Modern History: Recent submissions
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Le orecchie si piene di Fiandra : Italian news and histories on the Revolt in the Netherlands (1566-1648)
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisThis thesis examines the Italian news reports, political debates and histories of the revolt in the Netherlands between 1566 and 1648. Many Italians were directly involved in this conflict and were keen narrators of these ... -
A failed alliance and expanding horizons : relations between the Austrian Habsburgs and the Safavid Persians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-26) - ThesisThroughout the 16th and 17th centuries, both Austria and Persia were each repeatedly at war with the Ottoman Turks. Diplomats travelled between the two countries in an attempt to forge an alliance against their common ... -
Latin books published in Paris, 1501-1540
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06) - ThesisThis is a study of the Parisian Latin book industry in the first four decades of the sixteenth century. It challenges the assumption that the Reformation brought about a profound change in the European print world. Luther’s ... -
Aspects of English law concerning piracy and privateering, 1603-1760
(University of St Andrews, 1990) - ThesisPiracy and privateering are certainly much written about subjects, and there is indeed extensive literature concerning many aspects and facets of the complicated history of the subjects. A glance at the Gosse Collection ... -
"Monarchy as it should be"? : British perceptions of Poland-Lithuania in the long seventeenth century
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-26) - ThesisEarly modern Poland-Lithuania figured significantly in the political perceptions of Europeans in the long seventeenth century – not only due to its considerable size and enormous commercial and military resources, but also, ...