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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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The rhetoric of conversion in English Puritan writing from Perkins to Milton	4
Mahmud ibn Vali and the Persianate geography of early modern Eurasia	2
In the kitchen, 1550–1800: reading English cooking at home and abroad	2
Lucy Hutchinson and the English revolution	2
“A suppurating ulcer”: religious orders and transnational conflict in Valladolid at the start of the seventeenth century	2
Oriental imprints: Chinese inspirations in the decorative motifs of 16th-17th century Spanish Talavera ceramics	2
Antiquarianism, philology, and translatio studii in the epistolary translations of Sir John Hobart and Nicholas Bacon	2
‘The fire of patriotism’: the historiographical success of Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs in the nineteenth century¹	2
Reframing the covenant:A Solemn Acknowledgment(1648) and the resubscription of the Solemn League and Covenant	1
The Reformed and Celibate Pastor: Richard Baxter’s Argument for Clerical Celibacy	1
Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England	1
Civil War London: mobilizing for Parliament, 1641-5	1
Interpreting early modern English printed books on the passions	1
Memory and mortality in Renaissance England	1
Descartes: the renewal of philosophy	1
‘Old delights’: the politics of pastoral nostalgia in Hutchinson’s manuscript verse	1
The political thought of the English free state, 1649–1653	1
Letterlocking: the hidden history of the letter	1
Globalizing fortune on the early modern stage	1
The Madman and the Churchrobber: law & conflict in early modern England	1
The role of God in William Harvey’s theory of epigenesis: some theological reactions	1
“Will doe all in her power”: the role of women in the contested will of Henry Cavendish	1
The post-reformation communion furnishings at St Mary’s, Deerhurst and their context	1
The State Trials and the politics of justice in later Stuart England	1
Literature, learning, and social hierarchy in early modern Europe	1

Postal intelligence: the Tassis family and communications revolution in early modern Europe	1
The order and disorder of communication: pamphlets and polemics in the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire	1
Bear journeys in early modern England	1
The Reformation of the Heart: gender and radical theology in the English revolution	1
The Legal Writing of Sir Edward Coke, the Anglo-Saxons, and Lex Terrae	1
John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, and virtue politics: magnanimity in England, Eden, and Hell	0
Testimonies of Temple Lane: memory, perjury, and the landscape in a seventeenth-century West Yorkshire dispute	0
New light on the strolling performers Thomas Peadle and Thomas Cosby, 1639–1650	0
‘Epiques chang’d to Doleful Elegies’: The Poems on the Death of Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester	0
The Church of Ireland: power and distance in the early-seventeenth-century Atlantic	0
Portraits of Lucy and Colonel John Hutchinson - a relationship with art and Robert Walker	0
Andrew Marvell: a literary life	0
The mass market for history paintings in seventeenth-century Amsterdam: production, distribution, and consumption	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
Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688	0
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: the paper revolution	0
Coming To: consciousness and natality in early modern England	0
Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull	0
The godly lives of Samuel Clarke and the ‘national church’ in the 1650s	0
The people of West Nottinghamshire and the English Revolution	0
Decorating the parish church in post-Reformation England: material culture, community and identity in Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, 1560-1640	0
Actors, soldiers, and Jesuits in post-Reformation England: Joseph Simons’ 1648 oration on Robert Persons and the mission to England	0
Rogue sexuality in early modern English literature: desire, status, biopolitics	0
Monarchy, print culture, and reverence in early modern England: picturing royal subjects	0
Ephemeral print culture in early modern England: sociability, politics and collecting	0
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome	0
Calvinist conformity in post-reformation England: the theology and career of Daniel Featley	0
The Dunghill Fight: Maurice Wheeler’s translation of Polemo-Middinia from the Oxford edition	0
‘A Late Court-Poet’ Revisited: Milton, Cleveland, and The Readie and Easie Way	0
Between word and image: the trajectory of civility and exemplarity in Gallet’s 1698 illustrated edition of the Heptaméron	0
The last witches of England: a tragedy of sorcery and superstition	0
Edward Herbert’s A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil , and Karl Ludwig, Elector of the Palatinate	0
