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Marybeth Hauffe

The Text of Handel´s Messiah

Is Handel's Messiah anti-Judaistic? The question has been coursing through the academic world for some time now. This book shows the oratorio's text to be more often than not in agreement with traditional…

Women Experimenting in Theatre

This collection of essays, covering a broad historical range, shows that women working in theatre and drama since the time of Aphra Behn have been engaged in pushing the boundaries of conventional represe…

Alanna Skuse

Hurt Feelings

This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early modern literature. It looks at depictions of self-injury in ballads, plays, medical texts…

Alessandro Mulieri

Machiavelli, Aristotle and Popular Republicanism

The first study to comprehensively investigate the Aristotelian roots of Niccolò Machiavelli's radical republican thought.

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…

Scott DuBois (geb. 1978)

Autumn Wind

Das sich verändernde Licht des Frühherbstes. Vogelformatio­nen, die durch Regen und Nebel gen Süden ziehen. Eiskalte Dezembernächte, in denen der Wind Geräusche heranträgt... Mit beeindruckenden Klang…

Blessin Adams

Thou Savage Woman

'Popular history at its best' Spectator'Boisterous... replete with stabbings, bashing and thumping' Daily Mail'A cocktail of brutal, tragic, and fascinating true crime from the era of the Tudors and Stuar…

Mayu Fujikawa

Envisioning Diplomacy

"Examines visual and artistic representations of Japanese embassies to Europe between 1573 and 1615. Argues that these images served not only as curiosities but also as tools to promote European elit…

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 …

Shakespeare's Christmas

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

Blessin Adams

Thou Savage Woman

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

Sneaker Pimps

Becoming X

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …