Early Modern

Books reviewed: Anthony Grafton, Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer W. R. Newman and A. Grafton (eds), Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe Elizabeth Vandiver, Ralph Keen and Thomas D. Frazel (eds), Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther Julius R. Ruff, Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500–1800 Mark Stoyle, West Britons: Cornish Identities and the Early Modern British State Michael J. Braddick and John Walter (eds), Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland Will Coster, Family and Kinship in England 1450–1800 P. Borsay and L. Proudfoot (eds), Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland: Change, Convergence and Divergence Donald McCrory, No Ordinary Man. The Life and Times of Miguel de Cervantes Sharon Kettering, Patronage in Sixteenth‐ and Seventeenth‐Century France Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer (eds), Society and Culture in the Huguenot World 1559–1685 Benjamin Schmidt, Innocence Abroad: The Dutch Imagination and the New World, 1570–1670 Karen Skovgaard‐Petersen, Historiography at the Court of Christian IV (1588–1648): Studies in the Latin Histories of Denmark by Johannes Pontanus and Johannes Meursius Alastair Bellany, The Politics of Court Scandal in Early Modern England: News Culture and the Overbury Affair, 1603–1660 Blair Worden, Roundhead Reputations. The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity John Kenyon and Jane Ohlmeyer (eds), The Civil Wars: A Military History of England, Scotland and Ireland 1638–1660 Michael Mendle (ed), The Putney Debates of 1647. The Army, the Levellers and the English State Gerald Aylmer, The Crown's Servants: Government and Civil Service under Charles II, 1660–1685 Paul Bushkovitch, Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671–1725 Robin Nicholson, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Making of a Myth: A Study in Portraiture, 1720–1892 Naomi Tadmor, Family and Friends in Eighteenth‐Century England Tom Williamson, The Transformation of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape 1700–1870 David Boyd Haycock, William Stukeley: Science, Religion and Archaeology in Eighteenth‐Century England James Van Horn Melton, The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe Mona Scheuermann, In Praise of Poverty: Hannah More Counters Thomas Paine and the Radical Threat