Persia and the Politics of Muslim Identity from Medieval to Early Modern Romance by Hafiz Abid Masood

“…This article delineates a continuity between the medieval representation of anti- Christian Persia in Crusade narratives and romances and the anti-Christian identity of Persia in early modern English romances from the 1580s. It links three major ways of perceiving Persia in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when the predominant identity of Persia was anti-Ottoman and thus pro-Christian. …”
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Disciplining creativity: habit, system, and the logic of late sixteenth-century poetics by Hetherington, M

“…This article traces the outlines of a latent debate about the proper teaching of the art of poetry through the corpus of early modern English poetics, focussing in particular on the way different texts (by Gascoigne, Puttenham, Sidney, Harvey, Harington and others) negotiate the tension between poetics as a systematic representation of literary technique and poetics as a dynamic habit or skill resistant to clear and comprehensive theory. …”

'A strange, though native coast': imperial and mercantile reactions to coastal arrival in early modern literature by Humphries, W

“…<p>This thesis explores imperial and mercantile reactions to moments of coastal arrival in early modern English literature. It demonstrates the various ways in which authors presented arrival on shorelines in order to consider political, ethical, and literary issues. …”

Sexual slander and its social context in England, c. 1660-1700, with special reference to Cheshire and Sussex by Winch, D

“…<p>A number of historians have studied the meanings of reputation in early modern English society through the medium of defamation cases in the church courts. …”

Reading art, reading nature by Jacob Orrje

“…Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), Margaret Cavendish (1623–1673) and Thomas Shadwell (1642 –1692) all read Hooke’s and Power’s books and in their responses one can discern some of the roles microscopy had in early modern English society. What attitude did these readers, who responded from their respective positions, have to the experiences in Micrographia and Experimental Philosophy? …”
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Containing Eve’s daughters? The education, fashioning and socialisation of women within three elite households of the West Country c. 1525-1660. by Bowness, C

“…It also notes the experiences of women in previous generations, which influenced education provision for girls. As early modern English women did not access the formal educational institutions of the universities or the Inns of Court, this thesis encourages a broader definition of education, to include teaching and vocational training in informal settings. …”

A certain tickling humour : English travellers, 1560-1660 by Ghazvinian, J

“…<p>The story of early modern English travellers has generally been treated by scholars as a subplot to larger narratives - whether political history, art history, or, more recently, textual criticism and constructions of the 'other'. …”

The theology of violence by Bell, M, Bell, Mark

“…It also outlines just war theory, which was central to early modern English views of legitimate violence. Additional aspects of contemporaries' conceptions involved ideas of authorisation, violence as punishment, and a hierarchy of legitimate violence. …”

Earth, realm, England: national identity and the land in the English history plays of William Shakespeare by Fairbanks, C

“…I consider instead the role of the physical land itself, bringing an ecocritical perspective to bear upon early modern English understandings of self and nationhood. …”

Prophetic rhetoric in the early Stuart period by Jennings, E

'Wisdom's the noblest ware that Travel brings': English clerics and experiences of travel within the Mughal and Ottoman Empires, 1616-1724 by Beirouti, C

“…In making these arguments, this thesis seeks to open up new avenues for the study of early modern English travel, on the one hand, and of the early modern Church of England, on the other.…”

'Witness William Strode': manuscript contexts, circulation and reception by Seddon, C

Witches of here and everywhere: course and containment on the early modern stage by Badger, W

“…Its aim is to bring aspects of staged witchcraft jurisprudence into greater critical focus in order to demonstrate how productive the embattled witch figure was to early modern English dramatists, and therefore how vital to our understanding of the period. …”

'She tooke armes her selfe': violence, propaganda, and social criticism in The Life of Long Meg of Westminster by Matthews, GE

“…Often treated as an unimportant, ephemeral text, scholars of early modern English literature, especially feminist critics, have used the central character to provide context for works about or including fighting women. …”

‘Incorporate into one body torne and scattered limmes’: Recontextualising Principal Navigations within the networks of Richard Hakluyt by Stevenson, E

“…<p>Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589 and 1598-1600) was an enormously influential work in the development of travel writing and a formative influence on early modern English identity. Hakluyt drew on and developed a previously European mode to create his compendium, and Principal Navigations is now considered the prime source for sixteenth-century English travel writing, often regarded historically as an objective record. …”

“Follow the noise so far as we have quarter”: sound and the early modern stage by Wright, L

Between company and state: Anglo-Ottoman diplomacy and ottoman political culture, 1565-1607 by Butler, J

“…These studies engage with wider historiographical debates in the ‘New Diplomatic History’, early modern English commercial expansion and the roots of its later evolution into colonialism, and the form and exercise of political power within the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the sixteenth to the seventeenth century. …”

TCP EEBO, EECO and Evans texts by Rahtz, S

Protestant epistolary counselling in early modern England, c. 1559-1660 by Busfield, L

“…Current knowledge of his counselling of the Derbyshire gentlewoman, Katherine Gell, is extended through an original reflection on the significance of networks of pastoral direction in early modern English Protestantism. Chapter five explores the nature of religious advice-giving amongst the laity and uncovers its pious motivations. …”

Public men on public stages: the performance of state authority in popular drama, 1590-1610 by Clarke, LJS

“…<p>This thesis explores the representation of the early modern English state in a selection of drama performed in London’s public theatres between 1590 and 1610. …”