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Author : Hyder Edward Rollins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : LCCN:23018444
Author : Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : UCSC:32106002802228
Author : London Stationers' Company,London Stationers' Company Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0384335101
Author : Sara Schechner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691227672
In a lively investigation into the boundaries between popular culture and early-modern science, Sara Schechner presents a case study that challenges the view that rationalism was at odds with popular belief in the development of scientific theories. Schechner Genuth delineates the evolution of people's understanding of comets, showing that until the seventeenth century, all members of society dreaded comets as heaven-sent portents of plague, flood, civil disorder, and other calamities. Although these beliefs became spurned as "vulgar superstitions" by the elite before the end of the century, she shows that they were nonetheless absorbed into the science of Newton and Halley, contributing to their theories in subtle yet profound ways. Schechner weaves together many strands of thought: views of comets as signs and causes of social and physical changes; vigilance toward monsters and prodigies as indicators of God's will; Christian eschatology; scientific interpretations of Scripture; astrological prognostication and political propaganda; and celestial mechanics and astrophysics. This exploration of the interplay between high and low beliefs about nature leads to the conclusion that popular and long-held views of comets as divine signs were not overturned by astronomical discoveries. Indeed, they became part of the foundation on which modern cosmology was built.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:257031709
Author : Steven W. May
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198878001
English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century. The main medieval writing surfaces of parchment and wax tablets were augmented by a writing medium that was both lasting and cheap enough to be expendable. Writing was transformed from a near monopoly of professional scribes employed by the upper class to a practice ordinary citizens could afford. Personal correspondence, business records, notebooks on all sorts of subjects, creative writing, and much more flourished at social levels where they had previously been excluded by the high cost of parchment. Steven W. May places literary manuscripts and in particular poetic anthologies in this larger scribal context, showing how its innovative features affected both authorship and readership. As this amateur scribal culture developed, the medieval professional culture expanded as well. Classes of documents formerly restricted to parchment often shifted over to paper, while entirely new classes of documents were added to the records of church and state as these institutions took advantage of relatively inexpensive paper. Paper stimulated original composition by making it possible to draft, revise, and rewrite works in this new, affordable medium. Amateur scribes were soon producing an enormous volume of manuscript works of all kinds--works they could afford to circulate in multiple copies. England's ever-increasing literate population developed an informal network that transmitted all kinds of texts from single sheets to book-length documents efficiently throughout the kingdom. The operation of restrictive coteries had little if any role in the mass circulation of manuscripts through this network. However, paper was cheap enough that manuscripts could also be readily disposed of (unlike expensive parchment). More than 90% of the output from this scribal tradition has been lost, a fact that tends to distort our understanding and interpretation of what has survived. May illustrates these conclusions with close analysis of representative manuscripts.
Author : Hyder E. Rollins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:602356741
Author : Mark Thornton Burnett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403919359
Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. Burnett traces the metaphorical significance of 'monstrous' forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces - fairground displays, 'cabinets of curiosity' and court entertainments - to contend that the 'monster' finds its most intriguing manifestation in the investments and practices of contemporary theatre. The study's new readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson make a powerful case for the drama's contribution to debates about the 'extraordinary body'.
Author : Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015082904866
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015067513674
Author : Barnabe Rich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : English fiction
ISBN : UCAL:$B683893
Author : English Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UOM:39015040111026
Author : Robin Myers,Michael Harris
Publisher : Oak Knoll Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043208136
"How did printed material in Britain get from producer to reader? What were the mechanics of supply by which individuals from very varied social backgrounds came into contact with the print culture? These are hard questions lying at the heart of what is sometimes called the new bibliography. Distribution is a complex lines of book trade history because it leads out of the self-contained and familiar area of the printing office and bookshop, into the often baffling regions of redistribution and consumption, where the evidence is often fragmentary and difficult to work with. London, with its ever-increasing output in this period of books, pamphlets, newspapers, ballads and ephemera, was always the dominant influence on the market. In this volume, however, the contributors are almost all concerned with aspects of the local trade in different parts of the British Isles and, in one essay, the trade between London and America via Scotland. They provide a series of detailed investigations into the distribution networks which supplemented and meshed in with those based on the capital, and in doing so they give a fresh view of the developing relationship between print and society over three centuries."--
Author : University of North Carolina Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015040569090
Books From Chapel Hill, 1922-1997: A Complete Catalog of Publications From the University of North Carolina Press
Author : Richard Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UVA:X030153891
