Reading Society And Politics In Early Modern England

Author : Kevin Sharpe,Steven N. Zwicker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139436830

Get Book

Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe,Steven N. Zwicker Pdf

This book ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific historical moments from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It also charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts during the period. A team of expert contributors cover topics including the processes of book production and distribution, audiences and markets, the material text, the relation of print to performance, and the politics of acts of reception. In addition, the volume emphasises the independence of early modern readers and their role in making meaning in an age in which increased literacy equaled social enfranchisement and interpretation was power. Meaning was not simply an authorial act but the work of many hands and processes, from editing, printing, and proofing, to reproducing, distributing, and finally reading.

Author : Christopher W. Brooks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1139475290

Get Book

Law, Politics and Society in Early Modern England by Christopher W. Brooks Pdf

Law, like religion, provided one of the principal discourses through which early-modern English people conceptualised the world in which they lived. Transcending traditional boundaries between social, legal and political history, this innovative and authoritative study examines the development of legal thought and practice from the later middle ages through to the outbreak of the English civil war, and explores the ways in which law mediated and constituted social and economic relationships within the household, the community, and the state at all levels. By arguing that English common law was essentially the creation of the wider community, it challenges many current assumptions and opens new perspectives about how early-modern society should be understood. Its magisterial scope and lucid exposition will make it essential reading for those interested in subjects ranging from high politics and constitutional theory to the history of the family, as well as the history of law.

Author : Mervyn Evans James
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0521368774

Get Book

Society, Politics and Culture by Mervyn Evans James Pdf

The social, political and cultural factors determining conformity and obedience as well as dissidence and revolt are traced in sixteenth and early seventeenth century England.

Author : Kevin Sharpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300187181

Get Book

Reading Revolutions - the Politics of Reading in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe Pdf

This fascinating book - the first comprehensive study of reading and politics in early modern England - examines how texts of that period were produced and disseminated and how readers interpreted and were influenced by them. Based on the voluminous reading notes of one gentleman, Sir William Drake, the book shows how readers formed radical social values and political ideas as they experienced civil war, revolution, republic and restoration. By analysing the strategies of Drake's reading practices, as well as those of several key contemporaries (including Jonson, Milton and Clarendon), Kevin Sharpe demonstrates how reading in the rhetorical culture of Renaissance England was a political act. He explains how Drake, for example, by reading and rereading classical and humanist works of Tacitus, Machiavelli, Guicciardini and Bacon, became the advocate of dissimulation, intrigue and realpolitik. Authority, Sharpe argues, was experienced, reviewed and criticised not only in the public forum but in the study, on the page and in the imagination, of early modern readers. 'Erudite, intelligent and fascinating ...a wonderful study of a subject central to the intellectual and cultural history of early modern England.' Anthony Grafton Kevin Sharpe was director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies and professor of renaissance studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of 'The Personal Rule of Charles I', 'Selling the Tudor Monarchy' and 'Image Wars', all published by Yale University Press.

Author : Heidi Brayman Hackel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 0521842514

Get Book

Reading Material in Early Modern England by Heidi Brayman Hackel Pdf

Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both the singular 'ideal' reader of literacy theory and the elite male reader of literacy history.

Author : Kevin Sharpe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441145581

Get Book

Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe Pdf

Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England explores the publication and reception of authority in early modern England. Examples are drawn from a broad range of source, including royal portraits, architecture, coins and medals and written texts.This is a volume that presents the history of society and state as a cultural as well as an institutional or political history. The author, Kevin Sharpe, was a leading scholar in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of early modern Britain. He pioneered the application of methods and approaches from other disciplines, such as literary criticism, reception studies and visual culture, to the study of the English Renaissance state. This will be an important text for anyone studying early modern England, as well as for those interested in the methods of cultural history and the explication of written and visual texts.

Author : D. R. Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521780462

Get Book

Reading History in Early Modern England by D. R. Woolf Pdf

A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.

