Author: Richard Edward Gent KirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Returns of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London from the Reign of Henry VIII. to that of James I.
Author: Richard Edward Gent KirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Returns of Aliens Dwelling in the City and Suburbs of London from the Reign of Henry VIII. to that of James I.: 1523-1571
Author: Richard Edward Gent KirkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama
Author: Natasha KordaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134783043
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama investigates the ways in which work became a subject of inquiry on the early modern stage and the processes by which the drama began to forge new connections between labor and subjectivity in the period. The essays assembled here address fascinating and hitherto unexplored questions raised by the subject of labor as it was taken up in the drama of the period: How were laboring bodies and the goods they produced, marketed and consumed represented onstage through speech, action, gesture, costumes and properties? How did plays participate in shaping the identities that situated laboring subjects within the social hierarchy? In what ways did the drama engage with contemporary discourses (social, political, economic, religious, etc.) that defined the cultural meanings of work? How did players and playwrights define their own status with respect to the shifting boundaries between high status/low status, legitimate/illegitimate, profitable/unprofitable, skilled/unskilled, formal/informal, male/female, free/bound, paid/unpaid forms of work? Merchants, usurers, clothworkers, cooks, confectioners, shopkeepers, shoemakers, sheepshearers, shipbuilders, sailors, perfumers, players, magicians, servants and slaves are among the many workers examined in this collection. Offering compelling new readings of both canonical and lesser-known plays in a broad range of genres (including history plays, comedies, tragedies, tragi-comedies, travel plays and civic pageants), this collection considers how early modern drama actively participated in a burgeoning, proto-capitalist economy by staging England's newly diverse workforce and exploring the subject of work itself.
Ornamentalism
Author: Bella MirabellaPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472051172
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Original essays by leading scholars on the significance of accessories in the cultural, social, and political lives of men and women in the Renaissance
The Dutch Language in Britain (1550-1702)
Author: Christopher JobyPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004285210
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
In The Dutch Language in Britain (1550-1702) Christopher Joby offers an account of the knowledge and use of Dutch in early modern Britain. Using extensive archive material from Britain and the Low Countries, Chris Joby demonstrates that Dutch was both written and spoken in a range of social domains including the church, work, learning, the home, diplomacy, the military and navy, and the court. Those who used the language included artisans and their families fleeing religious and economic turmoil on the continent; the Anglo-Dutch King, William III; and Englishmen such as the scientist Robert Hooke. Joby’s account adds both to our knowledge of the use of Dutch in the early modern period and multilingualism in Britain at this time.
Everyday Objects
Author: Tara HamlingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351938118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
This book is about the objects people owned and how they used them. Twenty-three specially written essays investigate the type of things that might have been considered 'everyday objects' in the medieval and early modern periods, and how they help us to understand the daily lives of those individuals for whom few other types of evidence survive - for instance people of lower status and women of all status groups. Everyday Objects presents new research by specialists from a range of disciplines to assess what the study of material culture can contribute to our understanding of medieval and early modern societies. Extending and developing key debates in the study of the everyday, the chapters provide analysis of such things as ceramics, illustrated manuscripts, pins, handbells, carved chimneypieces, clothing, drinking vessels, bagpipes, paintings, shoes, religious icons and the built fabric of domestic houses and guild halls. These things are examined in relation to central themes of pre-modern history; for instance gender, identity, space, morality, skill, value, ritual, use, belief, public and private behaviour, continental influence, materiality, emotion, technical innovation, status, competition and social mobility. This book offers both a collection of new research by a diverse range of specialists and a source book of current methodological approaches for the study of pre-modern material culture. The multi-disciplinary analysis of these 'everyday objects' by archaeologists, art historians, literary scholars, historians, conservators and museum practitioners provides a snapshot of current methodological approaches within the humanities. Although analysis of material culture has become an increasingly important aspect of the study of the past, previous research in this area has often remained confined to subject-specific boundaries. This book will therefore be an invaluable resource for researchers and students interested in learning about important new work which demonstrates the potential of material culture study to cut across traditional historiographies and disciplinary boundaries and access the lived experience of individuals in the past.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
Flemish Tapestry Weavers Abroad
Author: Guy DelmarcelPublisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9789058672216
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Thirteen specialists on the history of tapestry offer a detailed survey of the lives and works of the Flemish weavers and of their relations with foreign patrons and artists.
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