Scholars of religious, literary, and cultural history will enjoy this illuminating collection.

This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spir

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. Th

The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volu

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Sp