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Papers

(The median citation count of Seventeenth Century is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
The rhetoric of conversion in English Puritan writing from Perkins to Milton	3
‘The fire of patriotism’: the historiographical success of Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs in the nineteenth century¹	3
Antiquarianism, philology, and translatio studii in the epistolary translations of Sir John Hobart and Nicholas Bacon	2
In the kitchen, 1550–1800: reading English cooking at home and abroad	2
“A suppurating ulcer”: religious orders and transnational conflict in Valladolid at the start of the seventeenth century	2
‘Old delights’: the politics of pastoral nostalgia in Hutchinson’s manuscript verse	1
Reframing the covenant:A Solemn Acknowledgment(1648) and the resubscription of the Solemn League and Covenant	1
Towards an equality of the sexes in early modern France	1
Bear journeys in early modern England	1
Postal intelligence: the Tassis family and communications revolution in early modern Europe	1
The Reformed and Celibate Pastor: Richard Baxter’s Argument for Clerical Celibacy	1
Literature, learning, and social hierarchy in early modern Europe	1
Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England	1
The State Trials and the politics of justice in later Stuart England	1
The Madman and the Churchrobber: law & conflict in early modern England	1
Globalizing fortune on the early modern stage	1
Lucy Hutchinson and the English revolution	1
Racine et les trois publics de l’amour	1
The political thought of the English free state, 1649–1653	1
The order and disorder of communication: pamphlets and polemics in the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire	1
The Fables of Aesop: Paraphrased in Verse by John Ogilby and Adorned with Sculpture [By Francis Cleyn] (Franz Klein)	1
Mahmud ibn Vali and the Persianate geography of early modern Eurasia	1
Oriental imprints: Chinese inspirations in the decorative motifs of 16th-17th century Spanish Talavera ceramics	1
Catholics During the English Revolution 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty	0
In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams	0

The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters	0
Elizabeth Currer: religious non-conformity in John Dryden’s The Kind-Keeper and Aphra Behn’s The Widdow Ranter	0
Waltoniana Extensa: A Previously Unidentified Political Pamphlet by Izaak Walton	0
‘There is a religion in our love’: friendship and ecclesiology in the poetry of Katherine Philips, 1650-1653	0
Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare	0
Cataloguing the French Jesuit Relations as theology and travel literature in Charles II’s library	0
Hospitality towards European travellers in Latin America in the colonial middle	0
Dancing Queen: Marie de Médicis’ ballets at the court of Henri IV	0
George Wither and the New World	0
‘Without Al womanly modesty’: civility, gender and women’s preaching	0
The Synod of Dort in Arabic: Bodleian MS Marsh 268	0
A Trojan horse in the citadel of orthodoxy: Samuel Maresius’s critique of Cartesian theology	0
Plague in time of war: the example of the seventeenth-century Hungarian-Ottoman frontier	0
Christopher Hill: the life of a radical historian	0
Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London: The Invention of the Metaphysical	0
Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull	0
Correction	0
Master or Handmaid?: Dryden’s view of the New Science in Annus Mirabilis	0
Calvinist conformity in post-reformation England: the theology and career of Daniel Featley	0
William Lawrence’s Newes from Geneva, or The Lewd Levite (1662): recovering a manuscript restoration play	0
For a “Livorno-on-Thames”: the Tuscan model in the writings of Henry Robinson (1604-1673?)	0
Collective empiricism at the Paris Observatoire in the late seventeenth century	0
Early modern women’s complaint: gender, form, and politics	0
Editorial	0
Republic: Britain’s revolutionary decade, 1649–660	0
The outrageous inner lives of plants: abortion poetics in Abraham Cowley’s Plantarum Libri Duo ( Two Books of Plants )	0
Infinite Variety: literary invention, theology, and the disorder of kinds, 1688-1730	0
Words Turned Upside Down	0
‘Oliver Cromwell is a Devil!’ Religious Radicalism and Political Turmoil in Geneva during the English Civil Wars	0
Neo-Latin verse satire, ca. 1500-1800: an ethical approach	0
Poemataon affairs of state: political satire in Latin in later Stuart Britain, 1658–1714	0
Clarendon’s moral History	0
‘The rich help of books’: patterns of annotation in Latin and English versions of Abraham Cowley’s Sex Libri Plantarum	0
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: the paper revolution	0
Shakespeare, a huge muscly Triton	0
England’s Islands in a Sea of Troubles	0
Books received 2021	0
The Metaphorical Metaphysic of John Donne: An Interpretation of his Poetry and his Prose	0
Decorating the parish church in post-Reformation England: material culture, community and identity in Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, 1560-1640	0
