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Catholic Christendom, 13001700 ...............................................................4

Literary and Scientic Culture of Early Modernity ....................................6

St Andrews Studies in Reformation History ..............................................8

The History of the Book in the West..........................................................12

The History of Medicine in Context ...........................................................13

Transculturalisms, 14001700 ...................................................................15

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World ......................................18

The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works..............................................23

Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700 .....24

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Contents

2 EARLY MODERN HISTORY 2010

Art and Communication in the Reign of Henry VIIITatiana C. String, University of Bristol, UKAn insightful, original and much overdue study on an astonishingly neglected topic: how Henry VIII communicated with his subjects through visual images

Francesca Fiorani, University of Virginia and author of The Marvel of Maps

Includes 42 b&w illustrations2008 170 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6305-8 50.00

Art and Identity in Early Modern RomeEdited by Jill Burke and Michael Bury, both at University of Edinburgh, UK an extraordinarily well-coordinated collection of essays by twelve international scholars on art and patronage in fteenth- to seventeenth-century Rome.

Renaissance QuarterlyIncludes 35 b&w illustrations2008 308 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5690-6 65.00

FORTHCOMINGArtistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia, 14001900Rethinking Markets, Workshops and CollectionsEdited by Michael North,Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universitt, GermanyTraditionally, relations between Europe and Asia have been studied in a hegemonic perspective, with Europe as the dominant political and economic center. This book focuses on cultural exchange between different European and Asian civilizations, with the reciprocal complexities of cultural transfers and exchange at the center of observation. By investigating art markets, workshops and collections in Europe and Asia the authors exemplify the varieties of cultural exchange. The book examines the changing roles of Asian objects in European material culture and collections and puts a special emphasis on the reception of European visual arts in colonial settlements in Asia as well as in different Asian societies.Includes 35 b&w illustrationsJune 2010 c. 200 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6937-1 c. 60.00

FORTHCOMINGCommunes and Despots in Medieval and Renaissance ItalyEdited by Bernadette Paton, OUP, UK and John Law, University of Wales, Swansea, UKBuilding on important issues highlighted by the late Philip Jones, this volume explores key aspects of the city state in late medieval and renaissance Italy, particularly the nature and quality of different types of government. It focuses on the apparently antithetical but often similar governmental forms represented by the republics and despotisms of the period. Beginning with a reprint of Jones original 1965 article, the volume then provides eighteen new essays that re-examine the issues he raised in light of modern scholarship. Taking a broad chronological and geographic approach, the collection offers a timely re-evaluation of a question of perennial interest to urban and political historians, as well as those with an interest in medieval and renaissance Italy. Includes c.22 b&w, 10 colour illustrations and 6 maps. August 2010 c. 350 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6508-3 c. 65.00

FORTHCOMINGBallads and Broadsides in Britain, 15001800Edited by Patricia Fumerton and Kris McAbee,both at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA and Anita Guerrini, Oregon State University, USABringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, womens studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain.Includes 35 b&w illustrations & 5 music examplesJune 2010 c. 285 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6248-8 c.60.00

Black Lives in the English Archives, 15001677Imprints of the InvisibleImtiaz Habib, Old Dominion University, USAA valuable reference for ethnic historians, archivists and AnglophilesRecommended.

ChoiceIncludes 4 b&w illustrations and 2 maps2008 432 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5695-1 60.00

FORTHCOMINGThe Politics of Provisions: Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, c. 15501850John Bohstedt, University of Tennessee, USAThe History of Retailing and Consumption

The politics of provisions - forceful negotiations over sustenance - has created surprising contests in world history, particularly in times of market transition. In England a politics of provisions evolved in a dialogue between popular riots and paternalist subsistence policies from Tudor dearths to the Victorian embrace of free-market doctrines. Hence provision politics was a core ingredient of both state-formation and of the emergence of the rst market economy and society in England. This book is the rst full-scale critical revision of E.P. Thompsons seminal model of the moral economy of the crowd, which has had huge inuence across the social sciences. It is the rst synthesis of the many dispersed studies of three centuries of marketing and negotiations by riot over subsistence. By explaining such long-term shifts in patterns of political negotiation from parish-pump to Privy Council, this study offers a new view of why food riots were a more compelling and lasting bone of contention than enclosures, wages or votes.Includes 9 tables, 6 maps and 1 line drawing July 2010 c. 304 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6581-6 c. 65.00

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Bridging the Early Modern Atlantic WorldPeople, Products, and Practices on the MoveEdited by Caroline A. Williams,University of Bristol, UKBridging the Early Modern Atlantic World brings together ten essays exploring the outcomes of the intermingling of people, circulation of goods, and exposure to new ideas that are the hallmark of the early modern Atlantic. Spanning the period from the earliest French crossings to Newfoundland to the end of the wars of independence in Spanish South America, the contributors direct particular attention to regions, communities and groups whose activities in, and responses to, an ever-more closely bound Atlantic world remain under-represented in the literature.

Contents: Preface, Caroline A. Williams; Introduction: bridging the early modern Atlantic world, Caroline A. Williams; Codsh, consumption, and colonization: the creation of the French Atlantic world during the 16th century, Laurier Turgeon; Negotiating fortune: English merchants in early 16th-century Seville, Heather Dalton; Interlopers in an intercultural zone? Early Scots ventures in the Atlantic world, 16301660, Douglas Catterall; A people so subtle: Sephardic Jewish pioneers of the English West Indies, Natalie Zacek; Subjects or allies: the contentious status of the Tupi indians in Dutch Brazil, 16251654, Mark Meuwese; To transmit to posterity the virtue, lustre and glory of their ancestors: Scottish pioneers in Darin, Panama, Mark Horton; Controlling traders: slave coast strategies at Savi and Ouidah, Kenneth G. Kelly; Walking the tightrope: female agency, religious practice, and the Portuguese inquisition on the upper Guinea coast (17th century), Philip J. Havik; Slaves, convicts, and exiles: African travellers in the Portuguese Atlantic world, 17201750, James H. Sweet; The Life of Alexander Alexander and the Spanish Atlantic, 17991822, Matthew Brown; Bibliography; Index.Includes 6 gures and mapsAugust 2009 276 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6681-3 55.00

FORTHCOMINGBruegel and the Creative Process, 15591563Margaret A. SullivanThe art Bruegel produced between 1559 and 1563 presents a rare opportunity to investigate a concentrated period of productivity by one of the worlds great artists. In this comprehensive study, Margaret Sullivan accounts for this burst of Bruegels creativity, its innovation and its brevity, by considering all aspects of the creative process from the technical problems of picture-making to the constraints imposed by the dangerous religious and political situation.Includes 93 b&w and 6 color illustrationsJuly 2010 c. 260 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6979-1 c. 60.00

The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 15581582Stephen Hamrick, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, USAa well-researched, exhaustively argued, highly readable and challenging scholarly work. It is essential to both academics and students interested in early Elizabethan Petrarchan poetry, and the religio-political context of the Reformation.

Parergon

The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 15581582 provides a detailed analysis of how previously understudied Tudor poetsBarnabe Googe, George Gascoigne and Thomas Watsonincorporated images of Catholic practice within Reformation Petrachanism for the celebration and containment of Elizabeth Tudor and other Court patrons.Includes 12 b&w illustrationsFebruary 2009 240 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6588-5 55.00

Chance, Literature, and Culture in Early Modern FranceEdited by John D. Lyons, University of Virginia, USA and Kathleen Wine, Dartmouth College, USAPlacing the conict between chance and order at the center of early modern French culture, these essays focus on four issues: Providence in Question, Aesthetics and Poetics of Chance, Law and Ethics of Chance, and Chance and its Remedies. By demonstrating the breadth and intensity of the early modern questioning of chance, they offer an illuminating new perspective on French culture in the period.

