Introduction / Massimo Ciavolella, Patrick Coleman
'Believing and not believing': Shakespeare and the archaeology of wonder / Peter G. Platt
Philosophical tours of the universe in British poetry, 1700-1729, or, the soaring muse / Lorna Clymer
Marino and the Meraviglia / Paolo Cherchi
I would rather drown, than not find new worlds / Paolo Fasoli
Truth and wonder in Naples circa 1640 / Jon R. Snyder
'Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie': listening in the early Seicento / Andrew Dell'Antonio
From liturgy to literature: prayer and play in the early Russian Baroque / Ronald Vroon
Reconciling divine and political authority in Racine's Esther / Ann Delehanty
Apostles and apostates: the court of Peter the Great as a chivalrous religious order / Ernest A. Zitser
Self-knowledge and the advantages of concealment: Pierre Nicole's 'On self-knowldge' / John D. Lyons
Baroque social bond in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz / Malina Stefanovska
Different kind of wonder? Women's writing in early modern Spain / Lisa Vollendorf
