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Edited by Tim Harris, Brown University, Stephen Taylor, Reading University and Andy Wood, University of East Anglia. This new series of monographs and studies covers a wide variety of historical themes from the sixteenth through to the early nineteenth century. It aims to publish intellectually stimulating works of scholarship that will make a major original contribution to the field, whether through innovative conceptual, theoretical or methodological approaches or groundbreaking work on hitherto unexplored sources. By publishing work on cultural and social as well as political history, the series aims to break down some of the barriers that have traditionally existed between these various subfields. In addition, the series particularly welcomes studies which set the past in a more international or global context, such as for example works that link the histories of early modern Britain and Ireland to Europe, to the Americas or to the British empire.

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38 results in Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social history

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Conspiracy Culture in Stuart England
  • The Mysterious Death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
  • Andrea McKenzie
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 December 2022
    Print publication:
    20 December 2022
  • The death of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey has baffled scholars and armchair detectives for centuries; this book offers compelling new evidence and, at last, a solution to the mystery.

The Restraint of the Press in England, 1660-1715
  • The Communication of Sin
  • Alex W. Barber
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 July 2022
    Print publication:
    15 April 2022
  • A discussion of the fascinating interplay between communication, politics and religion in early modern England, suggesting a new framework for the politics of print culture.

The National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant, 1660-1696
  • James Walters
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    12 April 2022
  • This book examines how the form and function of the Covenants were shorn of religious implications and repurposed, serving a pluralistic vision of the role of religion in politics and public life.

Urban Government and the Early Stuart State
  • Provincial Towns, Corporate Liberties, and Royal Authority in England, 1603-1640
  • Catherine F. Patterson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    12 April 2022
  • This study examines relations between centre and localities in seventeenth-century England by looking at early Stuart government through the lens of provincial towns.

Painting for a Living in Tudor and Early Stuart England
  • Robert Tittler
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    04 March 2022
  • Examines the often overlooked political, social, and economic contexts in which painters in Tudor and Early Stuart England lived and worked.

Scotland and the Wider World

Africans in East Anglia, 1467-1833
  • Richard C. Maguire
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 January 2023
    Print publication:
    16 August 2021
  • What were the lives of Africans in provincial England like during the early modern period? How, where, and when did they arrive in rural counties? How were they perceived by their contemporaries?

Royalism, Religion and Revolution
  • Wales, 1640-1688
  • Sarah Ward Clavier
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 January 2023
    Print publication:
    13 August 2021
  • Analyses the role of long-term continuities in the political and religious culture of Wales from the eve of the Civil War in 1640 to the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

Blood Waters
  • War, Disease and Race in the Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean
  • Nicholas Rogers
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    26 May 2022
    Print publication:
    18 June 2021
  • Far from the romanticised image of the swashbuckling genre of maritime history, the eighteenth-century Caribbean was a 'marchlands' in which violence was a way of life and where solidarities were transitory and highly volatile.

Visualising Protestant Monarchy
  • Ceremony, Art and Politics after the Glorious Revolution (1689–1714)
  • Julie Farguson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    13 April 2021
    Print publication:
    16 April 2021
  • The first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen Anne

The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638–1689

Age Relations and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century England
  • Barbara Crosbie
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    21 October 2020
    Print publication:
    15 May 2020
  • Interactions between age groups were central to major social and cultural developments in eighteenth-century England, and this book serves as a powerful reminder that people lived through not in the past.

The Hanoverian Succession in Great Britain and its Empire

Roguery in Print
  • Crime and Culture in Early Modern London
  • Volume 33
  • Lena Liapi
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 October 2019
    Print publication:
    20 September 2019
  • The first comprehensive analysis of an extensive body of rogue pamphlets published in early modern London.

National Identity and the Anglo-Scottish Borderlands, 1552–1652
  • Volume 32
  • Jenna M. Schultz
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    06 September 2019
    Print publication:
    15 March 2019
  • A detailed examination of the March system - the special administrative arrangements which applied on both sides of the border - how it was applied and how it evolved as national political circumstances changed.

Stuart Marriage Diplomacy
  • Dynastic Politics in their European Context, 1604-1630
  • Volume 31
  • Edited by Valentina Caldari, Sara J. Wolfson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 October 2019
    Print publication:
    19 October 2018
  • Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe: the creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics.

Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
  • Essays in Honour of John Walter
  • Edited by Michael J. Braddick, Phil Withington
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 May 2017
    Print publication:
    17 March 2017
  • One of the most notable currents in social, cultural and political historiography is the interrogation of the categories of 'elite' and 'popular' politics and their relationship to each other, as wellas the exploration of why and how different sorts of people engaged with politics and behaved politically. While such issues are timeless, they hold a special importance for a society experiencing rapid political and social change, like early modern England. No one has done more to define these agendas for early modern historians than John Walter. His work has been hugely influential, and at itsheart has been the analysis of the political agency of ordinary people. The essays in this volume engage with the central issues of Walter's work, ranging across the politics of poverty, dearth and household, popular political consciousness and practice more broadly, and religion and politics during the English revolution. This outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, will appeal to anyone interested in the social, cultural and political history of early modern England or issues of popular political consciousness and behaviour more generally.

