Erin Sullivan, Beyond melancholy: sadness and selfhood in renaissance England

Erin Sullivan, Beyond Melancholy: Sadness and Selfhood in Renaissance England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. ix-227, $100, hardback, ISBN: 9780198739654.

the regional, national and international aspects of prostitution, Stauter-Halsted shows how the international trade in women, then as now, intersected concerns with health, family and personal safety, alongside poverty, unemployment as well as a hostile social environment and deplorable economic conditions at home. In this context, Stauter-Halsted also provides a much needed correction to the p...

The languages of melancholy in early modern England

Beyond technology-renaissance engineers

Beyond Technology—Renaissance Engineers T O compete in newly emerging international markets, industry must be committed to technological change and innovation. Today's power brokers must make an attempt to keep pace with rapid changes in technology, which is somewhat like trying to change the oil in a car while it is traveling 70 mi/h down the highway. In this super-charged atmosphere, engineer...

The Renaissance beard: masculinity in early modern England.

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Anatomical Dissection in Enlightenment England and Beyond

This is a rather unique and appealing book. It has been written by three junior doctors, who have summarised orthopaedics and rheumatology into a very concise pocket sized book. To make it even more portable, there is a scratch code allowing a single digital version to be downloaded on to the purchaser’s tablet or mobile phone. Although the book is short (just 250 pages), it is extremely well d...