Early Modern Jesuits between Obedience and Conscience during the Generalate of Claudio Acquaviva (1581-1615)
The Society of Jesus was founded on a principal of strict obedience to papal authority, yet the...
EAN: 9781032927107
Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater
Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential...
EAN: 9781032926292
Public Religious Disputation in England, 1558–1626
With a focus on England from the accession of Elizabeth I to the mid-1620s, this book examines...
EAN: 9781032925127
Early Modern Child in Art and History
Childhood is not only a biological age, it is also a social construct. The essays in this...
EAN: 9781032924977
Retailing and the Language of Goods, 1550-1820
This book explores the meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their...
EAN: 9781032924861
Satan and the Scots
Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and...
EAN: 9781032924571
Juan de Valdes and the Italian Reformation
This book traces the origins of Juan de ValdĂ©s’ religious experience, and underlines the large...
EAN: 9781032923970
Menstruation and Procreation in Early Modern France
Early modern bodies, particularly menstruating and pregnant bodies, were not stable signifiers....
EAN: 9781032923925
Heinrich Heshusius and Confessional Polemic in Early Lutheran Orthodoxy
Heinrich Heshusius (1556-97) became a leading church superintendent and polemicist during the...
EAN: 9781032923376
Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer
Early Modern Dynastic Marriages and Cultural Transfer examines marriage as an important agent of...
EAN: 9781032923147
Anatomy and Anatomists in Early Modern Spain
Taking the Vesalian anatomical revolution as its point of departure, this volume charts the...
EAN: 9781032923055
Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800
Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500-1800 provides a new perspective on the...
EAN: 9781032923017
Early Modern Habsburg Women
Through archival documents, pictorial and historical accounts, literature, and correspondence, as...
EAN: 9781032922584
Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Theater
The essays in this volume investigate English, Italian, Spanish, German, Czech, and Bengali early...
EAN: 9781032922225
Women's Voices in Tudor Wills, 1485–1603
Contributing an original dimension to the study of women in 16th-century England, this pioneering...
EAN: 9781032921846
Devout Laywomen in the Early Modern World
Focusing specifically on semi-religious women, this volume addresses a number of provocative...
EAN: 9781032920726
Printed Images in Early Modern Britain
Printed images were widely disseminated in early-modern Britain, yet, by comparison with texts,...
EAN: 9781032920627
Practical Predestinarians in England, c. 1590–1640
The belief that God eternally and unalterably decrees the election of one part of humankind and...
EAN: 9781032920597
Michelangelo and the English Martyrs
This book uses a broadsheet print of the martyrdom of the Carthusians of the London Charterhouse...
EAN: 9781032920375
Ceremonial Entries in Early Modern Europe
The essays in this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages,...
EAN: 9781032920368
Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
The eighteenth century is renowned for the publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the...
EAN: 9781032919102
Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
Three major developments in English lexicography took place during the seventeenth century: the...
EAN: 9781032918525
Ashgate Critical Essays on Early English Lexicographers
The teaching of Latin remained important after the Conquest but Anglo-Norman now became a...
EAN: 9781032918471
European Theatre Performance Practice, 1400-1580
This volume brings together important records of medieval theatre practice between 1400 and 1580....
EAN: 9781032918464
