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Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis Crime Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England (Paperback)

Garthine Walker reveals that women were not treated leniently by the courts and that beliefs about gender and order impacted on real legal outcomes in early modern England. She demonstrates that the household role had as much to do with the nature of... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Histor Neostoicism and the Early Modern State (Paperback)

Neostoicism was one of the most important intellectual movements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It started in the Protestant Netherlands during the revolt against Catholic Spain. Very quickly it began to influence both the theory and... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Histor Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany (Paperback)

This book presents a social and cultural history of dishonorable people (unehrliche Leute) an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners skinners grave-diggers shepherds barber-surgeons millers linen-weavers sow-gelders latrine-cleaners and... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Histor Altopascio: A Study in Tuscan Rural Society 1587-1784 (Paperback)

This is an interdisciplinary study of a large Italian estate which belonged to the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany. The Medici administrators kept detailed records of the activities of their subjects and these have been used by the author to analyse the... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis John Locke Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture (Paperback)

John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in England Ireland France Piedmont and the Netherlands and of the arguments which John Locke and his associates made in defence of... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis The Art of Hearing (Hardcover)

This ground-breaking study of early modern English preaching is the first to take full account of the sermon as heard by the listener as well as uttered by the preacher. It draws on a wide range of printed and manuscript sources but also seeks to read... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Histor Calvinist Preaching and Iconoclasm in the Netherlands 1544-1569 (Paperback)

This book is a study of the relationship between ideology and social behaviour. Professor Crew analyses the attitudes and characters of the Calvinist ministers who preached in the Netherlands in the mid-sixteenth century and their effect on the popular... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Histor Filippo Strozzi and the Medici (Paperback)

Filippo Strozzi (1489-1538) the Florentine aristocrat and banker is usually remembered for the dramatic exploits at the end of his life. Forced into exile he became an outspoken defender of the last Florentine Republic against the tyranny of the city s... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis The Politics of Religion in the Age of Mary Queen of Scots (Hardcover)

During his brief political career Archibald Campbell 5th earl of Argyll (1530-73) played a crucial role in the mid-century upheavals in Scottish and British politics. This definitive study on Argyll is a major contribution to Scottish political history... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis Parliaments and Politics During the Cromwellian Protectorate (Paperback)

This volume provides a detailed book-length study of the period of the Protectorate Parliaments from September 1654 to April 1659. The study is very broad in its scope covering topics as diverse as the British and Irish dimensions of the Protectorate... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis The English Reformation and the Laity (Paperback)

This book tells the story of the English Reformation from the viewpoint of ordinary people and their parishes. It discusses official policy and policymakers as well as local bishops and priests but the emphasis is on the laity in all its diversity not... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland (Paperback)

Thomas Wentworth landed in Ireland in 1633 - almost 100 years after Henry VIII had begun his break with Rome. The majority of the people were still Catholic. William Laud had just been elevated to Canterbury. A Yorkshire cleric John Bramhall followed... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis Stewards Lords and People: The Estate Steward and His World in Later Stuart England (Hardcover)

The landed estates were one of the fundamental structures of early modern England. They were omnipresent for they were not confined to the countryside but penetrated into every borough and city. English society was composed largely of landlords and... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Histor France and the Estates General of 1614 (Paperback)

In 1614 the French Estates General met for the last time before the Revolution of 1789. The meeting marks the beginning of the political career of Cardinal Richelieu and provides an opportunity for studying the regency of Marie de Medicis. In another... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis London and the Restoration 1659-1683 (Paperback)

This comprehensive study of political and religious conflicts examines the challenge to Restoration institutions by Protestant dissent in the London of Charles II s reign. It presents liberty of conscience as the greatest political issue of the... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Histor The Changing Face of Empire (Paperback)

Using a vast range of primary sources this substantial and important volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the division and near-collapse of Habsburg authority during the 1550s. The principal episodes of this period (the death of Charles V the... more

Pre-Owned: The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire 15401580 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) (Hardcover 9780521475457 0521475457)

The English Reformation and the Laity: Gloucestershire 1540–1580 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) ISBN-10 0521475457 ISBN-13 9780521475457 Litzenberger Caroline 244 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press Binding: Hardcover... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Histor The Nobility of Holland (Paperback)

This is the first full-scale analysis of the social and political transformation of the nobility of Holland during the revolt against Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the age of Rembrandt nobles seemed to have been obliterated by... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis Georgian Monarchy: Politics and Culture 1714-1760 (Paperback)

This book first published in 2006 is a revisionist account of the monarchy during the reigns of the first two Hanoverian kings of Britain George I and George II. This detailed study of early Georgian kingship and queenship examines the rhetorical and... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis Enforcing the English Reformation in Ireland: Clerical Resistance and Political Conflict in the Diocese of Dublin 1534- (Paperback)

