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        History of medicine
        July 2017

        Conserving health in early modern culture

        Bodies and environments in Italy and England

        by Series edited by Dr David Cantor. Edited by Sandra Cavallo, Tessa Storey. Contributions by Leah Astbury, Hannah Newton.

        Did early modern people care about their health? And what did it mean to lead a healthy life in Italy and England? Through a range of textual evidence, images and material artefacts Conserving health in early modern culture documents the profound impact which ideas about healthy living had on daily practices as well as on intellectual life and the material world in this period. In both countries staying healthy was understood as depending on the careful management of the six 'Non-Naturals': the air one breathed, food and drink, excretions, sleep, exercise and repose, and the 'passions of the soul'. To a close scrutiny, however, models of prevention differed considerably in Italy and England, reflecting country-specific cultural, political and medical contexts and different confessional backgrounds.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2015

        The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain

        by Christina H. Lee, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        Introduction Part 1: The usurpation of nobility and lowborn passers 1. Theorising and practicing nobility 2. The forgery of nobility in literary texts Part II: Conversos and the threat of sameness 3. Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses 4. The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary texts Part III: Moriscos and the reassurance of difference 5. Imagining the Morisco problem 6. Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary texts Conclusion Bibliography Index ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        Enlightening enthusiasm

        Prophecy and religious experience in early eighteenth-century England

        by Lionel Laborie

        In the early modern period, the term 'enthusiasm' was a smear word used to discredit the dissenters of the radical Reformation as dangerous religious fanatics. In England, the term gained prominence from the Civil War period and throughout the eighteenth century. Anglican ministers and the proponents of the Enlightenment used it more widely against Paracelsian chemists, experimental philosophers, religious dissenters and divines, astrologers or anyone claiming superior knowledge. But who exactly were these enthusiasts? What did they believe in and what impact did they have on their contemporaries? This book concentrates on the notorious case of the French Prophets as the epitome of religious enthusiasm in early Enlightenment England. Based on new archival research, it retraces the formation, development and evolution of their movement and sheds new light on key contemporary issues such as millenarianism, censorship and the press, blasphemy, dissent and toleration, and madness. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2016

        The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain

        by Christina H. Lee, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        This book explores the Spanish elite's fixation on social and racial 'passing' and 'passers', as represented in a wide range of texts. It examines literary and non-literary works produced in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that express the dominant Spaniards' anxiety that socially mobile lowborns, Conversos (converted Jews), and Moriscos (converted Muslims) could impersonate and pass for 'pure' Christians like themselves. Ultimately, this book argues that while conspicuous sociocultural and ethnic difference was certainly perturbing and unsettling, in some ways it was not as threatening to the dominant Spanish identity as the potential discovery of the arbitrariness that separated them from the undesirables of society - and therefore the recognition of fundamental sameness. This fascinating and accessible work will appeal to students of Hispanic studies, European history, cultural studies, Spanish literature and Spanish history. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2015

        Ideas of monarchical reform

        Fénelon, Jacobitism, and the political works of the Chevalier Ramsay

        by Andrew Mansfield, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        This book examines the political works of Andrew Michael Ramsay (1683-1743) within the context of early eighteenth-century British and French political thought. In the first monograph on Ramsay in English for over sixty years, the author uses Ramsay to engage in a broader evaluation of the political theory in the two countries and the exchange between them. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Britain and France were on divergent political paths. Yet in the first three decades of that century, the growing impetus of mixed government in Britain influenced the political theory of its long-standing enemy. Shaped by experiences and ideologies of the seventeenth century, thinkers in both states exhibited a desire to produce great change by integrating past wisdom with modern knowledge. A Scottish Jacobite émigré living in Paris, Ramsay employed a synthesis of British and French principles to promote a Stuart restoration to the British throne that would place Britain at the centre of a co-operative Europe. Mansfield reveals that Ramsay was an important intellectual conduit for the two countries, whose contribution to the history of political thought has been greatly under appreciated. Including extensive analysis of the period between the 1660s and 1730s in Britain and France, this book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in political, religious, intellectual, and cultural history, as well as the early Enlightenment. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2016

        Women of letters

        Gender, writing and the life of the mind in early modern England

        by Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie, Leonie Hannan

        Women of letters writes a new history of English women's intellectual worlds using their private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. The book argues that many women of this period engaged with a life of the mind and demonstrates the dynamic role letter-writing played in the development of ideas. Until now, it has been assumed that women's intellectual opportunities were curtailed by their confinement in the home. This book illuminates the household as a vibrant site of intellectual thought and expression. Amidst the catalogue of day-to-day news in women's letters are sections dedicated to the discussion of books, plays and ideas. Through these personal epistles, Women of letters offers a fresh interpretation of intellectual life in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, one that champions the ephemeral and the fleeting in order to rediscover women's lives and minds. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2015

        Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth

        The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611)

        by Felicity Stout, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2015

        The anxiety of sameness in early modern Spain

        by Christina H. Lee, Joseph Bergin, Penny Roberts, Bill Naphy

        Introduction Part 1: The usurpation of nobility and lowborn passers 1. Theorising and practicing nobility 2. The forgery of nobility in literary texts Part II: Conversos and the threat of sameness 3. Spotting Converso blood in official and unofficial discourses 4. The unmasking of Conversos in popular and literary texts Part III: Moriscos and the reassurance of difference 5. Imagining the Morisco problem 6. Desirable Moors and Moriscos in literary texts Conclusion Bibliography Index ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2015

