OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Glass Ceiling: Hutchinson and elusive promotion¹	3
‘The fire of patriotism’: the historiographical success of Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs in the nineteenth century¹	3
‘The Governor’s wife’: women and garrisons in the English civil war	3
Prehistory of consular diplomacy. A new perspective on the activity of 17^th-century Venetian consuls in the Ottoman Empire	3
The constraints of public diplomacy: Don Alonso de Cárdenas in London, 1638–1655	2
Lucy Hutchinson and the English revolution	2
Antiquarianism, philology, and translatio studii in the epistolary translations of Sir John Hobart and Nicholas Bacon	2
Shakespeare and virtue: a handbook	2
Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare	1
Books received 2021	1
Holding a mirror up to nature: shame, guilt, and violence in Shakespeare	1
Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688	1
Standardising English spelling: the role of printing in sixteenth and seventeenth-century graphemic development	1
Poemataon affairs of state: political satire in Latin in later Stuart Britain, 1658–1714	1
The last witches of England: a tragedy of sorcery and superstition	1
The rhetoric of conversion in English Puritan writing from Perkins to Milton	1
Dancing Queen: Marie de Médicis’ ballets at the court of Henri IV	1
The codpiece with a charm: coffee and sexual anxiety in 1670s England	1
Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400	1
Pride and prejudice. Proto-racism in Walerian Nekanda Trepka’s ‘Liber generationis plebeanorum’ (c. 1624-1640)	1
The restraint of the press in England, 1660-1715: the communication of sin	1
Detestable and wicked arts: New England and witchcraft in the early modern Atlantic world	1
Stuart Style: monarchy, dress and the Scottish male elite	1
Russia’s 17th century crisis of modernization: the autobiographical saint’s Life of the Archpriest Avvakum	1
The Devil from over the Sea: remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland	0

Englishing Paolo Sarpi and gelding the Pope in England, 1606−1620	0
Il natal di Amore by Giulio Strozzi: interactions and echoes with the early modern literary and operatic world and Monteverdi	0
A Couple of Soles: a Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China	0
Somewhat ‘of the old manner of romances and somewhat of the new’: Francis Kirkman’s continuations toDon Bellianis of Greece	0
Hiding in plain view: religiosity and patronage in the works of William Dugdale	0
Islamic Thought through Protestant eyes	0
Allegory and social mores in Abraham Bosse’s L’Hyver	0
Contesting the Church of England 1640-70: the European Dimension	0
“By degrees it grows still more refin’d” : Katherine Philips’ curating of the Tutin manuscript	0
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the origins of empire	0
George Wither and the New World	0
Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull	0
The fate of character in Dryden’s theatre of passion	0
Relationality, community and collaboration in seventeenth-century Chancery court records	0
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: the paper revolution	0
Collective empiricism at the Paris Observatoire in the late seventeenth century	0
Décolletage disputes in early modern France	0
‘Christian notes sound sweetest suffering’: birds, books and textual circulation in Sir John Gibson’s commonplace book (BL Add 37719)	0
New light on Lucy Walter, 1649-1659	0
Rhetoric and scepticism: Thomas Browne’s Amphibium mind in Religio Medici	0
Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London: The Invention of the Metaphysical	0
TheMemoirsin cultural memory and historiography: Lucy Hutchinson and the people	0
Re-thinking nostalgic antiquarianism: time, space, and the English reformation	0
English public diplomacy in the Dutch Republic, 1609–1619	0
‘The rich help of books’: patterns of annotation in Latin and English versions of Abraham Cowley’s Sex Libri Plantarum	0
Passion’s Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson: literature and the sciences of soul and mind	0
Editorial	0
‘Epiques chang’d to Doleful Elegies’: The Poems on the Death of Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester	0
Loss and Survival: The Episcopalian Spiritual Vocation, 1646-62	0
Figures of Chance I. Chance in literature and the arts (16th–21st Centuries)	0
New light on the strolling performers Thomas Peadle and Thomas Cosby, 1639–1650	0
“A most excellent medicine”: Malaria, Mithridate, and the death of Andrew Marvell	0
Reframing the covenant:A Solemn Acknowledgment(1648) and the resubscription of the Solemn League and Covenant	0
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome	0
‘Oliver Cromwell is a Devil!’ Religious Radicalism and Political Turmoil in Geneva during the English Civil Wars	0
Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic	0
‘Son slave’: A Very Woman , conduct books, and the regulation of Servitude/Slavery	0
