This chapter examines the relationship between the silk industry in eighteenth-century Britain and the fiscal-military state, specifically with Customs and Excise.

The little-known author Jan van Naaldwijk, whose two early sixteenth-century Dutch chronicles of Holland are preserved in autograph manuscripts in the British Library, wrote at a moment reputed to be the turning point between medieval and Renaissance modes of historical writing. While he primarily relied on the medieval historical tradition of…[Read more]

The Renaissance Studies Book Prize was established in 2011, first suggested by Professor Claire Jowitt, with the aim to reward work in any area of Renaissance Studies – literature,history, art history, philosophy, history of science, book history, and so on – that has made a significant difference to scholarship. In 2012 the inaugural SRS Book Pr…[Read more]