By Sasha Handley
January 20, 2016
A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to ...
By Charlotte Colding Smith
July 21, 2015
Using evidence from contemporary printed images, Smith examines the attitudes of Christian Europe to the Ottoman Empire and to Islam. She also considers the relationship between text and image, placing it in the cultural context of the Reformation and beyond....
By Jennifer Hillman
July 16, 2015
Hillman presents a fascinating account of the role that women played during the Catholic Reformation in France. She reconstructs the devotional practices of a network of powerful women showing how they reconciled Catholic piety with their roles as part of an aristocratic elite, challenging the view...
By Various Authors
June 01, 2014
Contains the first ten volumes in the Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World series: 1. Possession, Puritanism and Print 2. Visions of an Unseen World 3. Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560–1750 4. Sacred History and National Identity 5. Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century ...