Milton's angels are real beings, and the stories he tells about them rely on his understanding of what they were and how they acted.

First published in 1996, and here issued with a new preface, this work describes the emergence of the first weekly news publications, the immediate precursors of the modern newspaper. Previous ed.: Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.

This book is a unique history of the printed pamphlet in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Britain and traces its rise as an imaginative and often eloquent literary form.

This history of early modern news focuses on news itself rather than specific material forms.