This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new und

This path-breaking study explores the diverse and varied meanings of manhood in early modern England and their complex, and often contested, relationship with p

The first full length treatment of how men of different professions, social ranks and ages are empowered by their emotional expressiveness in early modern Engli

Explores how classical and gendered conceptions of tyranny shaped early Stuart understandings of monarchy and the development of republican thought.

"The prevalent worldview of early modern England, shaped by Protestantism, dismissed magical belief as an ideological delusion inherent to Catholicism, while al