Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history but, this book argues, the upheaval inspir

This volume of essays is the first to embrace both orthodox and heterodox treatments of scripture in early modern England, and in the process to question, chall

The importance of the Anglo-Saxon past to England in the eighteenth century, politically and culturally, is here brought out.

Volume IV of the magisterial History of the University of Oxford covers the seventeenth century, a period when both institutionally and intellectually the Unive