The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1	0
Decorating the parish church in post-Reformation England: material culture, community and identity in Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, 1560-1640	0
Cheap print, crime and information in early modern London:The Life and Death of Griffin Flood	0
‘Darkness Visible’: Modes of Coal Smoke in Milton’s Hell	0
Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes	0
Hospitality towards European travellers in Latin America in the colonial middle	0
A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, ca. 1525–1638: frameworks of change and development	0
Cavendish and Hutchinson, secretaries	0
John Harris, the Oxford Army Press, and the radicalizing process	0
Between the galley and plantation: the rhetorical construction of English servants in the seventeenth century	0
The English Republican exiles in Europe during the Restoration	0
La Guerre de Trente Ans, 1618-1648	0
Shakespeare’s language	0

The cultural role of diplomats in an age of war: French fashion in Vienna under Leopold I	0
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
The Polar Star: James, first duke of Hamilton (1606–1649)	0
Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs, François Guizot’s histories of the English revolution, and Henriette Guizot de Witt’s women’s history	0
The State Trials and the politics of justice in later Stuart England	0
“Woe unto us”: divine wrath and godly sorrow in an English plague sermon (1637)	0
Books received 2020	0
Oliver Cromwell’s voice	0
The dynastic diplomacy of the Princely Count of Arenberg at the Stuart court in 1603	0
Catholics During the English Revolution 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty	0
The Subject of Britain, 1603-25	0
Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World	0
The political thought of the English free state, 1649–1653	0
Introduction: the uses and abuses of civility	0
‘We have sick souls when God’s physic works not’: Samuel Rutherford’s pastoral letters as a form of literary cure	0
Civil War London: mobilizing for Parliament, 1641-5	0
Trace of Stoic logic in Descartes: Stoic axiōma and Descartes’s pronuntiatum in the Second Meditation	0
Shakespeare, a huge muscly Triton	0
Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration	0
Speaking with the Dead in Early America	0
‘Life among these unknown revolutionaries’: traces of Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs in the Spanish and Italian historiography of the English revolution	0
Books received 2022	0
By the numbers: numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England	0
Comparative essays on the poetry and prose of John Donne and George Herbert: combined lights	0
Catholics in the Interregnum	0
For a “Livorno-on-Thames”: the Tuscan model in the writings of Henry Robinson (1604-1673?)	0
The Reformation of the Heart: gender and radical theology in the English revolution	0
‘Precept upon precept’: biblical commonplacing in Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs	0
The minister is much disheartened: clergy and their communities in Interregnum legal records	0
“Will doe all in her power”: the role of women in the contested will of Henry Cavendish	0
Memorializing the Everyday: The Evidence of the Final Decade of Frances Wolfreston’s Life	0
Reading Milton reading Shakespeare politically: what the identification of Milton’s First Folio does and does not tell us	0
A Trojan horse in the citadel of orthodoxy: Samuel Maresius’s critique of Cartesian theology	0
The Impact of Milton’s Of Education on the Hartlib Circle’s Understanding of Public and Private	0
Elizabeth Currer: religious non-conformity in John Dryden’s The Kind-Keeper and Aphra Behn’s The Widdow Ranter	0
Gifts and Graces: Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan	0
Addressing audiences abroad: cultural and public diplomacy in seventeenth-century Europe	0
Philosophical reflections on Japan’s Sakoku policy: seventeenth-century English perspectives	0
Making the Memoirs: missing leaves in the manuscript of Lucy Hutchinson’s life of John Hutchinson	0
Literature, learning, and social hierarchy in early modern Europe	0
Early modern state formation or gute Policey? The good order of the community	0
Sir Oliver Style, his Verse, and the Smyrna Earthquake of 1688	0
Rivall friendship	0
Merchants: the community that shaped England’s trade and empire	0
Descartes: the renewal of philosophy	0
Dignified Retreat: writers and intellectuals in the age of Richelieu	0
“Celestial Epicurisme”: John Locke and the Anglican language of pleasure, 1650–1697	0
The ambassador and the press: printed diplomatic letters and the entanglement of public and private news provision in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic	0
Early modern women’s complaint: gender, form, and politics	0
