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This is a book which could very easily slip under the radar of most historians. Even had they noticed the title, and had their curiosity piqued by the sub-title, after checking the academic discipline of the author (Julian Rivers is Professor of Jurisprudence at Bristol University) many might well have decided that this book was probably of no professional interest to them.

Wounds, Flesh, and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England is a wide-ranging study that examines the metaphor of woundedness within and across political, legal, religious and literary texts.

25 years ago, in a provocative reconsideration of English political and social history, English Society 1688–1832, J. C. D.

A new book by Greg Walker, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at the University of Leicester, is a major event.