Articles

Rudi Matthee

Merchants in Safavid Iran: Participants and Perceptions

Beauty and the Beast: Art and Science in Early Modern Equine Imagery

Interracial Outposts in Siberia: Nerchinsk, Kiakhta, and the Russo-Chinese Trade in the Seventeenth/Eighteenth Centuries

Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Un Grand Dérangement: Dreaming an Indo-Persian Empire in South Asia, 1740-1800

Joel Budd

Rethinking Iconoclasm in Early Modern England: The Case of Cheapside Cross

Thomas Freller

"Adversus Infideles": Some Notes on the Cavalier's Tour, the Fleet of the Order of St. John, and the Maltese Corsairs

Varia

Heinz Schilling

The Cold Hero of the Retreat
 

Book Review Section

Review Articles

Brian Pullan

Religion and the Rise of Poor Relief

Grell and Cunningham, editors, Health Care and Poor Relief in Protestant Europe 1500-1700 (London and New York: Routledge, 1997)

David Trim

Holy War and English Culture under Elizabeth I: Rhetoric and Reality

Highley, Shakespeare, Spenser and the Crisis in Ireland (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

Malette, Spenser and the Discourses of Reformation England (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1997)

Nolan, Sir John Norreys and the Elizabethan Military World (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997)

Paul Sonnino

Some Mischievous Questions about the Treaty of Rijswijk

Duchhardt, Schnettger and Vogt, Der Friede von Rijswijk (Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1998)

Book Reviews:

• Twichett and Mote, editors, The Cambridge History of China, Volume Eight: The Ming Dynasty 1368-1644, Part 2 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Russell-Wood, The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808. A World on the Move (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)
• Matar, Islam in Britain, 1558-1685 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Pearson, Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)
• Naphy and Roberts, editors, Fear in Early Modern Society (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1997)
• Camille, Mirror in Parchment. The Luttrell Psalter and the Making of Medieval England (London: Reaktion Books Ltd., 1998)
• Hall, Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology and Tactics (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
• Miller, Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)
• Quinn, European Approaches to North America, 1450-1640 (Aldershot: Ashgate, Variorum)
• Bergier, Pour une histoire des Alpes, Moyen Age et Temps Modern (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1997)
• Zagorin, Francis Bacon (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998)
• Haakonssen, Natural Law and Moral Philosophy. From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
• Walker, editor, Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998)
• Sharp, editor, The English Levellers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Kümin, The Shaping of a Community: The Rise and Reformation of the English Parish c. 1400-1560 (Aldershot: Scholar Press, 1996)
• Graves, Burghley: William Cecil, Lord Burghley (London and New York: Longman, 1998)
• Sharpe, Crime in Early Modern England 1550-1750, second edition (Harlow, Essex: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998)
• Okenfuss, The Rise and Fall of Latin Humanism in Early Modern Russia. Pagan Authors, Ukrainians, and the Resiliency of Muscovy (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995)
• Roberts, Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalsim in Eighteenth-Century Tosa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Wheatcroft, The Habsburgs. Embodying Empire (London: Penguin, 1995)
• Bradshaw and Roberts, editors, British Consciousness and Identity. The Making of Britain, 1533-1707 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Sneschka, Die Juden zwischen Toleranz und Völkerrecht im Osmanischen Reich: die Wirtschaftstätigkeit der Juden im Osmanischen Reich (die Südosteuropaländer) vom 15. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 1997)
• Taithe and Thornton, editors, Prophecy. The Power of Inspired Language in History 1300-2000 (Phoenix Mill: Sutton Publishing, 1997)
• Rusconi, editor, Sullivan, translator, The Book of the Prophecies edited by Christopher Columbus (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)
• Cogswell, Home Divisions: Aristocracy, the State and Provincial Conflict (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998)
• Wolffe, Gentry Leaders in Peace and War: The Gentry Governors of Devon in the Early Seventeenth Century (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1997)
• Gadoffre, La Révolution Culturelle dans la France des Humanistes: Guillaume Budé et François 1er (Geneva: Droz Titre Courant 8, 1997)
• Sella, Italy in the Seventeenth Century (London and New York: Longman, 1997)
• Rogers, Crowds, Culture and Politics in Georgian Britain (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998)
• Picard, Restoration London: From Poverty to Pets, from Medicine to Magic, from Slang to Sex, from Wallpaper to Women's Rights (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997)
• Baron and Kollmann, editors, Religion and Culture in Early Modern Russia and Ukraine (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1997)
• D'Accone, The Civic Muse: Music and Musicians in Siena during the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1997)