Regarded by contemporaries as the chief dispute of our times, tithes were the subject of intense controversy in the 1650s. Ministers, reformers, radicals and se

The concept of self-ownership was first articulated in anglophone political thought in the decades between the outbreak of the English Civil War and the Gloriou

This volume examines private libraries and book ownership in seventeenth-century England, with particular focus on how libraries developed over this period and

Original historical and literary case studies Distinguished contributors from different fields - law, art history, literature Challenging and sophisticated theo