Category: Female signature

Ownership, gift and witness: early modern women’s marginalia in the “Eikon Basilike”

May 19, 2022

One of the exciting new finds within the Emmerson collection is evidence of royalist women’s ownership and exchange of copies of the Eikon Basilike. The Eikon Basilike has been described as “probably the most successful political tract of the English revolution,” and...

Robert Burton, “The Anatomy of Melancholy.”

Nov 17, 2021

In 1621 a fairly obscure Oxford academic called Robert Burton published what we might now call a self-help book, titled The Anatomy of Melancholy. The term ‘anatomy’, following on from the idea of dissection, indicates that this will parse melancholy into its...