Contents: Introduction: early-modern chaos and the chance hypothesis. PART 1: PROVIDENCE IN QUESTION:Montaigne between fortune and providence, Alain Legros;Providence and imago mundi, Frank Lestringant; Chance and errors of nature; a literature of demystication, Franois Rigolot. PART 2: POETICS AND AESTHETICS OF CHANCE:Toward a poetics of adventure: Amadis de Gaule, Virginia Krause; Random trials: chance and chronotope in Gombervilles Polexandre, Kathleen Wine; Sublime accidents, John D. Lyons; Chance in the tragedies of Racine, John Campbell. PART 3: THE LAW AND THE ETHICSOF CHANCE: Prudence and the ethics of contingency in Montaignes Essais, Richard Regosin; Malebranche and the laws of grace, Michael Moriarty. PART 3: CHANCEAND ITS REMEDIES: The language of fortune in Descartes, Emma Gilby; Fortune, long life, Montaigne, Amy Wygant; Cardinal de Retzs Memoirs: encountering fortune and taking timely steps, Malina Stefanovska; Works cited; Further reading; Index.Includes 3 b&w illustrationsAugust 2009 234 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6435-2 55.00

Buying for the HomeShopping for the Domestic from the Seventeenth Century to the PresentEdited by David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby, both at University of Wolverhampton, UKThe History of Retailing and ConsumptionIncludes 20 b&w illustrations2008 236 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5807-8 55.00

Councils of the Catholic ReformationPisa I (1409) to Trent (154563)Nelson H. Minnich,The Catholic University of America, USAVariorum Collected Studies Series: CS8902008 362 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5951-8 75.00

NEWThe Cultivation of Monarchy and the Rise of BerlinBrandenburg-Prussia 1700Edited by Karin Friedrich, University of Aberdeen, UK and Sara Smart, University of Exeter, UKA selection of the diverse printed, manuscript and visual materials relating to emergence of Brandenburg-Prussia as a monarchy and acknowledged power in Europe, are made available here for the rst time. Featuring descriptions by the court poet, Johann von Besser, of Friedrich IIIs coronation as King of Prussia in 1701, and the festivities that surrounding the event, the volume offers valuable insights into a key stage in the political and cultural history of Brandenburg-Prussia, the consequences of which exercised a crucial impact on the development of Germany and the history of Europe.

Contents: Preface; The power of crowns: the Prussian coronation of 1701 in context, Karin Friedrich; The cultivation of monarchy, Sara Smart. DOCUMENTS:Verse by Johann von Besser; Bessers description of the inauguration of the University of Halle (1694); Bessers description of the Berlin wedding of 1700; The founding of the Berlin Society of Sciences in 1700; Bessers History of the Coronation; Statutes of the Royal Prussian Order of the Black Eagle; John Tolands account of the court of Prussia (1702); Pontical Mischief Against the Crown in Prussia (1702); Royal Prussian precedence regulations (1705); Bessers The Truimph of Beauty over the Heroesa court ballet and opera (1706); Christoph Count von Dohnas memoirs on the reign and court of Freidrich I; Bibliography; Index.Includes 20 b&w illustrationsMarch 2010 c. 440 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-0997-1 c. 65.00



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Catholic Gentry in English SocietyThe Throckmortons of Coughton from Reformation to EmancipationEdited by Peter Marshall, University of Warwick, UK and Geoffrey Scott, Abbot of Douai and President of the Catholic Archives Society

Foreword by David StarkeyCatholic Christendom, 13001700

This volume advances scholarly understanding of English Catholicism in the early modern period through a series of essays addressing aspects of the history of the Throckmorton family. Despite their persistent adherence to Catholicism over several centuries, leading members of the family continued to be involved in politics on the national stage in the face of overt Protestant hostility. Leading historians of Catholic England investigate the strategies the Throckmortons employed in this difcult balancing act, and reect on what this tells us, about both English Catholicism and wider English society. In so doing the volume contributes to recent efforts to integrate the study of Catholicism into the mainstream of English social and political history, transcending its traditional status as a special interest category, remote from or subordinate to the central narratives of historical change.

Contents: Foreword, David Starkey; Introduction:the Catholic gentry in English society, Peter Marshall and Geoffrey Scott; Crisis of allegiance: George Throckmorton and Henry Tudor, Peter Marshall; Reputation, credit and patronage: Throckmorton men and women, c.15601620, Susan Cogan; Coughton and the Gunpowder Plot, Michael Hodgetts;Agnes Throckmorton: a Jacobean recusant widow, Jan Broadway; Stratagems for survival: Sir Robert and Sir Francis Throckmorton 16401660, Malcolm Wanklyn; The Throckmortons at home and abroad, 16801800, Geoffrey Scott; An English Catholic traveller: Sir John Courtenay Throckmorton and the continent, 17921793, Michael Mullett; The Throckmortons come of age: political and social alignments, 18261862, Alban Hood; Appendix; Index.Includes 16 b&w illustrationsNovember 2009 300 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6432-1 60.00

FORTHCOMINGClerical Celibacy in the West: c.11001700Helen Parish, University of Reading, UK

Catholic Christendom, 13001700 The issue of clerical celibacy has played a long and profound role in the history of the Christian church. From the rst Christian centuries to the present day, the question of whether clergy should be allowed to marry has attracted a vast amount of theological attention and debate. Yet despite the acknowledged importance of this issue, there have been few attempts to present an objective and historical study of the origins and development of clerical celibacy. In order to address this lacuna, Dr. Parish offers a reassessment of the history of sacerdotal celibacy, examining the emergence and evolution of the celibate priesthood in the Latin church from the beginning of the twelfth to the end of the seventeenth centuries. Around this core area of study, the book also considers the inuence of the early apostolic church and the example of the Greek church.June 2010 c. 230 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-3949-7 c. 60.00

Female Monasticism in Early Modern EuropeAn Interdisciplinary ViewEdited by Cordula van Wyhe, University of York, UKCatholic Christendom, 13001700

this compelling collection offers a signicant addition to a thriving eld of study.

Studies in Spirituality

Too often I have read volumes of contributed articles that were uneven and unrelated. Here I found consistently strong and focused writing, clean editing throughout, consistent use of footnotes, as well as a unied bibliography. Illustrations are plentiful and interesting. Senior undergraduates, graduate students and those pursuing research on some aspect of the history of women religious will nd useful material here.

MagistraIncludes 47 b&w illustrations2008 302 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5337-0 60.00

Fathers and GodfathersSpiritual Kinship in Early-Modern Italy Guido Alfani, Bocconi University, ItalyCatholic Christendom, 13001700

Exploring the changing theological and social nature of spiritual kinship and godparenthood between 1450 and 1650, this book explores how these medieval concepts were developed and utilized by the Catholic Church in an era of reform and challenge. It demonstrates how such ties continued to be of major social importance throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but were often used in ways not always coherent with their original religious meaning, and which could have unexpected social consequences.

Contents: Introduction; Godparenthood and spiritual kinship: the origins of a distinctive social institution; Godparents and compari between the 15th and 16th centuries: a wide variety of local customs; Godparenthood, literature and family records: from perception to interpretation; Godparenthood in the 16th century: from the Reformation to the Council of Trent; The application of the decrees of the Council: resistance and compromise: 3 lines of enquiry; The social impact of the reform; Newborn babies and spiritual kinship: equal opportunities or discrimination?; Godfathers and godmothers: the case of Ivrea; Godparenthood as an instrument of social alliance; Godparenthood from the 17th century to the present day: a history of decline?; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.Includes 23 tables and 12 guresAugust 2009 288 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6737-7 55.00

Italian Reform and English Reformations, c.1535c.1585M. Anne Overell, The Open University, UKCatholic Christendom, 13001700

We are deeply in Anne Overells debt. She excavates a Reformation which never happened, the Reformation of Italy, and shows how important it became to both Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Tudor England. This is a triumph of detective work, which should encourage Tudor historians never to neglect the view across the Channel.Diarmaid MacCulloch, St. Cross College, Oxford, UK

2008 264 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5579-4 60.00

Saint Cicero and the JesuitsThe Inuence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral ProbabilismRobert Aleksander Maryks,City University of New York, USACatholic Christendom, 13001700 2008 182 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6293-8 55.00

CATHOLIC CHRISTENDOM, 13001700Series Editor: Thomas F. Mayer, Augustana College, USACatholic Christendom, 13001700 addresses all varieties of religious behaviour extending beyond traditional institutional and doctrinal church history. It is interdisciplinary, comparative and global, as well as non-confessional. It understands religion, primarily of the Catholic variety, as a broadly human phenomenon, rather than as a privileged mode of access to superhuman realms.

For more information on this series, please visit www.ashgate.com/catholicchristendomseries


Forms of Faith in Sixteenth-Century ItalyEdited by Abigail Brundin, University of Cambridge, UK and Matthew Treherne, University of Leeds, UKCatholic Christendom, 13001700

This interdisciplinary volume gathers essays by leading international scholars in the elds of Italian Renaissance literature, music, history and history of art to address the fertile question of the relationship between religious change and shifting cultural forms in sixteenth-century Italy. Each contribution examines the effects of the profound religious changes that took place in the period on cultural forms, seeking to establish an aesthetics of reform for the sixteenth century.

