Seventeenth Century

Papers
(The median citation count of Seventeenth Century is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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“We ought to obey God rather then men”: John Rogers’s millenarian hermeneutics and legal reform in 16537
‘The fire of patriotism’: the historiographical success of Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs in the nineteenth century13
Antiquarianism, philology, and translatio studii in the epistolary translations of Sir John Hobart and Nicholas Bacon2
The Reformed and Celibate Pastor: Richard Baxter’s Argument for Clerical Celibacy2
Lucy Hutchinson and the English revolution2
The rhetoric of conversion in English Puritan writing from Perkins to Milton2
Memory and mortality in Renaissance England1
In the kitchen, 1550–1800: reading English cooking at home and abroad1
The State Trials and the politics of justice in later Stuart England1
Globalizing fortune on the early modern stage1
Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England1
The Legal Writing of Sir Edward Coke, the Anglo-Saxons, and Lex Terrae1
Descartes: the renewal of philosophy1
“A suppurating ulcer”: religious orders and transnational conflict in Valladolid at the start of the seventeenth century1
Postal intelligence: the Tassis family and communications revolution in early modern Europe1
Literature, learning, and social hierarchy in early modern Europe1
Bear journeys in early modern England1
The Fables of Aesop: Paraphrased in Verse by John Ogilby and Adorned with Sculpture [By Francis Cleyn] (Franz Klein)1
“Will doe all in her power”: the role of women in the contested will of Henry Cavendish1
The political thought of the English free state, 1649–16531
‘Old delights’: the politics of pastoral nostalgia in Hutchinson’s manuscript verse1
Reframing the covenant:A Solemn Acknowledgment(1648) and the resubscription of the Solemn League and Covenant1
Racine et les trois publics de l’amour1
Towards an equality of the sexes in early modern France1
The Madman and the Churchrobber: law & conflict in early modern England1
Early modern state formation or gute Policey? The good order of the community0
The Dunghill Fight: Maurice Wheeler’s translation of Polemo-Middinia from the Oxford edition0
The Polar Star: James, first duke of Hamilton (1606–1649)0
‘Darkness Visible’: Modes of Coal Smoke in Milton’s Hell0
Fictions of consent: slavery, servitude, and free service in early modern England0
Words Turned Upside Down0
Some unpublished fragments on Descartes’s life and works0
TheMemoirsin cultural memory and historiography: Lucy Hutchinson and the people0
‘Precept upon precept’: biblical commonplacing in Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs0
Decorating the parish church in post-Reformation England: material culture, community and identity in Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, 1560-16400
The Subject of Britain, 1603-250
Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs, François Guizot’s histories of the English revolution, and Henriette Guizot de Witt’s women’s history0
Editorial0
Contingency, irony, and sociability: Robert Boyle’s experimental style0
England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles0
Re-thinking nostalgic antiquarianism: time, space, and the English reformation0
The Metaphorical Metaphysic of John Donne: An Interpretation of his Poetry and his Prose0
Testimonies of Temple Lane: memory, perjury, and the landscape in a seventeenth-century West Yorkshire dispute0
The poems and songs of Henry Hall of Hereford: a Jacobite poet of the 1690s0
Englishing Paolo Sarpi and gelding the Pope in England, 1606−16200
Books received 20240
‘Christian notes sound sweetest suffering’: birds, books and textual circulation in Sir John Gibson’s commonplace book (BL Add 37719)0
“Woe unto us”: divine wrath and godly sorrow in an English plague sermon (1637)0
Reformation religious identities and the fluidities of confessional allegiance: the world according to Sir William Monson0
Somewhat ‘of the old manner of romances and somewhat of the new’: Francis Kirkman’s continuations toDon Bellianis of Greece0
Portraits of Lucy and Colonel John Hutchinson - a relationship with art and Robert Walker0
‘We have sick souls when God’s physic works not’: Samuel Rutherford’s pastoral letters as a form of literary cure0
Selden’s reply to Salmasius, an alternative title for thePro Populo Anglicano Defensio, and why Milton deserves to be strangled: rumour and opinion in the correspondence of Guy Patin0
The Arden research handbook of Shakespeare and textual studies0
Introduction: the uses and abuses of civility0
Libertines and the law: subversive authors and criminal justice in early seventeenth-century France0
The dynastic diplomacy of the Princely Count of Arenberg at the Stuart court in 16030
Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain0
How to do things with the Church Fathers: Mary Magdalene and anti-Calvinist court rhetoric in Lancelot Andrewes’s Easter Sermons (1620-22)0
A Couple of Soles: a Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China0
Keeping the Ancient Way: Aspects of the Life and Work of Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)0
Comparative essays on the poetry and prose of John Donne and George Herbert: combined lights0
The Church of Ireland: power and distance in the early-seventeenth-century Atlantic0
Addressing audiences abroad: cultural and public diplomacy in seventeenth-century Europe0
William Fowler’s ‘Instructions for fencing’ and the Scottish context of Prince Henry’s Barriers (1610)0
Philosophical reflections on Japan’s Sakoku policy: seventeenth-century English perspectives0
Dignified Retreat: writers and intellectuals in the age of Richelieu0
Plague in time of war: the example of the seventeenth-century Hungarian-Ottoman frontier0
Shakespeare’s Tutor: the influence of Thomas Kyd0
For a “Livorno-on-Thames”: the Tuscan model in the writings of Henry Robinson (1604-1673?)0
The restraint of the press in England, 1660-1715: the communication of sin0
Urban government and the early Stuart state: provincial towns, corporate liberties, and royal authority in England, 1603-16400
‘Shun’d of humane fellowships’: civility and animality in The Unnaturall Combat0
Exceptional bodies in early modern culture: concepts of monstrosity before the advent of the normal0
After 1662: ejected ministers and the support for nonconformity, the first decade revisited0
Painting, poetry, and music in Nicholas Lanier’s ‘Hero’s Lament to Leander’0
Poussin and the Dance0
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes0
Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare0
In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams0
“InItalianhand”: melancholy, gender and bibliographical codes in commemorative text0
The politics of weather in early modern England0
Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan0
The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters0
Loss and Survival: The Episcopalian Spiritual Vocation, 1646-620
Milton and the resources of the line0
The fate of Philologus: learning and prattle in early modern religious dialogue0
The Precious Summary: a history of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing dynasty0
Catherine of Braganza’s modelling of civility and personal agency in the court of Charles II0
New light on Lucy Walter, 1649-16590
Athéisme et dissimulation au XVII e siècle: Guy Patin et le Theophrastus redivivus0
William Lawrence’s Newes from Geneva, or The Lewd Levite (1662): recovering a manuscript restoration play0
George Chapman, Edward Coke, and Crooked Justice0
A Trojan horse in the citadel of orthodoxy: Samuel Maresius’s critique of Cartesian theology0
Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London: The Invention of the Metaphysical0
Imagining Andrew Marvell at 4000
Poetics and Polemics: reading seventeenth-century Irish political verse0
The Devil from over the Sea: remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland0
The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-10
Governors, the Royalist war effort, and power’s personalisation in Northern England, 1642–90
Le Accademie Romane in difesa di Galilei : L’Amor pudico (1614), con un’ipotesi di ricostruzione dell’apparato teatrale di Fabio Colonnese. Edizione critica, note e comm0
Andrew Marvell: a literary life0
Infinite Variety: literary invention, theology, and the disorder of kinds, 1688-17300
Neo-Latin verse satire, ca. 1500-1800: an ethical approach0
The specter of the archive: political practice and the information state in early modern Britain0
Clarendon’s moral History0
Master or Handmaid?: Dryden’s view of the New Science in Annus Mirabilis0
Reading mathematics in early modern Europe: studies in the production, collection, and use of mathematical books0
Comunidad, pertenencia, extranjería: El impacto de la migración laboral y mercantil de la región del Mar del Norte en Nueva España, 1550-16400
Edward Herbert’s A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil , and Karl Ludwig, Elector of the Palatinate0
Hiding in plain view: religiosity and patronage in the works of William Dugdale0
Se moquer de la philosophie est vraiment philosopher: Plato, Aristotle and the pedagogy of irony and play in Pascal’s Pensées0
Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World0
Actors, soldiers, and Jesuits in post-Reformation England: Joseph Simons’ 1648 oration on Robert Persons and the mission to England0
‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: early modern English parish registers and the memories of local communities0
Dancing Queen: Marie de Médicis’ ballets at the court of Henri IV0
Merchants: the community that shaped England’s trade and empire0
Editiones Rariores, nos. 1 and 2, Edited by William Poole, Oxford, 2021-230
‘Instructive types’ or mere ‘fancies’: assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel Pepys0
John Donne and English Puritanism, 1650–17000
Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and his world: Restoration court, politics, and diplomacy0
Russia’s 17th century crisis of modernization: the autobiographical saint’s Life of the Archpriest Avvakum0
English public diplomacy in the Dutch Republic, 1609–16190
Artemisia Gentileschi and the ‘biographical sensationalism’ in the interpretation of her artistic work0
Books received 20210
La Guerre de Trente Ans, 1618-16480
The last witches of England: a tragedy of sorcery and superstition0
Sir Thomas Fairfax and the politics of pain0
The readmission of the Jews and the power of the civil magistrate: Thomas Barlow on the Jews and natural law, 1655-16560
‘The wall and glory of Jerusalem’: the sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and City of London during in the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration (1649-1662)0
The people of West Nottinghamshire and the English Revolution0
Contesting the Church of England 1640-70: the European Dimension0
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the origins of empire0
Décolletage disputes in early modern France0
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: the paper revolution0
Cavendish and Hutchinson, secretaries0
Allegory and social mores in Abraham Bosse’s L’Hyver0
Women (Re)Writing Milton0
Civil War London: mobilizing for Parliament, 1641-50
The mass market for history paintings in seventeenth-century Amsterdam: production, distribution, and consumption0
Contributors0
Northern echoes: regional identity in the early Quaker Movement, c.1650–16660
Preaching and the body: Lame Mephibosheth in early seventeenth-century England and Scotland0
Peripheral promises: political oaths as instruments of trust and control, Sweden 1520–17200
Monarchy, print culture, and reverence in early modern England: picturing royal subjects0
Confessional public diplomacy? Bernardino de Rebolledo’s defence of Catholicism in Denmark, 1655–16560
Introduction0
‘The Governor’s wife’: women and garrisons in the English civil war0
A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, ca. 1525–1638: frameworks of change and development0
Il natal di Amore by Giulio Strozzi: interactions and echoes with the early modern literary and operatic world and Monteverdi0
Lucy Hutchinson in her fifth century0
Women who reason in print: blazing worlds and blameless girls in early modern ballads0
Coming To: consciousness and natality in early modern England0
The staging of Islam andThe Alcoran of Mahometin Charles Saunders’sTamerlane the Greatand the Restoration politics0
Catholics During the English Revolution 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty0
The Synod of Dort in Arabic: Bodleian MS Marsh 2680
A cordwainer’s wife in high politics: a microhistory of Mrs Caute*0
Elizabeth Currer: religious non-conformity in John Dryden’s The Kind-Keeper and Aphra Behn’s The Widdow Ranter0
Between word and image: the trajectory of civility and exemplarity in Gallet’s 1698 illustrated edition of the Heptaméron0
Waltoniana Extensa: A Previously Unidentified Political Pamphlet by Izaak Walton0
Shakespeare’s language0
‘A poor gentlewoman that cannot take mercenary courses for her bread’: Aphra Behn’s sister and the influence of colonialism in late seventeenth-century London0
Hospitality towards European travellers in Latin America in the colonial middle0
‘Epiques chang’d to Doleful Elegies’: The Poems on the Death of Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester0
Charles I, the ‘Protestant Party,’ the Palatinate and a Franco-Stuart Alliance – 1636-90
‘Without Al womanly modesty’: civility, gender and women’s preaching0
Christopher Hill: the life of a radical historian0
Cheap print, crime and information in early modern London:The Life and Death of Griffin Flood0
Puritanism and Natural Philosophy revisited: the case of Ralph Austen ( c . 1612–1676)0
Calvinist conformity in post-reformation England: the theology and career of Daniel Featley0
Enlightened Oxford: the university and the cultural and political life of eighteenth-century Britain and beyond0
Habsburg Studies under Siege: Notes on Recent Early Modern Scholarship0
Holding a mirror up to nature: shame, guilt, and violence in Shakespeare0
The cultural role of diplomats in an age of war: French fashion in Vienna under Leopold I0
New light on the strolling performers Thomas Peadle and Thomas Cosby, 1639–16500
Regional Book Distribution and Political Participation in the English Civil War0
Making the Memoirs: missing leaves in the manuscript of Lucy Hutchinson’s life of John Hutchinson0
Re-assessing the ars moriendi: good and bad deaths in early modern England0
Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull0
Books received 20230
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome0
‘The rich help of books’: patterns of annotation in Latin and English versions of Abraham Cowley’s Sex Libri Plantarum0
Practical algebra and hydrostatics: the legacy of Thomas Harriot0
