Exploring the idea of luxury in relation to a series of neighboring but distinct concepts including avarice, excess, licentiousness, indulgence, vitality, abund

Examination of the motif of the prodigal son as treated in early modern drama, from Shakespeare to Beaumont and Fletcher.

Participates in an intellectual history of ecology while prompting a re-evaluation of nature in the early modern period.

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clot

Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.