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The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology
(Texas A&M University, 2018)
Paul Cefalu shows how
the writings ascribed to St. John the Evangelist exerted quiet but
powerful influence in early modern England.
Les Mots et les choses du théâtre. France, Italie, Espagne, XVIe–XVIIe siècles
(Texas A&M University, 2018)
This volume, consisting of seventeen articles, comprises the proceedings
of a conference held in 2015 by the research organization
IDT—Les Idées du théâtre, devoted to the study of liminary texts of
plays, especially ...
Compassion’s Edge: Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France.
(Texas A&M University, 2018)
Katherine Ibbett explains, our definition of compassion
as an emotion with connotations of sympathy and heartfelt
concern harks back to the meaning the term began to acquire in the
eighteenth century. In the preceding ...
Facing Otherness in Early Modern Sweden: Travel, Migration and Material Transformations
(Texas A&M University, 2018)
This book is a collection of eighteen articles analyzing the characteristics
and impact of migration to Sweden, as well as Swedish
involvement in overseas migration and colonial expansion during the
early modern period.
John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse: Preaching, Prophecy, and Politics
(Texas A&M University, 2018)
Martyn Calvin Cowan asserts that the “most significant conclusion of this analysis
is that Owen cannot be treated as an abstracted academic theologian”
(183).
Women’s Prophetic Writings in Seventeenth-Century Britain.
(Texas A&M University, 2018)
Carme Font’s new book on seventeenth-century female prophets
demonstrates how women were able to use prophetic writings as a
catalyst for change, both personal and political. She examines prophecy
as a literary genre ...
Cromwell’s House of Lords: Politics, Parliaments and Constitutional revolution
(Texas A&M University, 2018)
Jonathan Fitzgibbons’ monograph, based on his 2010 doctoral
thesis, tackles a subject largely ignored in the historiography of the
Interregnum, the Cromwellian “Other House.”
A Theater of Diplomacy: International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France.
(Texas A&M University, 2018)
A Theater of Diplomacy is an important and timely book that will
reorient the way in which we think about both diplomacy and theater
in early modern France and beyond.
Thomas Fuller: Discovering England’s Religious Past.
(Texas A&M University, 2018)
In Thomas Fuller: Discovering England’s Religious Past, W. B. Patterson
has written a thoughtful, insightful, and generally interesting
account of Thomas Fuller, who had a unique position in the seventeenth
century to ...
Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400 – 1700
(Texas A&M University, 2018)
Organized thematically rather than chronologically or geographically,
each of the five sections in Blood Matters focuses on a specific
semiotic function of the language of blood: circulation, wounds,
corruption, proof, ...