European history: Renaissance Books
University of Minnesota Press At the Margins Minority Groups in Premodern
Book SynopsisReconsiders the nature of societal margins in premodern Italy.Table of ContentsContents Editor's PrefacePart I: The Centrality of Margins Identity and the Margins of Italian Renaissance CultureStephen J. Milner Margins and Minorities: Contemporary ConcernsDerek Duncan Decentering the Italian Renaissance: The Challenge of PostmodernismPeter Burke Part II: Negotiating Margins The Ambivalence of Policing Sexual Margins: Sodomy and Sodomites in FlorenceMichael Rocke Stigma, Acceptance, and the End to Liminality: Jews and Christians in Early Modern ItalyKenneth R. Stow Cast Out and Shut In: The Experience of Nuns in Counter-Reformation VeniceMary Laven From Putte to Puttane: Female Foundlings and Charitable Institutions in Northern Italy, 1530-1630Philip Gavitt Part III: Marginal Voices Les Livres des Florentines: Reconsidering Women's Literacy in Quattrocento FlorenceJudith Bryce Exile, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Civic Republican DiscourseStephen J. Milner Dominican Marginalia: The Late Fifteenth-Century Printing Press of San Jacopo di Ripoli in FlorenceAnabel Thomas Part IV: Minority Groups Slaves in Italy, 1350-1550Steven A. Epstein The Marginality of Mountaineers in Renaissance FlorenceSamuel K. Cohn Jr. Vecchi, Poveri, e Impotenti: The Elderly in Renaissance VeniceDennis Romano Contributors Index
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Catholic Record Society Little Malvern Letters
Book SynopsisSelection of correspondence from the house which was once Little Malvern priory, illuminating life at the time.In 1538 John Russell, secretary to the Council of the Welsh Marches, acquired the dissolved priory of Little Malvern, where his descendants, the Beringtons, still live. This selection from the family letters in the WorcestershireRecord Office vividly illustrates the impact on Worcestershire of the Reformation and the Civil War. Among much else, it includes correspondence with Thomas Cromwell and Lord Chancellor Audley (who was John Russell's brother-in-law); Elizabethan medical prescriptions and business letters; correspondence about evading the penal laws against Catholics; a mock-heroic Latin skit on James I; a personal letter from one of the Jesuits executed at the time of theOates Plot, and an official certificate that Little Malvern had been (unsuccessfully) searched for priests. The letters themselves are accompanied by an introduction and explanatory notes. Michael Hodgetts has written extensively on Recusant History and is an acknowledged expert on English Catholic families and their houses.Trade ReviewRecommended particularly for those with local Catholic ancestry * 'TREE TAPPERS' MFHS SOCIETY JOURNAL *The Catholic Record Society is to be complimented on a splendidly produced volume, and the editors.on a scholarly work which will be of great interest to students both of Recusant history and of the county in the 16th and 17th centuries. * WORCESTERSHIRE RECORDER *Table of ContentsIntroduction Documents Appendix I: The Prior's Hall Appendix II: Historical Manuscripts Commission: Appendix to Second Report [1871] Appendix III: The Berington Collection: Items Exhibited at Worcestershire Record Office, 1958 Appendix IV: The Law-Suits of 1607-8
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Scottish History Society Scottish Schools and Schoolmasters 15601633
Book SynopsisA rich and comprehensive picture of schools and school education in early modern Scotland.1560 is a crucial date in the development of Scottish education, for it was in this year that the First Book of Discipline set out its ambitious project of providing a school in every notable town. This book, the result of exhaustive archival research and extensive use of the Registers of Deeds (which offer evidence of schoolmasters so described, as witnesses to legal documents), provides an indepth and wide-ranging analysis of education during the period,considered in its full religious, social and cultural setting. The curriculum receives particular attention, with its emphasis on music drawn out. The volume also presents a list of all identified Scottish schools and schoolmasters from the Protestant Reformation down to 1633. The late Dr John Durkan (1914-2006), historian and schoolmaster and a co-founder of the Innes Review, left a published legacy of hundreds of articles on Scottish intellectual and religious life in the Middle Ages and Renaissance and helped change the face of Scottish historiography. He was latterly a Senior Honorary Research Fellow of his alma mater, Glasgow University.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Renegade Women
Book SynopsisScholars of the period will find this to be a richly informative and thoroughly engrossing read.Trade Review"A gem. Beautifully written, creatively crafted, and thoroughly researched, this is an erudite book, written with verve. It brings to life the richness and vitality of Mediterranean societies in early modern times." (Judith C. Brown, author of Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy)"Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Fatima Hatun née Beatrice Michiel2. Elena Civalelli / Suor Deodata and Mihale / Catterina Šatorovic3. Maria Gozzadini and Her Daughters—Aissè, Eminè, CatigèConclusionGeographic EquivalentsAbbreviationsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Provincial Families of the Renaissance