Clarendon’s moral History	0
The Precious Summary: a history of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing dynasty	0
Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France	0
Conspicuous consumption in a military camp: the expenditures of Albrycht Władysław Radziwiłł in the 1609 Livonian campaign	0
‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: early modern English parish registers and the memories of local communities	0
Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain	0
‘Darkness Visible’: Modes of Coal Smoke in Milton’s Hell	0
Shakespeare’s Tutor: the influence of Thomas Kyd	0
Re-assessing the ars moriendi: good and bad deaths in early modern England	0
‘Without Al womanly modesty’: civility, gender and women’s preaching	0
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas	0
‘Christian notes sound sweetest suffering’: birds, books and textual circulation in Sir John Gibson’s commonplace book (BL Add 37719)	0
Practical algebra and hydrostatics: the legacy of Thomas Harriot	0
The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters	0
Poetics and Polemics: reading seventeenth-century Irish political verse	0
The blood in winter: a nation descends, 1642	0
Governors, the Royalist war effort, and power’s personalisation in Northern England, 1642–9	0

Poetry and sovereignty in the English Revolution	0
Se moquer de la philosophie est vraiment philosopher: Plato, Aristotle and the pedagogy of irony and play in Pascal’s Pensées	0
Thomas Vaughan and the Rosicrucian revival, 1648–1666	0
Editorial	0
Standardising English spelling: the role of printing in sixteenth and seventeenth-century graphemic development	0
Moriscos vs. Old Christians in late 16th and early 17th century Spain. Were the Moriscos truly poorer and more fertile?	0
Contributors	0
The limits of erudition: the Old Testament in post-Reformation Europe	0
John Dryden, Henry Herringman, and the dedication of Restoration playbooks	0
The poems and songs of Henry Hall of Hereford: a Jacobite poet of the 1690s	0
From the margins to the centre in seventeenth-century England: essays in honour of Bernard Capp	0
Master or Handmaid?: Dryden’s view of the New Science in Annus Mirabilis	0
A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, ca. 1525–1638: frameworks of change and development	0
‘Instructive types’ or mere ‘fancies’: assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel Pepys	0
Rhetoric and scepticism: Thomas Browne’s Amphibium mind in Religio Medici	0
‘There is a religion in our love’: friendship and ecclesiology in the poetry of Katherine Philips, 1650-1653	0
The Synod of Dort in Arabic: Bodleian MS Marsh 268	0
Preaching and the body: Lame Mephibosheth in early seventeenth-century England and Scotland	0
William Lawrence’s Newes from Geneva, or The Lewd Levite (1662): recovering a manuscript restoration play	0
Rhetoric, persuasion, and teaching the emotions in the early modern English sermon, 1600–1642	0
Sir Thomas Fairfax and the politics of pain	0
Introduction: the uses and abuses of civility	0
Rebel with a Cause. Gesellschaftliche Reform und radikale religiöse Aufklärung bei Friedrich Breckling (1629-1711)	0
Correction	0
Il natal di Amore by Giulio Strozzi: interactions and echoes with the early modern literary and operatic world and Monteverdi	0
John Donne and English Puritanism, 1650–1700	0
The outrageous inner lives of plants: abortion poetics in Abraham Cowley’s Plantarum Libri Duo ( Two Books of Plants )	0
Dignified Retreat: writers and intellectuals in the age of Richelieu	0
Catholics in the Interregnum	0
Words Turned Upside Down	0
Waltoniana Extensa: A Previously Unidentified Political Pamphlet by Izaak Walton	0
William Fowler’s ‘Instructions for fencing’ and the Scottish context of Prince Henry’s Barriers (1610)	0
Reformation religious identities and the fluidities of confessional allegiance: the world according to Sir William Monson	0
Philosophical reflections on Japan’s Sakoku policy: seventeenth-century English perspectives	0
Politics, Patronage, and Poetics in Hobbes’s Homer	0
Restoration Playbooks and Receivers’ Stamps: James Magnes, Richard Bentley, and ‘the Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden’	0
Shakespeare, a huge muscly Triton	0
Englishing Paolo Sarpi and gelding the Pope in England, 1606−1620	0
Early modern women’s complaint: gender, form, and politics	0
Contesting the Church of England 1640-70: the European Dimension	0
The specter of the archive: political practice and the information state in early modern Britain	0
Gendered practices of rulership at the court of Württemberg, 1568–1634	0
TheMemoirsin cultural memory and historiography: Lucy Hutchinson and the people	0
George Wither and the New World	0
Some unpublished fragments on Descartes’s life and works	0
‘Precept upon precept’: biblical commonplacing in Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs	0
The fate of Philologus: learning and prattle in early modern religious dialogue	0
Between the galley and plantation: the rhetorical construction of English servants in the seventeenth century	0
The politics of weather in early modern England	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
Merchants: the community that shaped England’s trade and empire	0
The Seventeenth Century , 1986–2025: a retrospect	0
Libertines and the law: subversive authors and criminal justice in early seventeenth-century France	0
Re-thinking nostalgic antiquarianism: time, space, and the English reformation	0
Collective empiricism at the Paris Observatoire in the late seventeenth century	0
‘Oliver Cromwell is a Devil!’ Religious Radicalism and Political Turmoil in Geneva during the English Civil Wars	0
A new biography of Oliver Cromwell: a matter of character?	0
Décolletage disputes in early modern France	0
Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World	0
Reading mathematics in early modern Europe: studies in the production, collection, and use of mathematical books	0
Contingency, irony, and sociability: Robert Boyle’s experimental style	0
Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs, François Guizot’s histories of the English revolution, and Henriette Guizot de Witt’s women’s history	0
Fictions of consent: slavery, servitude, and free service in early modern England	0
The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1	0
Exceptional bodies in early modern culture: concepts of monstrosity before the advent of the normal	0
The Devil from over the Sea: remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland	0
Materiality and devotion in the poetry of George Herbert	0
Cataloguing the French Jesuit Relations as theology and travel literature in Charles II’s library	0
Annals of the War in the Low Countries	0
The Subject of Britain, 1603-25	0
Friends in youth: choosing sides in the English Civil War	0
Poussin and the Dance	0
Russia’s 17th century crisis of modernization: the autobiographical saint’s Life of the Archpriest Avvakum	0
Cavendish and Hutchinson, secretaries	0
Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society	0
Urban government and the early Stuart state: provincial towns, corporate liberties, and royal authority in England, 1603-1640	0
The Metaphorical Metaphysic of John Donne: An Interpretation of his Poetry and his Prose	0
Taste and knowledge in early modern England	0
Books received 2022	0
Shakespeare and virtue: a handbook	0

Charles I, the ‘Protestant Party,’ the Palatinate and a Franco-Stuart Alliance – 1636-9	0
Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707	0
The business of English Restoration theatre, 1660–1700	0
Christopher Hill: the life of a radical historian	0
Drowned books and ghost books. Making sense of the finds from a seventeenth-century shipwreck off the Dutch island of Texel	0
Andrew Paschall’s “Americane Adventure” (1680): an unrealised Restoration Utopia	0
Diversity, complexity and compromise: first thoughts from the House of Commons 1640–1660 project on the reshaping of the church	0
Hospitality towards European travellers in Latin America in the colonial middle	0
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure	0
Early modern state formation or gute Policey? The good order of the community	0
Somewhat ‘of the old manner of romances and somewhat of the new’: Francis Kirkman’s continuations toDon Bellianis of Greece	0
Adapting a text and ideology: the influence of Locke’s Two Treatises on Southerne’s Oroonoko	0
Loss and Survival: The Episcopalian Spiritual Vocation, 1646-62	0
Celebrity, publicity, and the career of Major General ‘Sir William “the Conqueror” Waller’, 1642 to 1645	0
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts	0
Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration	0
Books received 2024	0
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the origins of empire	0
Painting, poetry, and music in Nicholas Lanier’s ‘Hero’s Lament to Leander’	0
“InItalianhand”: melancholy, gender and bibliographical codes in commemorative text	0
Books received 2021	0
Editiones Rariores, nos. 1 and 2, Edited by William Poole, Oxford, 2021-23	0
Natural and artificial bodies in early modern England: literature, natural philosophy, objects	0
‘We have sick souls when God’s physic works not’: Samuel Rutherford’s pastoral letters as a form of literary cure	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
‘Son slave’: A Very Woman , conduct books, and the regulation of Servitude/Slavery	0
Athéisme et dissimulation au XVII ^e siècle: Guy Patin et le Theophrastus redivivus	0
The Glass Ceiling: Hutchinson and elusive promotion¹	0
‘The rich help of books’: patterns of annotation in Latin and English versions of Abraham Cowley’s Sex Libri Plantarum	0
Introduction	0
