This is a detailed 2002 study of the political significance of the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 1613.

Gender, Culture and Politics in England, 1560-1640 integrates social history, politics and literary culture as part of a ground-breaking study that provides rev

This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questi

Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the English nobility during the Elizabethan

My dissertation draws on recent methodological and theoretical developments in social history in order to rethink the political significance of formal experimen