17th century
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Puritans and roundheads
A grief sanctified
Colonial folkways
Alchemy tried in the fire
Behemoth
Chi ruppe i rastelli a Monte Lupo?
Reading history in early modern England
Puritan Bride
Baroque theatre
Politics, plague, and Shakespeare's theater
Hana in the time of the tulips
Respuesta a sor Filotea de la Cruz
This other Eden
The Dutch Moment
The female pen
A Wild Country Out in the Garden
The great instauration
The Irish Dominicans of the seventeenth century
A performer's guide to Baroque music
Galileo's Glassworks
Cervantès
French baroque music from Beaujoyeulx to Rameau
Music and the Reformation in England, 1549-1660
Milton and the English revolution
The heirs of Moliere
The Tudor and Stuart monarchy
Medulla theologica
The making of the English middle class
Old Saint Paul's, a Tale of the Plague And the Fire
Englishness identified
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