The relation between procreation and authorship, between reproduction and publication, has a long history - indeed, that relationship may well be the very found

Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England. In the seventeenth century, these single-s

This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnic cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the m

Printed images were ubiquitous in early modern Britain, and they often convey powerful messages which are all the more important for having circulated widely at

This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more