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Author : Gordon McMullan,David Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521868433
A contributory volume on the effect of medieval culture and literature on early modern England.
Author : Jennifer Summit
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226781723
In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
Author : Sarah Wall-Randell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472118779
In romances—Renaissance England’s version of the fantasy novel—characters often discover books that turn out to be magical or prophetic, and to offer insights into their readers’ selves. The Immaterial Book examines scenes of reading in important romance texts across genres: Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Shakespeare’s Cymbeline and The Tempest, Wroth’s Urania, and Cervantes’ Don Quixote. It offers a response to “material book studies” by calling for a new focus on imaginary or “immaterial” books and argues that early modern romance authors, rather than replicating contemporary reading practices within their texts, are reviving ancient and medieval ideas of the book as a conceptual framework, which they use to investigate urgent, new ideas about the self and the self-conscious mind.
Author : Jennifer N. Brown
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487504076
Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the period. By analyzing a variety of texts, including monastic and lay, complete and excerpted, shared and private, author Jennifer N. Brown considers how the visionary prophet and author was used to demonstrate orthodoxy, subversion, and heresy. Tracing the book tradition of Catherine of Siena, as well as investigating the circulation of manuscripts, Brown explores how the various perceptions of the Italian saint were reshaped and understood by an English readership. By examining the practice of devotional reading, she reveals how this sacred exercise changed through a period of increased literacy, the rise of the printing press, and religious turmoil.
Author : D. R. Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0521780462
A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.
Author : Heidi Brayman Hackel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-02-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 0521842514
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 : Jan-Peer Hartmann,Andrew James Johnston
Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814214746
Examines how medieval and early modern British texts use descriptions of archaeological objects to produce aesthetic and literary responses to questions of historicity and epistemology.
Author : Carole Levin,R. O. Bucholz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803229686
In Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England, Carole Levin and Robert Bucholz provide a forum for the underexamined, anomalous reigns of queens in history. These regimes, primarily regarded as interruptions to the ?normal? male monarchy, have been examined largely as isolated cases. This interdisciplinary study of queens throughout history examines their connections to one another, their constituents? perceptions of them, and the fallacies of their historical reputations. The contributors consider historical queens as well as fictional, mythic, and biblical queens and how they were represented in medieval and early modern England. They also give modern readers a glimpse into the early modern worldview, particularly regarding order, hierarchy, rulership, property, biology, and the relationship between the sexes. Considering topics as diverse as how Queen Elizabeth?s unmarried status affected the perception of her as a just and merciful queen to a reevaluation of ?good Queen Anne? as more than just an obese, conventional monarch, this volume encourages readers to reexamine previously held assumptions about the role of female monarchs in early modern history.
Author : Susan Broomhall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137531162
This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational it must be asserted over someone who allows or is forced to accept this dominance. The capacity to exercise authority is therefore a social and cultural act, one that is shaped by social identities such as gender and by social practices that include emotions. The contributions in this volume, exploring case studies of women and men's letter-writing, political and ecclesiastical governance, household rule, exercise of law and order, and creative agency, investigate how gender and emotions shaped the ways different individuals could assert or maintain authority, or indeed disrupt or provide alternatives to conventional practices of authority.
Author : Abigail Shinn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319965772
This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the spiritual and rhetorical turn. Furthermore, by focusing on a comparatively early period in the history of the conversion narrative the book charts for the first time writers’ experimentation and engagement with rhetorical theory before the genre’s relative stabilization in the 1650s. A cross confessional study analyzing work by both Protestant and Catholic writers, this book explores conversion’s relationship with reading; the links between conversion, eloquence, translation and trope; the conflation of spiritual movement with literal travel; and the use of the body as a site for spiritual knowledge and proof.
Author : Marianne Drugeon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527574991
This volume explores the multiple connections between contemporary British theatre and the medieval and early modern periods. Involving both French and British scholars, as well as playwrights, adapters and stage directors, its scope is political, as it assesses the power of adaptations and history plays to offer a new perspective not only on the past and present, but also on the future. Along the way, burning contemporary social and political issues are explored, such as the place and role of women and ethnic minorities in today’s post-Brexit Britain. The volume builds into a dialogue between the ghosts of the past and their contemporary spectators. Starting with a focus on contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, then concentrating on contemporary history plays set in the distant past, and ending with the contributions of famous playwrights sharing their experience, the book will be of interest to practitioners, as well as students and researchers in drama and performance studies.
Author : Jennifer Andersen,Elizabeth Sauer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812204711
Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library catalogs, prefaces, title pages and dedications, marginalia, commonplace books, and letters to ink, paper, and bindings—to explore individual reading habits and experiences in a period of religious dissent, political instability, and cultural transformation. Chapters in the volume cover oral, scribal, and print cultures, examining the emergence of the "public spheres" of reading practices. Contributors, who include Christopher Grose, Ann Hughes, David Scott Kastan, Kathleen Lynch, William Sherman, and Peter Stallybrass, investigate interactions among publishers, texts, authors, and audience. They discuss the continuity of the written word and habits of mind in the world of print, the formation and differentiation of readerships, and the increasing influence of public opinion. The work demonstrates that early modern publications appeared in a wide variety of forms—from periodical literature to polemical pamphlets—and reflected the radical transformations occurring at the time in the dissemination of knowledge through the written word. These forms were far more ephemeral, and far more widely available, than modern stereotypes of writing from this period suggest.
Author : Liam Peter Temple
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273935
Mysticism in Early Modern England traces how mysticism featured in polemical and religious discourse in seventeenth-century England and explores how it came to be viewed as a source of sectarianism, radicalism, and, most significantly, religious enthusiasm.
Author : Naomi J. Miller,Diane Purkiss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030142117
Building on recent critical work, this volume offers a comprehensive consideration of the nature and forms of medieval and early modern childhoods, viewed through literary cultures. Its five groups of thematic essays range across a spectrum of disciplines, periods, and locations, from cultural anthropology and folklore to performance studies and the history of science, and from Anglo-Saxon burial sites to colonial America. Contributors include several renowned writers for children. The opening group of essays, Educating Children, explores what is perhaps the most powerful social engine for the shaping of a child. Performing Childhood addresses children at work and the role of play in the development of social imitation and learning. Literatures of Childhood examines texts written for children that reveal alternative conceptions of parent/child relations. In Legacies of Childhood, expressions of grief at the loss of a child offer a window into the family’s conceptions and values. Finally, Fictionalizing Literary Cultures for Children considers the real, material child versus the fantasy of the child as a subject.
Author : Elizabeth Evenden,Thomas S. Freeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521833493
Explores the production of John Foxe's 'Book of Martyrs', a milestone in the history of the English book.