Seventeenth Century

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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The rhetoric of conversion in English Puritan writing from Perkins to Milton4
‘The fire of patriotism’: the historiographical success of Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs in the nineteenth century13
Postal intelligence: the Tassis family and communications revolution in early modern Europe2
Oriental imprints: Chinese inspirations in the decorative motifs of 16th-17th century Spanish Talavera ceramics2
Antiquarianism, philology, and translatio studii in the epistolary translations of Sir John Hobart and Nicholas Bacon2
Lucy Hutchinson and the English revolution2
“A suppurating ulcer”: religious orders and transnational conflict in Valladolid at the start of the seventeenth century2
Letterlocking: the hidden history of the letter2
Mahmud ibn Vali and the Persianate geography of early modern Eurasia2
In the kitchen, 1550–1800: reading English cooking at home and abroad2
The State Trials and the politics of justice in later Stuart England1
Literature, learning, and social hierarchy in early modern Europe1
Reframing the covenant:A Solemn Acknowledgment(1648) and the resubscription of the Solemn League and Covenant1
The post-reformation communion furnishings at St Mary’s, Deerhurst and their context1
Keeping the Ancient Way: Aspects of the Life and Work of Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)1
Interpreting early modern English printed books on the passions1
From Jacobean ‘nonconformity’ to Restoration Nonconformity: three rectors, one parish, and English Church turmoil in a nutshell1
The order and disorder of communication: pamphlets and polemics in the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire1
The political thought of the English free state, 1649–16531
Globalizing fortune on the early modern stage1
The Legal Writing of Sir Edward Coke, the Anglo-Saxons, and Lex Terrae1
“Will doe all in her power”: the role of women in the contested will of Henry Cavendish1
Memory and mortality in Renaissance England1
The role of God in William Harvey’s theory of epigenesis: some theological reactions1
The Madman and the Churchrobber: law & conflict in early modern England1
Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England1
‘Old delights’: the politics of pastoral nostalgia in Hutchinson’s manuscript verse1
Descartes: the renewal of philosophy1
La Guerre de Trente Ans, 1618-16481
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the origins of empire1
Introduction: the uses and abuses of civility1
The Reformation of the Heart: gender and radical theology in the English revolution1
Bear journeys in early modern England1
‘Oliver Cromwell is a Devil!’ Religious Radicalism and Political Turmoil in Geneva during the English Civil Wars0
Andrew Marvell: a literary life0
‘To persuade them all’: James Johnston, state communication and the Fagel’s Letter campaign of 16880
Books received 20240
The Polar Star: James, first duke of Hamilton (1606–1649)0
“InItalianhand”: melancholy, gender and bibliographical codes in commemorative text0
‘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
Figures of Chance I. Chance in literature and the arts (16th–21st Centuries)0
Edward Herbert’s A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil , and Karl Ludwig, Elector of the Palatinate0
The Impact of Milton’s Of Education on the Hartlib Circle’s Understanding of Public and Private0
The Ottoman art of word-painting. Rhyme and reason in seventeenth-century Turkish literary letters0
Puritanism and Natural Philosophy revisited: the case of Ralph Austen ( c . 1612–1676)0
Englishing Paolo Sarpi and gelding the Pope in England, 1606−16200
James VI and I after 400 years0
A Trojan horse in the citadel of orthodoxy: Samuel Maresius’s critique of Cartesian theology0
Versailles à la rencontre du Taj Mahal : conversations éclairées sur l’Inde au temps du Roi-Soleil0
The fate of Philologus: learning and prattle in early modern religious dialogue0
Friends in youth: choosing sides in the English Civil War0
Cheap print, crime and information in early modern London:The Life and Death of Griffin Flood0
Re-assessing the seventeenth-century quarto of Sir David Lindsay’s Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (1602-04)0
George Wither and the New World0
Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas0
Fictions of consent: slavery, servitude, and free service in early modern England0
Décolletage disputes in early modern France0
Whitsunday 1606: a new sermon manuscript by Lancelot Andrewes0
Poetics and Polemics: reading seventeenth-century Irish political verse0
The politics of weather in early modern England0
Adapting a text and ideology: the influence of Locke’s Two Treatises on Southerne’s Oroonoko0
Distilling Grief: Lucy Hutchinson’s Elegies and Alchemy0
Enlightened Oxford: the university and the cultural and political life of eighteenth-century Britain and beyond0
