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Not since the trial of Louis Riel in 1885 had Western Canada seen such a courtroom drama. Colin Thatcher, millionaire rancher, son of former Saskatchewan Premier Ross Thatcher, a Member of the Saskatchewan Legislature and a former cabinet minister in his own right, charged with the brutal slaying of his ex-wife JoAnn. A fifteen-month police investigation, capped by a wire-tapped recording of the accused politician in conversation with his accomplice. The battle before the jury entranced the entire nation as the outcome was uncertain to the very end. But the jury rejected Thatcher's...

Geographies of Embodiment in Early Modern England gathers essays from prominent scholars of English Renaissance literature and history who have made substantial contributions to the study of early modern embodiment, historical phenomenology, affect, cognition, memory, and natural philosophy. It provides new interpretations of the geographic dimensions of early modern embodiment, emphasizing the transactional and dynamic aspects of the relationship between body and world. The geographies of embodiment encompass both cognitive processes and cosmic environments, and inner emotional states...

Eleven essays invite us to rethink not only what constitutes an environment but also where the environment ends and selfhood begins. The essays examine the dynamic and varied mediations early modern writers posited between microcosm and macrocosm, ranging from discourses on the ecology of passions to striking examples of distributed cognition.