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Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany Published March 2026 Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany Hess, P. (Eds.)

Pandemics spread throughout early modern Germany on a regular basis. Historical data and textual evidence are examined to explore how early modern states, communities, and individuals responded to such outbreaks, dealt with ensuing political, ethical, intellectual, social, and pragmatic issues, and handled arising conflicts, between 1480 and 1720.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

Hb £115.00 eBook £22.95
Europe Facing East in the Age of Ottoman Power Published December 2025 Europe Facing East in the Age of Ottoman Power War, Diplomacy, and the Composite State Tracy, J.

Bringing together his wealth of research on the Habsburg-Ottoman conflict over the kingdom of Hungary, historian James Tracy provides a comprehensive and exacting examination of the implications this battle had for notions of sovereignty, statehood, and civilization.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Peace and Conflict Studies

Hb £104.00 eBook £19.95
History and Historiography in Greece Published May 2025 History and Historiography in Greece Recent Trends Christofis, N. (ed)

A comprehensive and temporally wide-ranging reassessment, History and Historiography in Greece examines how historical scholarship in Greece is evolving by reviewing the ideas, methods, and schools of history shaping the field, how this juxtaposes with international trends, and whether Greek historiographical traditions are developing at the same pace as global trends.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century History: 20th Century to Present

Hb £104.00 eBook £19.95
Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany Published March 2025 Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and Belonging Brauner, C., Dürr, R., Hahn, P., Overkamp, A. S., & Siemianowski, S. (eds)

An exacting re-examination of early modern Germany’s entanglement with European colonial projects, Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany provides a much-needed global perspective on the colonial “cult of connections” that underpinned early modern Germany’s social, religious, and material culture.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies

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Through the Water and the Storm Published January 2025 Through the Water and the Storm Maritime Averages and Seaborne Trade in Early Modern Genoa, 1590-1700 Iodice, A.

Drawing on quantitative, socio-economic and legal methodologies, this book examines the features of Mediterranean seaborne trade through the maritime Average procedures drafted or sent to Genoa, a small but wealthy Italian maritime republic, between 1590 and 1700.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Travel and Tourism

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Faith in War Published August 2024 Faith in War Religion and the Military in Germany, c.1500-1650 Funke, N. M.

Confession played an important role in the wars that ravaged Europe until around 1650, but the religiosity of the men and women during this period is still underexplored. Faith in War shows that confessional coexistence became a fact of army life as people from all over Europe followed the Christian life in the chaos of war.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Anthropology of Religion

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Religious Plurality at Princely Courts Published April 2024 Religious Plurality at Princely Courts Dynasty, Politics, and Confession in Central Europe, ca. 1555-1860 Marschke, B., Riches, D., Schunka, A., & Smart, S. (eds)

Examining previously neglected intersections and transformations in early modern European monarchical legitimization, Religious Plurality at Princely Courts works across multiple lenses of European studies to explore the effects of bi-confessional or multi-confessional intra-Christian settings at princely courts on dynastic, representative/symbolic, diplomatic, artistic, and theological levels.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General)

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Healing and Harm Published March 2024 Healing and Harm Essays in Honor of Mary Lindemann Heinsen-Roach, E., Lazer, S., Marschke, B., Poley, J., & Riches, D. (eds)

Professor Mary Lindemann’s career inspired several generations of researchers in early modern German history and culture. In Healing and Harm, scholars at the height of the field speak to key continuations of subjects stemming from the marked breakpoints across Lindemann’s wide body of work.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' Published October 2022 Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' Asymmetrical Concepts in European Discourse Postoutenko, K. (ed)

Surveying a variety of significant asymmetrical conceptualizations, Beyond 'Hellenes' and 'Barbarians' extends our current breadth of understanding of how ascriptive terms such as ‘civilization’ vs. ‘barbarity,’ or ‘order’ vs. ‘chaos’ functioned and continue to function in political, scientific, and fictional discourses.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Power of Scripture, The Published December 2021 The Power of Scripture Political Biblicism in the Early Stuart Monarchy between Representation and Subversion Pečar, A.

