Consuming Splendor

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A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England.

Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England

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This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questi

Women of Fortune

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Offers a compelling story of mercantile wealth and merchant heiresses who asserted their rights despite loss, imprisonment, and murder.

The Mental World of the Jacobean Court

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New interpretations of Jacobean court culture by an international group of specialists.

Patronage in the Renaissance

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The fourteen essays in this collection explore the dominance of patronage in Renaissance politics, religion, theatre, and artistic life. Originally published in