Speaker: Adam Sabra, Professor of History and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of ...

Lecture and discussion centered on the second edition of the Cromwell biography by Ian Gentles. Dr. Gentles has taught at ...

Examines Renaissance epic poetry in relationship to themes of exile, empire, and collective identity. Studies the generic traditions of epic and romance, practices and modes of classical imitation, ...

Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of ...

Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) left a voluminous legacy of writings. Despite his influence on the early modern period, his correspondence, manuscripts, and publications in natural philosophy remain ...

A young mother dies in agony. Was it a natural death, murder―or witchcraft? On the night of the festive holiday of Shrove Tuesday in 1672 Anna Fessler died after eating one of her neighbor's buttery ...

The range of topics implicated by 'meaning of life' as essentials of Islamic philosophy and theology includes the features of the good life; true happiness; the quest for eternity and not to be ...

The culmination of cultural and literary achievements in the final decade of Elizabeth I's reign coincided with some of Tudor England's worst years economically which were exacerbated by plague, ...

Course studies the debates around women, gender, and sexuality in Renaissance Italy and Europe (ca.1400–1700). Framed historically as 'the woman question' (la querelle des femmes), these debates ...

In the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries, England simultaneously developed a national market and a national literary culture. Writing at the Origin of Capitalism describes how economic ...