Early Modern

Books written during or set in the Early Modern period or the Renaissance in Europe or the New World.

Although the chronological limits of the period are open to debate, the timeframe spans the period after the late portion of the Middle Ages (c. 1500) through the beginning of the Age of Revolutions (c. 1800) and is variously demarcated by historians as beginning with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, with the Renaissance or the Age of Discovery and ending with the French Revolution in 1789.

Hamlet
Othello
King Lear
The Tempest
Romeo and Juliet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Macbeth
Dr. Faustus
Paradise Lost
The Merchant of Venice
Twelfth Night
Much Ado About Nothing
Titus Andronicus
Don Quixote
The Winter's Tale
The Transformations of Magic by Frank KlaassenMaking Magic in Elizabethan England by Frank F. KlaassenThe Magic of Rogues by Frank KlaassenConjuring Spirits by Claire FangerEveryday Magicians by Sharon Hubbs Wright
Medieval and Renaissance Magic
75 books — 1 voter
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareA Midsummer Night’s Dream by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareKing Lear by William Shakespeare
The Complete Shakespeare
51 books — 31 voters

The Cheese and the Worms by Carlo GinzburgCivilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century, Vol. 1 by Fernand BraudelLongitude by Dava SobelThe World Turned Upside Down by Christopher      HillThe Petrine Instauration by Robert Collis
Early Modern History, c.1400-1800
188 books — 7 voters
Blood & Beauty by Sarah DunantThe Borgia Bride by Jeanne KalogridisThe Family by Mario PuzoPoison by Sara PooleMadonna of the Seven Hills by Jean Plaidy
Best Books about the Borgia Family
69 books — 170 voters

John Donne
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, The Element of fire is quite put out; The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit Can well direct him where to looke for it ... 'Tis all in peeces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all Relation. ...more
John Donne, An Anatomy of the World: Wherein, by Occasion of the Untimely Death of Mistris Elizabeth Drury ...

Reinhart Koselleck
Heresy no longer existed within religion; it was founded in the state.
Reinhart Koselleck, Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time

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