Poetry and the politics of the parish: officeholding in the poems of Leonard Wheatcroft, parish clerk of Ashover0
Regional Book Distribution and Political Participation in the English Civil War0
Imagining Andrew Marvell at 4000
The Precious Summary: a history of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing dynasty0
Collective empiricism at the Paris Observatoire in the late seventeenth century0
Cavendish and Hutchinson, secretaries0
The readmission of the Jews and the power of the civil magistrate: Thomas Barlow on the Jews and natural law, 1655-16560
Urban government and the early Stuart state: provincial towns, corporate liberties, and royal authority in England, 1603-16400
The household accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville, Lord and Lady Brooke, at Holborn and Warwick, 1640–16490
Holding a mirror up to nature: shame, guilt, and violence in Shakespeare0
Reading mathematics in early modern Europe: studies in the production, collection, and use of mathematical books0
Shakespeare and virtue: a handbook0
Diversity, complexity and compromise: first thoughts from the House of Commons 1640–1660 project on the reshaping of the church0
Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic, 1603-17070
Beyond the crescent: rethinking the Turk in Dryden’s literary oeuvre0
Restoration Playbooks and Receivers’ Stamps: James Magnes, Richard Bentley, and ‘the Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden’0
Re-assessing the ars moriendi: good and bad deaths in early modern England0
Correction0
Hospitality towards European travellers in Latin America in the colonial middle0
Natural and artificial bodies in early modern England: literature, natural philosophy, objects0
The fall: last days of the English Republic0
Books received 20220
Editorial0
Relationality, community and collaboration in seventeenth-century Chancery court records0
TheMemoirsin cultural memory and historiography: Lucy Hutchinson and the people0
Drowned books and ghost books. Making sense of the finds from a seventeenth-century shipwreck off the Dutch island of Texel0
Painting, poetry, and music in Nicholas Lanier’s ‘Hero’s Lament to Leander’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 London0
Reformation religious identities and the fluidities of confessional allegiance: the world according to Sir William Monson0
Panegyric and revolution: Aphra Behn’s political poems of the 1680s0
The business of English Restoration theatre, 1660–17000
A literary history of Latin & English poetry: bilingual verse culture in early modern England0
‘There is a religion in our love’: friendship and ecclesiology in the poetry of Katherine Philips, 1650-16530
‘Thus declares some vertue in a Turk’: complex portrayals of Ottomans in Chamberlayne’s Pharonnida0
The Trials of Edward Vaughan: Law, Civil War and Gentry Faction in Seventeenth-Century Britain, c.1596–16610
Contesting the Church of England 1640-70: the European Dimension0
The Devil from over the Sea: remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland0
The limits of erudition: the Old Testament in post-Reformation Europe0
‘Shun’d of humane fellowships’: civility and animality in The Unnaturall Combat0
Waltoniana Extensa: A Previously Unidentified Political Pamphlet by Izaak Walton0
Neo-Latin verse satire, ca. 1500-1800: an ethical approach0
Charles I, the ‘Protestant Party,’ the Palatinate and a Franco-Stuart Alliance – 1636-90
Between the galley and plantation: the rhetorical construction of English servants in the seventeenth century0
The Dunghill Fight: Maurice Wheeler’s translation of Polemo-Middinia from the Oxford edition0
William Fowler’s ‘Instructions for fencing’ and the Scottish context of Prince Henry’s Barriers (1610)0
Catherine of Braganza’s modelling of civility and personal agency in the court of Charles II0
Merchants: the community that shaped England’s trade and empire0
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure0
Poussin and the Dance0
The specter of the archive: political practice and the information state in early modern Britain0
Lives of bronze gods and wooden puppets: the material culture of humanoids in Seventeenth-Century Sweden0
Introduction0
Ephemeral print culture in early modern England: sociability, politics and collecting0
A new biography of Oliver Cromwell: a matter of character?0
Materiality and devotion in the poetry of George Herbert0
The Grallae controversy: priests, ‘philologers’, and the Anglo-Dutch debate over Erastianism, 1640–16560
Re-thinking nostalgic antiquarianism: time, space, and the English reformation0
Portraits of Lucy and Colonel John Hutchinson - a relationship with art and Robert Walker0
‘Chronicles of many strange Occurrences’: early modern English parish registers and the memories of local communities0
Governors, the Royalist war effort, and power’s personalisation in Northern England, 1642–90
Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain0
