This volume provides the first modern scholarly editions of four works on the rhetoric of counsel by Sir Thomas Elyot (1490-1546), humanist scholar and advisor

The first comprehensive study of early modern English political counsel and its association with the discourse of sovereignty.

This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisci

This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of sp

The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and anal