‘A poor gentlewoman that cannot take mercenary courses for her bread’: Aphra Behn’s sister and the influence of colonialism in late seventeenth-century London	0
Andrew Marvell: a literary life	0
Practical algebra and hydrostatics: the legacy of Thomas Harriot	0
The readmission of the Jews and the power of the civil magistrate: Thomas Barlow on the Jews and natural law, 1655-1656	0
The mass market for history paintings in seventeenth-century Amsterdam: production, distribution, and consumption	0
Drowned books and ghost books. Making sense of the finds from a seventeenth-century shipwreck off the Dutch island of Texel	0
Contributors	0
Some unpublished fragments on Descartes’s life and works	0
Women who reason in print: blazing worlds and blameless girls in early modern ballads	0
Preaching and the body: Lame Mephibosheth in early seventeenth-century England and Scotland	0
Racine et les trois publics de l’amour	0
George Chapman, Edward Coke, and Crooked Justice	0
“A suppurating ulcer”: religious orders and transnational conflict in Valladolid at the start of the seventeenth century	0
Materiality and devotion in the poetry of George Herbert	0
Distilling Grief: Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies and Alchemy	0
Catherine of Braganza’s modelling of civility and personal agency in the court of Charles II	0
‘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
Memory and mortality in Renaissance England	0
The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603-1660	0
Edward Herbert’s A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil , and Karl Ludwig, Elector of the Palatinate	0
Infinite Variety: literary invention, theology, and the disorder of kinds, 1688-1730	0
Women (Re)Writing Milton	0
Re-assessing the seventeenth-century quarto of Sir David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (1602-04)	0
Puritanism and Natural Philosophy revisited: the case of Ralph Austen ( c . 1612–1676)	0
Henry More and Descartes on the passions of the soul	0
Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives	0
Waltoniana Extensa: A Previously Unidentified Political Pamphlet by Izaak Walton	0
Clarendon’s moral History	0
“My friendship with her is by no means an ordinary one”: the friendship alliances of Christian Hebraist Anna Maria van Schurman (1607–1678)	0
Poetics and Polemics: reading seventeenth-century Irish political verse	0
Towards an equality of the sexes in early modern France	0

The Private Life of William Shakespeare	0
How to do things with the Church Fathers: Mary Magdalene and anti-Calvinist court rhetoric in Lancelot Andrewes’s Easter Sermons (1620-22)	0
‘Instructive types’ or mere ‘fancies’: assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel Pepys	0
William Lawrence’s Newes from Geneva, or The Lewd Levite (1662): recovering a manuscript restoration play	0
Re-assessing the ars moriendi: good and bad deaths in early modern England	0
Urban government and the early Stuart state: provincial towns, corporate liberties, and royal authority in England, 1603-1640	0
A literary history of Latin & English poetry: bilingual verse culture in early modern England	0
Keeping the Ancient Way: Aspects of the Life and Work of Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)	0
“InItalianhand”: melancholy, gender and bibliographical codes in commemorative text	0
Diversity, complexity and compromise: first thoughts from the House of Commons 1640–1660 project on the reshaping of the church	0
Annals of the War in the Low Countries	0
The godly lives of Samuel Clarke and the ‘national church’ in the 1650s	0
Triumphal Entries and Festivals in Early Modern Scotland: Performing Spaces	0
Introduction	0
John Milton, Catholic	0
Margaret Cavendish: Philosophical Letters, abridged	0
The poems and songs of Henry Hall of Hereford: a Jacobite poet of the 1690s	0
The Histories of Alexander Neville (1544-1614): A new Translation of Kett’s Rebellion and The City of Norwich; The Great Blow: Examinations and Informations relating to the Great Blow in Norwich, 1648	0
Neo-Latin verse satire, ca. 1500-1800: an ethical approach	0
Testimonies of Temple Lane: memory, perjury, and the landscape in a seventeenth-century West Yorkshire dispute	0
Books received 2023	0
Dorothy Parsons of Birr: writing, networks, identity, 1640–1670	0
The staging of Islam andThe Alcoran of Mahometin Charles Saunders’sTamerlane the Greatand the Restoration politics	0
Enlightened Oxford: the university and the cultural and political life of eighteenth-century Britain and beyond	0
Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and his world: Restoration court, politics, and diplomacy	0
The Reformed and Celibate Pastor: Richard Baxter’s Argument for Clerical Celibacy	0
England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles	0
Correction	0
Shakespeare’s Tutor: the influence of Thomas Kyd	0
Charles I, the ‘Protestant Party,’ the Palatinate and a Franco-Stuart Alliance – 1636-9	0