Contents: Introduction, Abigail Brundin and Matthew Treherne; Swarming with hermits: religious friendship in Renaissance Italy, 14901540, Stephen Bowd; Manuscript collections of spiritual poetry in 16th-century Italy, Antonio Corsaro; Literary production in the Florentine academy under the rst Medici dukes: reform, censorship, conformity,Abigail Brundin; Pontormos lost frescoes in San Lorenzo, Florence: a reappraisal of their religious content, Chrysa Damianaki; Dening genres: the survival of mythological painting in counter-Reformation Venice, Tom Nichols; The representation of suffering and religious change in the early cinquecento, Harald Hendrix; Aretino, Titian and La Humanit di Cristo, Raymond B. Waddington; Varieties of experience: music and reform in Renaissance Italy,Iain Fenlon; Church reform and devotional music in 16th-century Rome: the inuence of lay confraternities, Noel ORegan; Liturgy as a mode of theological discourse in Tassos late works, Matthew Treherne; Index.Includes 34 b&w illustrationsAugust 2009 274 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6555-7 55.00

Law and ConscienceCatholicism in Early Modern England, 15701625Stefania Tutino, University of California, Santa Barbara, USACatholic Christendom, 13001700

intriguing seminal studyThis provocative book, based on manuscript and printed primary and secondary sources and featuring a very useful bibliography, may be especially useful in identifying new topics for dissertations and theses. Highly recommended.

Choice2007 268 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5771-2 55.00

The Pilgrims ComplaintA Study of Popular Thought in the Early Tudor NorthMichael BushCatholic Christendom, 13001700

Thanks to its character as a rising of the commons, and the survival of extensive documentary evidence, the pilgrimage of grace offers a fascinating insight into how the people of the north of England, on the eve of the reformation, thought about religion, social relations and politics. In this book, Michael Bush opens up an alternative and dynamic means of exploring the popular mentality of the time through an examination of the wide variety of sources generated by the rebels, rather than relying on the social, political and religious views set out in contemporary treaties and sermons towing the governments line.

Contents: Preface; For faith and commonwealth; In defence of the faith; Intolerable exactions; The polity defended; North and South; Agrarian conict; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.August 2009 322 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6785-8 65.00

Thomas White and the BlackloistsBetween Politics and Theology during the English Civil WarStefania Tutino, University of California, Santa Barbara, USACatholic Christendom, 13001700

Tutinos work is an important contribution to the continuing reintegration of Catholics into English history.

The Tablet2008 228 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5817-7 55.00

Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian ReformationAbigail Brundin, University of Cambridge, UK

Catholic Christendom, 13001700 All in all, Brundin delivers what she promises, relieving Colonna of her subsidiary and largely passive status, weaving a convincing narrative as regards both the innovative nature of the poets work, characterized by the new spiritual uses of the Petarchan lyric tradition, and her inuence in mid-century among reformist sympathizers.

Modern Language Review2008 240 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-4049-3 55.00

Court Politics, Culture and Literature in Scotland and England, 15001540Jon Robinson, Northumbria University, UK and The Open University, UK2008 198 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6079-8 55.00

NEWCultural Change Among the Jews of Early Modern ItalyRobert Bonl, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, IsraelVariorum Collected Studies Series: CS945

The articles collected in this volume display Robert Bonls pioneering reappraisal of the economic and socio-cultural history of the Jews of Italy during the Renaissance and the early modern period, focusing on their encounter with and incorporation into the Italian society that surrounded them. Rather than thinking in terms of challenge and response, and the passive surrender of the Jews to the inuence of their Christian surroundings, Bonls exploration of the evidence shows it mirroring their conscious choice to preserve a distinctive Jewish identity while at the same time being an integral part of the socio-economic and cultural fabric of the environment in which they lived.

Contents: Preface; The historians perception of the Jews in the Italian Renaissance: towards a reappraisal; Some reections on the place of Azaria de Rossis MeorEnayim in the cultural milieu of Italian Renaissance Jewry; Halakha, Kabbala and society: some insights into Rabbi Menahem Azaria De Fanos inner world; Cultura e mistica a Venezia nel cinquecento; How golden was the age of the Renaissance in Jewish historiography?; Change in the cultural patterns of a Jewish society in crisis: Italian Jewry at the close of the 16th century; Preaching as mediation between elite and popular cultures: the case of Juha del Bene; Changing mentalities of Italian Jews between the periods of the Renaissance and the Baroque; Italia: un trste eplogo de la expulsin de los judos de Espana; Gli ebrei dItalia e la riforma: una questione de riconsiderare; Jewish attitudes toward history and historical writing in pre-modern times; A cultural prole [of the Jews in early modern Venice]; Il problema dei conversos nel XV secolo e le sue ripercussioni per la ristruttarazione dellatteggiamento ebraico nei confronti del cristianesimo allalba dellepoca moderna; Index.April 2010 342 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0016-5 70.00



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The Birth of MankindOtherwise Named, The Womans BookEdited by Elaine Hobby, Loughborough University, UK Literary and Scientic Cultures of Early Modernity

(an) outstanding new editionCopiously but unobtrusively annotated and scrupulously presented, Hobbys edition does a marvellous service to scholarship. She provides a clear account of the books complicated textual historyThomas Raynalde was committed to bringing hidden knowledge to light and to making abstruse arts accessible to general readers. Elaine Hobbys own achievements are similar.

Times Literary Supplement

Between 1540 and 1654, The Byrth of Mankyndewas a huge commercial success. Offering information on fertility, pregnancy, birth and infant care, and written in a chatty, colloquial style, it inuenced most other literary works of the period bearing on sex, reproduction and childcare. Until now, this important work has been unavailable except for a microlm of the 1654 edition. For this new annotated edition of the 1560 version, Elaine Hobby has modernized the spelling and included informative notes. In her critical introduction, she not only traces the development of the book from its German origins but also shows how early-modern ideas about the reproductive process combined ancient, medieval and contemporary ideas. Combining editorial rigor with an eye towards the needs of the informed non-specialist, Hobby has made available a text that will be useful to scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines, including literature, history, and women and gender studies. Includes 7 b&w illustrationsMarch 2009 350 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-3818-6 60.00

Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern EnglandThomas Browne and the Thorny Place of KnowledgeKevin Killeen, University of York, UKLiterary and Scientic Cultures of Early Modernity

Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (16051682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations of science, politics and religion. The book centers on a reassessment of Brownes most elaborate text, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, his vast encyclopaedia of error and through this explores the multivalent nature of early-modern enquiry.

Contents: Introduction: the thorny place of knowledge; The inconsiderable salarie of Judas: Biblical historiography and law; The community of this fruit: commentary, curiosa and chronology; Subtle seeds and agile emanations: natural philosophy, religion and witchcraft; The doctor quarrels with some pictures: Brownes fabulous animals; The politics of painting; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.Includes 9 b&w illustrationsJune 2009 268 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5730-9 55.00

FORTHCOMINGJohn Nordens The Surveyors Dialogue (1618)A Critical EditionEdited by Mark Netzloff, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USALiterary and Scientic Cultures of Early Modernity

This edition provides the rst complete, modern version of John Nordens The Surveyors Dialogue,a text remarkable for its unique commentary on the agrarian roots of English capitalism. In his extensive introduction, Mark Netzloff discusses the literary production of early modern surveyors and examines the impact of capital formation on agrarian and manorial class relations as well as on the natural environment of early modern England.Includes 11 b&w illustrationsSeptember 2010 c. 286 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-4127-8 c. 55.00

Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the EnlightenmentEdited by R.J.W. Evans, Oxford University, UK and Alexander Marr, St Andrews University, UKThe scholarship in the essays is up-to-date and suggests the immensely broad range of semantic neighborhoods and subjects that terms like curiosity and wonder encompassed.

Renaissance QuarterlyIncludes 46 b&w illustrations2006 282 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-4102-5 60.00

FORTHCOMINGThe Dissemination of News and the Emergence of Contemporaneity in Early Modern EuropeEdited by Brendan Dooley, University College Cork, IrelandModern communications allow the instant dissemination of information and images, creating a sensation of virtual presenceor contemporaneityat events that occur far away. But how were time and space conceived before modernity? When did this begin to change in Europe? To help answer such questions, this volume looks at the exchange of information and the development of communications networks at the dawn of journalism, when widespread public and private networks rst emerged for the transmission of political news. The collection offers the rst panoramic view of the new ways stories were born, grew and matured during their transmission from source to source.

