January 10, 2023
The study of climate-change fiction, or cli-fi, has had profound impacts on both critics and readers, forcing us to confront our fears for the future, but also to accept the… READ MORE
August 24, 2022
Translation in its various guises – as practice, concept, field, and metaphor – has always been integral to my research into early modern French and comparative literature and my other… READ MORE
April 8, 2022
Marguerite de Navarre is best known today for her brilliant and open-ended story collection The Heptameron, in which a group of men and women tell each other stories exploring love,… READ MORE
March 31, 2022
John Cruso of Norwich (b. 1592/3) is a fine example of an early modern self-made man. This study of his life and work illustrates well that fundamental tenet of the… READ MORE
March 23, 2022
The Renaissance Society of America’s biannual conference takes place in Dublin next week (Wednesday 30th – Saturday 2nd April) coinciding with some recent exciting changes in Boydell & Brewer’s Studies… READ MORE
December 9, 2021
Faulkner famously said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” Beloved, Toni Morrison’s magnum opus on America’s racial past, may just as well have been written about contemporary… READ MORE
June 16, 2021
Summer is coming, Covid is lifting (even in Glasgow, hopefully) and it’s time to celebrate one of the richest collections of incunabula in the UK. ‘A Catalogue of Fifteenth-Century Printed… READ MORE
April 16, 2021
In mid-seventeenth-century France, Charlotte-Amélie de la Trémoille, the young member of one of the country’s most prominent Protestant families, is playing with some childhood friends, who are young Catholic girls…. READ MORE
November 19, 2019
How did early modern fighting men perceive themselves? What was the relationship between a soldier and contemporary conceptions of masculinity, honour, and nobility? Matthew Woodcock, Professor of Medieval and Early… READ MORE
October 10, 2019
On Saturday, August 31, I had the chance to do the unthinkable… rub shoulders with the likes of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; authors David McCullough, Barbara Kingsolver, and… READ MORE
On the “superficiality” of eighteenth-century women’s education