        Enlightening enthusiasm

        Prophecy and religious experience in early eighteenth-century England

        by Lionel Laborie

      • Trusted Partner
        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2015

        Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan commonwealth

        The Muscovy Company and Giles Fletcher, the elder (1546–1611)

        by Felicity Stout, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        October 2015

        Enlightening enthusiasm

        Prophecy and religious experience in early eighteenth-century England

        by Lionel Laborie

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2016

        The gentlewoman's remembrance

        Patriarchy, piety, and singlehood in early Stuart England

        by Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda, Isaac Stephens

        Introduction: Finding and remembering Elizabeth Isham 1 'My Booke of Rememberance': The spiritual autobiography of Elizabeth Isham 2 'As a Branch with a Roote': The Ishams of Lamport and their world 3 'The Sweet Private Life': Singlehood in the patriarch's household 4 'My Owne Books': Elizabeth Isham's reading 5 'To Piety More Prone': Elizabeth Isham's religion Conclusion: A memory restored Index ;

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        Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
        July 2013

        The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France

        Between the ancients and the moderns

        by Rachel Hammersley

        The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France. Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating perspective on both the legacy of the English republican tradition and the origins and thought of the French Revolution. The book focuses on a series of case studies, featuring such colourful and influential characters as John Toland, Viscount Bolingbroke, John Wilkes and the Comte de Mirabeau. This book will thus be of value to all those interested in the fields of intellectual history and the history of political thought, seventeenth and eighteenth-century British history, eighteenth-century French history and French Revolution studies.

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        Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
        July 2013

        The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France

        Between the ancients and the moderns

        by Rachel Hammersley

        The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France. Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating perspective on both the legacy of the English republican tradition and the origins and thought of the French Revolution. The book is focused around a series of case studies, which focus on a number of colourful and influential characters including John Toland, Viscount Bolingbroke, John Wilkes and the Comte de Mirabeau. This book will thus be of value to all those interested in the fields of intellectual history and the history of political thought, seventeenth and eighteenth-century British history, eighteenth-century French history and French Revolution studies.

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        Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700
        July 2012

        The English Republican tradition and eighteenth-century France

        Between the ancients and the moderns

        by Rachel Hammersley

        The English republican tradition and eighteenth-century France offers the first full account of the role played by seventeenth and eighteenth-century English republican ideas in eighteenth-century France. Challenging some of the dominant accounts of the republican tradition, it revises conventional understandings of what republicanism meant in both Britain and France during the eighteenth century, offering a distinctive trajectory as regards ancient and modern constructions and highlighting variety rather than homogeneity within the tradition. Hammersley thus offers a new and fascinating perspective on both the legacy of the English republican tradition and the origins and thought of the French Revolution. The book is focused around a series of case studies, which focus on a number of colourful and influential characters including John Toland, Viscount Bolingbroke, John Wilkes and the Comte de Mirabeau. This book will thus be of value to all those interested in the fields of intellectual history and the history of political thought, seventeenth and eighteenth-century British history, eighteenth-century French history and French Revolution studies.

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        History of religion
        July 2013

        Black Bartholomew's Day

        Preaching, polemic and Restoration nonconformity

        by David J. Appleby

        Black Bartholomew's Day explores the religious, political and cultural implications of a collision of highly-charged polemic prompted by the mass ejection of Puritan ministers from the Church of England in 1662. It is the first in-depth study of this heated exchange, centres centring on the departing ministers' farewell sermons. Many of these valedictions, delivered by hundreds of dissenting preachers in the weeks before Bartholomew's Day, would be illegally printed and widely distributed, provoking a furious response from government officials, magistrates and bishops. Black Bartholomew's Day re-interprets the political significance of ostensibly moderate Puritan clergy, arguing that their preaching posed a credible threat to the restored political order This book is aimed at readers interested in historicism, religion, nonconformity, print culture and the political potential of preaching in Restoration England.

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        Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
        July 2013

        Brave community

        The Digger Movement in the English Revolution

        by John Gurney

        Newly available in paperback, this is a full-length, modern study of the Diggers or 'True Levellers', who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began their occupation of waste land at St George's Hill in Surrey and called on all poor people to join them or follow their example. Acting at a time of unparalleled political change and heightened millenarian expectation, the Diggers believed that the establishment of an egalitarian, property-less society was imminent. This book should be of interest to all those interested in England's mid-seventeenth-century revolution and in the history of radical movements.

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        Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions
        July 2013

        Brave community

        The Digger Movement in the English Revolution

        by John Gurney

        Newly available in paperback, this is a full-length, modern study of the Diggers or 'True Levellers', who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60. It was in April 1649 that the Diggers, inspired by the teachings and writings of Gerrard Winstanley, began their occupation of waste land at St George's Hill in Surrey and called on all poor people to join them or follow their example. Acting at a time of unparalleled political change and heightened millenarian expectation, the Diggers believed that the establishment of an egalitarian, property-less society was imminent. This book should be of interest to all those interested in England's mid-seventeenth-century revolution and in the history of radical movements.

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