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States of enmity
The politics of hatred in the early modern Kingdom of Naples
By Stephen Cummins
State of enmity explores how relations of hatred and enmity played political and social roles in the early modern Kingdom of Naples. Exploring the pervasive notion of enmity and practices of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7107-8
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£85.00
Pre-OrderIdeas of poverty in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Niall O'Flaherty and Robin Mills
This collection of essays examines the ways in which poverty was conceptualised in the social, political, and religious discourses of eighteenth-century Europe. It brings together experts with a ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6677-7
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£90.00
Buy NowDo good unto all
Charity and poor relief across Christian Europe, 1400-1800
Edited by Timothy G. Fehler and Jared B. Thomley
For nearly two millennia, Christians have tried to make sense of the Bible's reminder that the poor are 'always among us'. This volume explores the diverse range of ideas, institutions, and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6247-2
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Buy NowMary and Philip
The marriage of Tudor England and Habsburg Spain
By Alexander Samson
Mary I, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, was Queen of England from 1553 until her death in 1558. For much of this time she ruled alongside her husband, King Philip II of Spain, forming a ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6024-9
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Buy NowTrials of the self
Murder, mayhem and the remaking of the mind, 1750-1830
By Elwin Hofman
This highly original study brings together the disparate histories of murder and enlightenment, prostitution and the cult of nature, sodomy and sentimentalism in order to retell the story of the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5314-2
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£30.00
Buy NowIdeas of monarchical reform
Fénelon, Jacobitism, and the political works of the Chevalier Ramsay
By Andrew Mansfield
This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683-1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4449-2
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Buy NowFeudalism, venality, and revolution
Provincial assemblies in late-Old Regime France
By Stephen Miller
According to Alexis de Tocqueville's influential work on the Old Regime and the French Revolution, royal centralisation had so weakened the feudal power of the nobles that their remaining ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4837-7
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£85.00
Buy NowEarly modern war narratives and the Revolt in the Low Countries
Edited by Raymond Fagel, Leonor Álvarez Francés and Beatriz Santiago Belmonte
By the end of the sixteenth century, stories about the Revolt in the Low Countries (c. 1567-1648) had begun to spread throughout Europe. These stories had very different authors with very ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4086-9
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Buy NowThe anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain
By Christina H. Lee
This book explores the Spanish elite's fixation on social and racial 'passing' and 'passers', as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3434-9
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Buy NowCollege communities abroad
Education, migration and Catholicism in early modern Europe
Edited by Liam Chambers and Thomas O'Connor
This book repositions early modern Catholic abroad colleges in their interconnected regional, national and transnational contexts. From the sixteenth century, Irish, English and Scots Catholics ... More
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9514-0
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