The development of political rhetoric during the Reformation period through to the outbreak of the English Civil War was based on more varied sources than just the political language of civic humanism and republicanism. The Power of Scripture uncovers how biblical scripture directly shaped a national religious politics, forming a lasting impression on the socio-political structural development of Stuart England.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Medieval Intersections Published November 2021 Medieval Intersections Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages Weikert, K. & Woodacre, E. (eds)

With contributions on topics ranging from medieval gynecology to clerical masculinity, this interdisciplinary collection highlights the various ways “status” can be interpreted relative to gender, and what these two interlocked concepts can reveal about the construction of gendered identities in the Middle Ages.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects Forthcoming December 2026 Imperial Culture and Colonial Projects The Portuguese-Speaking World from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries Curto, D. R.

In a series of illuminating case studies, Curto follows the history and perception of major Portuguese colonial initiatives while integrating the complex perspectives of participating agents to show how the empire’s life and culture were richly inflected by the operations of imperial expansion.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History


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Feelings Materialized Published September 2025 Feelings Materialized Emotions, Bodies, and Things in Germany, 1500–1950 Hillard, D., Lempa, H., & Spinney, R. (eds)

Examining the material aspects of emotion, this volume encompasses technology, photography, aesthetics, and a variety of other historical themes in an innovative application of emotion studies. Feelings Materialized brings together an interdisciplinary group of Germanists to unveil the emotions embedded in the world of things and bodies.

Subject: History: 18th/19th Century History: Medieval/Early Modern Literary Studies

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Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany Forthcoming August 2026 Names and Naming in Early Modern Germany Plummer, M. E. & Harrington, J. F. (eds)

This volume offers a coherent and interdisciplinary approach to a wide variety of early modern subjects centered on onomastics, the study of names. Leading scholars in the field seek to explore the dynamics and impact of this naming (or renaming) process in a variety of contexts: social, artistic, literary, theological, and scientific.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General)


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Managing Northern Europe's Forests Published March 2023 Managing Northern Europe's Forests Histories from the Age of Improvement to the Age of Ecology Oosthoek, K. J. & Hölzl, R. (eds)

Eleven chapters, organized regionally, explore the origins of state forestry policy in Northern Europe from the early modern period to the present. Topics include fundamental policy aims, the functioning and organisations of forestry, forest management, wood supply, regulations, forest statistics, wood depletion, growing stock, forest conservation, and landscape protection.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Sustainable Development Goals

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Archaeologies of Rules and Regulations Published April 2025 Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation Between Text and Practice Hausmair, B., Jervis, B., Nugent, R., & Williams, E. (eds)

How can we study the impact of rules on the lives of past people using archaeological evidence? To answer this question, Archaeologies of Rules and Regulation presents case studies drawn from across Europe and the United States, exploring the use of archaeological evidence in understanding the relationship between rules, lived experience, and social identity.

Subjects: Archaeology History: Medieval/Early Modern Sociology History (General)

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Mirror of the Medieval, The Published September 2020 The Mirror of the Medieval An Anthropology of the Western Historical Imagination Fazioli, K. P.

The Middle Ages have always held a uniquely important place in the Western imagination. This book gives an eye-opening account of the ways various political and intellectual projects have appropriated the medieval past for their own ends, grounded in an analysis of contemporary struggles over power and identity in the Eastern Alps.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Theory and Methodology Archaeology

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Archeologies of Confession Published June 2019 Archeologies of Confession Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017 Johnson, C. L., Luebke, D. M., Plummer, M. E. & Spohnholz, J. (eds)

Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory.

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Memory Studies

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Absent Jews, The Published May 2017 The Absent Jews Kurt Forstreuter and the Historiography of Medieval Prussia Hess, C.

For nearly a century, it has been a commonplace of Central European history that there were no Jews in medieval Prussia. This groundbreaking historical investigation demonstrates the very weak foundations upon which that assumption rests, tracing it to the ideologically compromised work of a single Nazi-era historian who badly mishandled evidence.

Subjects: Jewish Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Emperor's Old Clothes, The Published July 2020 The Emperor's Old Clothes Constitutional History and the Symbolic Language of the Holy Roman Empire Stollberg-Rilinger, B.