Diversity, complexity and compromise: first thoughts from the House of Commons 1640–1660 project on the reshaping of the church0
Books received 20220
Ephemeral print culture in early modern England: sociability, politics and collecting0
Blind lives: the sightless and society in early modern England0
Between the galley and plantation: the rhetorical construction of English servants in the seventeenth century0
The codpiece with a charm: coffee and sexual anxiety in 1670s England0
Relationality, community and collaboration in seventeenth-century Chancery court records0
Drowned books and ghost books. Making sense of the finds from a seventeenth-century shipwreck off the Dutch island of Texel0
Shakespeare, a huge muscly Triton0
Fallacy/The Sophister (c. 1614), a Wykehamist play0
A new biography of Oliver Cromwell: a matter of character?0
‘A Late Court-Poet’ Revisited: Milton, Cleveland, and The Readie and Easie Way0
Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration0
Poemataon affairs of state: political satire in Latin in later Stuart Britain, 1658–17140
The millennial theory of Lucy Hutchinson and Mary Cary0
Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-16880
Catholics in the Interregnum0
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure0
The Glass Ceiling: Hutchinson and elusive promotion10
‘There is a religion in our love’: friendship and ecclesiology in the poetry of Katherine Philips, 1650-16530
Figures of Chance I. Chance in literature and the arts (16th–21st Centuries)0
Restoration Playbooks and Receivers’ Stamps: James Magnes, Richard Bentley, and ‘the Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden’0
“By degrees it grows still more refin’d” : Katherine Philips’ curating of the Tutin manuscript0
The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603-16600
Distilling Grief: Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies and Alchemy0
Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives0
De Veertigjarige Oorlog: 1672-1712: De Strijd van de Nederlanders Tegen de Zonnekoning. [The Forty Years’ War: 1672-1712: the struggle of the Dutch against the Sun King]0
A literary history of Latin & English poetry: bilingual verse culture in early modern England0
Annals of the War in the Low Countries0
John Harris, the Oxford Army Press, and the radicalizing process0
Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France0
Passion’s Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson: literature and the sciences of soul and mind0
George Wither and the New World0
Editorial0
The Reformation of the Heart: gender and radical theology in the English revolution0
Standardising English spelling: the role of printing in sixteenth and seventeenth-century graphemic development0
Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-17070
Reading Milton reading Shakespeare politically: what the identification of Milton’s First Folio does and does not tell us0
The godly lives of Samuel Clarke and the ‘national church’ in the 1650s0
The Impact of Milton’s Of Education on the Hartlib Circle’s Understanding of Public and Private0
Rebel with a Cause. Gesellschaftliche Reform und radikale religiöse Aufklärung bei Friedrich Breckling (1629-1711)0
“Presenting a Book to Orinda”: Anne Twice, Katherine Philips, and John Oldham in New York Public Library, Drexel MS 41750
Louis XIV and the peace of Europe. French diplomacy in Northern Italy, 1659–17010
Shakespeare and virtue: a handbook0
Poetry and sovereignty in the English Revolution0
Oliver Cromwell’s voice0
Collective empiricism at the Paris Observatoire in the late seventeenth century0
When your body is a battlefield: Lucy Hutchinson and the Militarized Womb10
Thomas Vaughan and the Rosicrucian revival, 1648–16660
Editorial0
Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic0
Margaret Cavendish: Philosophical Letters, abridged0
The Private Life of William Shakespeare0
Re-assessing the seventeenth-century quarto of Sir David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (1602-04)0
‘Son slave’: A Very Woman , conduct books, and the regulation of Servitude/Slavery0
Taste and knowledge in early modern England0
Correction0
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts0
Materiality and devotion in the poetry of George Herbert0
Moriscos vs. Old Christians in late 16th and early 17th century Spain. Were the Moriscos truly poorer and more fertile?0
Rhetoric and scepticism: Thomas Browne’s Amphibium mind in Religio Medici0
Early modern women’s complaint: gender, form, and politics0
The outrageous inner lives of plants: abortion poetics in Abraham Cowley’s Plantarum Libri Duo ( Two Books of Plants )0
Republic: Britain’s revolutionary decade, 1649–6600
Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society0
Gifts and Graces: Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan0
‘Oliver Cromwell is a Devil!’ Religious Radicalism and Political Turmoil in Geneva during the English Civil Wars0
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