Author: Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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The Christian Principle and Peaceable Conversation of the People ... Called Quakers with Respect to the King and Government Once More Asserted, Etc
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The Caxton Head Catalogue
Author: James Tregaskis & Son (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Catalogue of Autographs, Etc
Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Humanism, Capitalism, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England
Author: Lynette HunterPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501514245
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to concepts of the self associated with the development of humanism in England, and to strategies for both inclusion and exclusion in structuring the early modern nation state. It addresses writings about rhetoric and behavior from 1495–1660, beginning with Erasmus’ work on sermo or the conversational rhetoric between friends, which considers the reader as an ‘absent audience’, and following the transference of this stance to a politics whose broadening democratic constituency needed a legitimate structure for governance-at-a-distance. Unusually, the book brings together the impact on behavior of these new concepts about rhetoric, with the growth of the publishing industry, and the emergence of capitalism and of modern medicine. It explores the effects on the formation of the ‘subject’ and political legitimation of the early liberal nation state. It also lays new ground for scholarship concerned with what is left out of both selfhood and politics by that state, studying examples of a parallel development of the ‘self’ defined by friendship not only from educated male writers, but also from women writers and writers concerned with socially ‘middling’ and laboring people and the poor.
Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College
Author: Francis Ames-LewisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351899929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
In March 1997 the Society for Renaissance Studies and Gresham College together organised a conference to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Gresham College’s foundation. The papers delivered at that conference and assembled in this book examine why Gresham College was established, and how its purposes and activities dovetailed with the socio-cultural life of Elizabethan and Stuart London. The first group of papers considers the social and mercantile career of Sir Thomas Gresham within the commercial centre of Elizabethan London; why he wished to establish Gresham College; and what functions he may have intended it to serve. The second group sets the academic activities of the College and its professors within the broader context of contemporary intellectual life. Papers in this group consider in what ways early Gresham professors contributed in particular to developments in the more practical disciplines such as geometry and astronomy.
The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
P.J. & A.E. Dobell Book Sale Catalogs
Author: P.J. & A.E. Dobell (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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