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Performing Girls and Women

This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and profess…

Shakespeare's Christmas

Perfect for fans of Shakespeare to curl up with in the lead up to Christmas.

Eileen O'Neill,

Disappearing Ink

When Eileen O'Neill (1953-2017) published her ground-breaking essay, "Disappearing Ink: Early Modern Women Philosophers and the History of Philosophy" in 1998, women philosophers were virtually …

Blessin Adams

Thou Savage Woman

'Popular history at its best' Spectator'Boisterous... replete with stabbings, bashing and thumping' Daily Mail

Lloyd Miller (geb. 1938)

Oriental Jazz

Elly Robson Dezateux

Violent Waters

How were environments and politics remade by sovereigns, floods, mapmakers, migrants, rioters, and writers during wetland improvement projects in early modern England? Violent Waters examines flagship ven…

Lowell Duckert

Arcticologies

Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming futureDo we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern European texts to trace how representations of frigidity fr…

Noria K Litaker

Bedazzled Saints

Winner of the Sixteenth Century Society Gerald Strauss Book Award Shortlisted for the Ecclesiastical History Society Book Award The defense of the cult of saints and relics was an essential element of the…

Olivia Weisser

The Dreaded Pox

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, venereal disease, or the 'pox,' was a dreaded diagnosis throughout Europe. Its ghastly marks, along with their inexorable link to sex, were so stigmatizing tha…

Lowell Duckert

Arcticologies

Exploring the frozen past to rethink our warming futureDo we really know what cold is? In Arcticologies, Lowell Duckert delves into early modern European texts to trace how representations of frigidity fr…

Elaine M Fisher

The Meeting of Rivers

The Meeting of Rivers reconstructs the prehistory of India's newest religion, Virasaivism (or Lingayatism) from its own voices, drawing on unstudied and unpublished archival sources in several south India…

P E Easterling

Studies in Greek Literature: Volume 2, Early Greek Literature, Reception, Ancient and Modern Scholarship

Pat Easterling's articles are fundamental to her status as one of the most influential Hellenists of her generation. Characterised by unostentatious astuteness and an arresting capacity for observation, t…

The Students and Their Books

In the practices of teaching and learning in the academy of the early modern age, epochal factors intervene, such as the rupture of the religious-ideological unity of the West, the spread of the printing …

Clare Egan

Performing Libel in the Provinces

A study of the dramatic traditions and literary features of private libel occurring in the provinces during the reign of James I. The book focuses on the libel cases between private individuals tried in t…

Richard Barnfield's Poetics

Richard Barnfield is sometimes considered the rival poet in Shakespeare's sonnets but has been relatively neglected in studies of early modern English poetry.This edited collection situates Barnfield's po…

Helena Taylor

Women Writing Antiquity

Considers classical reception in the works of women writers of the long seventeenth century in France to demonstrate how their engagements with the literature and traditions of classical antiquity were co…

Fumiko Joo

Peony Lantern Tales

""The Story of the Peony Lantern" by the Chinese author Qu You (1347-1433) travelled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in …

Hilaire Kallendorf

Perilous Passions

Perilous Passions explores the ethical implications of emotion in Spanish Golden Age theatre.

Erin Griffey

Facing Decay

"Examines how early modern women sought to preserve youth and combat signs of aging through therapeutic cosmetics. Explores beauty practices as sites of medical knowledge, scientific innovation, and …