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

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Contesting the English Polity, 1660-1688
  • Religion, Politics, and Ideas
  • Mark Goldie
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 December 2023
    Print publication:
    19 September 2023
  • What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church and state should be? And how did this thinking evolve?

Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690
  • Royalist Politics, Religion and Ideas
  • Clare Jackson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 March 2023
    Print publication:
    01 October 2002
  • The first modern account of the advancement of political and religious ideas in Scotland in the years between the Restoration of Charles II and the collapse of royal authority under James VII and II.

Hanover and the British Empire, 1700-1837
  • Nick Harding
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 March 2023
    Print publication:
    21 June 2007
  • A reappraisal of the links between Hanover and Great Britain, highlighting their previously un-explored importance.

Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England
  • Jason McElligott
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 March 2023
    Print publication:
    16 October 2007
  • A study of the content and methods of royalist propaganda via newsbooks in the crucial period following the end of the first civil war.

London's News Press and the Thirty Years War
  • Jayne E. E. Boys
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 March 2023
    Print publication:
    18 September 2014
  • A topical subject offering interesting parallels between the news revolution in the age of James I and Charles I and our internet age. An important contribution to the history of print and books.

Alehouses and Good Fellowship in Early Modern England
  • Mark Hailwood
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 October 2014
  • Representing a history of drinking 'from below', this book explores the role of the alehouse in seventeenth-century English society.

Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions
  • Edited by Sharon Adams, Julian Goodare
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    28 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 October 2014
  • The seventeenth century was one of the most dramatic periods in Scotland's history, with two political revolutions, intense religious strife culminating in the beginnings of toleration, and the modernisation of the state and its infrastructure. This book focuses on the history that the Scots themselves made.

Social Relations and Urban Space
  • Norwich, 1600–1700
  • Fiona Williamson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 February 2023
    Print publication:
    16 October 2014
  • This book offers an insight into the social relationships and topographies that fashioned both city life and landscape and serves as a useful counterpoise in a field that has largely focused on London.

Culture and Politics at the Court of Charles II, 1660-1685
  • Matthew Jenkinson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 February 2023
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010
  • A study of how representations and images of Charles II and his kingship were formed and presented by those in and around the court.

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.

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.

Scotland and the Wider World

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.

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.

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.

Domestic Culture in Early Modern England
  • Antony Buxton
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2021
    Print publication:
    15 October 2015
  • This book is a detailed study of the domestic life of the early modern, non-elite household, focussing on the Oxfordshire market town of Thame. Going beyond the exploration of the domestic economy and trends in living standards and consumption, it shows how close examination of the material context within which the household operated can provide evidence of its habitual activities, the relationships between its members, and the values that informed both. The book uses a familiar source, the probate inventory, supplemented by other contemporary written and pictorial evidence, to reveal how activities in the household were directly related to the agricultural, mercantile, and social environment. It illustrates the variable and shifting nature of social relationships and shows how the early modern household was part of the wider economic and social narrative of modernism and how it responded to altered modes of production and consumption, social allegiances, and ideologies.Offering new perspectives to reinvigorate the discussion of domestic relationships and rigorously examine the vexed question of change, Domestic Culture in Early Modern England will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of material culture as well as historians of the household and family more generally.

    Antony Buxton lectures on design history, material and domestic culture for the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford and other institutions. He has published articles in various scholarly journals and holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.

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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