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Brendan Dooley. PART 1: JOINING TIME AND SPACE: THE ORIGINS: Philip of Spain: the spiders web of news and information, Cristina Beltran; News networks between Italy and Europe, Mario Infelise;The early German newspapera medium of contemporaneity, Johannes Weber. PART 2: TIME, MOTIONAND STRUCTURE IN EARLY MODERN COMMUNICATIONS: The birth of Maria de Medici (26 April 1575): hearsay, correspondence, and historiographical errors, Alessio Assonitis; Making it present, Brendan Dooley; Contemporaneity in 16721679: the Paris Gazette, the London Gazette and the Teutschen Kriegs-Kurier,Sonja Schultheiss-Heinz; The blowing of the Messiahs trumpet: reports about Sabbatai Sevi and Jewish unrest in 16651667, Ingrid Maier and Daniel Waugh. PART 3: INTER-EUROPEAN SPACES AND MOMENTS: Handwritten newspapers as interregional information sources in Central and Southeastern Europe, Zsuzsa Barbarics; Between the French Gazette and the Dutch French language newspapers, Charles-Henri Depezay; Antwerpand Brussels as inter-European spaces in news narration, Paul Arblaster; Ofces of intelligence as communication infrastructures, Astrid Blome. PART 4: NEW METHODS ANDAPPROACHES: Narrating contemporaneity: text and structure in English news, Nicholas Brownlees; Historical text mining and corpus-based approaches to the newsbooks of the Commonwealth, Andrew Hardie, Tony McEnery and Scott Songlin Pia; Afterword, Brendan Dooley; Index.Includes 14 b&w illustrations and 14 tablesMay 2010 c. 320 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6466-6 c. 55.00

LITERARY ANDSCIENTIFIC CULTURESOF EARLY MODERNITYSeries Editors: Mary Thomas Crane, Boston College, USA and Henry Turner, Rutgers University, USA

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NEWChina and the Birth of Globalization in the 16th Century Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Girldez, both at University of the Pacic, USAVariorum Collected Studies Series: CS938

Including 11 essays published over the last 15 years, this volume by Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Girldez concerns the origins and early development of globalization. It opens with their 1995 Silver Spoon essay and a theoretical essay published in 2002. Subsequent sections deal with Pacic Ocean exchanges, interconnections between the Spanish, Ottoman, Japanese and Chinese empires, and the necessity of multidisciplinary approaches to global history. The volume follows the evolution of the authors thinking concerning the central role of China in the global silver trade, as well as interrelations among silver and non-silver markets. It concludes with an argument for incorporating the work of all academic disciplines when attempting to understand the history of globalization, advocating an inclusive historical data base which recognizes contextual realities and an inductive process of reasoning.

Contents: PART A: Introduction; Overviews; Born with a silver spoon: world trades origin in 1571; Conceptualizing global economic history: the role of silver. PART B: THE PACIFIC AS LINCHPIN OF WORLD TRADE:Arbitrage, China, and world trade in the early modern period; Spanish protability in the Pacic: the Philippines in the 16th and 17th centuries. PART C:WINNERS AND LOSERS IN THE GLOBAL SILVER TRADE: China and the Spanish empire; Imperial monetary policy in global perspective; Money and growth without development: the case of Ming China; Ottoman monetary history in global perspective. PART D: BIRTH OF GLOBALIZATIONDEBATE: ECONOMIC, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL, AND DEMOGRAPHICINTERACTIONS: Cycles of silver: global economic unity through the mid-18th century; Path dependence, time lags and the birth of globalization: a critique of ORourke and Williamson; Born again: globalizations 16th-century origins; Index.April 2010 298 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6858-9 70.00

The Chinese Diaspora in the PacicEdited by Anthony Reid, National University of SingaporeThe Pacic World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacic, 15001900: 162008 444 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5749-1 82.00

The Pacic World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacic, 15001900, 17-volume setEdited by Dennis O. Flynn and Arturo Girldez, both at University of the Pacic, USAThe Pacic World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacic, 15001900

The series should be purchased by research libraries for use of scholars at all levels, from undergraduate to post-doctoral.

Itinerario

The Pacic World series, published by Ashgate, has drawn the attention of the academic community to the importance, impact and History of the Pacic Ocean, as well as those nations directly or closely connected with this natural feature, which were either forgotten or neglected for a long time. It is of the utmost importance that this kind of History should have the opportunity to be spread through the academic community, and Ashgate, along with several researchers, has provided a much-welcomed series about the subject.

Bulletin of Portuguese and Japanese Studies

The Pacic Rim and the Pacic Century are now commonplace terms, but the whole Pacic region has recently been opened up as a eld of historical inquiry. The aim of this series is to present the historical developments and processes involved in the multi-century opening of the Pacic and the linking together of the lands around and within this great ocean. Particular attention is paid to interactions among indigenous peoples on and within the rim, and the incoming peoples and powers of Asia, Europe and America. Each volume reprints a set of key studies focusing on a dened topic, together with a new introduction and index, and is edited by an expert in the given subject. This series complements the successful Variorum series An Expanding World, and at the same time provides a research-based resource for this important area of historical study. All 17 volumes in the series are now available, and the set price represents a signicant saving on the cost of volumes purchased individually.July 2009 17 volumesHardback 978-0-7546-6857-2 1100.00

Dissident Identities in the Early Modern Low CountriesAlastair Duke. Edited by Judith Pollmann,University of Leiden, The Netherlands and Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University, UKThis superb collection of recent essays offers the fruits of prolonged reection on issues that have been at the heart of his research, religious identity, responses to persecution, the emergence of a sense of nation. Other essays represent new departures, with stimulating pieces on the history of print and propaganda. All scholars of sixteenth-century politics and religion will welcome publication of this outstanding volume.

Andrew Pettegree, University of St Andrews, UK

Alastair Duke has long been recognized as one of the leading scholars of the early modern Netherlands, known internationally for his important work on the impact of religious change on political events which was the focus of his Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries (1990). This new volume explores the emergence of new political and religious identities in the Netherlands. These essays, together, demonstrate how dissident identities shaped and contributed to the development of the Netherlands during the early modern period.Includes 6 b&w illustrationsFebruary 2009 334 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5679-1 65.00

NEWDiversity and Difference in Early Modern LondonJacob Selwood, Georgia State University, USAJacob Selwood investigates multiculturalism in London during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as well as developing notions of Englishness. Rather than relying upon literary or theatrical representations, the study emphasizes day-to-day practice, drawing upon petitions, government records, guild minute books and economic and taxation disputes, offering a new perspective that will be of interest both to scholars of the early modern English metropolis and to historians of race, migration, imperialism and the wider Atlantic world.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Setting the stage: nding a place in early modern London; No better than conduit pipes: occupational practice and the creation of difference; English-born reputed strangers: birth and descent in theory and practice; Jewish immigration in an anti-stranger context; The Islamic world, captivity and difference; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.March 2010 226 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6375-1 55.00


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FORTHCOMINGChurch Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation EnglandDiscourses, Sites and IdentitiesJonathan P. Willis, University of Durham, UKSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

This book breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England through a closely focused study of the role of music and the Reformation. By reintegrating music back into the study of the Elizabethan church, it provides an enriched understanding of the complex process of the formation of religious identity, and what it actually meant to be Protestant in post-Reformation England.

Contents: Preface; Introduction. SECTION I: DISCOURSES:The cultural signicance of music in early modern England; Church and music in Elizabethan England. SECTION II: Musical provision in the Elizabethan parish church; Music and the Elizabethan cathedrals. SECTION III:IDENTITIES: Educating the masses: pedagogy, propaganda, and Protestantism; Music and community in Elizabethan England; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.Includes 2 b&w illustrations, 6 graphs and 2 tablesMay 2010 c. 255 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0071-4 c.55.00

FORTHCOMINGCommonwealth and the English ReformationProtestantism and the Politics of Religious Change in the Gloucester Vale, 14831560Ben Lowe, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USASt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Taking the Vale of Gloucester as a case study, the book refocuses attention onto issues left unnished in the wake of current Reformation scholarship. By examining the connections between local gentry, city leaders, reformers, MPs and royal court ofcials, it illuminates the broad network of political relationships that was essential to the success of Protestant reform. It demonstrates for the rst time how commonwealth ideology galvanized many of these powerful leaders toward a new vision of reform that not only served their own material interests but also provided a new impetus and sense of duty toward the public good. Includes 32 b&w illustrationsJune 2010 c. 230 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0045-5 c. 60.00

The Correspondenceof Reginald PoleVolume 4 A Biographical Companion: The British IslesThomas F. Mayer, Augustana College, USASt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

The scholarly labour invested has been immense, and the result may be described as denitive. No serious student of Pole, or of the Reformation struggles more generally, can now afford to be without these collections.

