...Laura Williamson Ambrose This article focuses on almanac travel diaries, exploring both how and why seventeenth-century English readers used books of time as books of space. It seeks to broaden studies in early modern travel writing by examining the unique, nonnarrative marginalia that typify...

...Laura Sumrall; Sarah Kay; Nicolette Zeeman Confronted with the possibility of demonic illness, the physician Johann Weyer (d. 1588) writes that the physician’s work ends and the priest’s work begins when the “evil” of an illness “surpasses natural limits.” This limit, delineating the domain...

...Laura Levine Toward the end of the 1628 pamphlet A Briefe Description of the Notorious Life of Iohn Lambe , the pamphleteer describes the violence a crowd inflicts on John Lambe, a cunning man who dabbled in the dark arts. This violence, ultimately fatal, seems to be a response to Lambe's rape...

...Laura Kounine In early modern German witch trials, how defendants looked and moreover how they behaved on trial—physically and emotionally—was crucial to whether they were deemed innocent or guilty. This was particularly the case in trials of witchcraft, a crime that often left little tangible...

...Laura Camille Agoston © by Duke University Press / 2006 2006 ...

... is unusually organized: poems of different genres are lumped together, which was unheard of at the time, and the organizing principle of the book, the story of the speaker's desire for Laura, is not always followed very strictly. That is, many of the poems are about something different altogether...

... Michael Cornett, Managing Editor Duke University Press Durham, North Carolina 2013 Volume 43 Index Ambrose, Laura Williamson Travel in Time: Local Travel Writing and Seventeenth-Century English Almanacs  419 – 443...

... of the limited scholarship on visual representations of Vincent’s miracles, including the one Laura Smoller has memorably dubbed “the miracle of the chopped-up­ baby.”12 In the case of this extraordinary tale, however, the textual sources by no means agree about what exactly had transpired...

... by Laura Banella, Francesco Giusti, and Nicolas Longinotti Volume 56 / Number 1 / January 2026 Whether in relation to the circulation of poetic forms across different languages and traditions globally, to the envisioning of local, national, and transnational discursive communities...

..., and Laura Tosi, eds. Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xv, 281 pp.; 40 figs. $85.00. Spurr, John, ed. Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury, 1621 – 1683. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011. xi, 298 pp. $119.95. Thompson, Augustine...

... retailers, a parallel, more informal trade, in non-Florentine products also flourished, which was based on personal connections. Laura Corsi, for example, relied on an illustrious social network of family and friends in order to obtain expensive silks and garments from Venice, Rome, and Naples...

... Studies in Intellectual History, vol. 101. Leiden: Brill, 2000. xv, 513 pp.; 13 figs. $123.00. Wright, Laura, ed. The Development of Standard English, 1300–1800: Theories, Descriptions, Conflicts. Studies in English Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xi, 236 pp. $59.95. 6...

..., Anne Laura Stoler reminds us that if sex affirmed the bourgeois’s body in the Euro- pean metropolis, blood with its leakage negated its unitary possibility in the colonies.17 Along the intimate fold of metropolis and colony, a discourse of blood doubles...

....”  TEAMS Middle English Texts Series. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Medieval Institute Publications, 2009. viii, 113 pp. Paper $13.00. Milton, John. The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume 2: The 1671 Poems “Paradise Regain’d” and “Samson Agonistes.”  Edited by Laura Lunger Knoppers. Oxford: Oxford...

... thoroughly sealed casket one hundred thirty-­one years later. Was this new finding a prank, or was it another surprise concocted by an unnamed “pious gentleman” to reunite the poet with the ethereal and yet so present “Laura” figure of his sonnets? What these narratives illustrate, among...

... investigations. This was perhaps particularly evident in witchcraft trials, as Laura Kounine makes clear in her article, in which concrete evidence for the crime of witchcraft was more often than not unavailable to the judges. Since they understood that the truth of witchcraft charges was often elusive, judges...

..., Literatur und Kunst. Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 2016. 435 pp.; 12 figs. eur 50.00. Laugerud, Henning, Salvador Ryan, and Laura Katrine Skinnebach, eds. The Materiality of Devotion in Late Medieval Northern Europe: Images, Objects, and Practices. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016. x, 191 pp.; 35 color...

... and Conversational Theology of Mechtild of Hackeborn and Margery Kempe,” in Encountering “The Book of Margery Kempe,” ed. Laura Kalas and Laura Varnam (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021), 43–62. 29 Kate Crassons, “Margery Kempe and the Paradoxical Presence of God,” in Gender, Poetry...

.... xix, 290 pp.; 6 illus., 1 chronological chart. $54.95, paper $19.95. Lambdin, Robert Thomas, and Laura Cooner Lambdin, eds. Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. x, 549 pp. $89.50...