Print Letters in Seventeenth-Century England investigates how and why letters were printed in the interrelated spheres of political contestation, religious cont

Proposes that the emergence of the concept of privacy as a personal right and the core of individuality is connected in a complex way with the easy availability

Reproduces in full size and transcribes a number of letters from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries

The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the develo

John Cotton (1584-1652) was a key figure in the English Puritan movement in the first half of the seventeenth century, a respected leader among his generation o