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Combining the deepest erudition with lively discussion, Alastair Minnis opens up a compelling area of Medieval scholarship. ... He shows how thinking about paradise enabled Medieval and Early Modern minds not simply to wonder what Eden might have been

social role of Herrick’s poetry, and also on “the mechanics of scribal publication and the culture of reading, writing and performing poetry and music in early modern England” (II.5). ... The account of the printing and publishing

Toggle navigation. Main navigation. Study. Research. About. People. Medieval Economic and Social History. Seminar or event series. Cambridge has a strong tradition in the economic and social history of the middle ages, and this seminar has long been

His dissertation, “Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences,” explored how Jesuit missionaries’ experiences of the collapse of the Ming dynasty in 1644 transformed several ostensibly “European” sciences

Kerr Dissertation Awards. We congratulate him on this prestigious award. "Yahya Nurgat’s dissertation advances and nuances current scholarship on confessionalization in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire through a sophisticated investigation

that these Romano-British origins ‘have been insufficiently attested by scholarship on the early modern period’ (14) is to overlook the recent contributions of Lynn Staley and others to these ... While the study underplays the amount of recent

Brownlee’s first chapter focuses on how ordinary Protestants found personal meaning in the scriptures, quoting current scholarship, early modern admonitions from Thomas Cranmer, William Tyndale, and John Downham (among others). ... Brownlee’s fourth

Humanist scholarship has argued at times that “humanity” in its modern sense is a creation of the early modern period (specifically a creation of Shakespeare’s, if one believes Harold ... As a reading of Malory, however, it seems too modern in its

This element of the project may appeal to the more traditional scholar of Spenser, his poetry, and Early Modern Ireland. ... With collaborators at ECU’s University Multimedia Center, Herron has positioned his project as a competent bridge between

Summary. It is fair to say that John Fletcher remains an understudied and underappreciated writer in recent early modern scholarship.

Andrew Hadfield, In the Blood: Spenser, Race, and Identity. Notions of race based on blood and inheritance are widespread in the early modern period. ... This essay explores the losses that Spenser studies has incurred in its neglect of the scholarship

type from her personal experience, rather than actually examining Early Modern print or its records. ... The Making of a Broadside Ballad has introduced enough variables in practice to raise substantial questions that should be addressed by solid

Ultimately, Maus’s book functions best as a provocation rather than a definitive statement about the Early Modern relationship between personhood and property. ... There is certainly an opportunity for cross-pollination between Early Modern and

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls ... How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and

by Ted Tregear. Michelle O’Callaghan, Crafting Poetry Anthologies in Renaissance England: Early Modern Cultures of Recreation. ... While the poets and poems these anthologies collect have been installed in the early modern canon, the anthologies

It would be impossible to exaggerate the contribution of Margaret Hannay to founding and grounding the now burgeoning field of scholarship on Early Modern Women Writers. ... Second, her roles as wife and mother made her sensitive to similar expressions

This is, in short, a formidably learned book that has a claim on the attention of anyone interested in early modern European thought. ... Popper’s topic here is not narrative technique or structure, but Ralegh’s approach to early modern scholarship

by William J. Humphries. Gordon, Andrew. Writing Early Modern London: Memory, Text and Community. ... Nevertheless, a comparative reading of these books allows us to evaluate their contributions to early modern urban scholarship with greater clarity.

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls ... How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and

What was being taught in early modern England? Scholarship on artisanal and technical knowledge has pointed the way towards a history of education and knowledge transfer not limited by the walls ... How can scholars access the experiences of teachers and