Political and Popular Culture in the Early Modern Period

Series Editors: Alastair Bellany, Krista Kesselring, Jason Peacey and Edward Vallance

The early modern period is widely recognized as being of profound historical importance. It encompassed upheavals in church, state, politics and society, and it spans the transition from baronial wars to constitutional monarchy, and from feudal society to the emergence of the ‘fiscal military state’ and commercial society. Internationally, it witnessed confessional wars and tensions over trade and empire, as Britain and its European neighbours expanded into the Atlantic world.

The aim of this series, therefore, is to explore political life during the early modern period in all of its complexity and subtlety, exploring any aspect of social, economic, religious and intellectual life which can be shown to have shed light upon political life and the ways in which it developed.

Send us a Proposal

We invite submissions from established scholars and first-time authors alike. Prospective authors should send a detailed proposal with a rationale, chapter outlines and at least two sample chapters alongside a brief author's biography and an anticipated submission date.

Proposals should be sent to one of the series editors: Dr Alastair Bellany, Department of History, Rutgers University, 111 Van Dyck Hall, 16 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA (bellany@rci.rutgers.edu); Dr Krista Kesselring, Department of History, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P9, Canada (krista.kesselring@dal.ca); Dr Jason Peacey, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT (j.peacey@ucl.ac.uk); Dr Edward Vallance, Reader in Early Modern History, School of Arts, Howard Building, Digby Stuart College, Roehampton University, Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PH (edward.vallance@roehampton.ac.uk).

For detailed information on submitting a proposal, including an example of a successful submission, please click here.

Readership

The chief audience for these works will be scholars and advanced students of early modern Britain and Europe, and the libraries which serve them. Since these studies will be interdisciplinary in nature, however, it is expected that they will appeal to readers beyond a narrow range of historians, and that they will also appeal to those whose primary focus is early modern literature, religion, and even art history. Since it is envisaged that these books will help to develop new methodological insights and approaches, however, it it also hoped that they will draw attention from scholars working outside the early modern period.

Editorial board

Alastair Bellany is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. His major publications include The Politics of Court Scandal In Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603–1660 (2002), and a co-edited online database entitled Early Stuart Libels: An Edition of Poetry from Manuscript Sources (2005).

Krista Kesselring is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University. She is the author of Mercy and Authority in the Tudor State (2003) and The Northern Rebellion of 1569: Faith, Politics, and Protest in Elizabethan England (2007).

Jason Peacey is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University College London. Recent publications include, 'Radicalism relocated: royalist pamphleteering in the late 1640s', in A Hessayon and D Finnegan (eds), Varieties of Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century English Radicalism in Context (2011) and 'The good old cause for which I suffer: the life of a regicide in exile', in P Major and L Jardine (eds), Literature of Exile in the English Revolution and its Aftermath (2010).

Edward (Ted) Vallance is Reader in Early Modern History at Roehampton University. He is the author of Revolutionary England and the National Covenant: State Oaths Protestantism and the Political Nation (2005), The Glorious Revolution: 1688 and Britain's Fight for Liberty (2006), and co-editor of Contexts of Conscience in Early Modern Europe (2003).

Published titles

Forthcoming titles

The Musical Iconography of Power in Seventeenth-Century Spain and Her Territories
Sara Gonzalez
(November 2013)

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