Restoration Playbooks and Receivers’ Stamps: James Magnes, Richard Bentley, and ‘the Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden’	0
“We ought to obey God rather then men”: John Rogers’s millenarian hermeneutics and legal reform in 1653	0
The Dunghill Fight: Maurice Wheeler’s translation of Polemo-Middinia from the Oxford edition	0
“I would not have taken her for his sister”: financial hardship and women’s reputations in the Hartlib circle (1641-1661)	0
Regional Book Distribution and Political Participation in the English Civil War	0
The specter of the archive: political practice and the information state in early modern Britain	0
Peripheral promises: political oaths as instruments of trust and control, Sweden 1520–1720	0
John Donne and English Puritanism, 1650–1700	0
In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams	0
The Synod of Dort in Arabic: Bodleian MS Marsh 268	0
After 1662: ejected ministers and the support for nonconformity, the first decade revisited	0
Master or Handmaid?: Dryden’s view of the New Science in Annus Mirabilis	0
Taste and knowledge in early modern England	0
The Church of Ireland: power and distance in the early-seventeenth-century Atlantic	0
Words Turned Upside Down	0
Editorial	0
Thomas Vaughan and the Rosicrucian revival, 1648–1666	0
Words and Richard Baxter	0
When your body is a battlefield: Lucy Hutchinson and the Militarized Womb¹	0
‘Old delights’: the politics of pastoral nostalgia in Hutchinson’s manuscript verse	0
The millennial theory of Lucy Hutchinson and Mary Cary	0
‘A fool upon record’: the redefinition of the Caroline stage fool	0
‘Decisions, Decisions!’ The Cromwellian clergy navigate the restoration of the church, c.1660–1663	0
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 Patin	0
Northern echoes: regional identity in the early Quaker Movement, c.1650–1666	0
Monarchy, print culture, and reverence in early modern England: picturing royal subjects	0
Comunidad, pertenencia, extranjería: El impacto de la migración laboral y mercantil de la región del Mar del Norte en Nueva España, 1550-1640	0
Politics, Patronage, and Poetics in Hobbes’s Homer	0
The Arden research handbook of Shakespeare and textual studies	0
A ‘more precise definition of the soul’ from the flights of the soul in The Blazing World and Primero sueño	0
Poetry and sovereignty in the English Revolution	0
‘Without Al womanly modesty’: civility, gender and women’s preaching	0
‘There is a religion in our love’: friendship and ecclesiology in the poetry of Katherine Philips, 1650-1653	0
The Fables of Aesop: Paraphrased in Verse by John Ogilby and Adorned with Sculpture [By Francis Cleyn] (Franz Klein)	0
The people of West Nottinghamshire and the English Revolution	0
The Precious Summary: a history of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing dynasty	0
Portraits of Lucy and Colonel John Hutchinson - a relationship with art and Robert Walker	0
Milton and the resources of the line	0
Forensic anthropological analysis of a skull sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini	0
The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters	0
Lucy Hutchinson in her fifth century	0
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure	0
Globalizing fortune on the early modern stage	0
‘Shun’d of humane fellowships’: civility and animality in The Unnaturall Combat	0
Blind lives: the sightless and society in early modern England	0
Habsburg Studies under Siege: Notes on Recent Early Modern Scholarship	0
The Arminian Nunnery: virginity at Little Gidding	0
A new biography of Oliver Cromwell: a matter of character?	0
Ephemeral print culture in early modern England: sociability, politics and collecting	0
Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France	0
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts	0
Reading mathematics in early modern Europe: studies in the production, collection, and use of mathematical books	0
“Presenting a Book to Orinda”: Anne Twice, Katherine Philips, and John Oldham in New York Public Library, Drexel MS 4175	0
Sir Thomas Fairfax and the politics of pain	0
Reformation religious identities and the fluidities of confessional allegiance: the world according to Sir William Monson	0
Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England	0
Calvinist conformity in post-reformation England: the theology and career of Daniel Featley	0
Libertines and the law: subversive authors and criminal justice in early seventeenth-century France	0
Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707	0
Se moquer de la philosophie est vraiment philosopher: Plato, Aristotle and the pedagogy of irony and play in Pascal’s Pensées	0
Fallacy/The Sophister (c. 1614), a Wykehamist play	0
In the kitchen, 1550–1800: reading English cooking at home and abroad	0
Was there an explosion of print in the 1640s?	0
Commonplacing John Owen: auditors’ sermon notes in Restoration England	0
The fate of Philologus: learning and prattle in early modern religious dialogue	0