Leading literary critics and historians reassess one of the defining features of early modern England -the idea of "
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Enclosure—the conversion of peasants' commonly held lands to privately owned pasture—has long been considered a cri
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Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of
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Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea—these and
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Focusing on dramatic literature's contribution to the developing narrative of possessed persons, Of Bondage deepens
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What sort of information did people in early modern England seek? In The Practical Renaissance Donna Seger explores the
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This innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture
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A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men a
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Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from
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