Domestic Devotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
RYAN, Salvador (editor). 2020 A collection of papers investigating “the degree to which the experience of personal or familial religious practice in the domestic realm intersected with the more public expression of faith in liturgical or communal settings”. The geographical range covers most of Europe, and there are chapters on Judaism and Islam, along […]
Being Protestant in Reformation Britain.
RYRIE, Eric. 2013 “Alec Ryrie provides the first comprehensive account of what it actually meant to live a Protestant life in England and Scotland between c. 1530-1640, drawing on a rich mixture of contemporary devotional works, sermons, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies to uncover the lived experience of early modern Protestantism.”
Liturgical Commemoration of the English Reformation, 1534-1635.
RYRIE, Eric. 2020 “This essay considers one of the most resounding silences of the English post-Reformation: how the Reformation was or, mostly, was not commemorated in the Church of England’s liturgical life.” This essay went on to become a chapter in Memory and the English Reformation (2020), edited by Alexandra Walsham et al.
Religious Dissimulation and Toleration in Early Modern England.
SCHINDLER, Kilian. 2023 Kilian Schindler examines how playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe represented religious dissimulation on stage and argues that debates about the legitimacy of dissembling one’s faith were closely bound up with early modern conceptions of theatricality.
London Lives Petition Project.
HOWARD, Sharon 2015 Howard explores some 10,000 petitions and petitioning letters addressed to magistrates in the records of London and Middlesex Sessions of the Peace between 1690 and 1800.
Poetic Theory and Practice in Early Modern Verse
LUIS-MARTÍNEZ, Zenón (editor) 2023 The essays in this book explore the intersections between poetry, poetics and other discourses, such as logic, rhetoric, natural philosophy, medicine, mythography and religion. Along with familiar figures like Reading canonical poets and critics – Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Puttenham and Dryden, the authors discuss a number of less well-known […]
Early Modern Literature and England’s Long Reformation.
LOEWENSTEIN, David, and Alison Shell (editors). 2020 A collection of essays arguing that the Reformation extended well beyond the sixteenth century
Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading.
JARDINE, Lisa, et al. Edited by Anthony Grafton, Nicholas Popper and William Sherman. 2024 Gabriel Harvey’s copious marginal notes to the works of other writers offer a unique insight into
Emotion in the Tudor Court.
IRISH, Bradley. 2018 Irish “argues that the dynamics of disgust, envy, rejection, and dread, as they are currently theorized in the modern affective sciences, can be seen to guide textual production in the early modern court”.
Gender and Defamation in York, 1660-1700.
HOWARD, Sharon 2015 “A small but useful resource for research into early modern defamation, slander, gossip and defamation.