Author: Edward TopsellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Elizabethan Zoo
Author: Edward TopsellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Development of Natural History in Tudor England
Author: F. David HoenigerPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780918016294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Folger guides provide lively, authoritative surveys of important aspects of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English cultural history. Attractively illustrated with material from contemporary documents, the Guides are designed for the general reader and are particularly valuable as enrichment resources for courses in Renaissance history and literature.
Author: The Elizabethan Zoo
Author: Edward TopsellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Merchants and Marvels
Author: Pamela SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135300356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s.
The Mutual Admiration Society
Author: Mo MoultonPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541644468
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
A group biography of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Sayers and the Oxford women who stood at the vanguard of equal rights Dorothy L. Sayers is now famous for her Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane detective series, but she was equally well known during her life for an essay asking "Are Women Human?" Women's rights were expanding rapidly during Sayers's lifetime; she and her friends were some of the first women to receive degrees from Oxford. Yet, as historian Mo Moulton reveals, it was clear from the many professional and personal obstacles they faced that society was not ready to concede that women were indeed fully human. Dubbing themselves the Mutual Admiration Society, Sayers and her classmates remained lifelong friends and collaborators as they fought for a truly democratic culture that acknowledged their equal humanity. A celebration of feminism and female friendship, The Mutual Admiration Society offers crucial insight into Dorothy L. Sayers and her world.
The London Mercury
Author: The New Statesman
Author: The Arch Conjuror of England
Author: Glyn ParryPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300117191
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Outlandish alchemist and magician, political intelligencer, apocalyptic prophet, and converser with angels, John Dee (1527–1609) was one of the most colorful and controversial figures of the Tudor world. In this fascinating book—the first full-length biography of Dee based on primary historical sources—Glyn Parry explores Dee's vast array of political, magical, and scientific writings and finds that they cast significant new light on policy struggles in the Elizabethan court, conservative attacks on magic, and Europe's religious wars. John Dee was more than just a fringe magus, Parry shows: he was a major figure of the Reformation and Renaissance.
English Naturalists from Neckam to Ray
Author: Charles E. RavenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108016340
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Demonstrates how changing attitudes to the natural world influenced scientific thought between the medieval period and the eighteenth century.