Author : Kevin Sharpe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441156754

Get Book

Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England by Kevin Sharpe Pdf

Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England explores the publication and reception of authority in early modern England. Examples are drawn from a broad range of source, including royal portraits, architecture, coins and medals and written texts.This is a volume that presents the history of society and state as a cultural as well as an institutional or political history. The author, Kevin Sharpe, was a leading scholar in interdisciplinary approaches to the study of early modern Britain. He pioneered the application of methods and approaches from other disciplines, such as literary criticism, reception studies and visual culture, to the study of the English Renaissance state. This will be an important text for anyone studying early modern England, as well as for those interested in the methods of cultural history and the explication of written and visual texts.

Author : Margo Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134862443

Get Book

Reformation to Revolution by Margo Todd Pdf

Few periods of English history have been so subject to `revisionism' as the Tudors and Stuarts. This volume offers a full introduction to the complex historiographical debates currently raging about politics and religion in early modern England. It * draws together thirteen articles culled from familiar and also less accessible sources * embraces revisionist and counter-revisionist viewpoints * combines controversial works on both politics and religion * covers Tudor as well as early Stuart England * includes helpful glossary, explanatory headnotes and suggestions for further reading. These carefully edited and introduced essays draw on the new evidence of newsletters and ballads and ritual, as well as the more traditional sources, to offer a new and broader understanding of this transformative era of English history.

Author : J. A. Sharpe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:638704526

Get Book

Early Modern England by J. A. Sharpe Pdf

Author : Don Herzog
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300180787

Get Book

Household Politics by Don Herzog Pdf

Contends that, though early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women, this was not indicative of public life, and that husbands, wives and servants often struggled over authority in the household.

Author : Peter Lake,Steven Pincus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015073673124

Get Book

The Politics of the Public Sphere in Early Modern England by Peter Lake,Steven Pincus Pdf

Includes contributions from key early modern historians, this book uses and critiques the notion of the public sphere to produce a new account of England in the post-reformation period from the 1530s to the early eighteenth century. Makes a substantive contribution to the historiography of early modern England.

Author : S. Hindle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230288461

Get Book

The State and Social Change in Early Modern England, 1550–1640 by S. Hindle Pdf

This is a study of the social and cultural implications of the growth of governance in England in the century after 1550. It is principally concerned with the role played by the middling sort in social and political regulation, especially through the use of the law. It discusses the evolution of public policy in the context of contemporary understandings, of economic change; and analyses litigation, arbitration, social welfare, criminal justice, moral regulation and parochial analyses administration as manifestations of the increasing role of the state in early modern England.

Author : John Walter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0719074754

Get Book

Crowds and Popular Politics in Early Modern England by John Walter Pdf

Early modern England was marked by profound changes in economy, society, politics and religion. It is widely believed that the poverty and discontent which these changes often caused resulted in major rebellion and frequent 'riots'. Whereas the politics of the people have often been described as a 'many-headed monster'; spasmodic and violent, and the only means by which the people could gain expression in a highly hierarchical society and a state that denied them a political voice, the essays in this collection argue for the inherently political nature of popular protest through a series of studies of acts of collective protest, up to and including the English Revolution.

Author : Hannah August
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000563115

Get Book

Playbooks and their Readers in Early Modern England by Hannah August Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive examination of commercial drama as a reading genre in early modern England. Taking as its focus pre-Restoration printed drama’s most common format, the single-play quarto playbook, it interrogates what the form and content of these playbooks can tell us about who their earliest readers were, why they might have wanted to read contemporary commercial drama, and how they responded to the printed versions of plays that had initially been performed in the playhouses of early modern London. Focusing on professional plays printed in quarto between 1584 and 1660, the book juxtaposes the implications of material and paratextual evidence with analysis of historical traces of playreading in extant playbooks and manuscript commonplace books. In doing so, it presents more detailed and nuanced conclusions than have previously been enabled by studies focused on works by one author or on a single type of evidence.