Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

Immer aktuell ist die Frage nach dem, was auch in unruhigen Zeiten trägt: Was hat das Humanum heutezu bedeuten?

This volume is an essential supplement to Pastoral poetry of the English Renaissance: An anthology (2016).

While among the most common of Renaissance genres, the epigram has been largely neglected by scholars and critics: James Doelman's book is the first major study on the Renaissance English epigram since 1947.

The first comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of sympathy in early modern Anglophone literature and culture.

A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.

Welsh Gothic, the first study of its kind, introduces readers to the array of Welsh Gothic literature published from 1780 to the present day.

Anthony Copley's A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

While among the most common of Renaissance genres, the epigram has been largely neglected by scholars and critics: James Doelman's book is the first major study on the Renaissance English epigram since 1947.

Unfixable Forms explores how theatrical form remakes-and is in turn remade by-early modern disability.

This book is the first ever concordance to the rhymes of Spenser's epic.

New interpretations of the ways in which early modern French literature was influenced by, and responded to, the works of Virgil.

The writings of two influential Elizabethan thinkers testify to the influence of Old English law and literature on Tudor society and self-image.

Historical literatures recovers a rich, vibrant and complex tradition of Restoration and early eighteenth century English historical writing.

Shakespeare's tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd adds to the critical and scholarly discussion that seeks to establish the early modern playwright Thomas Kyd's dramatic canon, and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare's drama through influence, collaboration, revision and adaptation.

This is the first biography of Thomas Harris.

This study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne.

Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since.

The correspondence of John Dryden is the definitive edition of the letters of the most important playwright and poet of the late seventeenth century.

This edited volume of fourteen specially commissioned essays written from a variety of critical perspectives by leading Cervantine scholars seeks to provide an overview of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares which will be of interest to a broad academic readership.

Chaucerian scholarship has long been intrigued by the nature and consequences of Chaucer's exposure to Italian culture during his professional visits to Italy in the 1370s.

English Literary Afterlives traces life narratives of early modern authors created for them after their deaths by readers or publishers, who retrospectively tried to make sense of the author's life and works.

This is the first complete edition and English translation of John Hall's Little Book of Cures, a fascinating medical casebook composed in Latin around 1634-5.

Edmund Spenser famously conceded to his friend Walter Raleigh that his method in The Faerie Queene 'will seeme displeasaunt' to those who would 'rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large'.

The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of "e;God's cause"e;-a struggle for liberty and republican freedom.

This volume offers the first in-depth investigation of Thomas Heywood's engagement with the classics.

An examination of sixteenth-century quest narratives, focussing on their conscious use of a medieval tradition to hold a mirror up to contemporary culture.

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge.

This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties.

Imperial Tapestries represents a transnational approach to questions of monarchical power and literary form in early modern Europe.

How do the formal properties of early modern texts, together with the materials that envelop and shape them, relate to the cultural, political, and social world of their production?

Origen de la santísima cruz de milagros de la ciudad de Querétaro es un documento no suficientemente conocido, a pesar de sus ecos en la historiografía panegírica de esta rica región del virreinato: por un lado, los cronistas franciscanos del siglo XVIII lo aprovecharon para crear una historia piadosa sobre el origen de esta ciudad, del Colegio Apostólico de Propaganda Fide y de la cruz de piedra que se venera en el interior de su iglesia; por otro, ha sido fuente de inspiración para los otomíes del Bajío, en el centronorte de México, para quienes las tradiciones sobre la conquista de los cazadores chichimecas, llevada a cabo por sus antepasados en el siglo XVI, son un factor básico en la conformación de la identidad étnica.

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