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Professor Lorna Hutson examines early modern legal and poetic texts to explore the concept of England's 'island nationhood'.

Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - The Will in English Renaissance Drama

Editorial: Ministers promised a ‘change of approach’, but their new tax could tip weaker institutions over the edge

This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.

This collection of essays presents recent research on the Inns of Court and their place in the literary and cultural spaces of the early modern world.

We are very pleased to welcome Dr Anna Beer to Somerville. A Fellow, and formerly Director of the Creative Writing MSt at Kellogg College in Oxford, Anna has recently brought out her first book of det...

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Old Measures of the Inns of Court (1570s – 1670s)

In this free webinar, Shakespeare expert Professor Emma Smith will be discussing the new edition of Macbeth from Oxford World's Classics.

A remarkable 19th-century polymath inspired by the natural world and the universe beyond.

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