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Neostoicism was one of the most important intellectual movements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It started in the Protestant Netherlands during the revolt against Catholic Spain. Very quickly it began to influence both the theory and practice of politics in many parts of Europe. It proved to be particularly useful and appropriate to the early modern militaristic states; for, on the basis of the still generally accepted humanistic values of classical antiquity, it promoted a strong central power in the state, raised above the conflicting doctrines of the theologians. Characteristically, a great part of Neostoic writing was concerned with the nationally organized military institutions of the state. Its aim was the general improvement of social discipline and the education of the citizen to both the exercise and acceptance of bureaucracy, controlled economic life and a large army

This book explores the intersection between geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the lens of religious belief and practice. It presents religion as a driving force in the formulation and everyday workings of the socioeconomic markets of England, Scotland, and Wales

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: creating a context for thinking for oneself -- Identity and orientation -- Self-interest, protest, and the public sphere -- Secrecy and privacy in religious faith and practice -- Self-cultivation, salon culture, and the private academy -- Well-being and the pursuit of happiness -- Values -- Conclusions: Individuality in early modern Japan -- Afterword: Aspects of and resistance to individuality in contemporary Japan -- Bibliography -- Index

Introduction: Approaching early modern exclusion and inclusion / Naomi Pullin and Kathryn Woods -- Domestic exclusions : the politics of the household in early modern England / Bernard Capp -- The language of exclusion : "bastard" in early modern England / Kate Gibson -- Women and religious coexistence in eighteenth-century England / Carys Brown -- Failed friendship and the negotiation of exclusion in eighteenth-century polite society / Naomi Pullin -- The negotiation of inclusion and exclusion in the Westminster Infirmary, 1716-1750 / Kathryn Woods -- Defining the boundaries of community? : experiences of parochial inclusion and pregnancy outside wedlock in early modern England / Charmian Mansell -- Hunting, sociability, and the politics of inclusion and exclusion in early seventeenth-century England / Tom Rose -- Failing at patriarchy : gender, exclusion and violence, 1560-1640 / Susan D. Amussen -- They "know as much at thirteen as if they had been mid-wives of twenty years standing" : girls and sexual knowledge in early modern England / Sarah Toulalan -- Inscription and political exclusion in early modern England / Nicholas Popper -- Afterword / Andrew Spicer.

Rethinking English witchcraft -- The devil in early modern England -- The role of the familiar -- Anger, malice, and emotional control -- Sleeping with devils -- The witchcraft conspiracy -- The core group of witchcraft pamphlets -- Chronological spread of English witchcraft pamphlets

Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Roman Aristocrats in a Resurgent Monarchy -- The Making of the Mater Litigans in Rome -- Domestic Affairs and the Theater of Rome: Hidden and Public Transcripts of Family Life -- 1 Practicing Motherhood When the Definition of""Family"" Is Ambiguous: Anna Colonna and the Barberini Dynasty, 1627-47 -- The Future of Two Dynasties: The Union of Anna and Taddeo -- Love and Trust in a Seventeenth-Century Family -- Competing Allegiances: Dutiful Daughter, Devoted Christian

That regional identities are constructed is now something of a truism in academic research. More recently regions have been conceptualized in the framework of Frontier and Border Studies, thus emphasizing their relationship to their neighbours in another state across a boundary line. In early modern frontier regions, customs and culture, law and languages, and social and administrative structures very often did not conform to national norms – cross-border ties, and acculturation were of the essence of frontier society. The essays of this volume reassess the role of politics in early modern border societies. Recent historiographical trends, so it is argued, have underplayed this, focusing on cultural exchange and transfer rather than on division and exclusion. The authors investigate whether the focus on communality and reciprocity put forward in recent scholarship has not overshadowed the importance of categories such as the rule of law and administrative and other institutional networks based on political power structures which were distinct on the two sides of the border. Difference was and is a common feature in Europe and its borders. Borders themselves provide normative patterns that regulate interaction both between states and border societies. This collection of essays on Frontier and Border Regions in Early Modern Europe addresses a range of problems faced by political authorities in a number of European states c.1500–1800. Instruments of power such as confessional policy, military rule, or the writing of official histories are investigated in their interplay with a regional agenda.

In News Networks 35 scholars from 10 countries give a new account of the history of European news, emphasising its transnational character and the international transmission of forms and modes of news as well as information. Readership: All interested in the histories of news, of the book, and of political culture in early modern Europe.