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Dress is a key marker of difference. It is closely attached to the body, part of the daily routine, and an unavoidable means of communication. The clothes people wear tell stories about their allegiances and identities but also about their exclusion and stigmatization. They allow for the display of wealth and can mercilessly display poverty and indigence. Clothes also enable people to play with identities and affinities: for instance, individuals can claim higher social status via their clothes. In many ways, dress is thus open to manipulation by the wearer and misinterpretation by the observer. Authorities-whether religious or secular, local or regional-have always aimed at imposing order on this potential muddle. This is particularly true for the early modern era, when the world became ever more complex. In Europe, the composition of societies diversified with the emergence of new social groups and increasing migration and travel. Thanks to intensified long-distance trade and technological developments, new fashionable clothes and accessories entered the market. With the emergence of a consumer culture, it was now the case that not only the extremely wealthy could afford at least the occasional indulgence in luxury items and accessories. Over recent years, research has focused on a variety of areas related to dress and appearance in the context of early-modern political, socio-economic, and cultural transformations both within Europe and related to its entanglement with other parts of the world. Nevertheless, a significant compartmentalization in the research on dress and appearance remains: research is often organized around particular cities and territories, and much research is still framed by modern national boundaries. This special issue looks at dress and its perception in Europe from a transcultural perspective and highlights the many differences that clothing can express.

European history --- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 --- body --- dress --- clothing --- transculturality

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This book situates witchcraft drama within its cultural and intellectual context, highlighting the centrality of scepticism and belief in witchcraft to the genre. It is argued that these categories are most fruitfully understood not as static and mutually exclusive positions within the debate around witchcraft, but as rhetorical tools used within it. In drama, too, scepticism and belief are vital issues. The psychology of the witch character is characterised by a combination of impious scepticism towards God and credulous belief in the tricks of the witch’s master, the devil. Plays which present plausible depictions of witches typically use scepticism as a support: the witch’s power is subject to important limitations which make it easier to believe. Plays that take witchcraft less seriously present witches with unrestrained power, an excess of belief which ultimately induces scepticism. But scepticism towards witchcraft can become a veneer of rationality concealing other beliefs that pass without sceptical examination. The theatrical representation of witchcraft powerfully demonstrates its uncertain status as a historical and intellectual phenomenon; belief and scepticism in witchcraft drama are always found together, in creative tension with one another.

Literary studies: plays & playwrights --- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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This work provides an in-depth description of the juridical framework in which the Italian book trade operated during the Renaissance. It is a multi-authored work that discusses issues related to intellectual, literary and artistic proto-property by taking into account some of the main urban centers of pre-unitary Italy such as Venice, Milan and Rome. It investigates the different legal systems put in place by the states and the dynamics that generated around them. The volume frames the topic at task within the general discourse on technologic innovation and state patronage in economic history hence exploring patenting systems (e.g., Florence and Venice) along with book privilege systems (e.g., Milan and Venice). In so doing it also investigates instances of conflicting interests occuring between the political and the economic sphere (e.g., Rome and Venice).

History --- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 --- Renaissance, Printing privileges, Book trade, Venice, Rome, Milan, Guilds, Legal protection --- Renaissance, Printing privileges, Book trade, Venice, Rome, Milan, Guilds, Legal protection

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This book charts the lives of (suspected) thieves, illegitimate mothers and vagrants in early modern Frankfurt. The book highlights the gender differences in recorded criminality and the way that they were shaped by the local context. Women played a prominent role in recorded crime in this period, and could even make up half of all defendants in specific European cities. At the same time, there were also large regional differences. Women’s crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to those of other cities. Informal control within the household played a significant role and influenced the prosecution patterns of authorities. This impacted men and women differently, and created clear distinctions within the system between settled locals and unsettled migrants.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Criminology. Victimology --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Frankfurt am Main --- Female offenders --- Crime --- Social control --- Social conflict --- Sociology --- Liberty --- Pressure groups --- City crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- Delinquent women --- Offenders, Female --- Women --- Women criminals --- Women offenders --- History --- Social aspects --- E-books --- History. --- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700

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This collection of essays offers important new insights across a range of topics relating to medicine in early modern Ireland. Of particular note is the substantial attention devoted to the often neglected period before 1750. Among the key subjects addressed by the contributors are Gaelic medicine, warfare, the impact of new medical ideas, migration, patterns of disease, midwifery and childbirth, book collecting, natural history, and urban medicine. The twelve essays effectively situate Irish medicine in relation to long-term social and cultural change on the island, as well as to appropriate international contexts; British, European and Atlantic. Early Modern Ireland and the world of medicine brings together a selection of established scholars as well as early career historians. It will be of interest to academics and students of the history of early modern medicine. It also contains much that will be essential reading for historians of Ireland.

Medical care --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Medizin --- Social medicine. --- Medicine. --- Medical care. --- History, Modern 1601 --- -History, Early Modern 1451-1600. --- History of Medicine. --- Medicine --- History. --- Irland --- Ireland. --- Northern Ireland. --- Medical sociology --- Medicine, Social --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Health Workforce --- Social aspects --- Irish Free State --- Irlande --- Éire --- Poblacht na hÉireann --- Republic of Ireland --- Írország --- Irlanda --- Irish Republic --- Airlann --- アイルランド --- Airurando --- Irlanti --- G.N.I. --- GNI --- Irlande du Nord --- Kita Airurando --- Kitairurando --- Nordirland --- Norlin Airlann --- Pohjois-Irlanti --- Severna Irlandii︠a︡ --- Tuaisceart Éireann --- 北アイルランド --- Ireland --- Warfare --- 1641 Rebellion --- 1641 Depositions --- Sickness --- Disease --- Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 --- HISTORY / Europe / Ireland --- Staat Irland --- Éire --- Poblacht na h'Eireann --- Republik Irland --- Saorstát Éireann --- Eire --- Insel --- Iren