 | Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Publication Date: May 1, 1999The essays in Menacing Virgins delineate the nexus of religious, political, economic, and aesthetic values that produce the Western European myth of virginity and examine how those complex cultural forces animate, empower, discipline, disclose, mystify, and menace the virginal body. The collection includes readings of Icelandic poems, Margaret Cavendish's Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, seventeenth-century dramatic song, and the iconography of Italian wedding chests. ...
 |  | Renaissance Earwitnesses: Rumor and Early Modern Masculinity
Release Date: December 22, 2009| ISBN-10: 023061941X | ISBN-13: 978-0230619418Renaissance Earwitnesses examines masculinity on the early modern stage through sensory culture. In his reading of plays by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Cary, and Jonson, Keith M. Botelho argues that earwitnessing, or judicious listening, is a vehicle early modern dramatists used to rethink constructions of male informational authority. Drawing on sound and gender studies and providing close analysis of the circulation of rumor both on and off the stage, Botelho reveals male anxieties to be self-generated,...
|  | Fictions of the Cosmos: Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century
Publication Date: November 15, 2011In today’s academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, however, the two fields were not so distinct. Just as the natural philosophers of the era were discovering in and adopting from literature new strategies and techniques for their discourse, so too were poets and storytellers finding inspiration in natural philosophy, particularly in astronomy. ...
|  | Dismembered Rhetoric: English Recusant Writing, 1580 to 1603
Publication Date: April 1, 1995This book describes the texts produced by recusant writers as part of an effort to reconvert Britain to Catholicism between 1580 and 1603 and suggests that rhetoric is consciously and successfully used by these authors. It also shows how rhetoric is necessary for recusant works to accomplish their devotional purpose. ...
|  | The English Renaissance 1500-1620 (Blackwell Guides to Literature)
Publication Date: December 27, 2000| ISBN-10: 0631220240 | ISBN-13: 978-0631220244| Edition: 1 This lively and stimulating book guides students through the historical contexts, key figures, texts, themes and issues in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century English literature. The English Renaissance, 1500-1620 sets out the historical and cultural contexts of Renaissance England, highlighting the background voices and events which influenced literary production, including the Reformation, the British problem, perceptions of other cultures and the voyages to the Americas.A series of shor...
| | The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital
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| | Nation and Word, 1770-1850: Religious and Metaphysical Language in European National Consciousness
Publication Date: August 1999The emergence of the modern nation state in Europe and the accompanying rise in national consciousness led to a heightened awareness of the close relationship between language and national identity. In this work Mary Anne Perkins shows that this relationship was expressed through the themes and figures of a "language" of nationhood, drawn from a common European cultural heritage, particularly the Classical and Christian traditions. Despite its common roots, this language became the medium through which the diversity of national characters was expressed. The idea ...
|  | The Science and Art of Renaissance Music
Publication Date: August 24, 1998As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantial body of articles published over the past three decades. Collected here for the first time are representative pieces from those years, covering diverse themes of continuing interest to him and his readers: music in Renaissance culture, problems of theory as well as the Italian madrigal in the sixteenth century, the figures of Antonfrancesco Doni and Giovanthomaso Cimello, and the nineteenth century's ...
|  | History of Biblical Interpretation, Vol. 3: Renaissance, Reformation, Humanism (Society of Biblical Literature)
Publication Date: November 12, 2010| ISBN-10: 1589834593 | ISBN-13: 978-1589834590| Edition: 1 Volume 3 of History of Biblical Interpretation deals with an era Renaissance, Reformation, and humanism characterized by major changes, such as the rediscovery of the writings of antiquity and the newly invented art of printing. These developments created the context for one of the most important periods in the history of biblical interpretation, one that combined both philological insights made possible by the now-accessible ancient texts with new theological impulses and movements. As represe...
| | Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron (The Revels Plays)
Publication Date: July 1990| Series: The Revels Plays A critical edition of Chapman's ten-act tradegy of 1608, a play about recent French history and a reflection on moral and political issues. An account of the play's relation to other humanist tragedies of the Jacobean theatre, particularly those of Ben Jonson is included. ...
