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In the early modern period, ignorance was commonly perceived as a sin, a flaw, a defect, and even a threat to religion and the social order. Yet praises of igno

This volume argues through a series of selected local studies, for the importance of "textual criticism" as a fundamental act of historical interpretation and r

In early modern England, while moralists railed against the theater as wasteful and depraved and inflation whittled away at the value of wages, people attended

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science explores the main themes, problems and challenges currently at the top of the discipline's methodolog

Early modern Britain witnessed a transformation in legal reasoning about human volition and intentional action. Examining the relation between law and theater i