This book brings contemporary ways of reconceptualizing the human relationship to things into conversation with seventeenth-century writing, exploring how the l

It studies 17th century texts which distinctions between the natural and the artificial interfold. It examines how 4 writers theorized bodies and objects as cha

Implements stories of surgical alteration to consider how early modern individuals conceived the relationship between body, mind, and self.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Popular Culture in Early Modern England is a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of current research on popular cultu

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clot