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.

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Manuscripts should be in the range of 80,000 to 100,000 words. Proposals should be eight to ten pages in length and should include a brief overview of the relevant scholarship in the field, the contribution which your work will make to the field, a breakdown of the contents by chapter, an account of the number and type of illustrations, the length, competing books, and the intended audience. Proposals should include a sample chapter.

Submissions are invited from individuals who have recently complete PhD theses, as well as postdoctoral students and established scholars, and proposals should be sent (in hard copy and by electronic attachment) to one of the series editors: Dr Jason Peacey, Department of History, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT (jtpeacey@yahoo.co.uk); 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 Ted 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); Dr Krista Kesselring, Department of History, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P9, Canada (krista.kesselring@dal.ca).

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)

Jason Peacey is Lecturer in History at University College London. He is editor of The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I (2001), co-editor of Parliament at Work (2002), and author of Politicians and Pamphleteers. Propaganda in the Civil Wars and Interregnum (2004). He is currently preparing a monograph entitled Print Culture and Political Participation in Britain, 1640-1660.

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

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).

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