Author: Tessa Watt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book looks at popular belief through a detailed study of the cheapest printed wares in London in the century after the Reformation.
Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640
Author: Tessa Watt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book looks at popular belief through a detailed study of the cheapest printed wares in London in the century after the Reformation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458276
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
This book looks at popular belief through a detailed study of the cheapest printed wares in London in the century after the Reformation.
Certain Most Godly, Fruitful and Comfortable Letters of Such True Saintes and Holy Martyrs of God
Author: Miles Coverdale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 687
Book Description
Certain Most Godly, Fruitful & Comfortable Letters of Such True Saintes & Holy Martyrs of God
The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland
Author: Sebastiaan Verweij
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198757298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book explains the literary history of Scotland in the early modern period (1560-1625) by investigating what was the most important way of publishing such literature (mostly poetry): the manuscript. It organises the majority of surviving manuscripts by three different types of place where they were written and read: 1) the royal court, 2) the city, and 3) the country. It has long been believed that the renaissance in Scotland was a disappointing affair, butthis book argues that in fact it has long been misunderstood: the contents of little-known manuscripts paint a picture of a much more interesting cultural history than was previously known.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198757298
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book explains the literary history of Scotland in the early modern period (1560-1625) by investigating what was the most important way of publishing such literature (mostly poetry): the manuscript. It organises the majority of surviving manuscripts by three different types of place where they were written and read: 1) the royal court, 2) the city, and 3) the country. It has long been believed that the renaissance in Scotland was a disappointing affair, butthis book argues that in fact it has long been misunderstood: the contents of little-known manuscripts paint a picture of a much more interesting cultural history than was previously known.
Reading Shakespeare Historically
Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134780605
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello to the competing loyalties of companionate marriage and male friendship in The Changeling. In doing so she reveals a wealth of new insights, sometimes surprising but always original and engrossing. At the same time, these essays also provide a fascinating account of the rise of feminist scholarship since the 1980s and the diversifying of `new historicist' approaches over the same period. Reading Shakespeare Historically will fascinate and provoke students of shakespeare and his historical age, and general readers with an urge to understand how the culture and history of our past illuminates the key scoial and political issues of today.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134780605
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello to the competing loyalties of companionate marriage and male friendship in The Changeling. In doing so she reveals a wealth of new insights, sometimes surprising but always original and engrossing. At the same time, these essays also provide a fascinating account of the rise of feminist scholarship since the 1980s and the diversifying of `new historicist' approaches over the same period. Reading Shakespeare Historically will fascinate and provoke students of shakespeare and his historical age, and general readers with an urge to understand how the culture and history of our past illuminates the key scoial and political issues of today.
The Rise of the Old Dissent, Exemplified in the Life of Oliver Heywood
The Letter from Prison
Author: W. Clark Gilpin
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271097922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Letters from prison testifying to deeply felt ethical principles have a long history, extending from antiquity to the present day. In the early modern era, the rise of printing houses helped turn these letters into a powerful form of political and religious resistance. W. Clark Gilpin’s fascinating book examines how letter writers in England—ranging from archbishops to Quaker women—consolidated the prison letter as a literary form. Drawing from a large collection of printed prison letters written from the reign of Henry VIII to the closing decades of the seventeenth century, Gilpin explores the genre's many facets within evolving contexts of reformation and revolution. The writers of these letters portrayed the prisoner of conscience as a distinct persona and the prison as a place of redemptive suffering where bearing witness had the power to change society. The Letter from Prison features a diverse cast of characters and a literary genre that combines drama and inspiration. It is sure to appeal to those interested in early modern England, prison literature, and cultural forms of resistance.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271097922
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Letters from prison testifying to deeply felt ethical principles have a long history, extending from antiquity to the present day. In the early modern era, the rise of printing houses helped turn these letters into a powerful form of political and religious resistance. W. Clark Gilpin’s fascinating book examines how letter writers in England—ranging from archbishops to Quaker women—consolidated the prison letter as a literary form. Drawing from a large collection of printed prison letters written from the reign of Henry VIII to the closing decades of the seventeenth century, Gilpin explores the genre's many facets within evolving contexts of reformation and revolution. The writers of these letters portrayed the prisoner of conscience as a distinct persona and the prison as a place of redemptive suffering where bearing witness had the power to change society. The Letter from Prison features a diverse cast of characters and a literary genre that combines drama and inspiration. It is sure to appeal to those interested in early modern England, prison literature, and cultural forms of resistance.
The Rise of Prison Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Author: Ruth Ahnert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A fascinating account of writings penned by early modern prisoners, including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107040302
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
A fascinating account of writings penned by early modern prisoners, including Thomas More, Lady Jane Grey and Thomas Wyatt.
Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1485-1660
Author: Paul Whitfield White
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This book examines theatre and religion in provincial England from the early Tudors to 1660.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521856698
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
This book examines theatre and religion in provincial England from the early Tudors to 1660.
News Networks in Early Modern Europe
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004277196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
News Networks in Early Modern Europe attempts to redraw the history of European news communication in the 16th and 17th centuries. News is defined partly by movement and circulation, yet histories of news have been written overwhelmingly within national contexts. This volume of essays explores the notion that early modern European news, in all its manifestations – manuscript, print, and oral – is fundamentally transnational. These 37 essays investigate the language, infrastructure, and circulation of news across Europe. They range from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Americas, focussing on the mechanisms of transmission, the organisation of networks, the spread of forms and modes of news communication, and the effects of their translation into new locales and languages.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004277196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
News Networks in Early Modern Europe attempts to redraw the history of European news communication in the 16th and 17th centuries. News is defined partly by movement and circulation, yet histories of news have been written overwhelmingly within national contexts. This volume of essays explores the notion that early modern European news, in all its manifestations – manuscript, print, and oral – is fundamentally transnational. These 37 essays investigate the language, infrastructure, and circulation of news across Europe. They range from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Americas, focussing on the mechanisms of transmission, the organisation of networks, the spread of forms and modes of news communication, and the effects of their translation into new locales and languages.