This book is the first major study of courtship in early modern England. Courtship was a vitally important process in early modern England. It was a period of p

This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them. Twenty-three specially written essays investigate the type of things that might have been co

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Religion and the Early Modern British Marketplace explores the complex intersection between the geographic, material, and ideological marketplaces through the l