This dissertation argues that the manuscript dissemination of one of the most popular groups of poems in early modern England transformed the genre's politics. The Ovidian, anti-Petrarchan, and otherwise bawdy verse of John Donne, Sir John Davies, Francis Beaumont, and others or…
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Despite general consensus among scholars that race in the West is an early modern phenomenon that dates to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, late medieval English texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries expend no small amount of effort depicting the differences b…
The history of early medieval Spain can be nearly impenetrable to modern scholars. Relatively little textual evidence dated before 1000 C.E. exists and those sources are rarely contemporary to the events they describe. Luckily early medieval Christian Iberia left behind artistic…
In late thirteenth-century Spain, the Hebrew Passover haggadah appeared for the first time as an independent and decorated book. The purpose of this investigation is to develop an explanation for its emergence through the recovery of an original reading of the manuscripts and th…