Daring Dynasty: Custom, Conflict and Control in Early-Tudor England He founded perhaps the most famous dynasty in history: the Tudors. Yet, in 1485 when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III…
Of Books and Botany in Early Modern England: Sixteenth-Century Plants and Print Culture Contemplating the textual gardens, poetic garlands, and epigrammatic groves which dot the landscape of early modern English print, Leah Knight…
Ira Hochman, Barockwerk Hamburg, Dominik Wörner & Hanna Zumsande – Cantatas for the Hanoverian Kings of England (2021) This album features three dazzling but previously only little-known compositions for royals from Telemann’s immense trove of vocal music. The…
Recollection in the Republics: Memories of the British Civil Wars in England, 1649-1659 Following the execution of Charles I in January 1649, England’s fledgling republic was faced with a dilemma: which parts of…
Fear and polemic in seventeenth-century England : Richard Baxter and antinomianism “The Antinomians have long been positioned on the fringe of mid-seventeenth-century English religion, placed there by detractors like the theologian…
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England [Audiobook] Confessing to “familiarity with the devils”, Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston…
England in the Age of Austen [Audiobook] Dedicated fans of Jane Austen’s novels will delight in accompanying historian Jeremy Black through the drawing rooms, chapels, and battlefields…
Never Greater Slaughter: Brunanburh and the Birth of England [Audiobook] Late in AD 937, four armies met in a place called Brunanburh. On one side stood the shield-wall of the…