"This book examines the packaging and portrayal of commerce, and of commercial knowledge, in the years from the Restoration to the South Sea Bubble. It positions itself between studies of merchant culture on the one hand and of the commercialisation of society on the other."--Ja…
Maria Elizabeth Jacson's popular textbooks introduced a generation of young men and women to the science of botany. Agnes Ibbetson published more than fifty articles about plant physiology in science journals of the nineteenth century. The writings of Elizabeth Kent were admired…
Botanie werd in de 18e eeuw gezien als een "vrouwelijke" wetenschap. Vrouwen illustreerden boeken, gaven onderwijs en populariseerden de wetenschap. Door de professionalisering in de 19e eeuw was er geen plaats meer voor vrouwen.
"Offering evidence of women's extensive contributions to the theatrical landscape, this volume sharply challenges the assumption that the stage was 'all male' in early modern England. The editors and contributors argue that the pervasiveness of female performance affected cultur…
This book is a contribution to the development of the young discipline of the didactics of the Study of Religions (Religionswissenschaft) in international perspective. Integrative religious education refers to education about different religions in classrooms with children of va…
This collection of essays examines early modern drama in the context of book history, and focuses on the readership of plays that opens different perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance.
