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The Duel in European History: Honour and the Reign of Aristocracy

by V.G. Kiernan

June 14, 1990 issue

The Raj Quartet

The British Isles: A History of Four Nations

by Hugh Kearney

June 1, 1989 issue

Bunyan’s Progress

April 13, 1989 issue

History Turned Upside Down

Criticism and Compliment: The politics of literature in the England of Charles I

by Kevin Sharpe

Feminist Milton

by Joseph Wittreich

Puritan Legacies: Paradise Lost and the New England Tradition, 1630–1890

by Keith W.F. Stavely

The Origins of the English Novel, 1600–1740

by Michael McKeon

The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution

by Margaret C. Jacob

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April 28, 1988 issue

Under the Tudor Bed

Treason in Tudor England: Politics and Paranoia

by Lacey Baldwin Smith

May 7, 1987 issue

Homer for Henry

February 12, 1987 issue

Success Story

Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates

by Robert C. Ritchie

January 29, 1987 issue

The Man Who Should Be King

Henry Prince of Wales, and England's Lost Renaissance

by Roy Strong

October 23, 1986 issue

Letter

W.R. Elton

Homer for Henry

February 12, 1987 issue

Jolly Rogers

Sodomy and the Perception of Evil: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

by B.R. Burg

May 12, 1983 issue

Tiptoe Through the Tudors

The Lisle Letters provide one of the clearest records of life in Tudor England: wines at Marseilles are bad; those at Valencia are too hot. “Quarter shoes”—i.e. loose sandals—wear out at the rate of a pair a month. Thomas Cromwell contemplates making a voyage to Calais and back for the sole purpose of purging his stomach, rather than having to undergo the normal medical remedy.

The Lisle Letters

edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne

June 11, 1981 issue