This book investigates the circulation, regulation, and interpretation of magical texts, focusing on the Clavicula Salomonis (Key of Solomon), one of the most sought-after and feared books of the time. Drawing on inquisitorial record...Lasīt vairāk
Cursed Blessings explores the relationship between sexual nonconformity and religious radical dissent in the early modern western European world. Cursed Blessings explores the relationship betwee...Lasīt vairāk
Why were eschatological movements so pervasive in early modern times? This volume provides some answers to this question by exploring the interconnected histories of confessions and religions from Moscow to Cusco. Eschatology played a cent...Lasīt vairāk
Extending beyond an individual case study to a granular and probing account of the many connections between Venetian physicians and heterodox religious movements in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, this innovative monograph reveals the heretic...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first encompassing history of diasporas in Europe between 1500 and 1800. This book is the first encompassing history of diasporas in Europe between 1500 and 1800. Huguenots, Sephardim, British Catholics, Men...Lasīt vairāk
Challenging traditional historiographical approaches, this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the early modern age. The fortunes of the Jewish communities of Italy in their various aspects demographic, social, economic, cultural, and r...Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on bodies and conflicts over bodily practices. It will appeal to scholars and students of early modern Europe and the Americas, as well as those interested in religious and gender history, and the history of dissent....Lasīt vairāk
Girolamo Donzellini was born in 1513. He was a religious dissenter, a physician and a bibliophile involved in the Medical Republic of Letters. He was put to death by the Venetian Inquisition in 1587, after being tried five times in his lifetime. Ext...Lasīt vairāk
Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against th...Lasīt vairāk
Challenging traditional historiographical approaches, this book offers a new history of Italian Jews in the Early Modern age. The fortunes of the Jewish communities of Italy in their various aspects-demographic, social, economic, cultural, and relig...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. It engages with the myth of International Protestantism, while also interrogating Britain as an imagined Protest...Lasīt vairāk
In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to individual appropriation and to evasion of church a...Lasīt vairāk
This book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. Continental Europe was considered a missionary landanother periphery of the world, whose centre was impe...Lasīt vairāk
