Books in the Early Modern Themes series

Early Modern Childhood is a detailed and accessible introduction to childhood in the early modern period, which guides students through every part of childhood from infancy to youth and places the early modern child within the broader social context of the period.

Early Modern Emotions is a student-friendly introduction to the concepts, approaches and sources used to study emotions in the early modern period, and to the perspectives that analysis of the history of emotions can offer early modern studies more broadly. The volume is divided into four sections that guide students through the key processes and practices employed in current research on the history of emotions. Each section offers short, accessible commentaries providing students new to the history of emotions the tools to begin their own investigations. This book is the perfect starting point for any student wishing to study early modern emotions.

Early Modern Emotions is a student-friendly introduction to the concepts, approaches and sources used to study emotions in the early modern period, and to the perspectives that analysis of the history of emotions can offer early modern studies more broadly. The volume is divided into four sections that guide students through the key processes and practices employed in current research on the history of emotions. Each section offers short, accessible commentaries providing students new to the history of emotions the tools to begin their own investigations. This book is the perfect starting point for any student wishing to study early modern emotions.

Early Modern Childhood is a detailed and accessible introduction to childhood in the early modern period, which guides students through every part of childhood from infancy to youth and places the early modern child within the broader social context of the period.

A European Perspective. Early Modern Streets provides a comprehensive overview of European urban society between 1450 and 1800 and tackles key questions on how this society was shaped and changed over time. This book addresses important historiographical controversies on order, power, and control, on the relationship between popular and elite culture, and on the appropriation of urban space. It encourages students to reflect critically upon the impact of fundamental changes in early modern society such as the growing role of the state, urbanisation, the disciplining process, and the rise of the public sphere. Early Modern Streets moves

This book supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects - ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made - came to define some of the key developments of the early modern world. It is essential reading for all those interested in the early modern world and the history of material culture.