Seventeenth century France saw the rise and solidification of the role of the absolute monarch, exemplified by Louis XIV, Hofer looks at the emotional toll taken by the insistence on controlling emoti
German writer Praetorius (1630-80) is thought of primarily as a collector and recorder of superstitions and popular tales, but Scholz Williams (humanities, Washington U., St. Louis) explains his impor
From the first, the early-modern midwifery manual was a cross-cultural phenomenon. Disseminated in cheap octavo formats and in vernacular translations, they were an accessible source of information an
Using a canonical work of Dutch literature, Ooghentroost (Consolation for the eyes), as a focal point, this book examines the development of literature as a specific discursive domain during the early
Between 1540 and 1654, The Byrth of Mankynde was a huge commercial success. Offering information on fertility, pregnancy, birth, and infant care, and written in a chatty, colloquial style, it influenc
Long (French, Cornell University) and her colleagues investigate characters in Early Modern history that have been triply marginalized, women as medicos, scientists and alchemists. In this revelatory
These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplin
Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first book-le
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, critics have predominantly offered a negative estimate of John Donnea€?s Metempsychosis. In contrast, this study of Metempsychosis re-evaluates the poem a
Few English books are as widely known, underread, and underappreciated as Robert Burtona€?s The Anatomy of Melancholy. Stephanie Shirilan laments that modern scholars often treat the Anatomy as an unm
The first study to analyze print vernacular folio herbals from the standpoint of gender and to present original findings to do with early modern women's ownership of these herbals, Medical Authority a
Encompassing both gardens made of plants in soil and gardens cultivated from ink on paper, Tigner (English, U. of Texas-Arlington) traces what she calls England's paradise imaginary through a 100-year
Bruckner (English, Chatham U.) and Brayton (English and American literatures, Middlebury College) present a collection of 13 papers that they characterize as offering "an ecocritical reading of Shakes
Early modern geographers and compilers of travel narratives drew on a lexicon derived from cartographya€?s seemingly unchanging coordinates to explain human diversity. Sandra Younga€?s inquiry into th
These essays throw new light on the complex relations between science, literature and rhetoric as avenues to discovery in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars from a variety of disciplin