George Chapman, Edward Coke, and Crooked Justice0
Books received 20230
New light on the strolling performers Thomas Peadle and Thomas Cosby, 1639–16500
Actors, soldiers, and Jesuits in post-Reformation England: Joseph Simons’ 1648 oration on Robert Persons and the mission to England0
Plague in time of war: the example of the seventeenth-century Hungarian-Ottoman frontier0
Cataloguing the French Jesuit Relations as theology and travel literature in Charles II’s library0
Editiones Rariores, nos. 1 and 2, Edited by William Poole, Oxford, 2021-230
A short history of John Selden’s Table Talk : a text without context0
John Dryden, Henry Herringman, and the dedication of Restoration playbooks0
Preaching and the body: Lame Mephibosheth in early seventeenth-century England and Scotland0
Louis XIV and the peace of Europe. French diplomacy in Northern Italy, 1659–17010
When your body is a battlefield: Lucy Hutchinson and the Militarized Womb10
The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-10
Moriscos vs. Old Christians in late 16th and early 17th century Spain. Were the Moriscos truly poorer and more fertile?0
Sir Oliver Style, his Verse, and the Smyrna Earthquake of 16880
Clarendon’s moral History0
Rhetoric and scepticism: Thomas Browne’s Amphibium mind in Religio Medici0
The Private Life of William Shakespeare0
Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London: The Invention of the Metaphysical0
Standardising English spelling: the role of printing in sixteenth and seventeenth-century graphemic development0
Master or Handmaid?: Dryden’s view of the New Science in Annus Mirabilis0
A cordwainer’s wife in high politics: a microhistory of Mrs Caute*0
‘Darkness Visible’: Modes of Coal Smoke in Milton’s Hell0
The Archive of empire: knowledge, conquest, and the making of the early modern British world0
Conspicuous consumption in a military camp: the expenditures of Albrycht Władysław Radziwiłł in the 1609 Livonian campaign0
‘The Governor’s wife’: women and garrisons in the English civil war0
Editorial0
In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams0
Birth, death, and domestic religion in early modern London0
The Church of Ireland: power and distance in the early-seventeenth-century Atlantic0
Words Turned Upside Down0
From the margins to the centre in seventeenth-century England: essays in honour of Bernard Capp0
The Puritan and the prelate: John Owen, Thomas Barlow and the conformist reception of dissenting literature in post-Restoration England0
Catholics in the Interregnum0
Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and his world: Restoration court, politics, and diplomacy0
The Synod of Dort in Arabic: Bodleian MS Marsh 2680
John Donne and English Puritanism, 1650–17000
Milton and the resources of the line0
Performing libel in the provinces: community conflict in early modern England0
Protestant bodies: gesture in the English Reformation0
Deluge and disease: plague, the poetry of flooding, and the history of health inequalities in Andrew Marvell’s Hull0
Annals of the War in the Low Countries0
The Glass Ceiling: Hutchinson and elusive promotion10
Comparative essays on the poetry and prose of John Donne and George Herbert: combined lights0
‘Instructive types’ or mere ‘fancies’: assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel Pepys0
Somewhat ‘of the old manner of romances and somewhat of the new’: Francis Kirkman’s continuations toDon Bellianis of Greece0
Careers and crises in the age of Charles I0
The godly lives of Samuel Clarke and the ‘national church’ in the 1650s0
Making the Memoirs: missing leaves in the manuscript of Lucy Hutchinson’s life of John Hutchinson0
Philosophical reflections on Japan’s Sakoku policy: seventeenth-century English perspectives0
Artemisia Gentileschi and the ‘biographical sensationalism’ in the interpretation of her artistic work0
Contingency, irony, and sociability: Robert Boyle’s experimental style0
‘Son slave’: A Very Woman , conduct books, and the regulation of Servitude/Slavery0
Westonia. Selected works of Elizabeth Jane Weston: Latin text with running vocabulary and commentary0
Fallacy/The Sophister (c. 1614), a Wykehamist play0
Decorating the parish church in post-Reformation England: material culture, community and identity in Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, 1560-16400
Trace of Stoic logic in Descartes: Stoic axiōma and Descartes’s pronuntiatum in the Second Meditation0
Politics, Patronage, and Poetics in Hobbes’s Homer0
‘Without Al womanly modesty’: civility, gender and women’s preaching0
Blind lives: the sightless and society in early modern England0
The blood in winter: a nation descends, 16420
Shakespeare’s language0
Hiding in plain view: religiosity and patronage in the works of William Dugdale0
Shakespeare, a huge muscly Triton0
Comunidad, pertenencia, extranjería: El impacto de la migración laboral y mercantil de la región del Mar del Norte en Nueva España, 1550-16400
Lucy Hutchinson in her fifth century0
