three cardinals and a pope; 

The martyrdom of the English Carthusian fathers; 

The broadsheet images; reginald Pole and the 

broadsheet; Michelangelo and the Cappella Paolina: 

the final frescoes; Ecclesia viterbiensis; reginald Pole 

and the Cappella Paolina frescoes; Michelangelo in 

the broadsheet images; Postcards of rome; English 

martyrs in a roman landscape; Prints, cartoons 

and drawings; Anatomists and artists; The cardinal 

and his physician; A demonstration of a dissection; 

Anatomical research and the archconfraternity of 

San Giovanni Decollato; The case of Michael 

Servetus and pulmonary circulation; The artist; 

The recipient; Coda; Appendix; Bibliography; Index. 



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Pain, Pleasure and Perversity 

Discourses of Suffering in 

Seventeenth Century England 

John r. Yamamoto-Wilson, 

Sophia University, Japan 

Luther’s 95 Theses begin and end with the concept 

of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent 

God allows his creations to suffer remains one of the 

central issues of religious thought. In order to chart 

the processes by which discourse relating to pain 

and suffering became marginalized during the period 

from the renaissance to the end of the seventeenth 

century, this book examines a number of books on 

the subject translated into English from (mainly) 

Spanish and Italian. Combing elements of theology, 

literature and history, this book provides a fascinating 

perspective on one of the key conundrums of early 

modern religious history. 

Contents: Introduction. Part 1: the sufferIng self: 

Constructs of suffering in 17th-century England; 

Suffering and sexuality in Catholic hagiography; 

Polemic, pornography and romanticism: the 

subversion of catholic asceticism. Part 2: the 

sufferIng of others: Cruelty and compassion; 

The spectacle of suffering. Part 3: sufferIng and 

gender: The sexual politics of suffering; The erotics 

of suffering and cruelty; The emergence of the 

dominatrix; Bibliography; Index. 


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ASHGATE

SErIES 

TrAnsCulTurAlisms, 1400–1700 

Series Editors: Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami, Ann rosalind Jones, Smith College 

and Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University 

This series presents studies of the early modern contacts and exchanges among the states, polities and 

entrepreneurial organizations of Europe, Asia, including the Levant and East India/Indies, Africa and the 

Americas. Books investigate travelers, merchants and cultural inventors, including explorers, mapmakers, 

artists and writers, as they operated in political, mercantile, sexual and linguistic economies. 

For more information on Transculturalisms, 1400–1700, visit www.ashgate.com/transculturalisms 

forthComIng 

Authority and Diplomacy 

from Dante to Shakespeare 

Edited by Jason Powell, University of Texas, Austin 

and St. Joseph’s University and William T. rossiter, 

Liverpool Hope University, UK 

TrANSCULTUrALISMS, 1400–1700 

A detailed examination of the relationship between 

the discourses and practices of authority and 

diplomacy in the late medieval and early modern 

periods, this volume interrogates the persistent 

duality of the roles of author and ambassador. 

Contributors analyze various forms of writing, 

including drama, poetry, diplomatic correspondence, 

peace treaties and household accounts, and a range 

of major literary figures, including Dante, Petrarch, 

Chaucer, Wyatt, Sidney and Spenser. 

Contents: Introduction, Jason Powell and 

William T. Rossiter; The art of saying exile, Elisa Brilli; 

Petrarch and the Venetian-Genoese war of 1350–1355, 

Alexander Lee; William de la Pole’s poetic ‘parlement’: 

the political lyrics of Bodleian MS Fairfax 16, 

Mariana Neilly; ‘I beseik thy Maiestie serene’: 

difficulties of diplomacy in Sir David Lyndsay’s 

Dreme, Kate Ash; ‘Not cardinal but king’: Thomas 

Wolsey and the Henrician diplomatic imagination, 

Bradley J. Irish; In Spayne: Sir Thomas Wyatt and 

the poetics of embassy, William T. Rossiter; License 

and Lutheranism: diplomatic gossip, religious 

identity, and the Earl of Surrey, Mike Rodman Jones; 

Tasso at the French embassy: epic, diplomacy and 

the law of nations, Diego Pirillo; The 1559 Peace of 

Cateau-Cambrésis: print, marriages of state and 

the expansion of diplomatic literacy, John Watkins; 

Astrophil the orator: diplomacy and diplomats in 

Sidney’s Astophil and Stella, Jason Powell; Public 

diplomacy and the comedy of state: Chapman’s 

Monsieur D’Olive, Mark Netzloff; Shakespeare’s 

kingmaking ambassadors, Joanna Craigwood; 



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Early Modern Dutch 

Prints of Africa 

Elizabeth A. Sutton, The University 

of Northern Iowa 


“This very satisfying case study frames its particulars 

and adds important new material to the emerging art 

history about European views of the wider world in 

the early modern period…Makes insightful arguments 

as it adds to the growing literature on early European 

visual ethnography…A fine, well-researched, 

significant book.” 

—Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania 

In this study, art historian Elizabeth Sutton reads 

the engravings of Pieter de Marees’ Description and 

Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea 

(1602) as a demonstration of the intertwining domains 

of the Dutch pictorial tradition, intellectual inquiry 

and Dutch mercantilism. Sutton examines the book’s 

construction and marketing to shed new light on the 

social milieus that shared interests in ethnography, 

trade and travel, ultimately enhancing our 

understanding of the European imperial enterprise. 

Contents: Introduction; Negotiating trade and travel 

in North Holland; The Description and Historical 

Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea by Pieter 

de Marees; Analogy and anthropology; To inform 

and delight; Emblematic map borders; Legacies; 

Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. 



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Standing orders 

To place a standing order for a series, please visit 

www.ashgate.com/standingorder or contact 

Suzanne Sprague at ssprague@ashgate.com 

Early Modern Encounters 

with the Islamic East 

Performing Cultures 

Edited by Sabine Schülting, Freie Universität 

Berlin, Germany, Sabine Lucia Müller, Georg 

Eckert Institut Braunschweig, Germany and 

ralf Hertel, University of Hamburg, Germany 


“This collection brings together a multidisciplinary 

set of essays drawing on performance studies and 

performativity theory to assess western European 

cultural encounters with the Islamic ‘east’ during 

the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries…” 

—Bernadette Andrea, University of Texas, 

San Antonio, author of Women and Islam 

in Early Modern English Literature 

An exploration of early modern encounters between 

Christian Europe and the (Islamic) East from the 

perspective of performance studies and performativity 

theories, this collection offers new perspectives on 

how these cultural contacts were acted out on the real 

and metaphorical stages of theater, literature, music, 

diplomacy and travel. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction: cultures at play, 

Sabine Schülting, Sabine Lucia Müller and Ralf Hertel. 

Part 1: Players and Playgrounds: William Harborne’s 

embassies: scripting, performing and editing Anglo- 

Ottoman diplomacy, Sabine Lucia Müller; Performing 

at the Ottoman Porte in 1599: the case of Henry Lello, 

Gerald MacLean; Command performances: early 

English traders in Arabia Felix, Richmond Barbour; 

Strategic improvisation: Henry Blount in the 

Ottoman Empire, Sabine Schülting. Part 2: ProPs 

and Costumes: English women in oriental dress: 

playing the Turk in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s 

Turkish Embassy Letters and Daniel Defoe’s Roxana, 

Susanne Scholz; Painting the ‘orient’? Dosso Dossi’s 

Melissa, Wibke Joswig; Materialising Islam on the 

early modern English stage, Matthew Dimmock. 

