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What is indeed striking is the degree to which the essays reveal a shared set of interests and adopt languages and concerns that reflect back and forth in stimulating ways."—Richard W. Kroll, author of The Material World

What is indeed striking is the degree to which the essays reveal a shared set of interests and adopt languages and concerns that reflect back and forth in stimulating ways."—Richard W. Kroll, author of The Material World

A scholarly study of Sir Robert Cotton as antiquary and politician. It examines his antiquarian writings, the building of his library, his relations with European scholars, his place at court, in parliament, and in the literary society of Renaissance London.

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Well-versed in and appreciative of the latest developments in physics and cosmology, biology and neuroscience, Sharpe provides fascinating accounts of how contemporary knowledge expands stodgy notions of reality. He also queries the new scientific gurus for the substance and religious pertinence of their visions.

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In this book leading literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of ideas and visual media, currently engaged both with early modern and contemporary conceptions of biography, reflect on the problems of writing lives from the various perspectives of their own research and in the form of case studies informed by new questions.

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Aims to present an entirely fresh picture of Charles I and his annexation of power. Sharpe analyzes the personality, principles, and policies of a monarch who, after summoning more parliaments in his first year of rule than his predecessors had for a century, determined to govern without them.

It is now over twenty years since revisionist history began to transform our understanding of early modern England. In Remapping Early Modern England Kevin Sharpe proposes a new cultural turn in the study of the English Renaissance state. In contrast to the narrow definitions and debates of both revisionist and postrevisionist historians, he urges a broader interdisciplinary approach to the texts of authority, their performance and reception. ...

Can science explain powerful human emotions such as love and happiness? Or, are these emotions something more than the action of biochemicals and electrical impulses? Science is constantly uncovering the mysteries of our nature, but we are uneasy about submitting our most intimate feelings to its scrutiny. Unflinching in facing these issues, Kevin Sharpe provides a clear and current summary of the discoveries of science and what our spiritual ...

This book charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts in early modern England.

Explores the publication and reception of authority in early modern England.

The return of Charles II to the English throne after eleven years of Interregnum heralded the beginning of a new era in which the court was characterized by the licentious behavior of the new king. Edited by the authors of the critically acclaimed "Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II" (2002), this book brings together ten distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theatre, and art to explore the political and cultural i...

Explores the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, drawing on literary studies, art, political, cultural and social history.

David Bohm is a physicist with a broad range of other interests including religion, philosophy, education, art, and linguistics. This book surveys Bohm's physical theories including the quantum potential theory and the implicate order or holomovement theory.

Kevin Sharpe has been the leading scholar in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of early modern Britain for more than two decades. An historian of culture and politics, he pioneered the introduction of the perspectives and methods of other disciplines - literary criticism, the history of the book, reception studies and studies in visual culture - to the study of the English Renaissance state. Over the last decade he has been working pri...

In this book leading literary scholars, cultural critics, and historians of ideas and visual media, currently engaged both with early modern and contemporary conceptions of biography, reflect on the problems of writing lives from the various perspectives of their own research and in the form of case studies informed by new questions.