Overview :Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing toda... Read More
Overview :In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demon... Read More
Overview :Looking outward for confirmation of who they were and what defined them as "civilized," Europeans encountered the returning gaze of what we ... Read More
Overview :The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning coul... Read More
Overview :The brilliant, largely forgotten maverick Robert Hooke was an engineer, surveyor, architect, and inventor who worked tirelessly with his int... Read More
Overview :The assassination of Prince William of Orange by a French Catholic in 1584 had immediate political consequences and a profound effect on the... Read More
Overview :By modern standards Bacon's writings are striking in their range and diversity, and they are too often considered a separate specialist conc... Read More
Overview :Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's po... Read More