Centre for Early Modern Studies
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Research Publications

2020

  • Pascale Aebischer, Shakespeare, Spectatorship and Technologies of Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
  • Nandini Chatterjee, Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
  • Fabrizio Nevola, Street Life in Renaissance Italy (Yale University Press, 2020).

2019

  • Helen Berry, Orphans of Empire: the Fate of London's Foundlings (Oxford University Press, 2019).
  • Arthur Rose, Stefanie Heine, Naya Tsentourou, Corinne Saunders, Peter Garratt, Reading Breath in Literature (Palgrave, 2019).
  • Emma Wilby, Invoking the Akelarre: Voices of the Accused in the Basque Witch-Craze 1609-1614 (Sussex Academic Press, 2019).

2018

  • Pascale Aebischer, Sussanne Greenhalgh and Laurie E. Osborne (eds), Shakespeare and the 'Live' Theatre Broadcast Experience (Bloomsbury, Arden Shakespeare, 2018).
  • J. Barry, R. H. Leech, E. Parkinson, A. Brown (eds), The Bristol Hearth Tax 1662-1673 (Bristol Record Society, 2018).
  • Hester Schadee and Nikos Panou (eds), Evil Lords: Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Oxford University Press, 2018).

2017

  • J. Barry, O. Davies, C. Usborne (eds), Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
  • Jonathan Bradbury, The Miscellany of the Spanish Golden Age. A Literature of Fragments (Routledge, 2017).
  • Lucia Nigri and Naya Tsentourou (eds), Forms of Hypocrisy in Early Modern England (Routledge, 2017).
  • Helena Taylor, The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture (Oxford University Press, 2017).
  • Naya Tsentourou, Milton and the Early Modern Culture of Devotion: Bodies at Prayer (Routledge, 2017).
  • Jane Whittle (ed.), Servants in Rural Europe 1400-1900 (Boydell, 2017).
  • Yue Zhuang and Andrea M. Riemenschnitter (eds), Entangled Landscapes: Early Modern China and Europe (Singapore University Press, 2017).

2016

  • Laura Sangha and Jonathan Willis (eds), Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources (Routledge, 2016).

2015

  • Maria Fusaro, Political Economies of Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Decline of Venice and Rise of England 1450-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
  • M. Fusaro, B. Allaire, R. Blakemore and T. Vanneste (eds), Law, Labour and Empire: Comparative Perspectives on Seafarers, c.1500-1800 (Palgrave, 2015).
  • Richard Ward (ed.), A Global History of Execution and the Criminal Corpse (Palgrave, 2015).

2014

  • Richard Ward, Print Culture, Crime and Justice in Eighteenth-Century London (Bloomsbury, 2014).

2013

  • Pascale Aebischer, Screening Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
  • Jonathan Barry, Raising Spirits: How the Story of Thomas Perks was Transmitted across the Enlightenment (Palgrave, 2013).
  • Marion Gibson, Imagining the Pagan Past: Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages (Routledge, 2013).
  • Nicholas McDowell and N. H. Keeble (eds), The Complete Works of John Milton. Volume VI: Vernacular Regicide and Republican Writings (Oxford University Press, 2013).
  • Edward Paleit, War, Liberty and Caesar: English Responses to Lucan's 'Bellum Ciuile', c1580–1650 (Oxford University Press, 2013).
  • Chloe Preedy, Marlowe's Literary Scepticism: Politic Religion and Post-Reformation Polemic (Arden Shakespeare Library, 2013).
  • Philip Schwyzer, Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III (Oxford University Press, 2013).
  • Sarah Toulalan with Kate Fisher (eds), The Routledge History of Sex and the Body: 1500 to the Present (Routledge, 2013).
  • Jane Whittle, Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440–1660: Tawney's 'Agrarian Problem' Revisited (Boydell & Brewster, 2013).

2012

  • Pascale Aebischer with Kathryn Prince, Performing Early Modern Drama Today (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
  • Freyja Cox Jensen, Reading the Roman Republic in Early Modern England (Brill, 2012).
  • Henry French, Making Men: The Formation of Elite Male Identities in England, c1600–1900. A Sourcebook (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
  • Henry French with Mark Rothery, Man's Estate: Landed Gentry Masculinities 1660–1900 (Oxford University Press, 2012).
  • Laura Sangha, Angels and Belief in England, 1480–1700 (Pickering and Chatto, 2012).
  • Jane Whittle with E. Griffiths, Consumption and Gender in the Early Seventeenth Century Household: the World of Alice Le Strange, (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012).

