is the Surtz Associate Professor for the Department of English at Loyola University in Chicago. Her research focuses on popular forms of intellectual history by studying the early modern publics mapped by cheap print, which constellated around certain catchwords and concepts to define what came to be seen as common and even natural to the national English character. Her first book, Pocket Maps and Public Poetry in Renaissance England was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.
The Strange and Practical Beauty of Small-Format Herbals
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Katarzyna Lecky
A guest post by Katarzyna Lecky The Folger Shakespeare Library has a wealth of pre-Linnaean English herbals (printed guides to the medicinal qualities of plants) ranging from gorgeous folios to pocket-sized reference manuals. Although the large-format botanical works boast an undeniable…
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