If cognition is distributed as well as embodied, then explanation in cognitive science must
often highlight more or less transient extended systems spanning embodied brains, social …

Ranging from Yorick's skull to Desdemona's handkerchief, Shakespeare's mnemonic
objects help audiences to recall, or imagine, staged and unstaged pasts. This study …

Abstract “Our brains make the world smart so that we can be dumb in peace,” writes Andy
Clark in Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again, a key text in the …

This collection looks at the growing rapprochement between contemporary theory and early
modern English literary-cultural studies. With sections on posthumanism and cognitive …

Whether it is treated as a practical concern, a cultural pattern, or a literary theme, memory in
Shakespeare's plays has produced a vast array of scholarship in the past 15 years. This …

[1] The manuscripts containing the works of William Fowler (1560-1612), Scottish Jacobean
courtier and poet, who ended his days as Secretary to Queen Anna of Denmark, present an …

A mere handful of stanzas into Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596),
Redcrosse Knight, Una, and the dwarf that lags behind them enter a “shadie groue... Whose …

Divided into three parts, this thesis maps a cultural history of Barbary captivity; concentrating
on the early 17th century leading up to the Civil Wars; an aspect of British-Muslim contact …

This dissertation, a transnational study of practical knowledge in maritime Europe, shows
how early modern sailors acquired technical expertise—on board ship, through books, in the …

In Teaching Predestination, David H. Kranendonk focuses on the ministry of an early
seventeenth-century Puritan-leaning theologian, Elnathan Parr (1577–1622). Although …