A literary history of Latin & English poetry: bilingual verse culture in early modern England	0
Women who reason in print: blazing worlds and blameless girls in early modern ballads	0
Catherine of Braganza’s modelling of civility and personal agency in the court of Charles II	0
The Trials of Edward Vaughan: Law, Civil War and Gentry Faction in Seventeenth-Century Britain, c.1596–1661	0
Mapping the world at the dawn of the British Empire: a travellerʼs guide	0
Hiding in plain view: religiosity and patronage in the works of William Dugdale	0
Re-assessing the seventeenth-century quarto of Sir David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (1602-04)	0
Infinite Variety: literary invention, theology, and the disorder of kinds, 1688-1730	0
Plague in time of war: the example of the seventeenth-century Hungarian-Ottoman frontier	0
Figures of Chance I. Chance in literature and the arts (16th–21st Centuries)	0
Neo-Latin verse satire, ca. 1500-1800: an ethical approach	0
George Chapman, Edward Coke, and Crooked Justice	0
Distilling Grief: Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies and Alchemy	0
Puritanism and Natural Philosophy revisited: the case of Ralph Austen ( c . 1612–1676)	0
Louis XIV and the peace of Europe. French diplomacy in Northern Italy, 1659–1701	0
James VI and I after 400 years	0
Blind lives: the sightless and society in early modern England	0
A short history of John Selden’s Table Talk : a text without context	0
Editorial	0
Cheap print, crime and information in early modern London:The Life and Death of Griffin Flood	0
Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London: The Invention of the Metaphysical	0
William III	0
Versailles à la rencontre du Taj Mahal : conversations éclairées sur l’Inde au temps du Roi-Soleil	0
Republic: Britain’s revolutionary decade, 1649–1660	0
The staging of Islam andThe Alcoran of Mahometin Charles Saunders’sTamerlane the Greatand the Restoration politics	0
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 comm	0
Lives of bronze gods and wooden puppets: the material culture of humanoids in Seventeenth-Century Sweden	0
Lucy Hutchinson in her fifth century	0
The Impact of Milton’s Of Education on the Hartlib Circle’s Understanding of Public and Private	0
Regional Book Distribution and Political Participation in the English Civil War	0
Shakespeare’s language	0
The readmission of the Jews and the power of the civil magistrate: Thomas Barlow on the Jews and natural law, 1655-1656	0
Birth, death, and domestic religion in early modern London	0
A Trojan horse in the citadel of orthodoxy: Samuel Maresius’s critique of Cartesian theology	0
Comparative essays on the poetry and prose of John Donne and George Herbert: combined lights	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
Books received 2023	0
The millennial theory of Lucy Hutchinson and Mary Cary	0
The restraint of the press in England, 1660-1715: the communication of sin	0
Enlightened Oxford: the university and the cultural and political life of eighteenth-century Britain and beyond	0
A cordwainer’s wife in high politics: a microhistory of Mrs Caute*	0
Artemisia Gentileschi and the ‘biographical sensationalism’ in the interpretation of her artistic work	0
Whitsunday 1606: a new sermon manuscript by Lancelot Andrewes	0
Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and his world: Restoration court, politics, and diplomacy	0
‘The Governor’s wife’: women and garrisons in the English civil war	0
Making the Memoirs: missing leaves in the manuscript of Lucy Hutchinson’s life of John Hutchinson	0
In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams	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
Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400	0
Strategic lies and family ties: Huguenot merchant networks viewed through the Basset family, 1680–1730	0
Editorial	0
The Private Life of William Shakespeare	0
Milton and the resources of the line	0
The household accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville, Lord and Lady Brooke, at Holborn and Warwick, 1640–1649	0
Fallacy/The Sophister (c. 1614), a Wykehamist play	0
La Guerre de Trente Ans, 1618-1648	0
When your body is a battlefield: Lucy Hutchinson and the Militarized Womb¹	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
‘Shun’d of humane fellowships’: civility and animality in The Unnaturall Combat	0
Relationality, community and collaboration in seventeenth-century Chancery court records	0
Panegyric and revolution: Aphra Behn’s political poems of the 1680s	0
Passion’s Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson: literature and the sciences of soul and mind	0
Holding a mirror up to nature: shame, guilt, and violence in Shakespeare	0
Keeping the Ancient Way: Aspects of the Life and Work of Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)	0
Dr Cowley’s reading list: annotation, completion, and the problem of plants in Sex Libri Plantarum	0