Bøger i Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture serien

Charts charity's complex history from the 1520s to the 1640s and details the ways in which it can be best understood in biblical translations of the early sixteenth century, in Elizabethan polemic and satire, and in the political and religious controversies arriving at the outset of civil war.

Every spring and summer of her forty-four years as queen, Elizabeth I (1533-1603) insisted that her court go ""on progress"", a series of royal visits to towns and aristocratic homes in southern England. In this book, Mary Hill Cole provides a detailed analysis of these progresses.

This book challenges the conventional image of John Dee (1527-1609) as an isolated, eccentric philosopher. Instead, William H. Sherman presents Dee in a fresh context, revealing that he was a well-connected adviser to the academic, courtly and commercial circles of his day.