This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation a

A study of the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England that explores the relationship between the Reformation and literary renaissance of t

Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare's works. Some featured whole poems, while others chose sh

Explores the impact of legal ideas and legal consciousness on early modern English society and culture.

Although not translated into English until 1549, Erasmus's most famous work, the Praise of Folly, has an English provenance as the product of his friendship wit