... of the texts in Laud Misc. 416 draws our attention to the political engagements of later medieval and early modern monastic institutions. In essays in this issue, we encounter, for instance, men and women religious involved in the political affairs of English and Castil- ian monarchs as well...

... in their worldview for divine judgement and eternal life. Burns and Ball repeatedly emphasize that early modern English mortalists, of whom their prime examples after Tyndale are the eclectic group of the young Thomas Browne, Richard Overton, Thomas Hobbes, Milton, and John Locke, were “perfectly sure...

... (2000): 1 – 23; Claire Walker, “Loyal and Dutiful Subjects: English Nuns and Stuart Politics,” in Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450 – 1700, ed. James Daybell (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ash- gate, 2004), 228 – 42; Caroline Bowden, “The Abbess and Mrs. Brown: Lady Mary...

... as “the most significant tool of Cecil’s policy of covertly destroying Mary’s reputation,” but as the “wellspring” of the anti-­Marian strain of public discourse in early modern England (Tragic Histo- ries, 35, 27). On the English anti-­Marian campaign and the pamphlet’s role in it, see...

... University Press 2022 Calvinism theology of redemption human virtue Christian love early modern English politics But your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore. They're already overcrowded from your dirty little war, And Jesus don't like killing no matter what the reason...

... these documents in the multifaceted context of early modern Anglo-Russian diplomatic ritual. Although Fletcher’s mission has always attracted the attention of scholars in different disciplines, it has not really been considered in light of diplomatic history. Meanwhile, both the English and Russian records...

... Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39:1, Winter 2009 DOI 10.1215/10829636-2008-010  © 2009 by Duke University Press are studied by Alexander Samson. Translation of Spanish texts into English increased dramatically. Samson analyzes the complexity of England’s reaction to Spain...

... analysis; his contextualization of the political climate in England and Moscow provides an important framework for understanding the ways in which diplomatic recommendation was dispensed, received, and performed. The role of the early modern diplomat is epitomized by Fletcher s embassy: English perceptions...

..., “The Burning of Edward Wightman: Puritanism, Prel- acy, and the Politics of Heresy in Early Modern England,” English Historical Review n.s. 120 (2005): 1215  –  50; Michael Hunter, “ ‘Aikenhead the Atheist’: The Con- text and Consequences of Articulate Irreligion in the Late Seventeenth Century...

... to capturing the contingency and alternative possibilities of English notions of empire, in The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion, and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 187–219. 7 David Armitage, The Ideological Origins...

... and Early Modern Studies / 34.1 / 2004 9 Davies, First English Empire, 8–9. See also, Patrick Wormald, The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, vol. 1 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999), 449–76, for an assessment of the development of law and the English state. 10 Davies...

... modern” in English drama studies. This essay examines the Ches- ter cycle’s transformation from medieval to early modern drama in light of the instabilities and complexities of sixteenth-century religious culture, pay- ing particular attention to constraints on interpretation posed by these insta...

... Adrian, John M. Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570 – 1680. Early Modern Literature in History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. x, 238 pp.; 5 illus. $80.00. Altschul, Nadia R. Geographies of Philological Knowledge: Postcoloniality and the Transatlantic National Epic. Chicago...

... in translation on free choice from early modern Reformed theologians with commentary.] Beadle, Richard, ed. The York Plays: A Critical Edition of the York Corpus Christi Play as Recorded in British Library Additional MS 35290, Volume 1: The Text. Early English Text Society, s.s., vol. 23. Oxford: Oxford...

... of the his- tory play are linked, though more indirectly than the secularization thesis allows: for both, Henry VI provided an impetus to, and object of, defini- 42  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 40.1 / 2010 tions of English community and history that depart from those offered...

..., Englishmen, and natives, and how these distinctions employ Black Legend discourse to portray Spaniards as barbarous cannibals and make the racially different and unknown natives “like” the English.7 Through repeat- 118 Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 41.1 / 2011 edly suggesting...

... II,” which was fol- lowed by Alan Bray’s 1982 comprehensive study Homosexuality in the English Renaissance.4 Since then, scholars led by David Thurn, Jonathan Goldberg, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43:1, Winter 2013 DOI 10.1215/10829636-1902540­­   ©...

... Old English . Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2021. xxxvii, 367 pp., 16 color illus. eur 55.00. Somers, Tim. Ephemeral Print Culture in Early Modern England: Sociability, Politics, and Collecting . Studies in the Eighteenth Century. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, in association with the British...

..., 333 pp., 5 illus., 7 maps, 3 charts, 1 table. $45.00. Pluymers, Keith. No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic . The Early Modern Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021. viii, 307 pp., 13 illus. $49.95. Rivas Pérez, Jorge F., ed. Materiality...

... of a particular party line but was preferred indiscriminately by the English pub- 488  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 47.3 / 2017 lic, both high- ­and low-­brow, high church and low church. It was the Bible (or one of the translations) used by Lancelot Andrewes, Richard Hooker, Archbishops...