In Defiance of Time explores the emergence of antiquarianism in early modern England,
from its first flourishing in the mid-Tudor period through to its seventeenth-century heyday. A …

Why was eighteenth-century English culture so fascinated with the things its society
discarded? Why did Restoration and Augustan writers such as Milton, Dryden, Swift, and …

At the rise of the Tudor age, England began to form a national identity. With that sense of self
came the beginnings of the colonialist notion of the"" other"""" Ireland, however, proved a …

This book, original in emphasis, daring in execution, maps out the shaping power of English
Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colonial identities through the …

IN AUGUST OF THE YEAR 1652, John Taylor's tour of Wales brought him to Golden Grove
in Carmarthenshire, the estate of the Earl of Carbery, where he was received with great …

The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly
affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went …

In recent years it has become somewhat more acceptable to acknowledge that, as William
Riley Parker so euphemistically puts it,“John Milton had nothing kind to say about the …

Specialists on early modern violence and on human rights history have much to gain
through collaboration, or at least mutual awareness. Human rights historians are …

In Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland Irenius, an authority on Irish affairs whose
knowledge is based on his experience, describes for his in-terlocutor, Eudoxus, the origins …

WILLY MALEY no man can, by care taking, as the Scripture saith, add a cubit to his stature,
in this little model of a man's body: but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it …