Sir Thomas Fairfax and the politics of pain	0
Drowned books and ghost books. Making sense of the finds from a seventeenth-century shipwreck off the Dutch island of Texel	0
Royalism, Religion and Revolution: Wales, 1640-1688	0
Blind lives: the sightless and society in early modern England	0
Contesting the Church of England 1640-70: the European Dimension	0
Peripheral promises: political oaths as instruments of trust and control, Sweden 1520–1720	0
‘A Late Court-Poet’ Revisited: Milton, Cleveland, and The Readie and Easie Way	0
Fallacy/The Sophister (c. 1614), a Wykehamist play	0
Between word and image: the trajectory of civility and exemplarity in Gallet’s 1698 illustrated edition of the Heptaméron	0
Habsburg Studies under Siege: Notes on Recent Early Modern Scholarship	0
Fictions of consent: slavery, servitude, and free service in early modern England	0

Women (Re)Writing Milton	0
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure	0
The Church of Ireland: power and distance in the early-seventeenth-century Atlantic	0
La Guerre de Trente Ans, 1618-1648	0
Editiones Rariores, nos. 1 and 2, Edited by William Poole, Oxford, 2021-23	0
The readmission of the Jews and the power of the civil magistrate: Thomas Barlow on the Jews and natural law, 1655-1656	0
The Impact of Milton’s Of Education on the Hartlib Circle’s Understanding of Public and Private	0
How to do things with the Church Fathers: Mary Magdalene and anti-Calvinist court rhetoric in Lancelot Andrewes’s Easter Sermons (1620-22)	0
Cromwell and Ireland: New Perspectives	0
Materiality and devotion in the poetry of George Herbert	0
‘Shun’d of humane fellowships’: civility and animality in The Unnaturall Combat	0
Urban government and the early Stuart state: provincial towns, corporate liberties, and royal authority in England, 1603-1640	0
Diversity, complexity and compromise: first thoughts from the House of Commons 1640–1660 project on the reshaping of the church	0
Dignified Retreat: writers and intellectuals in the age of Richelieu	0
Actors, soldiers, and Jesuits in post-Reformation England: Joseph Simons’ 1648 oration on Robert Persons and the mission to England	0
The Reformation of the Heart: gender and radical theology in the English revolution	0
The mass market for history paintings in seventeenth-century Amsterdam: production, distribution, and consumption	0
Preaching and the body: Lame Mephibosheth in early seventeenth-century England and Scotland	0
Introduction	0
Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-1707	0
Books received 2023	0
The ambassador and the press: printed diplomatic letters and the entanglement of public and private news provision in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic	0
When your body is a battlefield: Lucy Hutchinson and the Militarized Womb¹	0
Memory and mortality in Renaissance England	0
‘The Governor’s wife’: women and garrisons in the English civil war	0
Governors, the Royalist war effort, and power’s personalisation in Northern England, 1642–9	0
A cordwainer’s wife in high politics: a microhistory of Mrs Caute*	0
Shakespeare’s language	0
Artemisia Gentileschi and the ‘biographical sensationalism’ in the interpretation of her artistic work	0
‘Son slave’: A Very Woman , conduct books, and the regulation of Servitude/Slavery	0
Coming To: consciousness and natality in early modern England	0
Loss and Survival: The Episcopalian Spiritual Vocation, 1646-62	0
Moriscos vs. Old Christians in late 16th and early 17th century Spain. Were the Moriscos truly poorer and more fertile?	0
Adapting a text and ideology: the influence of Locke’s Two Treatises on Southerne’s Oroonoko	0
Imagining Andrew Marvell at 400	0
Monarchy, print culture, and reverence in early modern England: picturing royal subjects	0
Andrew Marvell: a literary life	0
Editorial	0
Enlightened Oxford: the university and the cultural and political life of eighteenth-century Britain and beyond	0
Prehistory of consular diplomacy. A new perspective on the activity of 17^th-century Venetian consuls in the Ottoman Empire	0
Milton and the resources of the line	0
Gifts and Graces: Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan	0
Some unpublished fragments on Descartes’s life and works	0
Athéisme et dissimulation au XVII ^e siècle: Guy Patin et le Theophrastus redivivus	0
Exceptional bodies in early modern culture: concepts of monstrosity before the advent of the normal	0
Décolletage disputes in early modern France	0
Philosophical reflections on Japan’s Sakoku policy: seventeenth-century English perspectives	0
Holding a mirror up to nature: shame, guilt, and violence in Shakespeare	0
Le Accademie Romane in difesa di Galilei : L’Amor pudico (1614), con un’ipotesi di ricostruzione dell’apparato teatrale di Fabio Colonnese. Edizione critica, note e comm	0
Ephemeral print culture in early modern England: sociability, politics and collecting	0
The Trials of Edward Vaughan: Law, Civil War and Gentry Faction in Seventeenth-Century Britain, c.1596–1661	0
John Donne and English Puritanism, 1650–1700	0
The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1	0
