"After the Counter-Reformation, the Papal State of Bologna became a hub for the flourishing of female artistic talent. The eighteenth-century biographer Luigi Crespi recorded twenty-three women artists working in the city, although many of these, until recently, were lost and ig…
Gender, sexuality, and early music
Almost Eternal: Painting on Stone and Material Innovation in Early Modern Europe' gathers together an international group of ten scholars, who offer a novel account of the phenomenon of oil painting on stone surfaces in Northern and Southern Europe. This technique was devised in…
"This companion to early modern drama equips undergraduate students with the information needed to situate the plays in their socio-political, intellectual and literary contexts. Chapters survey important political, cultural and intellectual events and movements, ranging from th…
The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established field of multi-disciplinary research. The volume provides a rounded, accessible collection of work on the nature and signi…
A history of early modern women's writing
La 4e de couverture indique : "A History of Early Modern Women's Writing is essential reading for students and scholars working in the field of early modern British literature and history. This collaborative book of twenty-two chapters offers an expansive, multifaceted narrative…
"Whether situated in churches or circulating in more flexible, mobile works--manuscript and printed texts, jewels and rosaries, personal bequests, or antique "rarities"--monuments were ubiquitous in post-Reformation England. In this period of religious change, the unsettled mean…
"Examines early modern English literary representations of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity alongside English translations of Calvin's writings, polemical writings, treaties on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons. Demonstrates that the development of a theology of…
The Dutch Golden Age has long been seen as the age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, whose paintings captured the public imagination and came to represent the marvel that was the Dutch Republic. Yet there is another, largely overlooked marvel in the Dutch world of the seventeenth centur…
