Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in Early Modern England
At last! An NEW book on English Witchcraft!: Sharpe's claims for this book are modest. His motivation to write sprang from the realisation that there has never been a satisfactory, all-encompassing account of English witchcraft since the works of [... more]
$21.95
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Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England
Contours of Death and Disease in Early Modern England [... more]
$42.75
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Sleepless Souls - Suicide in Early Modern England
Sleepless Souls is a social and cultural history of suicide in early modern England. It traces the rise and fall of the crime of self-murder and explores why suicide came to be harshly punished in the sixteenth century, and why it was subsequently [... more]
$156.94
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Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England
The first book devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England. Offers modernised versions of significant texts on nine cases of demonic possession from the period 1570 to 1650. The modernised texts are placed within the context of an [... more]
$52.00
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The Duel in Early Modern England
Arguments about the duel in early modern England were widespread. To understand duelling is to understand some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and this major new study will engage the attention of a very wide [... more]
$36.00
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The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, ...
Book Description: This is a study of the social and cultural implications of the growth of governance in England in the century after 1550. It is principally concerned with the role played by the middling sort in social and political regulation, [... more]
$39.95
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Bodies and Selves in Early Modern England: Physiology ...
Book Description: Michael Schoenfeldt's fascinating study explores the close relationship between selves and bodies, psychological inwardness and corporeal processes, as they are represented in English Renaissance literature. After Galen, the predominant [... more]
$34.99
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Crime and Mentalities in Early Modern England (Cambridge ...
Book Description: Crime and the law have now been studied by historians of early modern England for more than a generation. This boo k attempts to reach further than most conventional treatments of the subject, to explore the cultural contexts of law- [... more]
$50.00
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Remapping Early Modern England: The Culture of ...
Book Description: It is now over twenty years since revisionist history began to transform our understanding of early modern England. In Remapping Early Modern England Kevin Sharpe proposes a new cultural turn in the study of the English Renaissance [... more]
$48.00
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Women in Early Modern England 1550-1720
Informative, But Laden with Excessive Post-modern Jargon: This book provides important insight into an insufficiently examined aspect of Tudor and Stuart history. The research is impressive, the chapter summaries most helpful. The illustrations are [... more]
$50.00
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Witchcraft in Early Modern England (Seminar Studies in ...
Informative, quick read: This is a book written by a well known historian on the topic. This is more of an overview of why the witchcraft trials occured in early modern England and this can be helpful for anyone who is just getting into the subject. It's [... more]
$22.00
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Argument and Authority in Early Modern England: The ...
Book Description: Conal Condren offers a radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in early modern England through an exploration of pervasive and fundamental arguments about office. This focus questions almost all received [... more]
$111.00
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