Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640

• Hardcover | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This is an in-depth, richly documented study of the sex and marriage business from 1570-1640. Lees meer

Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution

John Walter

• Paperback | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This book makes an original contribution to the history of the English Revolution and to the meaning of crowd behavior. It recreates one of the most f... Lees meer

English Rural Society, 1500-1800

• Paperback | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This book honours the varied and creative career of Joan Thirsk, Fellow of the British Academy and former Reader in Economic History in the University... Lees meer

Epidemics and Ideas

• Paperback | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• Epidemic diseases have always been a test of the ability of human societies to withstand sudden shocks. How are such large mortalities and the illness... Lees meer

Disputes and Settlements

• Paperback | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This collection of essays by British, American and French scholars uses the records of the law in Western Europe from the fall of Rome to the nineteen... Lees meer

Landlords, Peasants and Politics in Medieval England

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• The articles in this book are reprinted from the journal Past and Present. Lees meer

Small Books and Pleasant Histories

Margaret Spufford

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• Attention has increasingly turned in recent years from the economic and agricultural framework of the life of the English villager in the sixteenth an... Lees meer

The Moral World of the Law

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• The dominant and deceptively simple theme of this book is the relationship between the moral environment of the courtroom and that of the society in w... Lees meer

Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance

Joan-Pau Rubiés

• Hardcover | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspe... Lees meer

Geography, Technology, and War

John H Pryor

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• When maritime transport and communication depended on muscle and wind-power, the Mediterranean Sea functioned as a symbiotic force between the civilis... Lees meer

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This important new collection of essays offers a wide readership both an up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern Europe... Lees meer

The English Rising of 1381

• Paperback | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This book contains eight articles, six of which are based on papers contributed to a commemoration conference organised by the Past and Present Societ... Lees meer

Studies on Byzantine Literature of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Alexander Kazhdan, Simon Franklin

• Paperback | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• Byzantine literature is often regarded as little more than an agglomeration of stereotyped forms and generic conventions which allows no scope for ind... Lees meer

Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution

John Walter

• Hardcover | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This book makes an original contribution to the history of the English Revolution and to the meaning of crowd behavior. It recreates one of the most f... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Shopkeeping in Milan, 1886 1922

Jonathan Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This book analyzes the business, geography and politics of shopkeeping in Milan between 1886 and 1922. The author studies the trades, techniques, tax ... Lees meer

Studies in Ancient Greek and Roman Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• Originally published in Past and Present, this collection of papers includes some of the most innovative history written about Greece and Rome over tw... Lees meer

Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland

• Paperback | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• The essays in this collection focus on the nature of popular protest and agrarian unrest and the development of nationalism in modern Ireland. Some ar... Lees meer

The Sense of the People

Kathleen Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This exciting study demonstrates the central role of "the people," the empire, and the citizen in eighteenth-century English popular politics. Pioneer... Lees meer

Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe

Jack Goody

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• Around 300 A.D. European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their head. What had previously been the norm - marriage to close kin - becam... Lees meer

The Origins of the English Gentry

Peter Coss

• Hardcover | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• Although the gentry played a central role in medieval England, this study is the first sustained exploration of its origins and development between th... Lees meer

The Inquisition

Francisco Bethencourt

• Hardcover | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• The Inquisition was the most powerful disciplinary institution in the early modern world, responsible for 300,000 trials and over 1.5 million denuncia... Lees meer

The Castilian Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This is a collection of recent revisionist essays by Spanish historians on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile. The major a... Lees meer

Witchcraft Persecutions in Bavaria

Wolfgang Behringer

• Hardcover | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar of continental witchcraft studies, now made available to an English-speaking audience for t... Lees meer

Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance

Joan-Pau Rubiés

• Paperback | Engels | Past and Present Publications
• This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspe... Lees meer