In the summer, no less than five new books were published by Routledge in the series Microhistories:
Angelo Torre’s Production of Locality in the Early Modern and Modern Age: Places. The book is a microhistory study of village settlements in early modern Northwest Italy that aims to expand the notion of place to include the process of producing a locality; that is, the production of native local subjects through practices, rituals and other forms of collective action.
Update: the publication of the book of Angelo Torre was postponed to November 2019.
Tyge Krogh’s The Great Nightmen Conspiracy: A Tale of the 18th Century’s Dishonourable Underworld, in which the author explores the little-known magico-religious history of eighteenth-century Denmark.
Gary G. Gibbs’s Five Parishes in Late Medieval and Tudor England presents linked microhistorical studies of five London parishes, using their own parish records to reconstruct their individual operations, religious practices, and societies.
Margaret Murányi Manchester’s Puritan Family and Community in the English Atlantic World: Being “Much Afflicted with Conscience” examines the dynamics of marriage, family and community life during the “Great Migration” through the microhistorical study of one puritan family in 1638 Rhode Island.
Thomas V. Cohen’s Roman Tales explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory. It outlines the main principles of microhistorical research and draws the reader outwards towards a wider exploration and discovery of sixteenth-century Rome.