Catholic Historical Review2008 656 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-0329-0 65.00

The Curse of Hamin the Early Modern EraThe Bible and the Justications for SlaveryDavid M. Whitford, United Theological Seminary, USASt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

This book explores the biblical story of the Curseof Ham, and its relationship to the defense of slavery. It shows how during the Reformation period, the story began to be interpreted in news ways, that provided justication for the rapidly expanding, and extremely lucrative, Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Skilfully weaving together elements of theology, literature and history, this book not only provides a fascinating insight into the ways that issues of religion, economics and race could collide in the Reformation world, but also proves essential reading for anyone wishing to try to comprehend the origins of arguments used to justify slavery and segregation right up to the 1960s.

Contents: Preface; The Bible and slavery; The sons of Noah and the estates of Man; Gods, giants, and kings; Losing Canaan: early modern exegesis of Genesis 9; This heavy curse: popularizing the Curse of Ham;Cursed be Ham the Father of Canaan: from myth to reality; The self-interpreting Bible; Bibliography; Index.Includes 11 b&w illustrationsOctober 2009 246 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6625-7 60.00

Dealings with GodFrom Blasphemers in Early Modern Zurich to a Cultural History of ReligiousnessFrancisca Loetz, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandTranslated by Rosemary SelleSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Blasphemy could be a serious business in early modern Europe, and those judged to have cursed, abused or denied God could in some cases nd themselves on trial for their lives. While such attitudes may appear draconian to modern eyes, it is clear that in the past, blasphemy was regarded as a very real threat to society. Concentrating on the Reformed city of Zurich, this study examines the cultural, social and theological aspects of blasphemy in order to better understand exactly why this should be, and to illuminate the diverse and sometimes contradictory dynamics at work.

Contents: Foreword; Religion in early modern history: an approach by way of blasphemers in Zurich; The offence of blasphemy in early modern Zurich; Blasphemy in Zurich: historical change and confessional comparison; Outcomes and outlook: from the blasphemers of Zurich to a cultural history of religiousness; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.November 2009 342 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6883-1 60.00

The Chancery of GodProtestant Print, Polemic and Propaganda against the Empire, Magdeburg 15461551Nathan Rein, Ursinus College, USASt Andrews Studies in Reformation HistoryIncludes 5 b&w illustrations2008 282 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5686-9 60.00

Dening Community in Early Modern EuropeEdited by Michael J. Halvorson, Pacic Lutheran University, USA and Karen E. Spierling,Ohio State University, USASt Andrews Studies in Reformation History2008 372 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6153-5 65.00

Life Writing in Reformation EuropeLives of Reformers by Friends, Disciples and FoesIrena Backus, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History2008 302 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6055-2 80.00

ST ANDREWS STUDIES IN REFORMATION HISTORYSeries Editors: Bruce Gordon, Andrew Pettegree and Roger Mason, all at University of St. Andrews, Scotland and Kaspar von Greyerz, University of Basel, SwitzerlandFor more than a decade the St Andrews Studies in Reformation History series has consistently led the eld in providing high quality, original research in the eld of early modern religious history. Interpreting the Reformation in its very broadest sense, and consciously fostering an interdisciplinary approach, the series has helped shape not only current interpretations of the Reformation, but views of early modern society in general.

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Johann Sleidan and the Protestant Vision of HistoryAlexandra Kess, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

this book is now the best available on this unjustly forgotten gure and will be an important resource for anyone interested in early Reformation historiography.

Catholic Historical ReviewIncludes 4 b&w illustrations2008 266 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5770-5 60.00

Living with Religious Diversity in Early-Modern EuropeEdited by C. Scott Dixon, Queens University Belfast, UK, Dagmar Freist, University of Oldenburg, Germany and Mark Greengrass, University of Shefeld, UKSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Drawing together a number of case studies from diverse parts of Europe, Living with Religious Diversity in Early Modern Europe explores the processes involved with groups of differing religious confessions living togethersometimes grudgingly, but often with a benign pragmatism that stood in opposition to the will of their rulers. By focussing on these themes it bridges the gap between our understanding of the confessional developments as they were conceived, and of religious culture at the level of implementation.

Contents: Introduction: living with religious diversity in early modern Europe, C. Scott Dixon; How plural were the religious worlds in early modern Europe? Critical reections from the Netherlandic experience, Willem Frijhoff; Emblems of coexistence in a confessional world, Wayne Te Brake; Art, religious diversity and confessional identity in early-modern Transylvania, Maria Craciun; The power of conscience? Conversion and confessional boundary building in early-modern France, Keith P. Luria; The Counter-Reformation and popular piety in Viennaa case study, Karl Vocelka; Protestants and fairies in early-modern England, Peter Marshall; In sickness and in health: medicine and inter-confessional relations in post-Reformation England, Alexandra Walsham; Catholics and community in the Revolt of the Netherlands, Judith Pollmann; Crossingreligious borders: the experience of religious difference and its impact on mixed marriages in 18th-century Germany, Dagmar Freist; Intimate negotiations: husbands and wives of opposing faiths in 18th-century Holland,Benjamin J. Kaplan; The emergence of confessional identities: family relationships and religious coexistence in 17th-century Utrecht, Bertrand Forclaz; Religion and the display of power: a Wuerttemberg prince abroad,Dorothea Nolde; Afterword: living religious diversity, Mark Greengrass; Index.Includes 28 b&w illustrationsOctober 2009 324 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6668-4 60.00

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Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English EducationIan Green, University of Edinburgh, UK

St Andrews Studies in Reformation HistoryThis volume is the rst attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in England between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. By placing that education in the context of Lutheran, Calvinist and Jesuit education abroad, it offers an overview of the uses to which Latin and Greek were put in English schools, and identies the strategies devised by clergy and laity in England for coping with the tensions between classical studies and Protestant doctrine. It also offers a reassessment of the role of the godly in English education, and demonstrates the many ways in which a classical education came to be combined with close support for the English Crown and established church.

Contents: Preface; Historiography and sources; Grammar schools and grammar teachers in Protestant England; The uses of Latin in the lower forms of grammar schools; The uses of Latin and Greek in the senior forms and universities; Protestant inuences in grammar schools and universities; Assessing the impact; Index.Includes 2 b&w illustrations and 1 tableAugust 2009 400 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6368-3 65.00

Humanism and the Reform of Sacred Music in Early Modern EnglandJohn Merbecke the Orator and The Booke of Common Praier Noted (1550)Hyun-Ah Kim, University of Toronto, CanadaSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

will signicantly shift the angle from which the subjects have been viewed, lling gaps in the literature may well remain for some time as the rst reference for scholars on the topics concernedthe book will be of interest to musicologists, to historians of the Reformation and to theologians with an interest in the aesthetics of musicThere is much to be heartily welcomed in the book.

Reviews in HistoryIncludes 17 b&w illustrations and 4 music examples2008 274 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6268-6 60.00

FORTHCOMINGPhilip Melanchthon, Speaker of the ReformationWittenbergs Other ReformerTimothy J. Wengert, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, USAVariorum Collected Studies Series: CS963November 2010 c. 310 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0662-4 c. 72.50

The Idol in the Age of ArtObjects, Devotions and the Early Modern WorldEdited by Michael W. Cole, University of Pennsylvania, USA and Rebecca Zorach,University of Chicago, USASt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

both convincing and well illustratedthis book deserves to be commended as a highly creative stimulus to our thinking on the period.

