Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as
viewed and articulated from the bottom up. Engaging with how people from across the social …

Why was it that whenever the Tudor-Stuart regime most loudly trumpeted its moderation, that
regime was at its most vicious? This groundbreaking book argues that the ideal of …

The Grand Tour was a journey to continental Europe undertaken by British nobility and
wealthy landed gentry during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. As a rite of …

This first in-depth study of women's politeness examines the complex relationship
individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women's …

This article discusses the rationale and the implications of the inclusion of slaves as victims
of punishable hubris in the law about the graphē hubreōs. It argues that hubris against …

A significant contribution to the understanding of sixteenth-century English art in an historical
context, this study by Susan James represents an intensive rethinking and restructuring of …

Contributing an original dimension to the significant body of published scholarship on
women in 16th-century England, this study examines the largest corpus of women's private …

Turncoats and Renegadoes is the first dedicated study of the practice of changing sides
during the English Civil Wars. It examines the extent and significance of side-changing in …

In August 1692, Humphrey Prideaux, dean of Norwich, responded to his sister Anne Coffin's
request for advice about her eldest son, John, who was nearing the end of his time at school …

Homicide has a history. In early modern England, that history saw two especially notable
developments: one, the emergence in the sixteenth century of a formal distinction between …