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Journal of Early Modern Studies
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ISSN 2279-7149 · Firenze University Press · 258 artikel di indeks
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Digital Bibliography in the Age of Linked Data
The article explores how the interplay of ideological values and technological capacities have shaped the digital bibliography of British print history. Using a misgendering in the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) as a case study, the article explores how information flows through resources…
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Scottish Hands and Anglo-Centrism: The Politics of Canon-Formation and the Dalhousie Manuscripts
This article discusses the urgent matter of canonicity in early modern manuscript studies. It argues that the archipelagic turn, first articulated by John Kerrigan, encourages new analyses of manuscripts previously studied for their Anglo-centric canonical authors. By permitting the manuscripts to…
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Facsimiles and Transcription: EEBO-TCP and Narratives of Textual Production
Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership (EEBO-TCP), a searchable database of XML-encoded transcriptions of over 60,000 early English books, has transformed how scholars research and teach early modern texts. This immense archive of digital facsimiles was transcribed and encoded by…
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The Queer Lives of The Life of H.H. (1822, 1688, 1650-1651)
The article explores how the early modern book trade and book use have shaped the biography of the notorious seventeenth-century printer, Henry Hills (c. 1625-1688/1689), particularly as this pertains to our knowledge of his sexual history. Key to this analysis will be Hills’ Particular Baptist…
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Indexing Herbert’s Temple
The Temple (1633), a book of devotional lyrics by the English poet George Herbert, was a site of innovation in the seventeenth-century book trade. Scholars of book history have attended to its numerous editions, but one important paratext has been largely ignored: the expansive subject index that…
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Dedicating Science and War Books: Networks of Power Between Science and Politics in the Early Modern Period
The article explores the dedications to promoters and patrons found in military and mechanical engineering books between the last decades of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century. These dedications are significant because they show how the authors of those books…
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Confusion and Concern: The Troubled Histories of Named Collections Within the British Library
The article discusses the relationship between slavery and cultural history within institutional rare book collections. Beginning with an overview of the media controversy which was caused by the British Library’s publication of an internal document that noted Ted Hughes’ slave-owning ancestors, it…
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How Much Does a First Folio Cost and How Much is That?
The article attempts a survey of the ways book prices have been conceptualised and deployed as part of bibliography and book history, with a particular focus on Shakespeare’s First Folio. In part it is an attempt to understand the changing prices of books which become valuable through different…
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White Christmas Pie, ‘smooth as monumental alabaster’: The Past and Future Politics of Shakespearean Cookbooks
The article interrogates As You Like It (AYLI), the 1959 cookbook produced by the Seton Guild of Hyattsville, Maryland, as a case study for how the occasional deployment of Shakespearean aesthetics and references across charitable fundraiser cookbooks curates political agendas that ostracize those…
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Rewriting American Identity: The Eighteenth-Century Americanizations of George Fisher’s Instructor and Sarah Trimmer’s Easy Introduction to the Knowledge of Nature
Before and after the American Revolution, revised imprints of British works claiming to be adapted for American audiences appeared in the British North American colonies. The essay suggests that collating ‘Americanized’ reprints against their source texts can be a useful metric for determining how…
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Book Supports: Disability, Race, and the Labor of Accommodation in Milton’s Poetical Works (1855)
This article explores intersections of disability and race embodied in Milton’s Poetical Works (1855), the first edition of John Milton’s poetry published for reading by touch. It describes how Morrison Heady, a blind man from Kentucky, raised funds for the book by traveling extensively across the…
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Humphrey Moseley and the Politics of Early Modern Publishers
The essay reassesses the ways in which book historians define the politics of early modern publishers by examining a selection of books published during the late 1640s and 1650s by Humphrey Moseley, a prominent London bookseller whom modern scholars have routinely characterized as a Royalist…
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Metamorphoses of Authorship in the Age of the Mechanical Reproduction of Texts
While recent research has partially downplayed the impact of the printing revolution by inserting it in a communication system which also included the manuscript, orality and their amalgams, it remains one of the most significant scenarios in contextualizing developments in authorship during the…
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Editorial: Memory from Below
The editorial provides an overview of this issue of the Journal of Early Modern Studies. First it lays out the research questions that were at the origin of the project. Then it sketches out its conceptual and historiographical armature, pointing to some classical and recent arguments about memory…
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‘De los famossos hechos de los yndios cañares y de sus privilegios’: Don Pedro Purqui and the Early Modern Andean Chronicle by Martín de Murua
The article considers the background and interests of don Pedro Purqui of Cañari descent in the late sixteenth century in Cuzco, Peru. Purqui made distinct interventions in an Inca-centric history project and, more broadly, as an Indigenous leader and intellectual in colonial Cuzco’s heterogenous…
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The Discursos de la Vida in Inquisitorial Documentation: Autobiography between Orality and Memory
In 1561 the General Inquisitor Fernando Valdés established a set of new instructions that systematically required defendants to depose their so-called discurso de la vida during their initial interrogation. Under the expression discurso de la vida, which was not exclusive to an Inquisitorial…
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Printed Riddles in Early Modern Italy: Traditional Perspectives and New Approaches
The purpose of the article is to draw attention to Italian riddles of the Renaissance. This publishing and literary genre has been studied especially from ethnological or literary perspectives. What is completely lacking, however, are studies that deal with how this literature was produced, how it…
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People, Pamphlets and Popular Mobilisation in the Aragonese Rebellion of 1591
In 1591, Philip II faced a revolt from his Aragonese subjects. A good number of nobles, priests and citizens were involved in the rebellion, but artisans, farmers and other members of the people also played a role in it. The article focuses on this important conflict, emphasising the relevance of…