Part 3: enCounters on stage: Ousting the Ottomans: 

the double vision of the East in The Travels of the 

Three English Brothers (1607), Ralf Hertel; Claudio 

Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda 

(1624 or 1625): a Christian-Muslim encounter 

in music?, Clemens Risi; After Orientalism? Post- 

September 11 culturalisms at play in Bambiland 

and The Persians, Claudia Breger; Bibliography; Index. 



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Jews in the Early Modern 

English Imagination 

A Scattered Nation 

Eva Johanna Holmberg, Academy of Finland 



“Based on a wide range of sources and enlivened 

by perceptive comments, Eva Holmberg’s book makes 

a good example of a new kind of history, the history 

of the collective imagination.” 

—Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK 

Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores 

how for English travelers, the Jew of the imagination 

contrasted with the Jew they actually encountered 

in southern Europe, North Africa and the Levant. 

Based on travel writings, religious history and popular 

literature, this cultural historical study sheds new light 

not only on English representations of Jews during 

the period, but more generally on constructions 

of early modern religious and ethnic identities. 


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Seeing Across Cultures 

in the Early Modern World 

Edited by Dana Leibsohn, Smith College 

and Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University 

of California, Santa Barbara 


“Ranging from viceregal Mexico to Akbar’s India, the 

authors of this timely and diverse collection practice 

what theorists of early modern globalization have only 

lately preached: that the world was understood to be 

connected and mutually intelligible in the age of sail 

and gunpowder…It is sure to provoke considerable 

discussion, and likely some controversy.” 

—Kris Lane, Tulane University 

What were the possibilities and limits of vision in 

the early modern world? Drawing upon experiences 

forged in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, 

Seeing Across Cultures shows how distinctive ways 

of habituating the eyes in the early modern period 

had profound implications—in the realm of politics, 

daily practice and the imaginary. Beyond their 

interest in visual culture, the essays here expand 

our understanding of transcultural encounters 

and the history of vision. 

Contents: Preface; Introduction: geographies of sight, 

Dana Leibsohn. Part I: PersPeCtIve and mImesIs: 

Perspective and its discontents or St. Lucy’s eyes, 

Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato and Mia M. Mochizuki; 

Perceiving blackness, envisioning power: 

Chalma and Black Christs in colonial Mexico, 

Jeanette Favrot Peterson; Competing and 

complementary visions of the court of the 

Great Mogor, Saleema Waraich. Part II: blIndness 

and memory: Visual knowledge/facing blindness, 

Bronwen Wilson; Blindness materialized: disease, 

decay, and restoration in the Napoleonic Description 

de l’Egypte (1809–1828), Liza Oliver; Gone: memory and 

visuality in early modern West Africa, Mark Hinchman. 

Part III: ColonIal vIsualItIes: Without a face: voicing 

Moctezuma II’s image at Chapultepec Park, Mexico 

City, Patrick Thomas Hajovsky; Markers: Le Moyne 

de Morgues in 16th-century Florida, Todd P. Olsen; 

Tourism, occupancy and visuality in North India, 

ca.1750–1858, Natasha Eaton. Part Iv: seeIng aCross 

tIme: Understanding visuality, Claire Farago; Index. 



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The Turk and Islam in the 

Western Eye, 1450–1750 

Visual Imagery before Orientalism 

Edited by James G. Harper, University of Oregon 


“This collection offers a rich and multifaceted history 

of Islam and the Turk as seen through European eyes. 

Rendering the centrality of the ‘Turk’ to European 

self-fashioning over three centuries the essays 

gathered here make an important contribution to an 

already very lively field of scholarship in an engaging, 

provocative and highly readable way.” 

—Nebahat Avcioglu, Columbia University’s 

Global Center in Paris, France 



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Western Visions of the Far 

East in a Transpacific Age, 

1522–1657 

Edited by Christina H. Lee, Princeton University 


“Western Visions will make even seasoned historians 

more deeply aware of the wealth of primary and 

secondary sources…Professor Lee’s volume is 

intelligently designed, the essays are savvy, original 

and refreshingly free of nation-centered parochialisms. 

This volume should be in the library of every serious 

historian of transpacific cultural exchange.” 

—Martin Powers, University of Michigan 

Covering the transpacific period—in between 

Magellan’s opening of the transpacific route to the 

Far East and the eventual dominance of the region 

by the British and the Dutch—this collection provides 

a broad perspective on how Western Europe made 

sense of a complex, multi-faceted and by and large 

Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia. 

Contents: Introduction: Europe’s encounter of Asia 

in early modernity. Part 1: ImagInIng the far east 

from euroPe: ‘The Indies of the West’ or, the tale 

of how an imaginary geography circumnavigated 

the globe, Ricardo Padrón; Imagining China in a 

golden age Spanish epic, Christina H. Lee. Part 2: 

dIsCoverIng the far east: The first China hands: 

the forgotten Iberian origins of Sinology, 

Liam Matthew Brockey; Matteo ricci on China 

via Samuel Purchas: faithful re-presentation, 

Nicholas Koss; representations of China and Europe 

in the writings of Diego de Pantoja: accommodating 

the East or privileging the West? Robert Richmond Ellis; 

Women in the eyes of a Jesuit between the East 

Indies, New Spain, and early modern Europe, 

Haruko Natawa Ward. Part 3: sIghtIngs of the 

far east In euroPe: Chinos in 16th-century Spain, 

Juan Gil; Native vassals: Chinos, indigenous 

identity, and legal protection in early modern Spain, 

Tatiana Seijas; Travelers from afar through civic 

spaces: the Tensho embassy in renaissance Italy, 

Marco Musillo; The Borghese papacy’s reception 

of a samurai delegation and its fresco-image 

at Palazzo del Quirinale, rome, Mayu Fujikawa; 




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forthComIng 

The Ottoman World, 

the Mediterranean and 

North Africa, 1660–1760 

Colin Heywood, University of Hull, UK 


Colin Heywood’s second volume of collected papers 

in the Variorum series brings together fourteen 

studies published between 2000 and 2010. They 

represent two of the main strands of his interests 

during the past decade: the era of Ottoman history 

dominated by the ministerial family of Köprülü; 

and the maritime history of the “post-Braudelian” 

Mediterranean, in the later 17th and early 18th 

centuries, with a particular focus on the English 

maritime and commercial presence in Algiers. 

