Jan Boeckhorst, 1604-1668

Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was one of the best-known rabbis in early modern Europe. In the course of his life he became an important Jewish interlocutor for Christian scholars...

The chapter constitutes the first detailed study of how early lexicographers and printers exploited typography to present the description of the meaning of words and their morpholo...

Presenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in ...

Did Shakespeare write any comic plays after All’s Well That Ends Well (1604–5)? The conventional story has been that Shakespeare’s comedy ended early in the 17th century, despite h...

Abstract Those privileged enough to attend performances of masques at court in the early seventeenth century invariably commented on the sumptuousness of the musi...