New light on the strolling performers Thomas Peadle and Thomas Cosby, 1639–1650	0
Thomas Vaughan and the Rosicrucian revival, 1648–1666	0
Books received 2022	0
Contingency, irony, and sociability: Robert Boyle’s experimental style	0
‘Epiques chang’d to Doleful Elegies’: The Poems on the Death of Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester	0
Testimonies of Temple Lane: memory, perjury, and the landscape in a seventeenth-century West Yorkshire dispute	0
Practical algebra and hydrostatics: the legacy of Thomas Harriot	0
The Polar Star: James, first duke of Hamilton (1606–1649)	0
Shakespeare’s Tutor: the influence of Thomas Kyd	0
Englishing Paolo Sarpi and gelding the Pope in England, 1606−1620	0
A new biography of Oliver Cromwell: a matter of character?	0
The Glass Ceiling: Hutchinson and elusive promotion¹	0
Selden’s reply to Salmasius, an alternative title for thePro Populo Anglicano Defensio, and why Milton deserves to be strangled: rumour and opinion in the correspondence of Guy Patin	0
Between the galley and plantation: the rhetorical construction of English servants in the seventeenth century	0
Books received 2024	0
The poems and songs of Henry Hall of Hereford: a Jacobite poet of the 1690s	0
Portraits of Lucy and Colonel John Hutchinson - a relationship with art and Robert Walker	0
Merchants: the community that shaped England’s trade and empire	0
Distilling Grief: Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies and Alchemy	0
By the numbers: numeracy, religion, and the quantitative transformation of early modern England	0
‘We have sick souls when God’s physic works not’: Samuel Rutherford’s pastoral letters as a form of literary cure	0
The millennial theory of Lucy Hutchinson and Mary Cary	0
Louis XIV and the peace of Europe. French diplomacy in Northern Italy, 1659–1701	0
‘Christian notes sound sweetest suffering’: birds, books and textual circulation in Sir John Gibson’s commonplace book (BL Add 37719)	0
The Dunghill Fight: Maurice Wheeler’s translation of Polemo-Middinia from the Oxford edition	0
The people of West Nottinghamshire and the English Revolution	0
A literary history of Latin & English poetry: bilingual verse culture in early modern England	0

Introduction: the uses and abuses of civility	0
Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France	0
‘The wall and glory of Jerusalem’: the sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and City of London during in the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration (1649-1662)	0
Cavendish and Hutchinson, secretaries	0
Relationality, community and collaboration in seventeenth-century Chancery court records	0
Allegory and social mores in Abraham Bosse’s L’Hyver	0
Keeping the Ancient Way: Aspects of the Life and Work of Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)	0
Se moquer de la philosophie est vraiment philosopher: Plato, Aristotle and the pedagogy of irony and play in Pascal’s Pensées	0
Il natal di Amore by Giulio Strozzi: interactions and echoes with the early modern literary and operatic world and Monteverdi	0
Sir Oliver Style, his Verse, and the Smyrna Earthquake of 1688	0
Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs, François Guizot’s histories of the English revolution, and Henriette Guizot de Witt’s women’s history	0
Margaret Cavendish: Philosophical Letters, abridged	0
Rebel with a Cause. Gesellschaftliche Reform und radikale religiöse Aufklärung bei Friedrich Breckling (1629-1711)	0
“Will doe all in her power”: the role of women in the contested will of Henry Cavendish	0
Standardising English spelling: the role of printing in sixteenth and seventeenth-century graphemic development	0
The godly lives of Samuel Clarke and the ‘national church’ in the 1650s	0
Women who reason in print: blazing worlds and blameless girls in early modern ballads	0
A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, ca. 1525–1638: frameworks of change and development	0
Lucy Hutchinson in her fifth century	0
Pride and prejudice. Proto-racism in Walerian Nekanda Trepka’s ‘Liber generationis plebeanorum’ (c. 1624-1640)	0
Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan	0
The Legal Writing of Sir Edward Coke, the Anglo-Saxons, and Lex Terrae	0
Shakespeare and virtue: a handbook	0
Making the Memoirs: missing leaves in the manuscript of Lucy Hutchinson’s life of John Hutchinson	0
Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic	0
Taste and knowledge in early modern England	0
George Chapman, Edward Coke, and Crooked Justice	0
Catherine of Braganza’s modelling of civility and personal agency in the court of Charles II	0
The politics of weather in early modern England	0
“By degrees it grows still more refin’d” : Katherine Philips’ curating of the Tutin manuscript	0
Charles I, the ‘Protestant Party,’ the Palatinate and a Franco-Stuart Alliance – 1636-9	0
John Harris, the Oxford Army Press, and the radicalizing process	0
Rhetoric and scepticism: Thomas Browne’s Amphibium mind in Religio Medici	0
Re-assessing the seventeenth-century quarto of Sir David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (1602-04)	0
