Modern History

A Royalist MP, Sir John Strangways (1585–1666) was imprisoned in the Tower on charges of high treason between 1645 and 1648 and during that time began compiling his commonplace book of reflections and poems. This full critical edition is Volume 275 of the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies series. No jacket.

Remarkable for their religious and personal immediacy, the occasional meditations of Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick (1625–1678) are brief, spontaneous responses to daily life, in which spiritual significance is discovered in the commonplace. From ‘Upon desiring my docter to give me a potion’ to ‘Upon the lighting many Candles...’ the meditations are transcribed here in a complete, critical edition with an index of Biblical citations and a general index.

Debora Shuger offers a new approach to the history of early modern English censorship. Attempting to recover the system of beliefs and values ‘that made the regulation of language, including state censorship, seem like a good idea’, the study deals with issues that remain relevant today: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents, and the grounding of law in theological ethics.

This collection of key documents, in translation and with introductory notes, spans the period from 1469, with the 'Marriage Concessions' of Ferdinand of Aragon, to 1794 and Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos' 'Letter on the French Revolution'. No jacket.

This selection of verse, drama, fiction and non-fictional prose juxtaposes works by Protestants and Roman Catholics, laypeople and clerics, men and women, commoners and queens. No jacket.

Examining six plays, including The Merchant of Venice and Thomas Middleton’s Michaelmas Term, Bailey looks at how debt bondage was understood in the early modern era and discusses related topics including money and forfeiture.