Art and Christianity

Conicting attitudes towards devotional art was a major factor in the confessional divisions that split Reformation Europe. By presenting essays concerned with both European subjects and European perceptions of other cultures, Idols in the Age of Art contributes to ongoing attempts to globalize the study of European art. Approaching the Reformation idol as an essentially international problem, and placing particular emphasis on cultural encounters, it provides fresh perspectives on the very nature of Renaissance art, and underscores how colonial issues came to be often framed in terms of European religious conicts.Includes 1 colour and 96 b&w illustrations February 2009 384 pages Hardback 978-0-7546-5290-8 55.00

The Impact of the European ReformationPrinces, Clergy and PeopleEdited by Bridget Heal, University of St Andrews, UK and Ole Grell, The Open University, UKSt Andrews Studies in Reformation HistoryIncludes 4 b&w illustrations and 1 map 2008 326 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6212-9 65.00

Literature and the Scottish ReformationEdited by Crawford Gribben, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and David George Mullan,Cape Breton University, CanadaSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Literature and the Scottish Reformation offers a full-scale reconsideration of the series of relationships between literature and Reformation in early modern Scotland. Previous scholarship in this area has tended to dismiss the literary value of the writing of the periodlargely as a reaction to its regular theological interests. Instead the essays in this volume reinforce recent work that challenges the received scholarly consensus by taking these interests seriously, and argues for the importance of this religiously orientated writing through the adoption of a series of interdisciplinary approaches. May 2009 278 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6715-5 55.00



The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern EnglandEssays in Response to Patrick CollinsonEdited by John F. McDiarmid, New College of Florida, USASt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

If a student of early modern literature were to look at only one book on the state of current thinking about Tudor (especially) and early Stuart political history, this would be the one. Similarly, if a historian of the period wants an update on where some of the best thinkers in the eld are directing their attention, this book will be very useful.

CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History

2007 320 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5434-6 60.00

Protestantism, Poetry and ProtestThe Vernacular Writings of Antoine de Chandieu (c. 15341591)S.K. Barker, Lancaster University, UKSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Antoine de Chandieu (15341591) was a key gure in the establishment and development of the French Protestant church. By illuminating his career, which meshed almost exactly with the French Wars of Religion, this book not only demonstrates the key role Chandieus played in the development of French Protestantism, but also highlights the vital role of literature in shaping the religious experience of the wars.

Contents: Introduction; The life of Antoine de Chandieu; Establishing a church (15551560); The conspiracy of Amboise and the French reformed church; Armez-vous pour vostre posie: Chandieu, Ronsard and polemical poetry; Creating a French Protestant ideal; Chandieu and internal threats to the Protestant churches; Mes yeux ne sont fontaines sourdans du rocher de mes peines: poetical expression and the crisis of French Calvinism; Sa solide erudition est redoutee de tous les aduersaires de verit: Chandieus practical experience of Protestantism; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography: Index.July 2009 358 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6491-8 65.00

Reforming the Art of Dying The ars moriendi in the German Reformation (15191528)Austra Reinis, Missouri State University, Springeld, Missouri, USASt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

This is a richly documented theological and rhetorical analysis, buttressed by interesting details about biographical and social context, that effectively represents the enthusiasm of these early evangelical theologians of consolation at death.

Catholic Historical Review2007 304 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5439-1 60.00

Magistrates, Madonnas and MiraclesThe Counter Reformation in the Upper PalatinateTrevor Johnson St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

This book weaves together a narrative of events in the South German principality of the Upper Palatinate with an examination of the structural transformations within the religious culture from the early seventeenth century to the mid-eighteenth. Drawing both upon developments in the historiography of early modern religion over the last twenty years, and a wealth of documentary sources, this study assesses the main conversion strategies utilized over a one-hundred year period, which ultimately lead to the re-catholicization of the Upper Palatinate.

Contents: Introduction. PART I: THE PALATINATE DEFORMED:Forges, fortresses and farms: the Obere Pfalz in the 16th and 17th centuries; A Protestant land, 15561621. PART II: THE PALATINATE INFORMED: The odious name of a Reformation: biconfessional discontents; Wolves among the ock: conversion, emigration and resistance; The salt of the earth: clerical restoration and renewal; The return of the religious. PART III: THE PALATINATE REFORMED:Shaping a Catholic society; Lest such devotion should fall into decline: sacraments, sacramentals and the sacred image; All things to all: reclaiming the saints; Mountains of grace: the sacred enshrined; The Devil in the Oberpfalz; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.Includes 15 b&w illustrationsNovember 2009 378 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6480-2 65.00

NEWNarratives of the Religious Self in Early-Modern ScotlandDavid George Mullan,Cape Breton University, CanadaSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Drawing on a rich, yet untapped, source of Scottish autobiographical writing, this book provides a fascinating insight into the nature and extent of early-modern religious narratives. Over 80 such personal documents, including diaries and autobiographies (both manuscript and published), are examined and placed both within in the context of seventeenth-century Scotland, as well as the broader history of conversion.

Contents: Apologia pro libro; Prologue. PART I: LIVESAND TIMES: Memoirs and confessions of justied sinners; Shining lights and burning hearts; Surviving childhood; Negotiating adulthood. PART II: CONSTRUCTING THEEVANGELICAL SELF: Affective piety; The language of piety; matrimony metaphorical; Epilogue; Index.Includes 3 tablesMarch 2010 464 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6832-9 65.00eBook 978-0-7546-9858-6

The Reformation in RhymeSternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 15471603Beth Quitslund, Ohio University, USASt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

Overall, this is a detailed and stylish, scholarly work, and is always a delight to read. Quitslunds monograph deserves to become the standard work on this ubiquitous cultural phenomenon of early modern England.

The Library

Quitslunds study is lucidly written and admirably conciseIt is likely to remain central to the literature on English psalmody for many years to come.

Reviews in History2008 340 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6326-3 60.00

Patents, Pictures and PatronageJohn Day and the Tudor Book TradeElizabeth Evenden, Newnham College, University of Cambridge, UKSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

a valuable and marvelous achievement.Renaissance Quarterly

Includes 9 b&w illustrations2008 236 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5480-3 55.00

FORTHCOMINGReforming the Scottish ParishThe Reformation in Fife, 15601640John McCallum, Lancaster University, UKSt Andrews Studies in Reformation History

While the Protestant Reformation of 1560 is acknowledged as being a watershed moment in Scottish history, relatively little is known about the actual process of establishing a reformed church in the parishes in the following decades This book helps remedy the situation by examining the foundation of the reformed church and the impact of Protestant discipline in the parishes of Fife. Based on a wealth of under-utilized sources, the studys focus is on the grass-roots religious life of the parish, rather than the more familiar themes of church politics and theology. It evaluates the success of the reformers in affecting both institutional and ideological change, and provides a detailed account of the workings of the reformed church, and its impact on ordinary people.

Contents: Map of Fife parishes, 15601640; Introduction; The reformation of the ministry; The reformation of discipline; The reformation of worship; Sermon, song and text: religious instruction in Fife and beyond; The ministry as a profession; The Kirk Session in context; Ecclesiastical discipline uprightlie ministred: discipline in action; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.Includes 37 tables, graphs and mapMay 2010 c. 237 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6910-4 c. 60.00



El Greco The Cretan YearsNikolaos M. Panagiotakes, translated by John C. Davis and edited by Roderick BeatonPublications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, Kings College London: 13

This fundamental contribution to El Greco scholarship, until now only available in Greek, provides a thoroughly substantiated assessment of the evidence regarding the formative years in the life of one of the greatest artists of all time. Dealing with his birthplace, family, name, religious afliation, and apprenticeship as a painter, Nikolaos Panagiotakes concludes that El Greco was already an established professional master painter by the time he left Crete for Italy in 1567 at the age of twenty-six.

Contents: Preface, Nicos Hadjinicolaou. Introduction: education and culture in Venetian Crete. PART I: THESTORY SO FAR: Prior to 1961; Maistro Menegos; The nal Cretan year. PART II: NEW DISCOVERIES: An injunction; Family background; Religious afliation; Apprenticeship; The Vlastos portrait; A new document; Appendices; Bibliography; Select publications since 1990; Index.Includes 12 color and 2 b&w illustrationsSeptember 2009 180 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6897-8 50.00

NEWEnglish Fictions of Communal Identity, 14851603Joshua Phillips, University of Memphis, USAFocusing on Tudor prose ction from Malorys Morte DArthur through the works of Sir Philip Sidney and Thomas Nashe, this study explores the concept of collective agency and the extensive impact it had on English Renaissance culture. Ultimately, author Joshua Phillips challenges standard accounts of literary history and periodization to offer a new way of theorizing the relation between collaboration and identity.

