Horses were used for many purposes in Shakespeare’s England: for travel, either on horseback or in carriages, for haulag
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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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'A plaine and easie waie to remedie a horse': equine medicine in early modern England is Louise Hill Curth
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Early Modern Nationalism and Milton's England features fifteen essays by leading international scholars who illumin
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A study of illegitimacy in England between 1538 and 1754, this text assembles data from over 500 parishes across the cou
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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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Rebecca Lemon shows how sixteenth-century writers, such as Marlowe and Shakespeare, depict addiction to many things, inc
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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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