Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

The narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder in seventeenth-century England. Katharine

A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is

In early modern English medicine, the balance of fluids in the body was seen as key to health. Menstruation was widely believed to regulate blood levels in the

This collection examines the widespread phenomenon of hypocrisy in literary, theological, political, and social circles in England during the years after the Re

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there i