European history

The rebels of the Dutch Revolt, their political thoughts and the media they used to express them, have long been a focus of historical attention.

Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est.

The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople is one of the key sources for our understanding of Byzantine history in the eighth century.

In Vienna after WWI and Berlin after WWII, the provision of mass housing not only was a response to a dire social need but also served as a key lever for building variants of socialism and liberalism.

This book presents a detailed study of the Hucpoldings, an elite group in Carolingian and post-Carolingian Italy.

Animal spectacles are vital to a holistic appreciation of Spanish culture.

The province of Baetica, in present-day Spain, was one of the most important areas in the Roman Empire in terms of politics, economics, and culture.

The policies relating to language pursued by European monarchies and states have been widely studied, but far less attention has been given to their linguistic and cultural policies in territories outside their own borders.

Centered on moral critiques of wealth and the unequal distribution of risks and rewards in the lengthy voyages required by the East Indies trade, this book examines the debates surrounding England's earliest global trading ventures.

Isidore of Seville (560-636) was a crucial figure in the preservation and sharing of classical and early Christian knowledge.

The catastrophic Sicilian earthquake of 1693 led to the rebuilding of over 60 towns in the island's south-west.

The sixteenth century was a period of crisis in the Catholic Church.

This volume reflects on the motivations underpinning the writing of history in Late Antique Iberia, emphasising its theoretical and practical aspects and outlining the social, political and ideological implications of the constructions and narrations of the past.

Reflecting Jerusalem in the Medieval Czech Lands maps the reception, reflection, and translation of Jerusalem in medieval Czech lands.

As Cardinal Hugo and as pope, Gregory was one of the dominant figures in the history of the papacy of the High Middle Ages.

When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country's long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945.

This book offers a unique overview on the career and work on Benedict XII, the third pope of Avignon.

This book deals with a fascinating and original claim in 16th-century Europe.

Gregory of Tours was a bishop of late antiquity who was famously devoted to promoting the efficacy of saintly powers.

Bede is the inaugural volume in the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture series, which seeks to comprehensively map British literary culture from 500 to 1100 CE.

This book is a new history of early modern gender, told through the lyric poetry of Renaissance Italy.

The history of official relations between Russia and Japan encompasses a period of a little more than one hundred and fifty years, but stretch back unofficially for at least double that amount of time.

In 1611, the seventeen-year-old Gustav Adolf ascended the throne of Sweden.

The Portuguese Restoration of 1640 ended the dynastic union of Portugal and Spain.

Our historical understanding of the Reformation in northern Europe has tended to privilege the idea of disruption and innovation over continuity - yet even the most powerful reformation movements drew on and exchanged ideas with earlier cultural and religious practices.

Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element for understanding early modern science as a whole.

Between the fifteenth and the eighteenth century, princely courts dominated the Italian political scene.

This first comprehensive overview of the process of commissioning and financing the construction of cathedrals in the Middle Ages reveals a financing system almost as monumental as the cathedrals themselves.

During his lifetime and the four centuries following his death, King Edward II (1307-1327) acquired a reputation for having engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with his male favourites, and having been murdered by penetration with a red-hot spit.

When Paul III was elected in 1534, hopes arose across Christendom that this pope would at last reform and reunite the Church.

Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence explores the lived experience of Catholic women and men in the post-Reformation century.

This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and subsequent dictatorship were turned into monuments.

The Short History of Nikephoros of Constantinople is one of the key sources for our understanding of Byzantine history in the eighth century.

In reality, medieval outlaws were dangerous, desperate individuals.

This volume contributes to a deeper understanding of the different forms of ecclesiastical articulation in early medieval Spain.

Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period sheds new light on the intertwined history of music and politics by exploring Dutch political songs.

The vast transformation of the Roman world at the end of antiquity has been a subject of broad scholarly interest for decades, but until now no book has focused specifically on the Iberian Peninsula in the period as seen through an archaeological lens.

This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there.

Mail armour (commonly mislabelled 'chainmail') was used for more than two millennia on the battlefield.

Romeyn de Hooghe was the most inventive and prolific etcher of the later Dutch Golden Age.

In 1611, the seventeen-year-old Gustav Adolf ascended the throne of Sweden.

Tapping into a combination of court documents, urban statutes, material artefacts, health guides and treatises, Policing the Urban Environment in Premodern Europe offers a unique perspective on how premodern public authorities tried to create a clean, healthy environment.

German historians long assumed that the German Kingdom was created with Henry the Fowler's coronation in 919.

The history of official relations between Russia and Japan encompasses a period of a little more than one hundred and fifty years, but stretch back unofficially for at least double that amount of time.

This book reviews the role of British Foreign Secretaries in the formulation of British policy towards Japan from the re-opening of Japan in the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century.

The story of the USS Boise (CL-47) is one of fear, loss, endurance, fame, triumph, and pain.

The making, eating, and sharing of food throughout society represents an important and exciting area of study with the potential to advance the field of scholarship, particularly in the context of Scandinavian Studies.

Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction between text, image, and experience in the culture of commemoration that thrived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

The Hollandsche Schouwburg is a former theatre in Amsterdam where, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, tens of thousands of Jews were assembled before being deported to transit and concentration camps.

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