Throughout the early modern period, the nymph remained a powerful figure that inspired and informed the cultural imagination in many different ways. Far from be

This volume explores the early modern manuals on travelling (Artes apodemicae), a new genre of advice literature that originated in the sixteenth century, when

This collection of essays explores the role of gardens in early modern academies and, conversely, the place of what might be called 'academic culture' in early

This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.

Customised Books in Early Modern Europe and the Americas, 1400‒1700 examines the form, function, and meaning of alterations made by users to the physical stru