Love has a history. It has meant different things to different people at different moments and
has served different purposes. This book tells the story of love at a crucial point, a moment …

What drives a person to take his or her own life? Why would an individual be willing to strap
a bomb to himself and walk into a crowded marketplace, blowing himself up at the same …

This book represents the first systematic study of the role of the Devil in English witchcraft
pamphlets for the entire period of state-sanctioned witchcraft prosecutions (1563-1735). It …

This article contributes to the on-going study of modern affective life by exploring the ways in
which love was understood, invoked, and deployed within heterosexual …

The article highlights the significance of alliances of blood and marriage in early modern
England and beyond, including both positive and negative relations among kin. Examining …

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were
practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early …

The saying “blessed are the peacemakers” was a Christian commonplace in early modern
Europe,“love your neighbor” a long-sanctioned moral tradition. Both the Protestant and …

How and why did men and women send handwritten poetry, drama, and literary prose to
their friends and social superiors in the seventeenth century-and what were the …

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Acknowledgements--List of Abbreviations--Editorial Rubric--Transcription Guidelines …

The present article explores how women of power engaged in diplomatic efforts via forms of
epistolary privacy by analysing private letters between Elizabeth I and Anna of Saxony in the …