2011

  • Jonathan Barry, The Diary of William Dyer: Bristol in 1762 (Bristol Record Society vol 64, 2011).
  • Jonathan Barry, Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England c1640–1789 (Palgrave, 2011).
  • Pascale Aebischer, ed. 'Early Modern Drama on Screen: A Jarman Anniversary Issue', Shakespeare Bulletin 29.4 (Winter 2011).
  • Gerald Maclean, Britain and the Islamic World, 1558–1713 (Oxford University Press, 2011).
  • Sarah Toulalan with Kate Fisher (eds.) Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present (Palgrave, 2011).

2010

  • Pascale Aebischer, Jacobean Drama: A Reader's Guide to Essential Criticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
  • Nicholas McDowell, 'Tales of Tub Preachers: Swift and Heresiography', Review of English Studies (2010).
  • Nicholas McDowell, 'The Beauty of Holiness and the Poetics of Antinomianism: Richard Crashaw, John Saltmarsh, and the Language of Radical Religion in the 1640s', in Rediscovering Radicalism in the British Isles and Ireland, 1550–1800, ed. P Baker and A Hessayon (Ashgate, 2010).
  • Emma Wilby, The Visions of Isobel Gowdie: Magic, Witchcraft and Dark Shamanism in Seventeenth-Century Scotland (Sussex Academic Press, 2010).

2009

  • Nicholas McDowell and Andrew Smith (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Milton (Oxford University Press, 2009).
  • Andrew McRae, Literature and Domestic Travel in Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

2008

  • Nicholas McDowell, Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit (Oxford University Press, 2008).

2007

  • Henry French with R W Hoyle, The Character of English Rural Society, 1550–1750: Earls Colne revisited (Manchester UP, 2007).
  • Henry French, The Middle Sort of People in Provincial England, 1620–1750 (Oxford University Press, 2007).
  • Marion Gibson, Witchcraft Myths in American Culture (Routledge, 2007).
  • Gerald Maclean, Looking East: English Writing and the Ottoman Empire before 1800 (Palgrave, 2007).
  • Christopher McCullough, Harley Granville Barker: a very English avant garde (Bristol: Intellect, 2007).
  • Philip Schwyzer, Archaeologies of English Renaissance Literature (Oxford University Press, 2007).
  • Sarah Toulalan, Imagining Sex: Pornography and Bodies in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2007).

2006

  • Malcolm Cook, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: a life of culture (Legenda, 2006).
  • Marion Gibson, Possession, Puritanism and Print: Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy (Pickering and Chatto, 2006).
  • Emma Wilby, Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic (Sussex Academic Press, 2006).

2005

  • Christopher McCullough, The Merchant of Venice: Formulations for Performance (Palgrave, 2005).
  • Andrew McRae, 'Early Stuart Libels: An Edition of Poetry from Manuscript Sources', co-edited with Alastair Bellany, Early Modern Literary Studies, Text Series 1 (2005) [See Early Stuart Libel site]
  • Jane Milling with Deirdre Heddon, Devising Performance: A Critical History (Palgrave, 2005).
  • Jane Spencer, Literary Relations: Kinship and the Canon, 1660 to 1830 (Oxford University Press, 2005).

2004

  • Pascale Aebischer, Shakespeare's Violated Bodies: Stage and Screen Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2004; reissued in paperback 2009)
  • Andrew McRae, Literature, Satire and the Early Stuart State (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
  • Jane Milling with Peter Thomson (eds.) Cambridge History of British Theatre: Volume 1: Origins to 1660 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
  • Mark Overton with J Whittle, D Dean and A Hann, Production and Consumption in English Households 1600–1750 (Routledge, 2004)
  • Philip Schwyzer, Literature, Nationalism and Memory in Early Modern England and Wales (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
  • Jane Whittle with M Overton, D Dean, A Hann, Production and consumption in English households, 1600–1750 (Routledge, 2004)

2003

  • Anne Dillon, The Construction of Martyrdom in the English Catholic Community, 1535–1603 (Ashgate, 2003)
  • Nicholas McDowell, The English Radical Imagination: Culture, Religion and Revolution, 1630-1660 (Oxford University Press, 2003).