Books in the Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge series

The essays in this volume highlight the agency, intentionality, and creativity of individuals and groups in the making of sensory knowledge across the early modern period, from approximately 1500 to 1700.

This edited volume examines the role of religion in diplomacy in early modern Europe since the Reformations. It addresses three main areas where questions of religion or confession played a role for monarchies: Papal diplomacy, priests and other clerics as diplomatic agents, and religion as a question for diplomatic debate.

This book is addressed to researchers interested in the analysis of the mechanisms of political representation, parliamentary institutions and practices in early modern Europe. The main objective consists in offering a connected and comparative view through a range of rarely analysed case studies in a global perspective.

Under Peter Leopold (r. 1765-90), Tuscany became the most important laboratory of Enlightened reform in all of Europe. Few societies underwent as many reforms in such a short period or were transformed as dramatically. Tuscany illustrates the possibilities and the limits of Enlightenment.