Principal Publications of Michael Leslie

CD-Rom:

edited, with other members of the Hartlib Papers Project team, The Hartlib Papers: A Complete Text and Image Database of the Papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600-1662) (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI, 1995). Second, revised and expanded edition, Sheffield, 2002.

2 CD Roms, containing the texts of 20,000 pages of manuscript and 5,000 pages of printed material, plus 22,000 images, and including TOPIC text retrieval and analysis software.

Books:

Spenser's "Fierce Warres and Faithfull Loves": Martial and Chivalric Symbolism in "The Faerie Queene" (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1984). Pp. xi + 200.

edited (with Timothy Raylor), Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land (Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1992). Pp. xiv + 241. Paperback edition, 1994.

edited (with Mark Greengrass and Timothy Raylor), Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Pp. xix + 372. Reissued 2002 in the new Cambridge University Press series, "History Repeats Itself".

Edited and Selected Collection in microform (with John Dixon Hunt): Shakespeare and the Visual Arts, Unit 17 of Shakespeariana edited by Philip Brockbank et al (University Microfilms International: Japan, 1989, rest of world, 1990).
[A collection of c.250 primary and secondary texts selected and introduced, with an overall introduction to the subject].

Contributions to Books:

"Biographical and Bibliographical Appendix", part 3 of Renaissance and Reformation, vol. 3 of The Cambridge Guide to the Arts in Britain ed. Boris Ford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 301-43.
[Covers literature, music, architecture, garden history, fine, applied, and decorative arts, and general cultural history].
Revised, paperback 2nd edition published as Sixteenth-Century Britain: The Cambridge Cultural History ed. Boris Ford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), pp. 301-312.

"'Gardens of Eloquence': Rhetoric, Landscape, and Literature in the English Renaissance" in Towards a Definition of Topos: Approaches to Analogical Reasoning, edited by Lynette Hunter (London: Macmillan, 1991), pp. 17-44.

Series of articles in The Spenser Encyclopedia, edited by A C Hamilton et al (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1990):

"Armor", pp. 60-62.
"'Baffling' and Degradation", pp. 78-79.
"Gardens" (with John Dixon Hunt), pp. 323-325.
"Heraldry", pp. 353-55.

"The Spiritual Husbandry of John Beale" in Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land (1992).

"Introduction" (with Timothy Raylor) to Culture and Cultivation in Early Modern England: Writing and the Land (1992).

"Electronic Editions and the Hierarchy of Texts" in The Politics of the Electronic Text ed. Warren Chernaik, Caroline Davies, and Marilyn Deegan (Oxford: Office for Humanities Communication, 1993), pp. 41-51.

"Introduction" (with Mark Greengrass and Timothy Raylor) to Samuel Hartlib and Universal Reformation: Studies in Intellectual Communication (1994).

"Humanist Gardens", The Macmillan Dictionary of Art (London: Macmillan, 1996).

"'Bringing Ingenuity into Fashion': The 'Elysium Britannicum' and the Reformation of Husbandry", John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening edited by Therese O'Malley and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1998), pp. 131-152.

"Something Nasty in the Wilderness: Entertaining Queen Elizabeth on her Progresses" inMedieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 10, edited by John Pitcher (Madison: Farleigh Dickinson U.P., 1998), pp. 47-72.

"History and Historiography in the English Landscape Garden" in Perspectives on Garden History edited by Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1999), pp. 91-106.

"Gardens" in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia edited by Arthur F. Kinney and David W. Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 282-284.

Edited Collections of Essays:

Editor, "Ut pictura poesis", Word & Image: An International Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, vol. 1 (1985), 120pp.
[Essays on the relationship between the visual arts and 16th, 17th, 18th and 20th-century poetry, and on the theory of interart relations.

Editor, "Renaissance Art and Literature", Word & Image: An International Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, vol. 3 (1987), 140pp.
[Essays on Holbein, Caravaggio, the emblem, Shakespeare's Henry VIII, Alberti, Titian, and English Renaissance book illustration.]

Joint editor (with John Dixon Hunt), "Garden and Architectural Dreamscapes in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili"Word & Image: An International Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, vol. 14 (1998), 214 pp.
[Essays on one of the greatest of incunables, "Francesco Colonna's" Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499. Includes essays interpreting the original book and its influence and afterlife in Western culture]

Articles:

"Drummond's Copy of The Faerie Queene", Times Literary Supplement (1981), pp. 821-22 (with Alastair Fowler).

"The Dialogue between Bodies and Souls: Painting and Poetry in the English Renaissance", Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 1 (1985), pp. 16-30.

"The Hartlib Papers Project: Text Retrieval with Large Datasets", Literary and Linguistic Computing 5 (1990), pp. 60-69.

"Spenser, Sidney, and the Renaissance Garden", English Literary Renaissance 22 (1992), 3-36.

"Edmund Spenser: Art and The Faerie Queene", Proceedings of the British Academy 76 (1991), 73-107.

"Multimedia for Library Staff Training: A Preliminary Report of Research", Interactive Multimedia 2.2 (1992). (with Peter Stubley and Darren Umney).

"An English Landscape Garden before the 'English Landscape Garden'?" Journal of Garden History 13 (1993), 3-15.

"The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and Elizabethan Landscape Entertainments",Word & Image: An International Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, vol. 14 (1998), 130-144

"Something Nasty in the Wilderness: Entertaining Queen Elizabeth on her Progresses" in Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England (c.1998). 6,000 words.

"Gardens" in Tudor England: An Encyclopedia edited by Arthur F. Kinney and David W. Swain (New York: Garland, 2001), pp. 282-284.

Reviews:

The Library, Art Book Review, Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies, Spenser Newsletter, Journal of Garden History, Word & Image, Renaissance Quarterly, European Romantic Review, and The Times Higher Education Supplement.

On garden and landscape design history, literature, art history, interart relations, and computing applications in the Humanities.

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