This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters

This sweeping and eminently readable book is the first synthetic history of Calvinism in almost fifty years. It tells the story of the Reformed tradition from i

This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and soci

The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I�

Advice books published by women were a popular genre in Seventeenth and early Eighteenth-century England and they were moral manuals with strong religious overt