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‘‘Rapt Up with Joy”: Children’s Emotional Responses to Death in Early Modern England.

  NEWTON, Hannah, 2017 “Newton argues that dying children expressed diverse and conflicting passions, from fear to ecstasy. The underlying question is to what extent children’s experiences differed from those of adults. While the range of emotions was similar, the preoccupations of children differed; these included a concern about surviving siblings, and a more vivid […]

Journal of Early Modern Studies (JEMS).

  PALLOTTI, Donatella, and Paola Pugliatti Since 2012 This journal “promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion on … early modern European culture” and “provides a platform for international scholarly debate … over a wide disciplinary spectrum: literature, language, art, history, politics, sociology, religion and cultural studies”. It is “open to a range of research perspectives and […]

The Popish Plot: A Study in the History of the Reign of Charles II.

  POLLOCK, John 1903 Pollock provides a detailed analysis of the plot’s key players, from Oates himself to the perjured witnesses who corroborated his lies, and the judges and politicians who exploited the panic for their own ends. The book examines how the plot’s fabricators manipulated public opinion through rumor and propaganda, leading to the […]

Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625.

  QUESTIER, Michael. 1996 This study concentrates on the experience of individual converts in the context of the political implications of conversion. Questier explores the ways in which people were exhorted to change religion, how they experienced conversion, and how they faced demands for Protestant conformity.