Book SynopsisGrubb's comprehensive analysis of his subjects' compelling, if inconspicuous, lives investigates every significant aspect of private experience during the Renaissance: marriage, birth, death, household relations, work, land, social status, and spirituality. Winner of the Society for Italian Historical Studies's Howard R. Marraro PrizeOriginally published in 1996. Historical writing on the Renaissance has usually focused on the social extremes that co-existed in the great metropolitan centerson either elites or the underclass. As a result, the world of the middling families and provincial societies remains largely unexplored. Daily experiences in the lesser cities are, however, no less rich and revealing than those of Florence, Venice, and Milan. In addition, writes historian James Grubb, these experiences offer new perspectives from which to reassess familiar assumptions about domestic life in the fifteenth century. Based on memoirs and other records left by thirteen merchant families Trade ReviewGrubb knows everything about the people he studies . . . [and] gives us an unusual view of Renaissance Italian life in that he concentrates on the busy mercantile class and not on the princes and prostitutes that are more usually the subject of scholars . . . [He] supplies a number of useful pieces for the great mosaic of Italian Renaissance history. Also, he writes well.—Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et RenaissanceA good example of social and economic history that is well researched and written. It will be best used by upper-level and graduate students of Renaissance Italy as an example of what solid scholarship can produce and to illustrate and expand the works of the new social historians.—HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. MarriageChapter 2. ChildrenChapter 3. DeathChapter 4. Household and FamilyChapter 5. WorkChapter 6. LandChapter 7. PatriciateChapter 8. Spirituality and ReligionEpilogueAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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New York University Press Well Met
Book SynopsisThe Renaissance Fairea 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspringreceives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major family friendly leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire.Well Met approaches the Faire from the perspective of labor, education, aesthetics, business, the opposition it faced, and the key figures involved. Drawing upon vibrant interview material and deep archival research, Rachel Lee Rubin reveals the way the faires established themselves as a pioneering and highly visible counter cultural referendum on how we live nowour family and sexual arrangements, our relationship to consumer goods, and our corporate entertainments.In order to understand the meaning of the faire to its devotTrade ReviewRubin effectively probes how the [Renaissance] fairs exemplify familiar aspects of the American counterculture. She also seeks to illuminate how they are important not only as a forgotten aspect of a completed history but also as vibrant contemporary affairs . . . . They are, for Rubin, spaces of continued counter-cultural activity that, through constant renegotiations of the past, invoke visions of future potential renaissances for a United States stuck in the dark ages. -- Michael J. Kramer * Journal of American History *Academic but pleasingly readable. -- Ander Monson * LA Review of Books *Anti-modernism remains one of modernity's most significant and lasting inventions, and in Rachel Rubin's Well Met the theme finally gets its due. In the odd but telling subculture of the Renaissance Faire, Rubin finds anti-modernism intertwined with some of the most important strands of twentieth-century American culturewaning traces of vaudeville, the rise of the counterculture, shifting gender arrangements and sexual practices, a hunger for usable pasts, a rising politics of theatricality, and the culture's impressive penchant for commercialized anti-commercialism. Rubin writes with deep insight and terrific humor; and as intelligent as the book is, it also embodies a joyful appreciation for the quirky inventiveness of its protagonists. I can't wait for the movie! -- Matthew Frye Jacobson,Yale UniversityIn its first decade, the Renaissance Faire unleashed a multi-colored sub-culture in direct revolt against the monochrome of postwar America. It was a home-grown explosion of fancy dress, Shakespearian improv, hand-made objects both useful and ornamental, and music ancient and obscure, much of it heard for the first time in the dusty lanes of the Faire. Rachel Rubin deftly reveals the impact the Faire has had on style, craft, performance, and pop culture over the past fifty years in a one-of-a-kind study that begins in the left-wing lanes of Laurel Canyon, continues through backstage conflicts and couplings, and concludes with the corporatized, commercialized