    MICHAEL J. BRADDICK is professor of history at the University of Sheffield. PHIL WITHINGTON is professor of history at the University of Sheffield.

    CONTRIBUTORS: Michael J. Braddick, J. C. Davis, Amanda Flather, Steve Hindle, Mark Knights, John Morrill, Alexandra Shepard, Paul Slack, Richard M. Smith, Clodagh Tait, Keith Thomas, Phil Withington, Andy Wood, Keith Wrightson.

Commerce and Politics in Hume's History of England
  • Jia Wei
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    20 May 2017
    Print publication:
    17 March 2017
  • David Hume's six-volume History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 (1754-61) is probably his most important work as a constitutional historian and political theorist. Jia Wei's book shows that the History can be understood in two ways: firstly, as Hume's own narrative of England's state formation, and secondly, as his answer to the question of how eighteenth-century Britain could cope with the challenges of commercial revolution. It illuminates the relationship between Hume the political thinker, Hume the historian, and Hume the political economist and highlights the social, economic and institutional changes which he wove into an innovative theory of causation.
    The first part of the book considers Hume's account of the fundamentalrationale of maritime trade and England's unique approach to liberty in the modern era. The second part looks at his views concerning the profound impact of maritime trade on English politics. From his perspective, the problem of how to cope with the challenges posed by the commercial revolution in eighteenth-century Britain was closely linked to the question of how transoceanic trade had fundamentally recast English politics from the sixteenth century onwards. This study shows how these two narratives were interwoven into Hume's History and will be of interest to scholars and studentsnot only of David Hume and political theory but of historiography, eighteenth-century British history and Enlightenment studies.

    JIA WEI received her PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Accidents and Violent Death in Early Modern London
  • 1650-1750
  • Craig Spence
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 July 2017
    Print publication:
    17 November 2016
  • Between the mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries more than 15,000 Londoners suffered sudden violent deaths. While this figure includes around 3,000 who were murdered or committed suicide, the vast majority of fatalities resulted from accidents. In the early modern period, accidental and 'disorderly' deaths - from drowning, falls, stabbing, shooting, fires, explosions, suffocation, animals and vehicles, among other causes - were a regular feature of urban life and left a significant mark in the archival records of the period.
    This book provides the first substantive critical study of the early modern accident, revealing and chronicling the lives - and deaths - of hundreds of otherwise unknown Londoners. Drawing on the weekly London Bills of Mortality, parish burial registers, newspapers and other related documents, it examines accidents and other forms of violent death in the city with a view to understanding who among its residents encountered such events, how the bureaucracy recorded and elaborated their circumstances and why they did so, and what practical responses might follow. Through a systematic review of the character of accidents, medical and social interventions, and changing attitudes toward the regulation of hazards across the metropolis, it establishes the historical significance of the accident and shows how, as the eighteenth century progressed, providential explanations gave way to a more rational viewpoint that saw certain accident events as threats to be managed rather than misfortunes to be explained. Additionally, the book explores how knowledge of such incidents was transformed to become a recurring cultural trope in oral, textual and visual narratives of metropolitan life, thereby opening a window to the way in which sudden death and violent injury was understood by early modern mentalities.

    CRAIG SPENCE is Senior Lecturer in History at Bishop Grosseteste University.

British Travellers and the Encounter with Britain, 1450-1700
  • John Cramsie
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2021
    Print publication:
    19 November 2015
  • This book recovers the encounter with a 'multicultural' Britain by British travellers in the Tudor and Stuart periods. When William Camden, writing in the sixteenth century, set out to write the history of Britannia, he deliberately took to the roads to discover it first-hand, and those diverse cultures guided and informed his journeys. Here, John Cramsie offers original perspectives on Camden's multicultural Britain through the study of British travellers and their narratives. We meet characters such as the Tudor traveller John Leland, who intended to tell the peoples of England and Wales about themselves; chronicle how they came to settle the towns, villages, valleys, and mountaintops they called home; record the marks they left in the landscape; and celebrate the noble histories and cultures they created. Dozens - eventually hundreds - of Britons shared the same passion to meet their island neighbours and relate their experiences. The individuals studied in this book include actualas well as armchair travellers and those who blurred the boundaries between them. Their letters, diaries, journals, and histories range from the epic, poignant, and matter of fact to the exotic, preposterous, and hateful; the sources include actual and imaginative narratives and those which combined both elements. Travellers painted Britain with, in Leland's words, native colours that were rich, vibrant, and, above all, complex. Their remarkable journeys are the story of how Britons over two centuries met, interacted, and attempted (or not) to understand one another. Written with an eye to debates about immigration and ethnicity in today's Britain, the book emphasizes the long history of making and remaking the island's cultural mosaic. The encounter with Britain's native colours has beena burden of history and opportunity for millennia, not simply for our own times.

    JOHN CRAMSIE is Associate Professor, Department of History, Union College, NY.

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