“The King’s Library of Manuscripts”: The State Paper Office as archive and library by Riordan, M

“…The State Papers were the principal executive instruments of the early modern English state. By 1610 they were kept in the State Paper Office, remaining there until 1854, when they were subsumed into the Public Record Office. …”

Touching the cold in the Little Ice Age by Cecilia Rosengren

“…The article focuses on Robert Boyle’s New Experiments and Observations touching Cold, or an Experimental History of Cold, begun (London, 1665) and Margaret Cavendish’s Observations upon Experimental Philosophy (London, 1666) and explores early modern English imaginaries of the polar regions, and how they join in the scientific debate on how to understand the cold. …”
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Temporal Instability, Wildernesses, and the Otherworld in Early Modern Drama by Edward B. M. Rendall

“…This article shows how temporal disorder diffuses into the wildernesses within early modern English drama. Those areas beyond the walls of cities and castles in—among other plays—<i>The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet,</i> and <i>Macbeth</i> thus flit free from the temporal rules that construct a play’s quotidian world, and the conspicuous partitions that enclose an otherworld in medieval iconography no longer seem clear within them. …”
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A Transcription and Translation of Sloane MS. 2131, Robert Ashley’s (1561-1641) Vita: with Additional Biographical Details by Astrid Kelser, Jennifer K. Nelson, Renae Satterley

“…Ashley’s Vita has been cited in a variety of publications, ranging from studies on dreams and children’s literature, to his role as a political agent in the late sixteenth century, but there has been no systematic examination of his autobiography in the context of early modern English biographical studies.…”
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The Pastor and the Hammer. A Comparative Approach to Thomas Cooper and Henrich Krämer’s Demonological Treatises by Agustín MÉNDEZ

“…<p class="p1">Historians have frequently considered Early Modern English demonological discourse as a moderate variant of the continental one. …”
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“We’ve had quite a Shakespearean evening, haven’t we?”: Shakespeare and Dorothy Sayers by Alessandra Petrina

“…Both Oxford educated, they play a never-ending quotation game: Early Modern English literature has pride of place. In “Busman’s Honeymoon”, Shakespeare is proposed as an indisputable moral authority, asserting the never-wavering rightfulness of the detective, only occasionally hinting at self-righteousness. …”
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Le due rivoluzioni agrarie inglesi, 1450-1850. (The Two English Agricultural Revolutions, 1450-1850. With English summary.) by Allen, R

“…This paper reassesses the importance of enclosure and large-scale farming (capitalist agriculture) in explaining the rise of productivity in early modern English agriculture. Between 1500 and 1800, output per worker and yield per acre both doubled. …”

Evidence by Hutson, L

“…<p>This entry defines evidence in early modern English law as the informing of the jury to enable them to decide a ‘matter of fact’, which in turn is defined as an issue, or an alleged act, the precise nature of which is in dispute. …”

How the Phoneme Inventory Changes its Shape: A Cognitive Approach to Phonological Evolution and Change by Javier Enrique Díaz Vera

“… In this paper I propose an interpretation of a series of phonological changes in the history of English (including Old English Breaking and the early Modern English Great Vowel Shift) from a cognitive phonology perspective. …”
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Connecting Historic Graffiti to Past Parishes and Beliefs by Crystal Hollis

“…Historic graffiti offer new and interesting insights into late medieval and early modern English society. This paper will show the value of studying these inscriptions by discussing two churches constructed in the late medieval period in Suffolk, England, with drawings of two figures that potentially represent the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. …”
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The Era of Chinese Global Hegemony: Denaturalizing Money in the Early Modern World by Andrew Edwards, Fabian Steininger, Andrea Giorgio Tosato

“…First, we trace it through early modern English financiers and philosophers’ formulation of the ideal qualities of a universal money, deliberately based on the Chinese model. …”
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German Loans in Early English by Ulrich Busse

“…The paper outlines the contribution of German to the word stock of English in the three periods of Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English, or, in other words, from the early Middle Ages up to 1700, and relates these words to major cultural events, such as the Christianisation of England, the Norman Invasion, the Reformation and to the beginnings of science and technology during the Renaissance. …”
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"Stands Scotland Where it did?": Re-locating and Dis-locating the Scottish Play on Scottish Film by Alfredo Michel Mondenessi

“…Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a problematic fiction of 11th century Scotland constructed from the viewpoint of an early modern English playwright, chiefly through his reading of a black legend that developed over 400 years of violent re-arrangement of national powers and cultural and political identities in Great Britain. …”
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Elizabethan poetry in manuscript: an edition of British Library Harley MS 7392(2)

Providence and the affective benefits of natural causality by Jordan, PN

“…This article looks at a range of early modern English thinkers, including Walter Charleton, John Spencer, and Joseph Glanvill, for whom the application of a key feature of science and its historical precursors—the explanation of phenomena through natural causality—is by contrast helpful, because it allows them to battle improper fears within Christianity. …”

(Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the Color-Line by David Sterling Brown

“…Moreover, by positioning “the problem of the color-line” as relevant in the early modern period, the combined study of African-American and early modern English texts challenged critical race studies to include pre-nineteenth-century literature.…”
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“Amphions Harp gaue sence vnto stone Walles”: The Five Senses and Musical–Visual Affect by Katie Bank

“…Using active imagining, it considers how the Five Senses engaged early modern English subjects in a dialectic between sensory/bodily absence and presence as a mode for exploring the precarious pleasure of holding the passions on the edge of balance. …”
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Avant l’âge d’or : pour une histoire du sonnet imprimé en Angleterre (1547-1592) by Rémi Vuillemin

“…The history of the early modern English sonnet is well known. However, the discrepancy between, on the one hand, the relative absence of the sonnet (strictly defined) in the 1560s and 1570s, and, on the other hand, its sudden success in the 1590s, remains largely unexplained. …”
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Gold for secrets: the Hartlib Circle and the early English empire, 1630-1660 by Miller, TE

“…I argue that the participation of the Hartlib Circle in the improvement programme that contributed to the construction of English colonies has been insufficiently recognised, either in scholarship on the Hartlibians or in the general literature on early modern English colonial expansion. This study addresses this issue through a detailed examination of private and official correspondence, chronicles, sermons, legislation, journals, and other texts that directly or indirectly related Hartlib and his allies to the Early English Empire. …”

The Review of English Studies Prize Essay: Threshold rituals in early modern England: a case study in Robert Herrick by Allsopp, N

“…This essay explores the role of transitionary rituals in the culture of early-modern English Protestantism, and focuses particularly on the threshold, its ritual uses, and its wider metaphorical meanings. …”