Author: Modern Language Association of America (BALTIMORE). Index CommitteePublisher:
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Languages : en
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Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English Books Printed in Other Countries, 1641-1700. Compiled by Donald Wing ... Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged
Author: Modern Language Association of America (BALTIMORE). Index CommitteePublisher:
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Languages : en
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A Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Baker
Author: Frans KorstenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521128889
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Dr Korsten provides a biographical sketch of Thomas Baker and reconstructs his library of 4300 titles.
The Correspondence (c. 1626–1659) of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester
Author: Michael G. BrennanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351892339
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
The letters of Dorothy Percy Sidney, Countess of Leicester, dating predominantly from about 1636 until 1643, cover a wide range of issues and vividly illustrate her centrality to her illustrious family's personal and public affairs. These c.100 letters are here for the first time fully transcribed and edited. The edition includes a biographical and historical introduction, setting the context of the Sidneys' family and political activities at the time of Dorothy's marriage to Robert in 1615 and then tracing the major events and involvements of her life until her death in 1659. A key to the cipher used in the letters to disguise identities of individuals is also supplied. Following the introduction is the complete text of each of Dorothy Percy Sidney's letters to her husband, Robert, second Earl of Leicester, and to and from William Hawkins, the Sidney family solicitor, along with several others, including letters from Dorothy to Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Holland. Her husband's account of her last moments in 1659, and testamentary directions relating to her will, are also included. The letters are arranged in chronological order and supported by a series of footnotes that elucidate their historical context and briefly to identify key individuals, places, political issues and personal concerns. These notes are further supported by selective quotations from Dorothy's incoming correspondence and other related letters and documents. A glossary supplies more detailed information on 'Persons and Places.' Dorothy Percy Sidney's letters eloquently convey how, even with her undoubted personal potency and shrewd intelligence, the multifaceted roles expected of an able and determined aristocratic early modern Englishwoman-especially when her husband was occupied abroad on official business-were intensely demanding and testing.
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Domesticating the Reformation
Author: Mary Hampson PattersonPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838641095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This book rescues three little-known bestsellers of the English Reformation and employs them in an examination of intellectual and religious revolution. How did sixteenth-century English Protestant manuals of private devotion - often to be read aloud - stream continental theology into the domestic contexts of parish, school, and home? Patterson elucidates ideological programs presented in key texts in light of evolving patterns of public and private worship; she also considers the processes of transmission by which complex doctrinal debates were packaged for cultivating an everyday piety in a confusing age of inflammatory, politicized religion. It is in the most prosaic challenges of daily realities, that the deepest opportunities lie for experiencing the divine. Intersecting issues of piety, rhetoric, and the devotional life of the home, this book brings to life reformists' endeavors to guide popular responses to the Protestant revolution itself.
The English Short-title Catalogue
Author: Henry L. SnyderPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This volume describes and celebrates the remarkable efforts of librarians, cataloguers and scholars who, enabled by generous financial support from foundations and universities, have identified, recorded and made available a vast corpus of literature.
British Imprints Relating to North America, 1621-1760
Author: Richard C. SimmonsPublisher: London : British Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This is a comprehensive guide to the works published between 1621 and 1760 in the British Isles and relating to North America. It includes over 3500 listings of books, pamphlets, tracts, garlands and broadsides. Entries are cross-referenced to existing bibliographic guides, and selected British and American library locations are given. Entries are annotated where necessary and a full author and title index is included. The guide contains entries for many rare or little-known items, several of which are depicted. This reference is intended for scholars of early-American history, for rare-book librarians and for bibliographers working with historical material.
Knights in Arms
Author: Goran StanivukovicPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442618922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions of masculinity – commercial rather than chivalric, erotic rather than militant. Knights in Arms moves beyond the best-known examples of the genre, such as Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, to consider the broad range of texts which featured the Eastern Mediterranean in this era. Goran Stanivukovic highlights how eroticism within prose romances, particularly homoerotic desire, facilitated commercial, cross-ethnic, and cross-cultural interactions, shaping European knowledge and conceptions of the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire. Through his careful examination of these lesser known works, Stanivukovic sheds important light on early modern trade, Mediterranean politics, and the changing meaning of masculinity in an age of commercial expansion.
Poetry, Politics and Promises of Empire
Author: Christof GinzelPublisher: V&R Unipress
ISBN: 3899716809
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Die vorliegende interdisziplinäre Studie untersucht die poetische wie auch die politische Inszenierung der Pfälzischen Hochzeit des Jahres 1613 in London in den occasio-typischen Kommunikationsmedien frühneuzeitlicher Hof- und Populärkultur (Epithalamium, Festbeschreibung, Pamphlet, Predigt etc.) am Hof des schottisch-englischen König Jakob VI. und I. Im Zentrum dieser literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Arbeit steht die Repräsentation des Kurfürsten Friedrich V. von der Pfalz (1596–1632) und seiner Braut Elisabeth Stuart (1596–1662) als Positivikonen eines scheinbar in Aussicht stehenden pan-protestantischen Europa. Im zeitgenössischen Kontext herrschaftslegitimierender Genealogievorstellungen und religiös motivierter politischer Illusionen wird der Ehebund zur Manifestation göttlichen Willens und einer verheißungsvollen Zukunft stilisiert.
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
Author: William St ClairPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521810067
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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