Contents: Introduction: the violence of singularity. PARTI: BELONGING AND BELONGINGS: The Caxtonian imaginary: knights and the dreams of the abbey lubbers; Staking claims to Utopia: Thomas More, prose ction, and the matter of belonging. PART II: KNOWING TOGETHER, LABORINGTOGETHER: William Baldwin and communities of ction; Anthony Munday, romance, and the production of collective selves. PART III: BROKEN MUSIC: RE-IMAGININGCOLLECTIVE SUBJECTIVITY: Hoc Opus, Hic Labor est: Sir Philip Sidney and the work of shame; Thomas Nashe: thy unworthy speaker to the world; Conclusion: a piece of the main; Bibliography; Index.February 2010 268 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6598-4 55.00

Empowering InteractionsPolitical Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 13001900Edited by Wim Blockmans, University of Leiden, The Netherlands, Andr Holenstein and Daniel Schlppi, both at University of Berne, Switzerland and Jon Mathieu, Universityof Lucerne, SwitzerlandThis volume explores the emergence of the state in Europe between the fourteenth and nineteenth centuries. Through a series of case studies and historiographical, methodological and theoretical essays, it challenges the traditional top-down model of state development long held by historians. Instead it explores the numerous ways in which non-elite groups could inuence the formation of national political institutions.April 2009 372 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6473-4 65.00

NEWEssays in Naval History, from Medieval to ModernN.A.M. Rodger, University of Oxford, UKVariorum Collected Studies Series: CS930

The articles collected here (two appearing for the rst time in English) cover a number of topics central to naval history and illustrate the authors contention that this is not only, or even chiey, a distinct area of special study, but rather a central theme running through the history of England, and of the whole British Isles. Hence many examine ways in which naval history has formed a key element in such subjects as intellectual, religious, administrative or medical history and explored the nature and meaning of sea power as a theme. Others are more technical in subject, and show how detailed evidence about ships and weapons can build large conclusions, for example about late Anglo-Saxon government and military organization, or about the nature of warfare at sea in the Renaissance era.

Contents: Preface; Cnuts geld and the size of Danish ships; The naval service of the Cinque ports; The development of broadside gunnery, 14501650; The new Atlantic: naval warfare in the 16th century; The military revolution at sea; Queen Elizabeth and the myth of sea-power in English history; The victualling of the British Navy during the Seven Years War; Medicine, administration and society in the 18th-century Royal Navy; Mobilizing seapower in the 18th century; The naval chaplain in the 18th century; Medicine and science in the British Navy of the 18th century; Weather, geography and naval power in the age of sail; Form and function in European navies, 16601815; Navies and the Enlightenment; Commissioned ofcers careers in the Royal Navy, 16901815; Mutiny or subversion? Spithead and the Nore; Training or education: a naval dilemma over three centuries; Index.Includes 21 b&w illustrationsOctober 2009 346 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5995-2 70.00

The Epigrams of Sir John HaringtonEdited by Gerard Kilroy,University College London, UKThere has never been a complete printed edition of these 400 wonderful little poems. Gerard Kilroys book is therefore a major achievementHats off to Kilroy.

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This is the rst complete edition of Haringtons Epigrams. Based solely on the three manuscripts arranged and revised by the author, it reveals Haringtons elaborate theological and political design, which the distortions of posthumous editions have concealed for four centuries. With an extensive introduction, commentary and critical apparatus, and a text that highlights Haringtons own revisions, this volume enables the reader for the rst time to see Haringtons Epigrams as an intricate and complex work of art. Includes 10 colour and 3 b&w illustrationsJuly 2009 368 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6002-6 60.00

NEWConscience, Equity and the Court of Chancery in Early Modern EnglandDennis R. Klinck, McGill University, CanadaThis study tackles the difcult yet crucial subject of the place of conscience in the development of English law, illuminating what is meant by describing the Court of Chancery as a court of conscience. Addressing the notion of conscience as a juristic principle in the Court of Chancery during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the book explores how this was understood in the early modern period. The study concludes with an exploration of the chancellorship of Lord Nottingham (167382), who is often regarded as the father of modern equity through his efforts to transform equity from a jurisdiction associated with discretion, into one based on rules.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Conscience and the medieval chancery; The early 16th century and Christopher St. German; The later 16th century; Protestant conscience 1: the early 17th century; The conscience of early-17th century equity; Protestant conscience 2: the later 17th century; Later-17th century equity and Lord Nottingham; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.February 2010 327 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6774-2 60.00



FORTHCOMINGEveryday ObjectsMedieval and Early Modern Material Culture and its MeaningsEdited by Tara Hamling, University of Birmingham and Catherine Richardson, University of Kent, UKMaterial culture research has become an increasingly important aspect of the study of medieval and early modern societies, yet its study often remains uncoordinated and conned to narrow subject specic boundaries. As such, scholars will welcome this volume which provides an overview of various methodological strands currently developing across a range of disciplines.

Contents: Introduction, Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson. SECTION I: EVIDENCE ANDINTERPRETATION: For a crack or aw despisd: thinking about ceramic durability and the everyday in late 17th- and early 18th-century England, Sara Pennell; The material culture of walking: spaces of methodologies in the long 18th century, Giorgio Riello; In the sight of an old pair of shoes, Stephen Kelly; Lexicological confusion and medieval clothing culture: redressing medieval dress with the Lexis of Cloth and Clothingin Britain project, Mark Chambers and Louise Sylvester. PART II: SKILLS AND MANUFACTURE: Pins and aglets,Jenny Tiramani; Froes, rebatoes and other outlandish comodityes: weaving alien womens work into the fabric of early modern material culture, Natasha Korda; A shadow of a former self: analysis of an early 17th-century boys doublet from Abingdon, Maria Hayward; Ordinary pots: the inventory of Francesco di Luca, Orciolaio, and Cipriano Piccolpassos Three Books of the Art of the Potter, Steve Wharton. SECTION III:OBJECTS AND SPACES: Archaeology of an age of print? Everyday objects in an age of transition, David Gaimster; The conservation of garments concealed within buildings as material culture in action, Dinah Eastrop; The enchantment of the familiar face: portraits as domestic objects in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Tarnya Cooper; Faces and spaces: displaying the civic portrait in early modern England, Robert Tittler. SECTIONIV: SOUND AND SENSORY EXPERIENCES: Resurrecting forgotten sound: fans and handbells in early modern Italy, Flora Dennis; A potell of ayle on whyt Sonday: everyday objects and the musical culture of the post-Reformation English parish church, Jonathan Willis;Bagpipes and patterns of conformity in late medieval England, John J. Thompson. SECTION V: MATERIAL RELIGION:2 texts and an image make an object: a devotional sheet from pre-Reformation England, R.N. Swanson; Contesting the everyday: the cultural biography of a subversive playing card, Richard L. Williams; Remembering the dead at dinner-time, Sheila Sweetinburgh; A table of alabaster with the story of the Doom: the religious objects and spaces of the guild of Our Blessed Virgin, Boston (Lincs), Kate Giles. SECTION VI: ATTITUDES TOWARDSOBJECTS: A very t hat , Catherine Richardson; Emptyvessels, Lena Cowen Orlin; Objectication, identity and the late medieval Codex, Ryan Perry; Reconciling image and object: religious imagery in Protestant interior decoration, Tara Hamling; Index.Includes 8 colour and 50 b&w illustrationsJuly 2010 c. 376 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6637-0 c.60.00

Exemplary SpenserVisual and Poetic Pedagogy in The Faerie QueeneJane Grogan, University College, Dublin, IrelandExemplary Spenser analyzes the reading experience of The Faerie Queene, as it is construed through the didactic poetics espoused in the Letter to Ralegh. Grogan pays close attention to Spensers interrogation of visual as well as literary paradigms of knowledge and moral learning, and to his inuences, including Sidney, Plutarch and, importantly, Xenophon.July 2009 226 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6698-1 55.00

The Feminine Dynamic in English Art, 14851603Women as Consumers, Patrons and PaintersSusan E. JamesJames provides a detailed and wonderfully illustrated history of womens roles in the production, distribution and consumption of art in Tudor England while arguing convincingly that in the process, they found a voice that enabled them to exercise signicant political inuenceHighly recommended.