This book explores the enforcement of the English Reformation in the heartland of English Ireland during the sixteenth century. Focusing on the diocese of Dublin - the central ecclesiastical unit of the Pale - James Murray explains why the various... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture: Military Men in England and Ireland 1558-1594 (Hardcover)

This book studies the careers and political thinking of English martial men left deeply frustrated as Elizabeth I s quietist foreign policy destroyed the ambitions that the wars of the mid-sixteenth century had excited in them. Until the mid 1580s... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Histor Richelieu s Army: War Government and Society in France 1624-1642 (Paperback)

It is assumed widely that war made the state in seventeenth-century France. Yet this study challenges the traditional interpretations of the role of the army as an instrument of the emerging absolutist state and shows how the expansion of the French... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis Patterns of Piety: Women Gender and Religion in Late Medieval and Reformation England (Paperback)

Offering a new interpretation of the transition from Catholicism to Protestantism in the English Reformation this book explores its implications for an understanding of women and gender. It asserts that late medieval Christocentric piety shaped the... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis Unquiet Lives: Marriage and Marriage Breakdown in England 1660-1800 (Paperback)

Drawing upon vivid court records and newspaper advertisements this study challenges traditional views of married life in eighteenth-century England. It reveals husbands and wives expectations and experiences of marriage to expose the extent of... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland 1541-1641 (Hardcover)

Through an exploration of overlapping concepts of noble honour amongst English and Irish elites this book provides a cultural analysis of British high politics in the early modern period. Analysing English- and Irish-language sources Brendan Kane... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis The Church in an Age of Danger (Hardcover)

This book looks at popular religion in early modern England using detailed accounts of local conflicts to bring the religion of ordinary people to life. Unlike other studies it examines not magical beliefs but orthodox religion. It counters the view... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis The Family of Love in English Society 1550-1630 (Paperback)

This book traces the history of the outlawed mystical fellowship the Family of Love in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. The Familists devoted followers of a Messianic Dutch mystic named H. N. were passionately denounced by many literate... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Histor The Dynastic State and the Army Under Louis XIV (Paperback)

This book presents a new interpretation of the development of the French army during the personal rule of Louis XIV. Based on massive archival research it examines the army not only as a military institution but also as a political social and economic... more

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern Britis Reason and Religion in the English Revolution (Hardcover)

This book provides a significant rereading of political and ecclesiastical developments during the English Revolution by integrating them into broader European discussions about Christianity and civil society. Sarah Mortimer reveals the extent to which... more

Cambridge Studies in Population Economy Ecology Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany Book 41 (Paperback)

This is an innovative analysis of the agrarian world and growth of government in early modern Germany through the medium of pre-industrial society s most basic material resource wood. Paul Warde offers a regional study of southwest Germany from the... more

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literat The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England Book 19 (Hardcover)

Slander constitutes a central social legal and literary concern of early modern England. M. Lindsay Kaplan reveals it to be an effective if unstable means of repudiating one s opposition and shows how it was deployed by rulers and poets including... more

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literat Knowledge Discovery and Imagination in Early Modern Europe: The Rise of Aesthetic Rationalism Book 15 (Paperback)

Recent explanations of changes in early modern European thought speak much of a move from orality and emphasis on language to print culture and a spatial way of thinking. Timothy J. Reiss offers a more complex explanation for the massive changes in... more

Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy: The Structure of Diplomatic Practice 1450-1800 (Paperback)

This volume is the first attempt at a comparative reconstruction of the foreign policy and diplomacy of the major Italian states in the early modern period. The various contributions reveal the instruments and forms of foreign relations in the Italian... more

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literat Defending Literature in Early Modern England: Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context Book 37 (Paperback)

Robert Matz analyzes the defense of literature in Renaissance England in the context of social transformations of the period particularly those affecting the aristocracy as it evolved from a feudal warrior class to a civil elite. Through close readings... more

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literat Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture Book 52 (Paperback)

Through examining some of the everyday items that helped establish a person s masculinity or femininity this book offers a new analysis of gender identity in early modern English literature and culture. Individual chapters focus on items such as... more

Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literat Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama Book 11 (Paperback)

Frank Whigham presents a detailed and innovative analysis of five English Renaissance plays set in the context of social rank gender kinship and service relationships. The Spanish Tragedy and The Duchess of Malfi set at court explore fantasies of the... more

Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Church Censorship and Culture in Early Modern Italy (Paperback)

This book covers one of the most controversial subjects in Italian historiography namely the success or failure of the Church s policy during the counter-Reformation to exert rigorous control not only over theology but over all branches of knowledge.... more

Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic His Grain Markets in Europe 1500-1900: Integration and Deregulation Book 7 (Paperback)

Karl Persson surveys a broad sweep of economic history examining one of the most crucial markets--grain--in order to demonstrate more general points. Grain Markets in Europe traces the markets early regulation their poor performance and the frequent... more