History / Early Modern History

This volume contains the first translation of Erasmus' response to two of his fiercest Spanish critics.

This pioneering comparative study of Spanish literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries represents key moments and figures of the English Reformation.

Cures for Chance examines how early modern dramatic representations of adoption test conventional notions of family and nature.

Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.

Available for the first time in English and in graphic novel format, Lazarillo de Tormes is a gritty and shocking classic that is frequently compared to Don Quixote.

This book explores early modern debates over prayer and liturgy from Anglican and Puritan perspectives, highlighting the poetic representation of prayer on both sides of the controversy.

All Wonders in One Sight compares the portrayals of the Christ Child in the Nativity poems of the greatest names in seventeenth-century English lyric.

This stunning new textbook traces the full history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins through to its dissolution in the early twentieth century

This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, including her own.

Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean explores representations of national, racial, and religious identities within a region dominated by the clash of empires.

The Protestant Whore reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and religious heterodoxy in Restoration thought, and Nell Gwyn, writ large as the nation's Protestant Whore, is shown to be a significant figure of sexual, political, and religious controversy.

Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, Acculturation and Its Discontents assembles essays by leading historians, literary scholars, and musicologists to present a well-rounded history of Italian Jewry.

This innovative textbook recounts famous and infamous incidents of death and disorder in early modern England, including the executions of St. Thomas More and Mary Queen of Scots and the untimely end of thousands of others.

The thirteen months covered in this volume reveal the decline of Erasmus' health and the creation of his most famous work, On Preparing for Death.