Futile Pleasures: Early Modern Literature and the Limits of Utility 0823272672, 9780823272679

Early Modern History and the Social Sciences: Testing the Limits of Braudel’s Mediterranean 9781935503385

This collection of eleven essays furthers the dialogue between early modern history and the social sciences through an a

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Emotional Minds: The Passions and the Limits of Pure Inquiry in Early Modern Philosophy 9783110260922, 9783110260908

The thoroughly contemporary question of the relationship between emotion and reason was debated with such complexity by

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The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature 150363826X, 9781503638266

This book tells the story of how early modern poets used the theological concept of grace to reimagine their political c

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The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature 9781503638310, 9781503638266

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The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology (MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN SCIENCE) [Illustrated] 9004131698, 9789004131699

Historians of science often acknowledge the academic status of astrology in the early modern period, but mostly fail to

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The Subtle Knot: Early Modern English Literature and the Birth of Neuroscience 9780773554290

When and how did we come to think of the brain as the vehicle of the mind, and what role did literature play in forging

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Civil Vengeance: Literature, Culture, and Early Modern Revenge 9781501739668

Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by wh

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Theology and Agency in Early Modern Literature 9781108418843, 9781108292191, 1108418848

What can I do? To what degree do we control our own desires, actions, and fate - or not? These questions haunt us, and h

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Alien Albion: Literature and Immigration in Early Modern England 9781442667495

Alien Albionchallenges assumptions about the origins of English national identity and the importance of religious, class

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Immateriality and Early Modern English Literature: Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert 9781474457125

Examines literary engagement with immateriality since the ‘material turn’ in early modern studies Provides six case stud

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