Contents: Preface. Part I: ottomanIC: asPeCts 

of the köPrülü era: The Shifting Chronology of the 

Chyhyryn (Çehrin) Campaign (1089/1678) according 

to the Ottoman Literary Sources, and the Problem 

of the Ottoman Calendar; “All for Love”?: the betrayal 

of Grabusa to the Ottomans in 1691; Four Turkish 

documents from the British Library; A Buyuruldu of 

A.H. 1100/A.D. 1689 for the dragomans of the English 

embassy at Istanbul; English self and Ottoman other 

in the late 17th century: Lord Paget at the Porte, 

1692–1699; An undiplomatic Anglo-Dutch dispute 

at the Porte: the quarrel between Coenraad van 

Heemskerck and Lord Paget at Edirne, 1693; Two 

Firmans of Mustafa II on the reorganisation of the 

Ottoman courier system (1108/1696) (Documents 

from the Thessaloniki Cadi Sicills). Part II: between 

north afrICa and CyPrus: Mediterranean Maritime 

Studies: An English merchant and Consul-General 

in Algiers, c.1676–1712: robert Cole and his circle; 

Anglo-Maghrebi shipbroking in North Africa in the 

late 17th Century: an Arabic document from Algiers 

(1094/1683); ‘What’s in a name?’ Some Algerine fleet 

lists (1686–1714) from British libraries and archives; 

Ideology and the profit ,motive in the Algerine Corso: 

the strange case of the Isabella of Kirkcaldy, 1709–14; 

A frontier without archaeology?: The Ottoman 

maritime frontier in the Western Mediterranean, 

1660–1760; Ottoman territoriality versus maritime 

usage: the Ottoman Islands and English privateering 

in the wars with France 1689–1714; ‘The economics 

of uncertainty’?: the French merchant community 

in Cyprus at the turn of the18th Century; Fernand 

Braudel and the Ottomans: the emergence of an 

involvement (1928–1950): Index. 


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Paolo de Matteis 

Neapolitan Painting and 

Cultural History in Baroque Europe 

Livio Pestilli, Trinity College, rome, Italy 

“…Few art historians can match Pestilli’s knowledge 

of the literary scene, the international politics, the 

natural science and classical scholarship of the period. 

Pestilli manages to give full attention to De Matteis’ 

professional aspirations, to the subject matter of his 

paintings, to his pictorial technique and preparatory 

drawings, while also illuminating the complex 

historiographical legacy that has long obscured 

the artist’s reputation.” 

—Thomas Willette, University of Michigan 

A long overdue re-assessment of the Neapolitan 

painter Paolo de Matteis, this volume examines 

the artist’s most significant works and shows how 

posterity’s impression of him has been conditioned 

by a biased biographical and literary tradition. More 

than just a novel approach to de Matteis, however, 

the book serves as a window into early eighteenthcentury 

art and cultural history, not only in Naples 

but in Paris, Vienna, Genoa and rome. 



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ASHGATE

Peiresc’s Orient 

Antiquarianism as Cultural History 

in the Seventeenth Century 

Peter N. Miller, Bard Graduate Center 


The ten essays published in this volume were written 

over the space of a decade, but they were conceived 

from the start as a coherent whole, presenting 

Peiresc’s study of discrete languages and literatures 

of the Near East and North Africa. 



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Popular Culture in 

Early Modern Europe 

Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, UK 

THIrD EDITION 

“The study of ‘popular culture’ has come a long way 

since the first publication of Burke’s work. However, 

it is still the only work offering a European-wide 

view. This updated, third edition remains a valuable 

reference point for those interested in early modern 

European societies.” 

—Historein 


2009 472 pages 

Paperback 978-0-7546-6507-6 $39.95 


Printed Images 


Essays in Interpretation 

Edited by Michael Hunter, Birkbeck, 

University of London, UK 

“The book represents a major contribution to the 

study of early modern print culture—especially the 

printed image in seventeenth-century Britain—which 

will appeal to scholars interested in the role of print 

in early modern Britain’s religious, social, cultural 

and political history.” 



2010 396 pages 

Hardback 978-0-7546-6654-7 $124.95 


Exam copies 

Paperbacks marked with the magnifying glass 

symbol above can be requested as examination 

copies. Contact Suzanne Sprague with your request 

at ssprague@ashgate.com 

Perspectives on Public Space 

in rome, from Antiquity 

to the Present Day 

Edited by Gregory Smith and Jan Gadeyne, 

Visiting Critics, Cornell University College of 

Architecture, Art and Planning, rome Program 

Divided into five chronological sections (Antiquity, 

Middle Ages, renaissance, Baroque, Modern 

and Contemporary) this volume provides readers 

interested in urban history with a collection of essays 

on the evolution of public space in that paradigmatic 

western city which is rome. Scholars specialized 

in different historical periods contributed chapters, 

in order to find common themes which weave their 

way through one of the most complex urban histories 

of western civilization. 

Contents: Presentation, Ali Madanipour; Introduction, 

Gregory Smith and Jan Gadeyne. Part I: antIquIty: 

Omnis Caesereo cedit labor amphitheatro, unum 

pro cuntis fama loquetur opus (Mart., I, 7–8): has the 

center of Ancient rome been shifting? Manuel Royo; 

Emperors, baths, and public space: the imperial 

thermae in rome’s late antique landscape, 

Dallas DeForest. Part II: mIddle ages: Shortcuts: 

observations on the formation of the medieval streets 

system in rome, Jan Gadeyne; Frangipane and 

Pierleoni territories in the era of the Antipopes (1050– 

1150), Lila Yawn. Part III: renaIssanCe: La loggia 

delle benedizioni at St. Peter’s in the quattrocento 

and the visualization of power, Ioana Jimborean; 

Marcantonio Colonna and the victory at Lepanto: the 

framing of a public space at Santa Maria in Aracoeli, 

Paul Anderson; ‘SPQr/CAPITOLIVM rESTITVIT’: the 

renovation of the Campidoglio and Michelangelo’s 

use of the giant order, Tamara Smithers. Part Iv: 

baroque: From cattle market to public promenade: 

remaking the forum in the 17th century, Jasmine Cloud; 

Performance and politics in the urban spaces of 

Baroque rome, Joanna Norman. Part v: modern: 

Public space as desire, dream and history: Freud 

and rome, Paola DiCori; political public space in 

rome from 1870 to 2011, Vittorio Vidotto. Part vI: 

ContemPorary: Narrating place: perspectives on 

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Rome, Gregory Smith; The 

shape of public space: place, space, and junk space, 

David Mayernik; Contemporary debates on public 

space in rome, Marco Cremaschi; Bibliography; Index. 



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ramus, Pedagogy 

and the Liberal Arts 

ramism in Britain and the Wider World 

Edited by Steven J. reid, University of Glasgow, 

UK and Emma Annette Wilson, University 

of Pittsburgh 



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forthComIng 

religion, Identity and Conflict 

in Britain: From the restoration 

to the Twentieth Century 

Essays in Honour of Keith robbins 

Edited by Stewart J. Brown, University of 

Edinburgh, UK, Frances Knight, University 

of Nottingham, UK and John Morgan-Guy, 

University of Wales, Trinity St. David, UK 

This book brings together a distinguished team 

of authors who explore the interactions of religion, 

politics and culture that shaped and defined 

modern Britain. They consider expressions of civic 

consciousness in the expanding towns and cities, 

the growth of Welsh national identity, movements 

for popular education and temperance reform, and 

the influence of organized sport, popular journalism 

and historical writing in defining national life. 

