The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the develo

Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their s

Perhaps more than any other kind of book, manuscript miscellanies require a complex and ‘material’ reading strategy. This collection of essays engages the r

Reproduces in full size and transcribes a number of letters from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries

Women, Property, and the Letters of the Law in Early Modern England turns to these points of departure for the study of women's legal status and property relati