Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England [1 ed.] 9781351956000, 9780754605133

Despite the importance of the subject to contemporaries, this is the first monograph to look at the institution of godpa

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Baptism and Spiritual Kinship in Early Modern England [1 ed.]
9781351956000, 9780754605133

Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence explores the lived experience of Cath

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During the seventeenth century, England was beset by three epidemics of the bubonic plague, each outbreak claiming betwe

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A riveting look at how the early modern world revolutionized sleep and its relation to body, mind, soul, and society

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Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England features fifteen essays by leading international scholars who illumin

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Armed with pistols and wearing jackboots, Bishop Henry Compton rode out in 1688 against his King but in defence of the C

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This is the first study of the full range of Protestant publications from the Reformation to the start of the Evangelica

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In preindustrial England, few people could expect to live past the age of forty, and so adolescence and youth represente

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In Coming To, Timothy M. Harrison uncovers the forgotten role of poetry in the history of the idea of consciousness. Dra

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Focusing on selfhood, embodiment and environment in the early modern world, this volume approaches a range of literary a

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Rebecca Lemon shows how sixteenth-century writers, such as Marlowe and Shakespeare, depict addiction to many things, inc

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