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"Florence in the Early Modern World offers new perspectives on this important city by exploring the broader global context of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, within which the experience of Florence remains unique. This volume is essential reading for students and scholars of early modern cities and the Renaissance"--

Bringing together a variety of evidence, such as princely correspondence, travelogues, financial accounts, chronicles, chivalric or Renaissance poems, this book examines marital travels of princely brides and grooms on a comparative trans-European scale.

Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe, Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions in a pan-European overview.

Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe: Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions in a pan-European overview.In the later Middle Ages, genealogical coincidences led to caesuras in various dynastic successions. Solutions to these were found, above all, in new constellations which saw one political entity becoming co-managed by the ruler of another in the form of a personal union. In the premodern period, such solutions were characterised by two factors in particular: on the one hand, the entry of two countries into a union did not constitute a military annexation - even though claims to the throne were all too often imposed by force; on the other hand, the new unitarian constellation retained, at least de jure, the independence of its respective components. The twenty-four essays, ranging in scope from Scandinavia to Iberia, from England and France to Central and Eastern Europe, examine whether the respective unions were the result of careful planning and deliberations in the face of a long-foreseen succession crisis or whether they emerged from dynamic developments that were largely reactive and dependent upon various random factors and circumstances. Each union is assessed to provide an understanding, for students and researchers, of the political and social forces involved in the respective countries and investigates how the unions were reflected in contemporary literature (pamphlets, memoranda, chronicles, diaries etc.), propaganda and in legal and historical discourses.This volume is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the history of monarchy, political history and social and cultural histories in premodern Europe. ¿

This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods.

This volume examines how historical beliefs about the supernatural were used to justify violence, secure political authority or extend toleration in both the medieval and early modern periods.

Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras. It is the perfect collection for students and researchers of medieval and early modern monarchy and gender.

Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras. It is the perfect collection for students and researchers of medieval and early modern monarchy and gender.

War in the Iberian Peninsula is a panoramic synthesis of the Iberian Peninsula. It book provides a comprehensive overview of all of the Christian kingdoms and Islam in the Iberian Peninsula and provides students with a better understanding of the military interconnections across medieval and early modern Iberia.

War in the Iberian Peninsula is a panoramic synthesis of the Iberian Peninsula. It book provides a comprehensive overview of all of the Christian kingdoms and Islam in the Iberian Peninsula and provides students with a better understanding of the military interconnections across medieval and early modern Iberia.

This volume seeks to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods.

This volume seeks to increase understanding of the origins, ideology, implementation, impact and historiography of religion and conflict in the medieval and early modern periods.

"The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England explores the rise of consumerism from the end of the medieval period through to the beginning of the nineteenth century"--

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c. 1350 to c. 1650.

Drawing together an international team of historians, lawyers and historical sociolinguists, this volume investigates urban cultures of law in Scotland, with a special focus on Aberdeen and its rich civic archive, the Low Countries, Norway, Germany and Poland from c. 1350 to c. 1650.

Writing War in Britain and France, 1370-1854 explores the ways in which writing in various genres and forms has helped create war as an emotional experience in Western cultural tradition.