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Author : Stephen Brogan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780861933372
First modern analysis of the custom of the "royal touch" in the Tudor and Stuart reigns.
Author : Barbara A. Kaminska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004472426
Barbara Kaminska argues that visual imagery was central to premodern disability discourses and shows how interpretations of miracle stories served to justify expectations toward the impaired and the poor.
Author : Elizabeth Lane Furdell
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 1580461190
An investigation of the role which the English book trade played in an important transitional period in early modern medicine.
Author : Charles John Sommerville
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : England
ISBN : 9780195074277
This study overcomes the ambiguity and daunting scale of the subject of secularization by using the insights of anthropology and sociology, and by examining an earlier period than usually considered. Concentrating not only on a decline of religious belief, which is the last aspect of secularization, this study shows that a transformation of England's cultural grammar had to precede that loosening of belief, and that this was largely accomplished between 1500 and 1700. Only when definitions of space and time changed and language and technology were transformed (as well as art and play) could a secular world-view be sustained. As aspects of daily life became divorced from religious values and controls, religious culture was supplanted by religious faith, a reasoned, rather than an unquestioned, belief in the supernatural. Sommerville shows that this process was more political and theological than economic or social.
Author : Sara Miglietti,John Morgan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317200291
Throughout the early modern period, scientific debate and governmental action became increasingly preoccupied with the environment, generating discussion across Europe and the wider world as to how to improve land and climate for human benefit. This discourse eventually promoted the reconsideration of long-held beliefs about the role of climate in upholding the social order, driving economies and affecting public health. Governing the Environment in the Early Modern World explores the relationship between cultural perceptions of the environment and practical attempts at environmental regulation and change between 1500 and 1800. Taking a cultural and intellectual approach to early modern environmental governance, this edited collection combines an interpretative perspective with new insights into a period largely unfamiliar to environmental historians. Using a rich and multifaceted narrative, this book offers an understanding as to how efforts to enhance productive aspects of the environment were both led by and contributed to new conceptualisations of the role of ‘nature’ in human society. This book offers a cultural and intellectual approach to early modern environmental history and will be of special interest to environmental, cultural and intellectual historians, as well as anyone with an interest in the culture and politics of environmental governance.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401202077
Communities have often shaped themselves around cultural spaces set apart and declared sacred. For this purpose, churches, priests or scholars no less than writers frequently participate in giving sacred figures a local habitation and, sometimes, voice or name. But whatever sites, rites, images or narratives have thus been constructed, they also raise some complex questions: how can the sacred be presented and yet guarded, claimed yet concealed, staged in public and at the same time kept exclusive? Such questions are pursued here in a variety of English texts historically employed to manifest and manage versions of the sacred. But since their performances inhabit social space, this often functions as a theatrical arena which is also used to stage modes of dissent, difference, sacrifice and sacrilege. In this way, all aspects of social life – the family, the nation, the idea of kingship, gender identities, courtly ideals, love making or smoking – may become sacralized and buttress claims for power by recourse to a repertoire of religious symbolic forms. Through critical readings of central texts and authors – such as Sir Gawain, Foxe, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, or Vaughan – as well as less canonical examples – the Croxton play, Buchanan, Lanyer, Wroth, or the tobacco pamphlets – the twelve contributions all engage with the crucial question how, and to what end, performances of the sacred affect, or effect, cultural transformation.
Author : Phillipa Vincent Connolly
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526720078
Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death before the advent of modern medicine, so how did a society support the disabled amongst them? For centuries, disabled people and their history have been overlooked - hidden in plain sight. Very little on the infirm and mentally ill was written down during the renaissance period. The Tudor period is no exception and presents a complex, unparalleled story. The sixteenth century was far from exemplary in the treatment of its infirm, but a multifaceted and ambiguous story emerges, where society’s ‘natural fools’ were elevated as much as they were belittled. Meet characters like William Somer, Henry VIII’s fool at court, whom the king depended upon, and learn of how the dissolution of the monasteries contributed to forming an army of ‘sturdy beggars’ who roamed Tudor England without charitable support. From the nobility to the lowest of society, Phillipa Vincent-Connolly casts a light on the lives of disabled people in Tudor England and guides us through the social, religious, cultural, and ruling classes’ response to disability as it was then perceived.