Figures of Chance I. Chance in literature and the arts (16th–21st Centuries)	0
‘A poor gentlewoman that cannot take mercenary courses for her bread’: Aphra Behn’s sister and the influence of colonialism in late seventeenth-century London	0
Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society	0
The minister is much disheartened: clergy and their communities in Interregnum legal records	0
Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts	0
Reading mathematics in early modern Europe: studies in the production, collection, and use of mathematical books	0
Comunidad, pertenencia, extranjería: El impacto de la migración laboral y mercantil de la región del Mar del Norte en Nueva España, 1550-1640	0
Comparative essays on the poetry and prose of John Donne and George Herbert: combined lights	0
Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World	0
‘Darkness Visible’: Modes of Coal Smoke in Milton’s Hell	0
Puritanism and Natural Philosophy revisited: the case of Ralph Austen ( c . 1612–1676)	0
Early modern state formation or gute Policey? The good order of the community	0
Re-assessing the ars moriendi: good and bad deaths in early modern England	0
William III	0
‘Precept upon precept’: biblical commonplacing in Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs	0
The Precious Summary: a history of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing dynasty	0
Regional Book Distribution and Political Participation in the English Civil War	0
Hiding in plain view: religiosity and patronage in the works of William Dugdale	0
TheMemoirsin cultural memory and historiography: Lucy Hutchinson and the people	0
‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: early modern English parish registers and the memories of local communities	0
Bernini and His World: Sculpture and Sculptors in Early Modern Rome	0
Reformation religious identities and the fluidities of confessional allegiance: the world according to Sir William Monson	0
The Subject of Britain, 1603-25	0
The specter of the archive: political practice and the information state in early modern Britain	0
“Presenting a Book to Orinda”: Anne Twice, Katherine Philips, and John Oldham in New York Public Library, Drexel MS 4175	0
Editorial	0
Russia’s 17th century crisis of modernization: the autobiographical saint’s Life of the Archpriest Avvakum	0
Edward Herbert’s A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil , and Karl Ludwig, Elector of the Palatinate	0
De Veertigjarige Oorlog: 1672-1712: De Strijd van de Nederlanders Tegen de Zonnekoning. [The Forty Years’ War: 1672-1712: the struggle of the Dutch against the Sun King]	0
‘Instructive types’ or mere ‘fancies’: assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel Pepys	0
Cheap print, crime and information in early modern London:The Life and Death of Griffin Flood	0
The staging of Islam andThe Alcoran of Mahometin Charles Saunders’sTamerlane the Greatand the Restoration politics	0
Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and his world: Restoration court, politics, and diplomacy	0
The last witches of England: a tragedy of sorcery and superstition	0
Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain	0
A Couple of Soles: a Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China	0
Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration	0
Restoration Playbooks and Receivers’ Stamps: James Magnes, Richard Bentley, and ‘the Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden’	0
Somewhat ‘of the old manner of romances and somewhat of the new’: Francis Kirkman’s continuations toDon Bellianis of Greece	0
Re-thinking nostalgic antiquarianism: time, space, and the English reformation	0
Poetics and Polemics: reading seventeenth-century Irish political verse	0
Libertines and the law: subversive authors and criminal justice in early seventeenth-century France	0
The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism in England, 1603-1660	0
Catholics in the Interregnum	0
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the origins of empire	0
Lives of bronze gods and wooden puppets: the material culture of humanoids in Seventeenth-Century Sweden	0
William Fowler’s ‘Instructions for fencing’ and the Scottish context of Prince Henry’s Barriers (1610)	0
Annals of the War in the Low Countries	0
The Private Life of William Shakespeare	0
Passion’s Fictions from Shakespeare to Richardson: literature and the sciences of soul and mind	0
Civil War London: mobilizing for Parliament, 1641-5	0
The fate of Philologus: learning and prattle in early modern religious dialogue	0
The Devil from over the Sea: remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland	0
“InItalianhand”: melancholy, gender and bibliographical codes in commemorative text	0
Contributors	0
Friends in youth: choosing sides in the English Civil War	0
The codpiece with a charm: coffee and sexual anxiety in 1670s England	0
Painting, poetry, and music in Nicholas Lanier’s ‘Hero’s Lament to Leander’	0
Descartes: the renewal of philosophy	0
The restraint of the press in England, 1660-1715: the communication of sin	0
Poussin and the Dance	0