This is a comprehensive and deeply perceptive study of women's experience across the European continent into Russia and the Ottoman Islamic East. Its richly learned exploration of women's lives across religions and cultures offers a persuasive argument for the reality of early modern Europe as 'Big [...]
In this text, the author offers an account of a society struggling to minimize the considerable social and psychic dislocation that accompanied England's launch of a full-scale market economy. Drawing upon family papers and court records, she attempts to show what people thought, felt and valued.[...]
Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to[...]