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Drawn principally from primary sources, this book presents important new research which examines the contributions of Tudor women in the formation, distribution and popularization of the visual arts within an historical context. Susan James highlights womens contributions to the art world of sixteenth-century England across all social classes, examining not only their role in the creation and commission of art, but also the surprising and unexpected ways in which they exploited it.Includes 52 b&w illustrationsJanuary 2009 376 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6381-2 65.00

The Fiscal-Military State in Eighteenth-Century EuropeEssays in Honour of P.G.M. DicksonEdited by Christopher Storrs, University of Dundee, UKIn recent decades, historians of early modern Europe, and above all those who study the eighteenth century, elaborated the concept of what has been called the scal-military state. This volume of essays by leading authorities, all of whom have published widely on their chosen topic, explores the subject of the scal-military state by focusing on its leading exemplars in eighteenth-century Europe. In addition a further chapter considers the scal-military state in a broader, comparative international context, in the arena of international relations. The differing patterns and the variety of models of scal-military state makes for ease of comparison across Europe. The volume will therefore be invaluable to both students and researchers alike.Includes 7 tables and 2 mapsFebruary 2009 260 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5814-6 55.00

THE HISTORY OF THEBOOK IN THE WEST:A LIBRARY OF CRITICALESSAYSSeries Editor: Alexis Weedon,University of Bedfordshire, UK

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NEWThe History of the Book in the West: 14551700Volume IIEdited by Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University, UKThe History of the Book in the West: A Library of Critical Essays

The essays in this volume cover the crucial period that saw the growth and consolidation of the printed book as a signicant feature of Western European culture and society, following the development of moveable type by Johann Gutenberg. Written by leading scholars during the past ve decades, the articles cover topics such as typography, economics, regulation, bookselling and reading practices.

Contributors: Blaise Agera y Arcas;Nicholas Barker; Elizabeth L. Eisenstein; Anthony T. Grafton; Paul F. Grendler;Jean-Franois Gilmont; Andrew Pettegree; M. Hall;

Roger Chartier; Natalie Zemon Davies; Clive Grifn; D.F. McKenzie; John L. Flood; John Barnard;Paul Saenger; Lisa Jardine; Anthony Grafton; andDavid Cressy.April 2010 c. 550 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-2771-5 c.130.00

NEWFive Volume SetEdited by Alexis Weedon,University of Bedfordshire, UKThe History of the Book in the West: A Library of Critical EssaysApril 2010 c. 2500 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-2780-7 c. 585.00


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Handbook of World Exchange Rates, 15901914Markus A. Denzel, University of Leipzig, Germany A clear, useful, authoritative explication of a set of complex developments concerning international exchange, the key to globalization of world trade and nance. It is a magnicent achievement. This work will easily and quickly become the standard source on the subject of the evolving international payment system over the last several centuries. It will be a must buy for libraries around the world.

John J. McCusker, Trinity University

As a world economy emerged from the sixteenth to seventeenth centuries onwards, a global cashless payment system arose. This had its base in Europe, in the rising regions of the north-west, with Amsterdam and then London as the central nancial market. The mutual quotation of exchange rates, which provide the data tabulated and analyzed here, mark the integration into a global network of all areas with signicant economic potential.

The primary aim of this book is to provide a compact account of the exchange rates in all these nancial markets, from the late sixteenth century up to the First World War. This makes possible an instant conversion between the major world currencies at nearly any date within that period. The present handbook therefore serves as an invaluable resource for those concerned with all aspects of commercial and nancial history.October 2010 348 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-0356-6 c. 85.00

NEWHumanist Biography in Renaissance and Reformation GermanyFriendship and RhetoricJames M. Weiss, Boston College, USAVariorum Collected Studies Series: CS947

After an important new introduction, surveying the practice of biographical writing in Renaissance Italy and Reformation Germany, and an analysis of Italian biographies, 1450 to 1550, James Weiss focuses on one group in one nation: the German humanists biographical collections and individual biographies of their humanist colleagues: pedagogues, scholars, poets and reformers from 1480 to 1620. Two essays also explore varied directions taken by pre-Reformation humanists as they re-fashioned the lives of saints, and by the earliest Lutheran reformers new strategies along similar lines. The volume closes with a study of Erasmus Ecclesiastes, a treatise on rhetoric, in a sense an ideal biography, along with a hand list of biographies discussed.April 2010 c. 300 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0021-9 c. 70.00


THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE IN CONTEXTSeries Editors: Andrew Cunningham, University of Cambridge, UKand Ole Peter Grell, The Open University, UKThe series is a most welcome attempt to produce a comprehensive European history of a problemthe provision of health care to the mass of the populationwhich has lost none of its prominence, its evolution being the origin of some of the common features of todays medical care.

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FORTHCOMINGCentres of Medical Excellence?Medical Travel and Education in Europe, 15001789Edited by Ole Peter Grell, The Open University, UK, Andrew Cunningham, University of Cambridge, UK and Jon Arrizabalaga, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cienticas, SpainThe History of Medicine in Context

The most ambitious students have been traveling long distances for their education since universities were rst founded in the thirteenth century, making their own educational pilgrimage or peregrinatio. This volume deals with the peregrinatio medica from the viewpoint of the traveling students and presents a new take on the history of medical education, as well as universities, travel and education more widely in ancien rgime Europe.

Contents: PART 1: WHERE TO GO AND HOW TO GET THERE:Introduction: the Bartholins, the Platters and Laurentius Gryllus: the peregrinato medica in the 16th and 17th centuries, Andrew Cunningham; Medical education and centres of excellence in 18th-century Europe: towards an identication, Laurence Brockliss; The mobility of medical students from the 15th till the 18th century: the institutional context, Hilde Ridder-Symoens.PART 2: THE PEREGRINATO MEDICA, FROM THE PERIPHERIES TOTHE CENTRES AND BACK AGAIN: Spanish medical students peregrinato to Italian universities in the Renaissance, Jon Arrizabalaga; On Portuguese medical students and masters travelling abroad. An overview from the early modern period to the Enlightenment, Mrio Srgio Farelo;Pieter van Foreest and the acquisition and travelling of medical knowledge in the 16th century, Catrien Santing; Like bees, who neither suck nor generate their honey from one ower: the signicance of the peregrinato academica for Danish medical students in the late 16th and early 17th century, Ole P. Grell. PART 3: THE CENTRESOF EXCELLENCE: Medical education in Padua: students, faculty and facilities, Cynthia Klestinec; Paris: certainly the best place for learning the practical part of anatomy and surgery, Toby Geland; Medical education in 18th-century Montpellier, Elizabeth A. Williams; HermanBoerhaave at Leiden: communis Europae praeceptor, Rina Knoeff; Science, practice and reputation. The University of Gttingen and its medical faculty in the 18th century, Hubert Steinke; The importance of being Edinburgh: the rise and fall of the Edinburgh medical school in the 18th century, Helen Dingwall; Index.Includes 29 b&w illustrations and 22 tablesMay 2010 c. 348 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6699-8 60.00

FORTHCOMINGThe Anatomist AnatomisdAn Experimental Discipline in Enlightenment EuropeAndrew Cunningham, University of Cambridge, UKThe History of Medicine in Context

Within the history of medicine, the study of anatomy has arguably received more attention than any other medical discipline, yet, as this study argues, there is still much about it that remains misunderstood or uncritically accepted. By providing an overview of the discipline during the long-eighteenth century, and focusing closely on how contemporary practitioners dened anatomy and thought it should be practiced, this book provides a more systematic investigation into the subject. In so doing it argues that upon closer inspection for anatomy too there is a break around 1800, and that there is an ancien regime anatomy, just as there was an ancient regime political structure.

Contents: Introduction: the anatomist anatomisd; This awful subject; Merit is sure of its reward: careers and courses; Experimental anatomy and its sub-disciplines; Human bodies: getting, keeping, picturing, publishing and arguing; Animal bodies and comparative anatomy; The end of old anatomy; Index.Includes 110 b&w illustrationsJune 2010 c. 450 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6338-6 c. 65.00

Melancholy and the Care of the SoulReligion, Moral Philosophy and Madness in Early Modern EnglandJeremy Schmidt, University of Victoria, CanadaThe History of Medicine in Context

Jeremy Schmidts book is a ne analysis of melancholy as a species of madness in nearly the full gamut of its early modern complexity

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While Jeremy Schmidt has written an impressive historical study of melancholy, he is also persuasive in suggesting in his conclusion that elements of the early modern care of the soul deserve our attention in terms of our own contemporary concerns overthe care of depression.

Sixteenth Century Journal2007 226 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-5748-4 55.00

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NEWIreland and Medicine in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesEdited by James Kelly, St. Patricks College, Ireland and Fiona Clark, Queens University Belfast, UKThe History of Medicine in Context

This collection provides an exploration of the changes and developments in medicine as practiced in Ireland and by Irish physicians studying and working abroad during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Bringing together research undertaken into the neglected area of early Irish medical and social history across a variety of disciplines, including history of medicine, Spanish and Portuguese studies, Irish and French history, it builds upon ground-breaking work recently published by several of the contributors, thereby augmenting our understanding of the role of medicine within early modern Irish society and its broader scientic and intellectual networks.

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