Drawings and sketches by William Sidney Mount

This chapter traces the interconnections among piety, politics, and poetry in the life and work of Philip Sidney and Mary Sidney-Herbert: the siblings whose partnership arguably la...

An introduction to the life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become important centers of trade and liberty. Beginning with a l...

Abraham Fraunce’s Amintas Dale (1591) is a generic hybrid, half mythography and half mythological poetry. The mythographical elements likely date back to a draft mythography that F...

First published in 1891, this memoir describes the life of the metallurgist and inventor Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (1850–1885), best-known for discovering the method of eliminating p...

The burning of Mount Benedict in Charlestown, Massachusetts, was one of the worst acts of nativist violence in American history. On August 11, 1834, a group of men attacked the con...

Abstract The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is ‘Gladstone’ to modern biographers. In ord...