In the introduction to this collection, the editors signal the need for a “rapprochement” between historicist scholarship focusing on early modern monism and “the ecocritical concern for the nonhuman in contemporary ...

Paul Cefalu shows how the writings ascribed to St. John the Evangelist exerted quiet but powerful influence in early modern England.

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 ...

In this essay, McDowell surveys Milton’s references to Euripides throughout his writing career in order to argue that, contrary to expectation, Milton occasionally elevates classical literature above the Bible. ...

Kirsteen M. Mackenzie’s monograph is a meticulously researched historical study of the “Covenanted interest” during the British civil wars, Protectorate, and early Restoration in the seventeenth century.

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 ...

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.

Martyn Calvin Cowan asserts that the “most significant conclusion of this analysis is that Owen cannot be treated as an abstracted academic theologian” (183).

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 ...

Jonathan Fitzgibbons’ monograph, based on his 2010 doctoral thesis, tackles a subject largely ignored in the historiography of the Interregnum, the Cromwellian “Other House.”