Contents: Introduction, Stewart J. Brown, 

Frances Knight and John Morgan-Guy. Part 1: 

relIgIon and IdentIty: Defining Britain and Britishness; 

an historian’s quest; An appreciation of Keith robbins, 

Bruce Collins; The manner of English blasphemy, 

1676 to 2008, John Spurr; The topography of power: 

elites and the political landscape of the English town, 

1660–1760, Peter Borsay; Sleep not while the trumpet 

is blown in Zion: public somnolence, civic values 

and modern audience in 18th-century Britain, 

Joris van Eijnatten; ‘Above all the inhabitants of the 

Earth’: forming an identity for the Calvinistic Methodist 

Church in Wales, Eryn White; Sunday schools and 

Welsh national identity: an historiographical study, 

Paula Yates; Evangelism and British culture, 

David Bebbington; Anglican attitudes to roman 

Catholicism in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, 

Nigel Yates. Part 2: ConflICt and IdentIty: Trials 

and shows: Bishop Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905) 

and ‘angry controversies’ in the Church of England, 

John Morgan-Guy; recreation or renunciation? 

Episcopal interventions in the Drink Question 

in the 1890s, Frances Knight; reactions to the 

Didache in early 20th-century Britain: a dispute 

over the relationship of history and doctrine?, 

Thomas O’Loughlin; religion, politics and sport 

in Western Europe, c. 1870–1939, Hugh McLeod; 

W.T. Stead, the ‘new journalism’ and the ‘new 

Church’ in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain, 

Stewart J. Brown; ‘An ambitious venture’: Oxford 

University press and The Oxford History of 

England, Brian Harrison; Select bibliography of the 

publications of Keith robbins, Brian James; Index. 



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religion, Magic, and 

the Origins of Science 


John Henry, University of Edinburgh, UK 


In these articles John Henry argues for the intimate 

relationship between religion and early modern 

attempts to develop new understandings of nature, 

and on the other hand for the role of occult concepts 

in early modern natural philosophy. The articles 

provide detailed examinations of the religious 

motivations behind roman Catholic efforts to develop 

a new mechanical philosophy, theories of the soul 

and immaterial spirits, and theories of active matter. 


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SErIES 

VisuAl CulTure in eArlY mODerniTY 

Series Editor: Allison Levy 

A forum for the critical inquiry of the visual arts in the early modern world, Visual Culture in Early Modernity 

promotes new models of inquiry and new narratives of early modern art and its history. We welcome proposals 

for both monographs and essay collections which consider the cultural production and reception of images 

and objects. The range of topics covered in this series includes, but is not limited to, painting, sculpture and 

architecture as well as material objects, such as domestic furnishings, religious and/or ritual accessories, 

costume, scientific/medical apparata, erotica, ephemera and printed matter. We seek innovative investigations 

of western and non-western visual culture produced between 1400 and 1800. 

For more information on Visual Culture in Early Modernity, visit www.ashgate.com/vcem 

Art and the relic Cult 

of St. Antoninus in 

renaissance Florence 

Sally J. Cornelison, The University of Kansas 

VISUAL CULTUrE IN EArLY MODErNITY 

“Overall, this is an admirably detailed and clearly-written 

account of a Florentine cult and monument that have 

long deserved monographic treatment; it will be a 

standard art-historical reference for anyone wanting 

to understand the saint’s history and that of his legacy.” 

—Meredith J. Gill, University of Maryland, 

College Park 

Sally Cornelison draws upon contemporary 

visual, literary and archival sources and diverse 

methodologies to interpret how the persona of 

St. Antoninus and the intercessory effectiveness 

of his relic cult were advertised to a broad audience 

of viewers and devotees during the renaissance. 

Contents: Introduction. Part I: The humblest of 

men; Miracles, images, and St. Antoninus’ first 

tomb; Nurturing the cult, c.1512–1579. Part II: 

Opus Iohannis Bolognae Belgae; A very rare thing; 

Sculpting the image of Antoninus; ritual piety 

and Medici pomp; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index. 



Hardback 978-0-7546-6714-8 $119.95 


The Figurative Works of 

Chen Hongshou (1599–1652) 

Authentic Voices/Expanding Markets 

Tamara Heimarck Bentley, Colorado College 


“The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou is a smart 

book by one of the field’s smartest young talents. 

Through the lens of Chen Hongshou’s paintings 

and woodblock prints, Tamara Bentley ably discusses 

the complex philosophical tenets, market economy 

and social inversions of the late Ming…” 

—Katharine P. Burnett, University of California, Davis 

Despite the importance of Chen Hongshou (1599–1652) 

as an artist and scholar of the late Ming period, until 

now no full length study in English has focused 

on his work. Tamara Bentley takes a broadly 

interdisciplinary approach, treating Chen’s oeuvre 

in relation to literary themes and economic changes, 

and linking these larger concerns to visual analyses. 

In so doing, Bentley sheds new light not only on 

Chen, but also on an important cultural moment 

in the first half of the seventeenth century, when 

Chinese scholar artists began to direct their work 

towards anonymous public markets. 

Includes 32 color, 99 b&w illustrations and 1 map 


Hardback 978-0-7546-6672-1 $119.95 



Beholding Violence in Medieval 

and Early Modern Europe 

Edited by Allie Terry-Fritsch and Erin Felicia 

Labbie, Bowling Green State University 


“…This volume puts the art of beholding under the 

spotlight, asking whether we may discover, in the 

scene of violence, its most defining characteristics. 

A timely and wide ranging set of meditations.” 

—robert Mills, King’s College London 

Interrogating how medieval and early modern 

communities have acted as participants, observers 

and interpreters of events and how they ascribed 

meaning to them, the essays in this collection explore 

the experience of individual or collective beholders 

of violence during the period. Addressing a range 

of medieval and early modern art forms, including 

visual images, objects, texts and performances, the 

contributors examine the complexities of viewing and 

the production of knowledge across temporal moments. 

Contents: Foreword, W.J.T. Mitchell; Introduction: 

beholding violence, Erin Felicia Labbie and 

Allie Terry-Fritsch; Proof in pierced flesh: Caravaggio’s 

Doubting Thomas and the beholder of wounds in early 

modern Italy, Allie Terry-Fritsch; Giovanni Pisano’s 

marble wounds: beholding artistic self-defense in the 

Pisa cathedral pulpit, Matthew G. Shoaf; Beholding 

and touching: early modern strategies of negotiating 

illness, Mirella G. Pardee; The gap of death: passive 

violence in the encounter between the Three Dead 

and the Three Living, Elina Gertsman; Being beheld: 

Julian of Norwich’s mystical surreal and the violence 

of vision, Christopher Taylor; Image in pain: icons, 

old bones and new blood, Galina Tirnanic; ‘To have 

the pleasure of this siege’: envisioning siege warfare 

during the European wars of religion, Brian Sandberg; 

Theatrum mundi: performativity, violence and 

metatheatre in Webster’s The White Devil, Lisa Dickson; 

Portia’s Pauline perversion: The Merchant of Venice 

and romans I, Will Stockton; Violent passions: 

plays, pawnbrokers, and the Jews of rome, 1539, 

Barbara Wisch; Beholding typology: the violence of 

recognition in Caravaggio’s representations of the 

Sacrifice of Isaac, Erin Felicia Labbie; Bibliography; Index. 



