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Authors: Vanita Neelakanta
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-10 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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This compelling book explores sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English retellings of the Roman siege of Jerusalem and the way they informed and were informed
A Weaver-Poet and the Plague
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Authors: Scott Oldenburg
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-13 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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William Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporari
Women Warriors in Early Modern Spain
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Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-18 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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Although scholars often depict early modern Spanish women as victims, history and fiction of the period are filled with examples of women who defended their God
England's Asian Renaissance
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England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed Engl
Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France
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Storytelling in Sixteenth-Century France is an innovative, interdisciplinary examination of parallels between the early modern era and the world in which we liv