This book reveals the ways in which seventeenth-century poets used models of vision taken from philosophy, theology, scientific optics, political polemic and th

Illustrating the Past is a study of the status of visual and verbal media in early modern English representations of the past. It focuses on general attitudes t

A radical reappraisal of the character of moral and political theory in early modern England.

Renaissance poetry anthologies were crafted within the book trade and re-crafted through performance, transforming Early Modern cultures of recreation.

"Joanna Picciotto's Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England is a splendid study of the origins, devlopment, and eventual decline of the Experimentalist trad