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Inganno—The Art of Deception 

Imitation, reception, and 

Deceit in Early Modern Art 

Edited by Sharon Gregory and Sally Anne Hickson 


The essays contained in this volume address issues 

surrounding the use, dissemination and reception of 

imitations, copies and even deliberate forgeries within 

the history of art, focusing on paintings, prints and 

sculptures created and sold from the sixteenth century 

to the eighteenth century. As a whole, this volume 

opens up a new branch of art historical research 

concerned with the history and purpose of the copy. 

Contents: Introduction, Sharon Gregory and 

Sally Anne Hickson; Artistic devotion: imitations 

of art and nature in Italian renaissance writings 

on art, Steven Stowell; ‘Quel nuovo studio e fatica’: 

Pontormo, Dürer and other prints, Sharon Gregory; 

‘Ad ogni maniera’: Tintoretto imitates Veronese?, 

Allison Sherman; Imitation, emulation, forgery? 

Copies of Albrecht Dürer’s Feast of the Rosegarlands, 

Andrea Bubenik; How copies may shed light on the 

reception of raphael, Cathleen Hoeniger; Finding, 

fixing, and faking in Ghiberti’s third Commentarii, 

Lynn Catterson; ‘Antichissimo’: authority, authenticity 

and duplicity in the 16th-century roman antiquities 

market, Sally Anne Hickson; Giuseppe Orologi’s 

Inganno—the art of deception and the deception 

of art, Sally Anne Hickson; ‘Such is picture dealing’: 

Noel Joseph Desenfans (1745–1807) and the 

perils of purchasing in 18th-century London, 

Kristin Campbell; Index. 



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reframing Albrecht Dürer 

The Appropriation of Art, 1528–1700 

Andrea Bubenik, The University 

of Queensland, Australia 


“…thoroughly researched, well organized and 

performs an important function in incorporating 

information from the latest publications, as well 

as from earlier ones…Bubenik relates the whole 

to modern reception theory in convincing fashion.” 

—Jane Campbell Hutchison, University 

of Wisconsin, Madison 

Focusing on the ways his art and persona were 

valued and criticized by writers, collectors and 

artists subsequent to his death, this book examines 

the reception of the works of Albrecht Dürer. The 

author traces carefully how Dürer’s paintings, prints, 

drawings and theoretical writings traveled widely, 

and were appropriated into new contexts and 

charged with different meanings. 

Contents: Introduction: reframing Dürer; Writing 

and depicting Dürer; Collecting Dürer; Appropriating 

Dürer; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 



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ASHGATE

ethinking the Baroque 

Edited by Helen Hills, University of York, UK 

“The baroque—the concept, not the period—has 

had a paradoxical destiny in the last few decades… 

rethinking the Baroque from a serious, scholarly 

point of view, is thus a well-needed enterprise and this 

collection of essays by some of the most important 

thinkers of our time marvelously tackles the task.” 




Hardback 978-0-7546-6685-1 $124.95 


rome: Continuing Encounters 

between Past and Present 

Edited by Dorigen Caldwell, Birkbeck, 

University of London and Lesley Caldwell, 

University College London 

“…well written and interesting…Recommended.” 

—Choice 



Hardback 978-1-4094-1762-0 $119.95 


The Seventeenth-Century 

Customs Service Surveyed 

William Culliford’s Investigation 

of the Western Ports, 1682–84 

W.B. Stephens, University of Leeds, UK 

Between January 1682 and the spring of 1684 William 

Culliford, Surveyor of the Customs, completed 

an extraordinary investigation into the integrity 

and efficiency of the customs establishments of 

southwest England and south Wales. His report 

on each of the ports he inspected, described and 

analyzed here, revealed widespread smuggling 

and fraud and a customs service both lacking in 

efficiency and riddled with corruption. The book also 

surveys the extent and nature of the maritime trade 

of the ports visited by this tenacious investigator, 

in the context of a wealth of statistical data on the 

customs revenue actually collected at all the main 

English and Welsh ports in the 1670s and 1680s. 

Includes 1 b&w illustration and 6 maps 


Hardback 978-1-4094-3837-3 $124.95 

ebook PDF 978-1-4094-3838-0 

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Thomas Harriot and His World 

Mathematics, Exploration, and Natural 

Philosophy in Early Modern England 

Edited by robert Fox, University of Oxford, UK 

This second volume of papers on Thomas Harriot 

edited by robert Fox is based on the Harriot lectures 

delivered at Oriel College between 2000 and 2009 and 

complements the previous volume published in 2000. 

The focus in many papers is on Harriot’s outstanding 

achievements as a mathematician; others consider 

why he has never received the recognition accorded 

to his great contemporary, Galileo; others still look 

at the relationship between practice and theory 

in what he did, as instanced on the voyage 

to America in 1585. 



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forthComIng 

Scholarly Self-Fashioning 

and Community in the 

Early Modern University 

Edited by richard Kirwan, 

University of St Andrews, UK 

A greater fluidity in social relations and hierarchies 

was experienced across Europe in the early modern 

period, a consequence of the major political and 

religious upheavals of the sixteenth and seventeenth 

centuries. During this time university scholars 

demonstrated a great energy when characterizing 

themselves socially as learned men. This book 

investigates the significance and implications 

of academic self-fashioning throughout Europe 

in the early modern period. 

Contents: Introduction: scholarly self-fashioning 

and the cultural history of universities, Richard Kirwan; 

The ideal student: manuals of student behavior 

in early modern Italy, Jonathan Davies; Academic 

exchanges: letters, the reformation and scholarly 

self-fashioning, Kenneth Austin; Johannes Eck (1486– 

1543): academic career and self-fashioning around 

1500, Ingo Trüter; From individual to archetype: 

occasional texts and the performance of scholarly 

identity in early modern Germany, Richard Kirwan; 

A struggle for nobility: ‘nobilitas literaria’ as academic 

self-fashioning in early modern Germany, 

Marian Füssel; The social metaphysics of professors: 

divine providence, academic charisma and witchcraft, 

Andreas Corcoran; The idolater John Owen? Linguistic 

hegemony in Cromwell’s Oxford, Gráinne McLaughlin; 

Irish student identity at the University of Paris: 

a case study, Jason Harris; Bibliography; Index. 


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Thomism in John Owen 

Christopher Cleveland 

“With exemplary clarity, patience and erudition, this 

illuminating study demonstrates how much Owen 

shares with the theological and spiritual culture 

of Thomas and his followers.” 

—John Webster, University of Aberdeen, UK 

Examining the influence of Thomas Aquinas and 

his followers upon the seventeenth century Puritan 

theologian John Owen, this book breaks new ground 

in exploring the impact of medieval thought upon 

reformed scholasticism. 

Contents: Introduction to Thomism in John Owen; 

The Thomistic concept of God as pure act in John 

Owen; The Thomistic concept of infused habits 

in John Owen: Part 1; The Thomistic concept 

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Western Trinitarian theology; Bibliography; Index. 


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Travel Narratives, the New 

Science, and Literary 

Discourse, 1569–1750 

Edited by Judy A. Hayden, University of Tampa 

The focus of this volume is the intersection and 

the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, 

literary discourse and the New Philosophy in the 

early modern to early eighteenth-century historical 

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Treasure, Treason and the Tower 

El Dorado and the Murder 

of Sir Walter raleigh 

Paul r. Sellin, University of California, Los Angeles 


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Writings of Exile in the English 

revolution and restoration 

Philip Major, University of London, UK 

Offering fresh interpretations of exile in the English 

revolution and restoration, this study explores the 

personal, political and religious ramifications of 

displacement, and shines a torch on the rich variety 

of literary modes through which it is articulated. 

