Explores life-writing forms - almanacs, financial accounts, commonplace books and parish registers - which emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centurie

Why, and in what ways, did late medieval and early modern English people write about themselves, and what was their understanding of how "selves" were made and

As seventeenth-century England wrestled with the aftereffects of the Reformation, the personal frequently conflicted with the political. In speeches, political

A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is

By taking account of the ways in which early modern women made use of formal and generic structures to constitute themselves in writing, the essays collected he