The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have traditionally been regarded by historians as a period of intense and formative historical change, so much so that t

This volume brings together twelve previously published essays, divided into three sections: 1. Surveys of 16th- and 17th-Century Linguistic Scholarship, 2. The

This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.

In the early-modern period, the English language was practically unknown outside of Britain and Ireland, so the English who wanted to travel and trade with the

Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcendin