Series Editor(s): David Aers, Duke University, Sarah Beckwith, Duke University, James Simpson, Harvard University
ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern interrogates and challenges the ways in which the academy has divided the study of early English literature and its history into two separate, almost incommensurate realms, medieval and early modern. The series is reforming this practice by publishing a range of literary, historical, and cultural works that will move easily across old divisions.
Literary Culture and Community in England, 1350-1550
by Nicole R. Rice
Price: $75.00
Pub Date: April 2023
Format: Hardcover
Nicole Rice’s original study analyzes the role played by late medieval English hospitals as sites of literary production and cultural contestation.The hospitals of late medieval England defy easy...
This book challenges the adequacy of identifying religious identity with confessional identity.The Reformation complicated the issue of religious identity, especially among Christians for whom confessional...
The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England
by Jill P. Ingram
Price: $50.00
Pub Date: March 2021
Format: Paperback
Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama.In Festive Enterprise, Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies...
In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints’ lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and ’20s, hagiography...
Concepts of predestination and reprobation were central issues in the Protestant Reformation, especially within Calvinist churches, and thus have often been studied primarily in the historical context...
The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin in Early Modern English Writing
by Lilla Grindlay
Price: $45.00
Pub Date: September 2018
Format: Paperback
Grindlay's study of the Virgin Mary affords an insight into England's religious pluralism and how images of Mary became sources of resistance and controversy during the Reformation.
By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, Smith offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance culture.
Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama across the Reformation Divide
by Jay Zysk
Price: $45.00
Pub Date: September 2017
Format: Paperback
Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary...
