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Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters
This is a study that digs deeply into this 'other' slavery, the bondage of Europeans by North-African Muslims that flourished during the same centuries as the heyday of the …
The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, 1550–1640
This is a study of the social and cultural implications of the growth of governance in England in the century after 1550. It is principally concerned with the role played by the …
Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography
What did it mean to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This book uses vivid autobiographical accounts of mental disorder to explore the ways madness was identified and …
Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660-1714
This compelling new study examines the intersection between women, religion and politics in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in Britain. It demonstrates that what …
The Lead Books of Granada
Hailed as early Christian texts as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls, yet condemned by the Vatican as Islamic heresies, the Lead books of Granada, written on discs of lead and …
The Reformations in Ireland
Why was Ireland the only region in Europe which successfully rejected a state-imposed religion during the confessional era? This book argues that the anomalous outcome of the …
The New Christians of Spanish Naples 1528-1671
This study reveals the more complex reality of Early Modern Naples than what has commonly been represented, in which royal representatives in the city came to depend on the …
Death, Burial and Commemoration in Ireland, 1550-1650
This book is the first detailed examination of death in early modern Ireland. It deals with the process of dying, the conduct of funerals, the arrangement of burials, the private …
Peace and Authority During the French Religious Wars c.1560-1600
Through a wide-ranging and close analysis of archival sources, this book re-evaluates both the role of royal authority and of local agency in the French religious wars in the lead …
The Calabrian Charlatan, 1598–1603
In 1598 a man - branded the Calabrian Charlatan by his Spanish opponents - appeared in Venice claiming to be King Sebastian, the Portuguese monarch who disappeared in battle some …
Recreation in the Renaissance
In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a …
Protestant Dublin, 1660-1760
This innovative urban history of Dublin explores the symbols and spaces of the Irish capital between the Restoration in 1660 and the advent of neoclassical public architecture in …