Author : Julie Farguson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783275441
The first comprehensive, comparative study of the visual culture of monarchy in the reigns of William and Mary and Queen Anne
Author : Laura Flannigan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009371360
Sheds new light on the relationship between Crown and society at the dawn of the Tudor regime.
Author : Stephanie E Koscak,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032237201
This highly illustrated study examines how the emergent public sphere and the expansion of visual and textual print impacted the monarchy and loyalism in England between the execution of Charles I and the accession of George II.
Author : Christopher Fletcher,Sean Brady,Rachel E. Moss,Lucy Riall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137585387
This handbook aims to challenge ‘gender blindness’ in the historical study of high politics, power, authority and government, by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of current historical research into the relationship between masculinity and political power. Until very recently in historical terms, formal political authority in Europe was normally and ideally held by adult males, with female power being perceived as a recurrent aberration. Yet paradoxically the study of the interactions between masculinity and political culture is still very much in its infancy. This volume seeks to remedy this lacuna by considering the different consequences of the masculinity of power over two millennia of European history. It examines how masculinity and political culture have interacted from ancient Rome and the early medieval Byzantine empire, to twentieth-century Germany and Italy. It considers a broad variety of case studies from early medieval Iceland and late medieval France, to Naples at the time of the French Revolution and Strasbourg after the Franco-Prussian War, with a particular focus on the development of political masculinities in Great Britain between the sixteenth century and the present day.
Author : Simon Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474273244
Shakespeare | Sense explores the intersection of Shakespeare and sensory studies, asking what sensation can tell us about early modern drama and poetry, and, conversely, how Shakespeare explores the senses in his literary craft, his fictional worlds, and his stagecraft. 15 substantial new essays by leading Shakespeareans working in sensory studies and related disciplines interrogate every aspect of Shakespeare and sense, from the place of hearing, smell, sight, touch, and taste in early modern life, literature, and performance culture, through to the significance of sensation in 21st century engagements with Shakespeare on stage, screen and page. The volume explores and develops current methods for studying Shakespeare and sensation, reflecting upon the opportunities and challenges created by this emergent and influential area of scholarly enquiry. Many chapters develop fresh readings of particular plays and poems, from Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear, and The Tempest to less-studied works such as The Comedy of Errors, Venus and Adonis, Troilus and Cressida, and Cymbeline.
Author : Peter Elmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199663965
Tells the compelling story of Irish healer Valentine Greatrakes and outlines his place in the history of seventeenth-century Britain. Reveals a fascinating account of his engagement with important events of the period, including the Irish Rebellion of 1641, the English civil wars, the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland, and the Restoration of 1660.
Author : Thomas P. Anderson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474417433
Establishes Shakespeares plays as some of the periods most speculative political literature Shakespeares Fugitive Politics makes the case that Shakespeares plays reveal there is always something more terrifying to the king than rebellion. The book seeks to move beyond the presumption that political evolution leads ineluctably away from autocracy and aristocracy toward republicanism and popular sovereignty. Instead, it argues for affirmative politics in Shakespeare the process of transforming scenes of negative affect into political resistance. Shakespeares Fugitive Politics makes the case that Shakespeares affirmative politics appears not in his dialectical opposition to sovereignty, absolutism, or tyranny; nor is his affirmative politics an inchoate form of republicanism on its way to becoming politically viable. Instead, this study claims that it is in the place of dissensus that the expression of the eventful condition of affirmative politics takes place a fugitive expression that the sovereign order always wishes to shut down. Key FeaturesPromotes a new understanding of 'fugitive democracy'Establishes the presence of a form of alternative politics in early modern drama, articulated through the contours of theories of sovereigntyExplores how the parameters of contemporary radical politics take shape in major Shakespeare plays, including Coriolanus, King John, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, The Winters Tale and Julius Caesar
Author : Susan Doran
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198754640
The story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish king and the transition from the age of the Tudors to the age of the Stuarts at the dawn of the seventeenth century.
