A seventeenth-century enigma

Abstract The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you bel...

Abstract Aristocratic Power in the Spanish Monarchy uses the Borromeo family from Milan as a lens through which to study the transformation of aristocratic power in ...

Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618–1680) was the daughter of the Elector Palatine, Frederick V, King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland and E...

Abstract This is a thorough-going study of Monteverdi’s Vespers, the single most significant and most widely known musical print from before the time of J.S. Bach. T...

Abstract A man of huge reputation in his own right and as an alumnus of one of the most sophisticated courts in the history of western Europe, the fifteenth century ...

The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century Nonconformist preacher and writer. It examines Bunyan’s...

Chapter 5 takes a long-term view of one seventeenth-century conflict, the meaning of the Sabbath, so as to gauge philology’s potential to redefine the significance of biblical text...

Redefining Eclecticism in Early Modern Bolognese Painting. Ideology, Practice, and Criticism focuses on the unique nature of early modern Bolognese painting that found its expressi...