The early modern period saw the study of classical history flourish. This study explores the early modern translations of Livy, the single most important Roman

Our image of England as island nation is the legacy of the Elizabethan literary erasure of Scotland.

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Women Writing Antiquity argues that the struggle to define the female intellectual in seventeenth-century France lay at the centre of a broader struggle over th