Includes contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the

This innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture of printing in early modern England. For

This book is the first comparative study of early modern English and Dutch women writers. It explores women’s rich and complex responses to the birth of the p

The early modern ‘public sphere’ emerges out of a popular ‘culture of persuasion’ fostered by the Protestant Reformation. By 1600, religious identity co