Explores life-writing forms - almanacs, financial accounts, commonplace books and parish registers - which emerged during the sixteenth and seventeenth centurie

Why, and in what ways, did late medieval and early modern English people write about themselves, and what was their understanding of how "selves" were made and

A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is

As seventeenth-century England wrestled with the aftereffects of the Reformation, the personal frequently conflicted with the political. In speeches, political

Early modern autobiographies and diaries provide a unique insight into women's lives and how they remembered, interpreted and represented their experiences. Sha