Imagining Insurrection in Seventeenth-Century England: Representations of the Midland Rising of 1607*

The Role of Language in Accusations of Witchcraft in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...

Trends and Determinants of Adult Mortality in Early New England: Reconciling Old and New Evidence from the Long Eighteenth Century

Despite decades of research, demographic historians are still uncertain about mortality trends and determinants in early New England. Although researchers agree that New England mortality was low relative to other regions of early America in the seventeenth century, they disagree about the direction of mortality trends over the course of the eighteenth century. Community-based reconstitution st...

Language surrounding poverty in early modern England : constructing seventeenth - century beggars and vagrants 9

The custom of tea drinking spread to many adjacent countries during the Tang Dynasty (618~907AD) and was introduced into Europe and America by the seventeenth-century. "Afternoon tea" in England was a special social activity in the early nineteenth century,

Introduction: writing metamorphosis

This is a study of the English writing of metamorphosis from the Reformation to the late seventeenth century. It asks what work is done by the imagining of transformation in this period and explores events and creatures which may seem to us fantastic: animated stones, werewolves, wild children. Looking at a range of writing in English from literary texts to court records, Writing Metamorphosis ...