Five Restoration travel hoaxes: The Isle of Pines (1668); The Hairy Giants (1671); The Western Wonder (1674); O-Brazile (1675); A Discovery of Fonseca (1682)0
‘Epiques chang’d to Doleful Elegies’: The Poems on the Death of Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester0
Early modern merchants and their books0
‘A Late Court-Poet’ Revisited: Milton, Cleveland, and The Readie and Easie Way0
Russia’s 17th century crisis of modernization: the autobiographical saint’s Life of the Archpriest Avvakum0
Coming To: consciousness and natality in early modern England0
Speech act theory and Shakespeare: scenes of thanking in Shakespeare’s plays0
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
Calvinist conformity in post-reformation England: the theology and career of Daniel Featley0
Thomas Vaughan and the Rosicrucian revival, 1648–16660
‘Christian notes sound sweetest suffering’: birds, books and textual circulation in Sir John Gibson’s commonplace book (BL Add 37719)0
Gendered practices of rulership at the court of Württemberg, 1568–16340
Monarchy, print culture, and reverence in early modern England: picturing royal subjects0
Labour relations and the persistence of servitude in Seventeenth-Century Charcas (present-day Bolivia)0
Engraving Accuracy in Early Modern England: Visual Communication and the Royal Society0
Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France0
The Seventeenth Century , 1986–2025: a retrospect0
Christopher Hill: the life of a radical historian0
Shakespeare’s Tutor: the influence of Thomas Kyd0
Between word and image: the trajectory of civility and exemplarity in Gallet’s 1698 illustrated edition of the Heptaméron0
Books received 20250
The staging of Islam andThe Alcoran of Mahometin Charles Saunders’sTamerlane the Greatand the Restoration politics0
Poetry and sovereignty in the English Revolution0
Republic: Britain’s revolutionary decade, 1649–16600
Early modern state formation or gute Policey? The good order of the community0
Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs, François Guizot’s histories of the English revolution, and Henriette Guizot de Witt’s women’s history0
The last witches of England: a tragedy of sorcery and superstition0
The restraint of the press in England, 1660-1715: the communication of sin0
Angelic bodies: mechanicism and vitalism in an Early Modern angelological debate0
Contributors0
Doctrine and disease in the British and Spanish colonial world0
‘We have sick souls when God’s physic works not’: Samuel Rutherford’s pastoral letters as a form of literary cure0
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 comm0
Colonial failure and theatrical form in early modern England: stages of unsettlement0
Celebrity, publicity, and the career of Major General ‘Sir William “the Conqueror” Waller’, 1642 to 16450
A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland, ca. 1525–1638: frameworks of change and development0
Se moquer de la philosophie est vraiment philosopher: Plato, Aristotle and the pedagogy of irony and play in Pascal’s Pensées0
Rogue sexuality in early modern English literature: desire, status, biopolitics0
Editorial0
Andrew Paschall’s “Americane Adventure” (1680): an unrealised Restoration Utopia0
Women writing race in the seventeenth-century English Atlantic: civil agents0
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: the paper revolution0
The poems and songs of Henry Hall of Hereford: a Jacobite poet of the 1690s0
Rebel with a Cause. Gesellschaftliche Reform und radikale religiöse Aufklärung bei Friedrich Breckling (1629-1711)0
Loss and Survival: The Episcopalian Spiritual Vocation, 1646-620
Testimonies of Temple Lane: memory, perjury, and the landscape in a seventeenth-century West Yorkshire dispute0
William Lawrence’s Newes from Geneva, or The Lewd Levite (1662): recovering a manuscript restoration play0
Infinite Variety: literary invention, theology, and the disorder of kinds, 1688-17300
Strategic lies and family ties: Huguenot merchant networks viewed through the Basset family, 1680–17300
William III0
Athéisme et dissimulation au XVII e siècle: Guy Patin et le Theophrastus redivivus0
Beyond utility: pleasure and play in the works of William Leybourn, writer, stationer, and mathematical practitioner0
The outrageous inner lives of plants: abortion poetics in Abraham Cowley’s Plantarum Libri Duo ( Two Books of Plants )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 Patin0
The millennial theory of Lucy Hutchinson and Mary Cary0
Dr Cowley’s reading list: annotation, completion, and the problem of plants in Sex Libri Plantarum0
‘Precept upon precept’: biblical commonplacing in Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs0
Sir Thomas Fairfax and the politics of pain0
‘The rich help of books’: patterns of annotation in Latin and English versions of Abraham Cowley’s Sex Libri Plantarum0
Practical algebra and hydrostatics: the legacy of Thomas Harriot0
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