The essays in this long-awaited collection range from Edmund Spenser to John Donne, from Clément Marot to Pierre de Ronsard.

This new edition, which expands on the revised and expanded selection of Malory material that will be included in the third edition of The Broadview Anthology of British Literature, is all of those things.

This collection demonstrates that catechisms provide valuable insight into constructions of early modern maternity, and more broadly, into the degree of power and authority accorded to women in the early modern Protestant family.

These texts attest to the changing nature of gardening - from a largely subsistence endeavour to an artful practice that became defined in gendered terms.

The texts reprinted in these two volumes allow readers to reconstruct the history of recipes, both medical and culinary, from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, and situate that history within the larger scientific and ...

The almanacs in this volume contribute to our understanding of women's participation in popular culture, astrology, medicine and prophecy.

The two translators whose printed works are contained in this volume were the daughters of Henry VIII.

A complement to Teresa Feroli's facsimile edition of Eleanor Davies' pre-1640 texts (Ashgate, 2000), this pair of volumes reproduces 60 texts from the corpus of 66 printed between 1641 and 1652.

Though the subtitle indicates an attempt to include other voices from the era, The Faerie Queene and its creator Edmund Spenser (1522-99) still hold center stage.

This volume includes the works of three Englishwomen: Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416) whose Revelations were first printed in 1670; Margery Kempe (c.1373-c.1438) from whose Boke of Marjorie Kempe a few extracts were printed in 1501 and ...