For many years, scholars struggled to write the history of the constitution and political structure of the Holy Roman Empire. This book argues that this was because the political and social order could not be understood without considering the rituals and symbols that held the Empire together.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Mixed Matches Published June 2017 Mixed Matches Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment Luebke, D. M. & Lindemann, M. (eds)

Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther’s redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out the multiple ways that the Reformers’ attempts to simplify and clarify marriage affected education, philosophy, literature, high politics, diplomacy, and law. Ranging from the Reformation, through the ages of confessionalization, to the Enlightenment, Mixed Matches addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural institution of marriage.

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment Published July 2014 Sacral Kingship Between Disenchantment and Re-enchantment The French and English Monarchies 1587-1688 Asch, R. G.

This is an excellent book. It is intellectually outstanding in that it sustains an argument in comparative history throughout its whole length. The research is very impressive. The comparison is fruitful and appropriate. The book is capable of changing the field through its argument. It is thoroughly well-grounded and therefore convincing…Conceptually and methodologically this book is tightly organized and clearly the fruit of enormous reflection in these areas. It is a fine example of rigorous comparative methodology applied to a complex and evolving field.”  ·  Peter R. Campbell, Institut d'études culturelles, Guyancourt, nr. Paris

Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800, The Published March 2016 The Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800 Eisenberg, C.
Subjects: History (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century

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Germany & the Black Diaspora Published July 2016 Germany and the Black Diaspora Points of Contact, 1250-1914 Honeck, M., Klimke, M., & Kuhlmann, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Colonial History

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Conversion & the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany Published May 2012 Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany Luebke, D. M., Poley, J., Ryan, D. C., & Sabean, D. W. (eds)
Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Diversity & Dissent Published March 2011 Diversity and Dissent Negotiating Religious Difference in Central Europe, 1500-1800 Louthan, H., Cohen, G. B. & Szabo, F. A. J. (eds)
Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Holy Roman Empire Reconsidered, The Published July 2013 The Holy Roman Empire, Reconsidered Coy, J.P., Marschke, B., & Sabean, D.W. (eds)
Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Embodiments of Power Published July 2008 Embodiments of Power Building Baroque Cities in Europe Cohen, G. B. & Szabo, F. A. J. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern History: 18th/19th Century Urban Studies

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Kinship in Europe Published January 2010 Kinship in Europe Approaches to Long-Term Development (1300-1900) Sabean, D. W., Teuscher, S., & Mathieu, J. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Anthropology (General) History: 18th/19th Century

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Possessing the World Published July 2007 Possessing the World Taking the Measurements of Colonisation from the 18th to the 20th Century Etemad, B.
Subjects: Colonial History History: Medieval/Early Modern Refugee and Migration Studies

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Finding Europe Published April 2007 Finding Europe Discourses on Margins, Communities, Images Molho, A. & Ramada Curto, D. (eds)
Subject: History: Medieval/Early Modern

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Building on Water Published May 2006 Building on Water Venice, Holland and the Construction of the European Landscape in Early Modern Times Ciriacono, S.


 

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) History: Medieval/Early Modern Urban Studies

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Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America, The Published May 2006 The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley Otto, P.
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies

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Historical Practice in Diversity, The Published September 2003 The Historical Practice of Diversity Transcultural Interactions from the Early Modern Mediterranean to the Postcolonial World Hoerder, D., Harzig, C. & Shubert, A. (eds)
Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Cultural Studies (General) Colonial History

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Jews & the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800, The Published January 2004 The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West, 1450-1800 Bernardini, P. & Fiering, N. (eds)
Subjects: Jewish Studies History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Refugee and Migration Studies

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Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800, The Published January 2001 The Language Encounter in the Americas, 1492-1800 Gray, E. & Fiering, N. (eds)


 

Subjects: History: Medieval/Early Modern Colonial History Cultural Studies (General) Refugee and Migration Studies

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Women, Family & Society in Medieval Europe Published March 1995 Women, Family and Society in Medieval Europe Historical Essays, 1978-1991 Herlihy, D.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: Medieval/Early Modern

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