Festivals and geeky Ren-fandom of today. Well Met is a must-read to revel in the true roots of & Sixties culture. I know. I was there. -- David Ossman,member of the Firesign TheatreFascinating [and] forthcoming. * San Francisco Bay Guardian *[C]areful, informative, and thought-provoking . . .Well Met is packed with welcome detours into fascinating historical byways. * Slate *[T]he depth of her research, particularly from ahistorical perspective, is impressive, and the work will be a valuable resource for anyone doing research on Renaissance faires. Non-scholar fans of Renaissance faires will probably find it interesting as well, and appreciate finding a scholarly work that is not overly critical. * Journal of Folklore Research *A must read for anyone interested in a nonstereotypical view of the faire, its adherents, and why it retains its appeal decades after its inception. * Library Journal *Rubin wins over readers . . . she argues compellingly. * H-Net Reviews *The strength of Rachel Lee Rubin's book is that she understands and celebrates thisthe point of Renaissance fairs is that a lot of people find pleasure in them. * Durrants *Fascinating account of the evolution of a US institution. * Choice *Rubin's book is a trailblazer. * Colorado Springs Independent *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Faire Grounds1 "Welcome to the Sixties!"2 Artisans of the Realm: Crafters at the Faire3 "Shakespeare, He's in the Alley": Performing at the Faire4 "A Place to Be Out": Playing at the Faire5 "Every Day Is Gay Day Here": Hating the Faire6 Hard Day's Knight: Faire Fiction
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University of Toronto Press Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal
Book SynopsisChallenging the prevailing images of India derived from nineteenth-century orientalism, Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of France's Great Century.Trade Review"This book skillfully raises tensions between the nature of absolutism and foreign influence." -- Susan Mokhberi, Rutgers University at Camden * H-France Review, vol 19 no. 168, August '19 *"This rich and timely work combines close analysis of texts, images, and objects with historical contextualization and broad methodological reflections." -- Olivia Tolley, Jesus College, Cambridge * French Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Reconstructing the Past 1. Communities and Conversation 2. Salons, Seraglios, and Social Networking 3. ‘Think Different:’ Fables, Philosophy, and Diversity 4. ‘La Guerre des Etoffes:’ A Taste for India
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University of Toronto Press Moral Combat
Book SynopsisThe Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women’s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres, male and female writers raised questions about women’s right and ability to fight in combat. Treatise literature engaged scientific, religious, and cultural discourses about women’s virtues, while epic poetry and biographical literature famously featured examples of women as soldiers, commanders, observers, and victims of war. Moral Combat asks how and why women’s militarism became one of the central discourses of this age. Gerry Milligan discusses the armed heroines of biography and epic within the context of contemporary debates over women’s combat abilities and men’s martial obligations. Women are frequently described as fighting because men have failed their masculine duty. A woman’s prowess at arms was asserted to be a cultural symptom of men’s shortcomings. Moral CombatTrade Review"Milligan’s rich and dynamic investigation forges new intellectual approaches and offers important new insights to the study of women, gender, and war in the Italian Renaissance." -- Victoria G. Fanti, John Hopkins University * gender/sexuality/italy, 5 (2018) *"Milligan offers a very detailed, well-documented, and illuminating study on gender and war in Renaissance Italy, and brilliantly illustrates how the proliferation of textual representations of warrior women impacted the culture, society, and moral norms of that age." -- Lilia Campana, Texas A&M University * Renaissance Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Philosophical History of the Armed Woman The Poetic and the Real: The Chivalric-Epic Commentary of the Armed Woman Women Writers Demanding Warrior Masculinity: Catherine of Siena, Laura Terracina, Chiara Matraini and sabella Cervoni Illustrious Warring Women: From Plutarch to Boccaccio The Noble Warrior Woman (1440-1550) The Fame of Women and the Infamy of Men in the Age of Warring Queens (1550-1600) Conclusion
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University of Toronto Press Experimental Selves