Examining previously unstudied as well as canonical 

writings, it challenges conventional paradigms 

positing neat dividing lines of chronology, geography 

and allegiance in this seminal period of British 

and American history. 

Contents: Introduction; Edward Hyde: case study 

of a royalist exile; Ceremony and grief in the royalist 

exile; royalist internal exile; Exile in the restoration: 

William Goffe in New England; Conclusion; Works 

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Edited by Katherine A. McIver, 

University of Alabama, Birmingham 


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Women, Art and 

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Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries 

Sally Anne Hickson, University of Guelph 


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A 

Andrade, Tonio ....................................................... 16 

Architecture and Hagiography 

in the Ottoman Empire ....................................... 2 

Armstrong, Catherine ........................................... 12 

Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus 

in Renaissance Florence................................... 20 

Art of Religion, The................................................... 2 

Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English 

Lexicographers ..................................................... 4 

Ashgate Research Companion 

to the Counter-Reformation, The ...................... 2 

Ashgate Research Companion to Women 

and Gender in Early Modern Europe, The......... 2 

Aspects of Book Culture in 

Early Modern England ........................................ 3 

Astrology and Magic from the Medieval Latin 

and Islamic World to Renaissance Europe ....... 3 

Authority and Diplomacy from Dante 

to Shakespeare .................................................. 17 

B 

Baal’s Priests .......................................................... 14 

Bakker, Boudewijn ................................................ 13 

Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500–1800 ...... 3 

Bamji, Alexandra ..................................................... 2 

Barbierato, Federico .............................................. 12 

Beholding Violence in Medieval 

and Early Modern Europe ................................. 20 

Bentley, Tamara Heimarck ................................... 20 

Betteridge, Thomas ............................................. 8, 9 

Birrell, Tom A. .......................................................... 3 

Blom, Jos .................................................................. 3 

Boavida, Isabel ........................................................ 9 

Bonfield, Lloyd ......................................................... 5 

Bridging the Medieval-Modern Divide ................... 6 

British and Irish Experiences and Impressions 

of Central Europe, c.1560–1688 ........................ 13 

Broomhall, Susan .................................................. 22 

Brown, Stewart J. .................................................. 19 

Bubenik, Andrea .................................................... 20 

Burgess, Glenn ........................................................ 5 

Burke, Peter ............................................................ 19 

Burnett, Amy Nelson ............................................ 14 

C 

Caldwell, Dorigen .................................................. 21 

Caldwell, Lesley ..................................................... 21 

Cameron, Euan ...................................................... 14 

Caravale, Giorgio ..................................................... 6 

Career of Cardinal Giovanni Morone 

(1509–1580), The ................................................. 3 

Carey, Daniel ............................................................ 9 

Catholic and Protestant Translations 

of the Imitatio Christi, 1425–1650 ................... 14 

Catholic Christendom, 1300–1700 .......................... 6 

Censorship and Civic Order in Reformation 

Germany, 1517–1648 ......................................... 14 

Churchill, Wendy D. .............................................. 10 

Claydon, Tony ......................................................... 13 

Cleveland, Christopher ......................................... 21 

Clouse, Michele L. ................................................. 10 

Cogen, Marc ............................................................. 4 

Communes and Despots in Medieval 

and Renaissance Italy ......................................... 3 

Communities of Devotion ....................................... 6 

Considine, John ....................................................... 4 

Cooper, Tim ............................................................ 12 

Cornelison, Sally J. ................................................ 20 

Couchman, Jane ...................................................... 2 

Craciun, Maria ......................................................... 6 

Crane, Mary Thomas ............................................. 11 

Crawshaw, Jane L. Stevens.................................. 10 

Creasman, Allyson F. ............................................. 14 

Crowe, Nicholas J. ................................................ 12 

Cruz, Anne J. .......................................................... 22 

Cultural Exchange in Seventeenth-Century 

France and England ............................................ 3 

Cunningham, Andrew ........................................... 10 

Curse of Ham in the Early Modern Era, The ....... 14 

Custom, Improvement and the Landscape 

in Early Modern Britain ....................................... 3 

D 

Dabbs, Julia K. ....................................................... 13 

Darr, Orna Alyagon ................................................ 16 

Defending the Revolution ....................................... 4 

Delbeke, Maarten .................................................... 2 

Democracies and the Shock of War ........................ 4 

Devising, Dying and Dispute .................................. 5 

Dillon, Anne ............................................................ 16 

Divisions of French Catholicism, 1629–1645, The .. 6 

Duerloo, Luc ............................................................. 5 

Dunthorne, Hugh ................................................... 13 

Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615 ................................ 5 

Dynasty and Piety .................................................... 5 

e 

Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa .................... 17 

Early Modern Encounters with the Islamic East .. 17 

Early Modern Women in the Low Countries ........ 22 

Early Reformation in Germany, The ..................... 14 

Elizabethan Naval Administration ......................... 5 

England’s Wars of Religion, Revisited .................... 5 

English Catholics and the Supernatural, 

1553–1829 ............................................................. 6 

English Students at Leiden University, 

1575–1650 ............................................................. 5 

Erskine, Caroline ................................................... 15 

European Contexts for English Republicanism .. 13 

European Perceptions of Terra Australis .............. 5 

Everyday Objects ...................................................... 7 

Experience of Domestic Service for Women 

in Early Modern London, The ............................. 7 

Experiences of Poverty in Late Medieval 

and Early Modern England and France ............. 8 

f 

Female Patients in Early Modern Britain ............. 10 

Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou 

(1599–1652), The ............................................... 20 

Forbidden Prayer ....................................................... 6 

Fox, robert.............................................................. 21 

Franzen, Christine .................................................... 4 

Freeman, Thomas S. ............................................... 8 

From Oikonomia to Political Economy .................. 7 

From Priest’s Whore to Pastor’s Wife ................... 14 

Fulton, Elaine............................................................ 6 

Fumerton, Patricia ................................................... 3 

g 

Gadeyne, Jan .......................................................... 19 

Gated Communities? ............................................... 8 

Gay, Jean-Pascal ...................................................... 6 

George Buchanan .................................................. 15 

Getting Along? ........................................................ 15 

Goodey, C.F. ............................................................ 11 

Gordon, Bruce ........................................................ 14 

Governing Masculinities in the 

Early Modern Period .......................................... 22 

Gregory, Sharon ..................................................... 20 

Grell, Ole Peter ....................................................... 10 

Grzeskowiak-Krwawicz, Anna ............................... 8 

Guerrini, Anita .......................................................... 3 

Guild and Guild Buildings of Shakespeare’s 

Stratford, The ....................................................... 8 

Gulliver in the Land of Giants ................................. 8 

H 

Hamling, Tara ........................................................... 7 

Hannay, Margaret P. .............................................. 16 

Harper, James G. ................................................... 18 

Hayden, Judy A. ..................................................... 21 

Heal, Bridget .......................................................... 14 

Healing, Performance and Ceremony in the 

Writings of Three Early Modern Physicians: 

