Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England [First Edition] 9781317876861, 9780582405134

This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This

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Blood, Bodies and Families in Early Modern England [First Edition]
9781317876861, 9780582405134

This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This

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For the Puritan separatists of seventeenth-century New England, "godliness," as manifested by the body, was th

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

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Through readings of plays by Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and their contemporaries, as well as Spanish picaresque fiction

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

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

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