The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England

With its challenging, paradoxical thesis that Elizabethan England was a 'republic which happened also to be a monarchy', Patrick Collinson's 1987 essay 'The Mon

Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England explores the publication and reception of authority in early modern England. Examples are drawn

This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds

This volume offers a new and cross-disciplinary approach to the study of democratic ideas and practices in early modern England.

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 d

An outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, which examines key issues in p

An account of the handwritten pamphlet literature of early Stuart England that explains how contemporaries came to see events as political.

This title offers literary scholars a variety of perspectives, insights and methodologies found in current historical work that inform the study of Shakespeare

Anti-democracy in England 1570-1642 is a detailed study of anti-democratic ideas in early modern England. By examining the rich variety of debates about democra

For the people of early modern England, the dividing line between the natural and supernatural worlds was both negotiable and porous - particularly when it came