Hippolytus Guarinonius and the Brothers 

Felix and Thomas Platter .................................. 10 

Henry, John ............................................................ 19 

Henry VIII and History ............................................. 8 

Henry VIII and the Court ......................................... 9 

Hernández, rosilie ................................................ 22 

Hertel, ralf.............................................................. 17 

Heywood, Colin ...................................................... 18 

Hiatt, Alfred .............................................................. 5 

Hickson, Sally Anne ........................................ 20, 22 

Index 

Hills, Helen ............................................................. 21 

History and Nature in the Enlightenment .......... 11 

History of Intelligence and ‘Intellectual 

Disability,’ A ....................................................... 11 

History of Medicine in Context, The .................... 10 

Holmberg, Eva Johanna ....................................... 17 

Horses, People and Parliament in the 

English Civil War ............................................... 11 

Householder, Michael ........................................... 12 

Hoyle, richard W. .................................................... 3 

Humanism and Renaissance Civilization ........... 12 

Humfrey, Paula ........................................................ 7 

Hunter, Michael ..................................................... 19 


i 

Ideology and Foreign Policy in Early Modern 

Europe (1650–1750) ........................................... 13 

Inganno—The Art of Deception ........................... 20 

Inquisitor in the Hat Shop, The ............................ 12 

Inside the Illicit Economy ...................................... 12 

Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery..... 12 

J 

Janssen, Geert H. .................................................... 2 

Japanese Travellers in 

Sixteenth-Century Europe ................................. 9 

Jeremias Drexel’s ‘Christian Zodiac’ .................... 12 

Jesuit Civil Wars ....................................................... 6 

Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination .. 17 

John Owen, Richard Baxter and the Formation 

of Nonconformity .............................................. 12 

Jones, Ann rosalind ............................................. 17 

Jones, Evan ............................................................ 12 

Jowitt, Claire ............................................................ 9 

K 

Katritzky, M.A. ........................................................ 10 

King Translated, A .................................................. 15 

Kirwan, richard ..................................................... 21 

Knight, Frances ...................................................... 19 

Knighton, C.S. .......................................................... 5 

l 

Labbie, Erin Felicia ................................................ 20 

Lancashire, Ian ........................................................ 4 

Land, Proto-Industry and Population 

in Catalonia, c. 1680–1829 ................................ 12 

Landscape and Identity in North America’s 

Southern Colonies from 1660 to 1745 ............. 12 

Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck 

to Rembrandt ..................................................... 13 

Laven, Mary .............................................................. 2 

Law, John E............................................................... 3 

Lee, Christina H. .................................................... 18 

Leibsohn, Dana ...................................................... 18 

Leong, Elaine .......................................................... 10 

Levillain, Charles-Edouard ................................... 13 

Levy, Allison ............................................................ 20 

Lewycky, Nadine .................................................... 15 

Life Stories of Women Artists, 1550–1800 ............ 13 

Limits of Empire: European Imperial 

Formations in Early Modern World History .... 16 

Linking of Heaven and Earth, A ............................ 15 

Lipscomb, Suzannah .............................................. 9 

Literary and Scientific Cultures 

of Early Modernity ............................................. 11 

Loades, D.M.............................................................. 5 

Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe ....... 16 

m 

Mahlberg, Gabby ................................................... 13 

Maifreda, Germano ................................................. 7 

Major, Philip ........................................................... 21 

Malcolmson, Cristina ............................................ 11 

Marfany, Julie ......................................................... 12 

Marks of an Absolute Witch .................................. 16 

Martin, Jessica ....................................................... 15 

Mary Sidney, Lady Wroth ....................................... 16 

Mason, roger A. .............................................. 14, 15 

Massarella, Derek .................................................... 9 

Mayer, Thomas F. ................................................. 6, 7 

McAbee, Kris ............................................................ 3 

McCall, Fiona ......................................................... 14 

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Index 

McConchie, roderick .............................................. 4 

McCoog, Thomas M. ............................................... 7 

McDermott, Anne C. ............................................... 4 

McGowan, Margaret M. .......................................... 5 

McIlroy, Claire .......................................................... 5 

McIver, Katherine A. .......................................... 2, 22 

Mears, Natalie ........................................................ 15 

Medical Consulting by Letter in France, 

1665–1789 ........................................................... 10 

Medicine, Government and Public Health 

in Philip II’s Spain ............................................. 10 

Michelangelo and the English Martyrs................ 16 

Michelson, Emily ................................................... 15 

Mijers, Esther ......................................................... 13 

Miller, Peter N. ....................................................... 19 

Moran, J.F. ................................................................. 9 

Morgan-Guy, John ................................................. 19 

Morton, Adam ........................................................ 15 

Muldoon, James ...................................................... 6 

Müller, Sabine Lucia ............................................. 17 

Mulryne, J.r. ............................................................ 8 

Munck, Bert De ........................................................ 8 

n 

Nauert, Charles G. ................................................. 12 

O 

Onnekink, David .................................................... 13 

Ottoman World, the Mediterranean 

and North Africa, 1660–1760, The .................... 18 

p 

Pain, Pleasure and Perversity ............................... 16 

Paolo de Matteis ..................................................... 18 

Paton, Bernadette .................................................... 3 

Pedro Páez’s History of Ethiopia, 1622 .................. 9 

Peiresc’s Orient ...................................................... 19 

Pender, Stephen .................................................... 11 

Pennec, Hervé .......................................................... 9 

Perspectives on Public Space in Rome, 

from Antiquity to the Present Day .................. 19 

Pestilli, Livio ........................................................... 18 

Peterson, Jeanette Favrot ..................................... 18 

Pettegree, Andrew ................................................. 14 

Plague Hospitals .................................................... 10 

Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth ............................... 14 

Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650–1750 .......... 13 

Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe ............. 19 

Poska, Allyson .................................................... 2, 22 

Powell, Jason ......................................................... 17 

Printed Images in Early Modern Britain .............. 19 

Prior, Charles W.A. ................................................... 5 

Private and Domestic Devotion 

in Early Modern Britain ..................................... 15 

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Prögler, Daniela ....................................................... 5 

