This volume contains 23 essays which aim to shed new light on the evolution of English culture between the 15th and 18th centuries.

The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century movement which led to a European revaluation of social, political, ethical, literary, artistic and intellectual experience and which we know as the Renaissance was given its decisive early impetus from ...

In this study, the published record of the sixth series of Panizzi Lectures given at The British Library in 1990, the author provides a detailed survey of the manuscripts and printed books that the early Tudor Humanists wrote, had written ...