Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and historiography, this volume of essays...
Most early modern scholars know that Petrus Ramus (1515-1572) is important, but may be rather vague as to where his importance lies. This new...
Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer...
The concept of Purgatory was a central tenet of late-medieval and early-modern Catholicism, and proved a key dividing line between Catholics and...
With a focus on England from the accession of Elizabeth I to the mid-1620s, this book examines the practice of direct, scholarly disputation between...
Antoine de Chandieu (1534-1591) was a key figure in the establishment and development of the French Protestant Church. Of all its indigenous leaders...
Probate inventories provide an unparalleled and intimate glimpse into the lives of the inhabitants of early modern England. After death, the items...
Scholars increasingly recognise that understanding the history of religion means understanding worship and devotion as well as doctrines and polemics...
The belief that God eternally and unalterably decrees the election of one part of humankind and the reprobation of the rest has not aged well, but in...
The seventeenth century witnessed profound reforms in the way French cities administered poor relief and charitable health care. New hospitals were...