Purgatory and Piety in Brittany 1480–1720 ............ 6 

r 

ramos, Manuel João .............................................. 9 

Ramus, Pedagogy and the Liberal Arts ................ 19 

rankin, Alisha ........................................................ 10 

Reforming Reformation ........................................... 7 

Reframing Albrecht Dürer ..................................... 20 

reger, William ........................................................ 16 

reid, Steven J. ....................................................... 19 

Religion, Identity and Conflict in Britain: From 

the Restoration to the Twentieth Century ...... 19 

Religion, Magic, and the Origins of Science 

in Early Modern England .................................. 19 

Rethinking the Baroque ........................................ 21 

Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe ... 11 

Richard Hakluyt and Travel Writing 

in Early Modern Europe ...................................... 9 

richardson, Catherine ............................................ 7 

robinson, Adam Patrick ......................................... 3 

robinson, Gavin ..................................................... 11 

Rome: Continuing Encounters between 

Past and Present ............................................... 21 

rommelse, Gijs ...................................................... 13 

rossiter, William T. ................................................ 17 

ryrie, Alec ........................................................ 14, 15 

s 

Sacred Music as Public Image for Holy 

Roman Emperor Ferdinand III ............................ 7 

Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community 

in the Early Modern University ........................ 21 

Schülting, Sabine .................................................. 17 

Scott, Anne M. ..................................................... 5, 8 

Scott, Tom ............................................................... 14 

Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine 

and Science, 1500–1800 .................................... 10 

Seeing Across Cultures in the Early 

Modern World .................................................... 18 

Sellin, Paul r. ......................................................... 21 

Seventeenth-Century Customs Service 

Surveyed, The ..................................................... 21 

Singh, Jyotsna ....................................................... 17 

Smith, Gregory ....................................................... 19 

Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, 

and England, 1589–1597, The ............................ 7 

Spicer, Andrew ....................................................... 16 

Spinks, Jennifer ..................................................... 22 

St Andrews Studies in Reformation History ....... 14 

Stedman, Gesa ......................................................... 3 

Stephen, Jeffrey ....................................................... 4 

Stephens, W.B. ....................................................... 21 

Stilma, Astrid ......................................................... 15 

Struever, Nancy S. ................................................. 11 

Studies of Skin Color in the Early Royal Society ... 11 

Sutton, Elizabeth A. ............................................... 17 

Suzuki, Mihoko ...................................................... 17 

T 

Taylor, Scott K. ....................................................... 15 

Terry-Fritsch, Allie .................................................. 20 

Thomas Harriot and His World ............................. 21 

Thomism in John Owen ........................................ 21 

Tingle, Elizabeth C. .................................................. 6 

Transculturalisms, 1400–1700 ............................... 17 

Travel Narratives, the New Science, 

and Literary Discourse, 1569–1750 .................. 21 

Treasure, Treason and the Tower .......................... 21 

Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 

1450–1750, The .................................................. 18 

V 

Van Gent, Jacqueline ............................................ 22 

Venables, Mary Noll .............................................. 15 

Visual Culture in Early Modernity......................... 20 

Von Greyerz, Kaspar .............................................. 14 

Von Habsburg, Maximilian .................................. 14 

W 

Weaver, Andrew H. .................................................. 7 

Western Visions of the Far East in 

a Transpacific Age, 1522–1657 .......................... 18 

Weston, robert ...................................................... 10 

Whitford, David M. ................................................ 14 

Wiemann, Dirk ....................................................... 13 

Wilson, Emma Annette ......................................... 19 

Winter, Anne ............................................................. 8 

Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns 

in Early Modern Italy ......................................... 22 

Wolloch, Nathaniel ................................................ 11 

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World .. 22 

Women, Art and Architectural Patronage 

in Renaissance Mantua .................................... 22 

Women’s Literacy in Early Modern Spain 

and the New World ............................................ 22 

Worship and the Parish Church 

in Early Modern Britain ..................................... 15 

Wortham, Christopher ............................................ 5 

Worthington, David ............................................... 13 

Wright, Anthony D. .................................................. 6 

Writings of Exile in the English Revolution 

and Restoration ................................................. 21 

Y 

Yamamoto-Wilson, John r. .................................. 16 

Young, Francis .......................................................... 6 

Yürekli, Zeynep ........................................................ 2 

Z 

Zambelli, Paola ........................................................ 3 

Zanger, Abby .......................................................... 22 

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Pakistan 

Book Bird 

Lower Ground, 36B Abdalians 

Society 

Nazria-e-Pakistan Ave 

Near Shaukat Khanum Hospital & 

Research 

Lahore, Pakistan 

Telephone: +92 42 35956200 

Fax: +92 42 6361370 

Email: answer.bookbird@gmail.com 

Contact: Anwer Iqbal 

Middle East 

Publishers International Marketing 

Polfages 

11420 Villautou (Aude) 

France 

Telephone: + 33 (0) 4 6860 4890 

Email: ray@pim-uk.com 

Contact: Ray Potts 

Central and 

Eastern Europe 

Dr. Laszlo Horvath 

Tinodi Utca 31 

H-1047 Budapest 

Hungary 

Telephone: +36 (1) 3703614 

Fax: +36 (1) 3795842 

Email: booksforeurope@gmail.com 

Contact: Dr. Laszlo Horvath 

Iran 

Status Supply Co Ltd 

Vali Asr Sq, Nourbaksh St, 

Block No 4, 1st Floor 

Tehran, Iran 

Telephone: +98 (021) 88893952/53 

Fax: +98 (021) 88913230 

Email: 

harmobhasin@parsonline.com 

Contact: Harmo Bhasin 

The Philippines 

Delaney Global Publishers 

Services Inc 

B 10 L 2 Maryland Homes I 

Landayan San Pedro 

Laguna 

The Philippines 

Telephone: +63 2 869 73 24 

Fax: +63 2 778 70 10 

Email: bncashgate@yahoo.com 

dglopub@yahoo.com 

Contact: Nanette Baremo 

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Contacts and Customer Service 

Sales/Customer Service 

World Distribution 

Bookpoint Limited 

Ashgate Publishing Direct Sales 

130 Park Drive, Milton Park 

Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4SE, UK 

Direct Sales Tel: +44 (0)1235 827730 

Direct Sales Fax: +44 (0)1235 400454 

Trade Sales UK 

Tel: +44 (0)1235 400580 

Trade Sales UK 

Fax: +44 (0)1235 400500 

Trade Sales Export 

Tel: +44 (0)1235 400573 

Trade Sales Export 

Fax: +44 (0)1235 400530 

Email: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk 

North and South America 

Ashgate Publishing Company 

PO Box 2225 

Williston, VT 05495–2225 

USA 

Telephone: +1 800 535-9544 

Fax: +1 802 864-7626 

Email: orders@ashgate.com 

Australia and Asia 

Ashgate-Gower Asia Pacific 

1st Floor, Suite 34 

14 Jubilee Avenue 

Warriewood, NSW 2102 

Australia 

Telephone: +61 (0)2 9999 2777 

Fax: +61 (0)2 9999 3688 

Email: info@ashgate.com.au 

Ashgate Offices 

Ashgate Publishing is committed to being an 

environmentally-friendly publisher. All of our 

books and marketing materials are produced 

using sound environmental practices and 

printed on sustainable paper sources. 

This catalog is printed on FSC ® -certified paper 

with 10% post-consumer content. Soy-based 

ink is used in the printing. 

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Head Office 

Ashgate Publishing Limited 

Wey Court East, Union Road 

Farnham, Surrey 

GU9 7PT, UK 

Telephone: +44 (0)1252 736600 

Fax: +44 (0)1252 736736 

Email: info@ashgatepublishing.com 

North and South America 

Ashgate Publishing Company 

Suite 3-1 

110 Cherry Street 

Burlington, VT 05401-3818 

USA 

Telephone: +1 802 865-7641 

Fax: +1 802 865-7847 

Email: info@ashgate.com 

Australia and Asia 

Ashgate-Gower Asia Pacific 

1st Floor, Suite 34 

14 Jubilee Avenue 

Warriewood, NSW 2102 

Australia 

Telephone: +61 (0)2 9999 2777 

Fax: +61 (0)2 9999 3688 

Email: info@ashgate.com.au 

Customers in regions not 

mentioned here should contact the 

World Distribution office, or find us 

online at: www.ashgate.com 

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