Edited by Paula McDowell (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) This volume makes available for the first time the complete surviving works of the London printer-author Elinor James (c.1645-1719). Uniquely in the history of early modern women, James wrote, printed and distributed more than ninety pamphlets and broadsides addressing political, religious and commercial concerns. Written over a period … Continued
By Jack P. Greene (NHC Fellow, 1986–87; 1987–88; 2009–10) and John Norris The two tracts presented here were written in an effort to attract immigrants to the American colonies during the earliest days of settlement. They provide systematic contemporary discussion of the nature and conditions of South Carolina during its early years of English settlement
By Peter Lake (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) Short, cheap pamphlets with catchy titles and crude woodcuts lured readers in early modern England. The pamphlets described notorious murders and the sometimes providential means by which the culprit was captured and condemned to the scaffold. In this extraordinary book, Peter Lake examines how various groups—protestant, puritan, and catholic, … Continued
Edited by Michael MacDonald (NHC Fellow, 1990–91) Witchcraft was at its height in Elizabethan London. Edward Jorden showed that hysteria and not demons lay behind the witch-craze. Edward Jorden's Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (1603) is said to have reclaimed the demoniacally possessed for medicine and to have introduced the concept … Continued