|  | Gallus Dressler's Praecepta musicae poeticae (Studies in the History of Music Theory and Literature)
Publication Date: June 8, 2007Now available for the first time in English translation, this new edition of Gallus Dressler's Praecepta musicae poeticae corrects and expands upon earlier editions of one of the most important sixteenth-century treatments of musical theory and rhetoric. Robert Forgács’ detailed study of the Latin text reveals significant and original insights into the invention of fugues and the composition of opening, middle, and concluding sections. Forgács introduces the reader to Dressler's life and work and the design and sources of Praecepta musicae po...
|  | English Renaissance Literary Criticism
Publication Date: April 10, 2003This is the first comprehensive collection of English Renaissance literary criticism to appear for nearly a century. Brian Vickers has brought together a wide-ranging selection of texts, some well-known (such as Sir Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry, the most brilliant critical essay of the whole Renaissance, here given complete), some little-known (Dudley North's account of Metaphysical poetry), and one being printed for the first time (John Ford's elegy on John Fletcher). ...
|  | Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times
Publication Date: April 1, 2003A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. "Shakespeare's England" brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. These include William Harrison and Fynes Moryson (providing descriptions of England), Nicholas Breton (on country life), Isabella Whitney and Thomas Dekker (on...
|  | Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony (Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture)
Publication Date: May 1, 1997| ISBN-10: 0804727171 | ISBN-13: 978-0804727174| Edition: 1 The motet began as a form of sacred vocal music in several parts; a cantus firmus or tenor, drawn from sacred Latin chant, served as a foundation for one or more upper voices. The French motet was a well-established form by the middle of the thirteenth century, as were bilingual motets that combined at least one French and one Latin text among the upper voices.Though some attention is paid to melodic structure and the relationship between text and music, this book focuses on the literary artistry of ...
|  | Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music
Publication Date: March 26, 1998| ISBN-10: 0520210816 | ISBN-13: 978-0520210813| Edition: Reprint With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period to offer fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods. ...
|  | The Lost Italian Renaissance: Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy
Publication Date: December 5, 2005The intellectual heritage of the Italian Renaissance rivals that of any period in human history. Yet even as the social, political, and economic history of Renaissance Italy inspires exciting and innovative scholarship, the study of its intellectual history has grown less appealing, and our understanding of its substance and significance remains largely defined by the work of nineteenth-century thinkers. InThe Lost Italian Renaissance, historian and literary scholar Christopher Celenza argues that serious interest in the intellectual life of Renaissance Ital...
|  | The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament and Literary Culture
Publication Date: April 14, 2011Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. Offering theoretical and practical solutions to a wide variety of architectural issues, this treatise did not, however, address all of the questions that were of concern to early modern architects. This study examines the Italian Renaissance architect's efforts to negotiate between imitation and reinvention of classicism.Through a close reading of Vitruvius and texts written during the period 1400-1600, Alina Payne identifies ornament as the central is...
|  | What is Man?
Publication Date: April 25, 2007This was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it as such to friends when he read them passages. He had written it, rewritten it, was finally satisfied with it, but still chose not to release it until after his death. It appears in the form of a dialogue between an old man and a young man who discuss who and what mankind really is and provides a new and different way of looking at who we are and the way we live. Anyone who thinks Twain was not a brilliant philosopher sho...
|  | The Mothers Legacy to Her Vnborn Childe
Publication Date: May 19, 2000The mother's advice book represents a distinctly female literary genre appearing in seventeenth-century England. According to the conventions of this form, a mother leaves written instructions, of a predominantly spiritual nature, as a legacy to her children. The Mothers Legacy, written by Elizabeth Joscelin, is particularly significant for its documentation of ideas about women's education, authorship, and spirituality. With her writing, the author inscribes a distinctly female Protestant perspective. Moreover, as a highly self-conscious text, sophisticated in ...
|  | God Speed the Plough: The Representation of Agrarian England, 1500-1660 (Past and Present Publications)
Publication Date: February 23, 1996| ISBN-10: 0521453798 | ISBN-13: 978-0521453790This book presents a fresh view of crucial processes of change, offering through an interdisciplinary analysis fresh insights into both the history and literature of the land in early modern England. It examines a wide range of source material concerned with the practices and values of rural England--sermons, pamphlets, satiric verse and drama, husbandry and surveying manuals, chorographic texts, and rural poetry. It traces important developments in patterns of representation, which at once parallel and pro...
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