Cultural Study of Yiddish in Early Modern Europe
A unique analysis of the intensive interest in Jewish culture of early modern Christian Humanists...
EAN: 9781403975478
Contexts of Conscience in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
In the early modern period, the conscience stood as a powerful mediator between God and man,...
EAN: 9781403915658
Memory, Print, and Gender in England, 1653-1759
This book surveys the genesis of the modern conception of memory where gender becomes crucial to...
EAN: 9780230607910
Human Nature in Rural Tuscany
Melding evolutionary theory and both animal and human ethology together with close, descriptive...
EAN: 9781403977649
Theatre Under Louis XIV
This book explores the fascinating phenomenon of cross-casting and related gender issues in...
EAN: 9781403975188
Literary Career and Legacy of Elizabeth Cary, 1613-1680
This is the first book to study the work and influence of Elizabeth Cary, author of the first...
EAN: 9781403970169
State, Power and Community in Early Modern Russia
State, Power and Community in Early Modern Russia is a vivid reconstruction of life in one of the...
EAN: 9781403932136
Literary Culture in Jacobean England
Well-known works by writers such as Donne, Burton, Middleton, and Ralegh, are examined alongside...
EAN: 9781403900739
Peter the Great and the West
From a glimpse of Russian court life through private letters, portraits of Peter and a...
EAN: 9780333920091
Crown, Church and Estates
This book deals with a turning-point in European history: the dramatic struggle between the...
EAN: 9780333485682
Renaissance Literature and its Formal Engagements
Essays by Paul Alpers, Douglas Bruster, Stephen Cohen, Heather Dubrow, William Flesch, Joseph...
EAN: 9780312293598
Travel and Experience in Early Modern English Literature
This study considers how a range of prose texts register, and help to shape, the early modern...
EAN: 9780230602984
Renaissance Literature and its Formal Engagements
Essays by Paul Alpers, Douglas Bruster, Stephen Cohen, Heather Dubrow, William Flesch, Joseph...
EAN: 9780312293604
Balance of Power
The author seeks on this basis to examine the character of the system as a whole: in particular...
EAN: 9780333550465
Sir Walter Ralegh and his Readers in the Seventeenth Century
Sir Walter Ralegh created a powerful public identity by means of the prose texts he wrote from...
EAN: 9780333660768
Shakespeare: Out of Court
This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It,...
EAN: 9780333474358
Birthpangs of Protestant England
'...a masterly study.' Alister McGrath, Theological Book Review '...a splendid read.'...
EAN: 9780333543078
Texts and Cultural Change in Early Modern England
This is a wide-ranging collection on the cultural placement and transmission of texts between...
EAN: 9780333662878
Great and Horrible News
‘Grimly fascinating … engrossing’ Daily Mail NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE...
EAN: 9780008500221
Commerce, Food, and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England and France
EAN: 9789463720175
Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780
Now available in paperback, this volume offers readers discussions of the entire range of...
EAN: 9780521781442
What is a Playhouse?
This book offers an accessible introduction to England’s sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century...
EAN: 9781032138879
