Make no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea.

Defending Literature in Early Modern England: Renaissance Literary Theory in Social Context

'Matz provides both insightful readings and an important rethinking of the social, intellectual, and literary contexts of the Renaissance's concern with the place and function of literature.' Early Modern Literary Studies 'Matz's readings are lucid and well grounded and they help to stimulate new thinking ...'

This is the fantastic story of Cyrano de Bergerac, who lived in one of the most exciting and dangerous periods of the sensational history of France - about 1640. It is also the story of Cyrano de Bergerac's nose, a very large nose indeed. So sensitive was Cyrano abou the size of his nose that he made himself his country's foremost swordsman defending it, became her most talked of poet in spite of it, and yet ran away from the one great love of his life because of it!

Defending Royal Supremacy and Discerning God's Will in Tudor England

Early modern governments constantly faced the challenge of reconciling their own authority with the will of God. Most acknowledged that an individual's first loyalty must be to God's law, but were understandably reluctant to allow this as an excuse to challenge their own powers where interpretations differed. As such, contemporaries gave much thought to how this potentially destabilising situation could be reconciled, preserving secular authority without compromising conscience. In this book, the particular relationship between the Tudor supremacy over the Church and the hermeneutics of discerning God's will is highlighted and explored.

The Last Innocent Man

Brilliant young defence attorney Nash suffers a crisis of conscience when he realizes many of the murderers and rapists he has defended were guilty of their crimes. Now defending a murder case, Nash falls into an ethical trap; he's in love with his client's wife but can't be sure of their alibis.