Book SynopsisDrawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an experimental phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience.Trade Review"Braider’s command of literature, history of ideas, and his ability to make philosophers, scientists, and writers think together is definitely impressive and insightful." -- Christophe Schuwey, Yale University * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *"Experimental Selves joins a growing number of studies of early modern personhood... Braider explores the idea that, as he puts it, 'person itself is experiment' at length in relation to early modern theatre." -- Charles T. Wolfe, Cá’Foscari University * Publishing Research Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment 1. The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression 2. The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten’s London Peepshow 3. Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardt’s Individual 4. Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonson’s Bartholomew Fayre 5. Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Molière 6. The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette’s Princesse de Clèves 7. Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made
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University of Toronto Press The Correspondence of Erasmus
Book SynopsisThis volume covers a number of significant events and issues in Erasmus' life and in the history of his times. He travels on horseback from Louvain to Basel to assist his publisher and friend Johann Froben during the crucial phases in the production of his revised New Testament, the edition that he feels will be his lasting contribution to the scholarly foundations of the Christian faith. Once it is in the hands of the public he feels he will be able to face the approach of old age more calmly. On the return journey to Louvain he falls gravely ill from what is diagnosed as bubonic plague, but recovers in a month and convalesces in the home of another publisher-friend, Dirk Martens.International politics continue to capture his attention. Requests for funds in support of a papal crusade against the Turks arouse the flames of German national sentiment. With the death of Maximilian I, friends of Erasmus such as Richard Pace, Ulrich von Hutten, and Guillaume Budé are involved in
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University of Toronto Press The Protestant Whore
Book SynopsisAfter the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, Protestants worried that King Charles II might favour religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and many suspected that the king was unduly influenced by his Catholic mistresses. Nell Gwyn, actress and royal mistress, stood apart by virtue of her Protestant loyalty. In 1681, Gwyn, her carriage surrounded by an angry anti-Catholic mob, famously declared 'I am the protestant whore.' Her self-branding invites an investigation into the alignment between sex and politics during this period, and in this study, Alison Conway relates courtesan narrative to cultural and religious anxieties.In new readings of canonical works by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, and Samuel Richardson, Conway argues that authors engaged the same questions about identity, nation, authority, literature, and politics as those pursued by Restoration polemicists. Her study reveals the recurring connection between sexual impropriety and religious heTrade Review'[Conway] provides detailed readings of novels by Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding in context with contemporary narratives on the reception of royal mistresses. The result is a fresh look at the ways in which notions of whoredom were invoked during this period to illustrate crises of cultural conscience and to critique government ... On the whole, Conway takes what on the surface seems a rather simple concept, that of the Protestant whore, and elegantly unravels the political and religious discourses embedded within this figure in these novels.' -- Julie D. Campbell, Times Higher Education, 5 August 2010'Conway examines early English novels with the intent to uncover the "dangers and delights of Restoration culture" through the courtesan politics of sex after the 1660 restoration of English monarchy ... Conway sheds new light on this period and the women who affected courtesan politics and sparked anxiety amongst the masses.' -- Book News, August 2010 (25:3)
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University of Toronto Press Speaking Spirits
Book SynopsisIn classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as eidolopoeia. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not only to co-opt the authority of their predecessors but in order to express partisan or politically dangerous arguments.In Speaking Spirits, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian eidolopoeia. Expanding the study of Renaissance eidolopoeia beyond the well-known cases of the shades in Dante’s Commedia and the spirits of Boccaccio’s De casibus vivorum illustrium, Roush examines many other appearances of famous ghosts – invocations of Boccaccio by Vincenzo Bagli and Jacopo Caviceo, Girolamo Malipiero’s representation of Petrarch in Limbo, and Girolamo Benivieni’s ghostly voice of Pico della Mirandola. Through
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University of Toronto Press Roleplaying in Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe idea that the world is a theatre in which each individual human being plays out the part assigned to him by God, who is both the playwright and the producer of the drama of life, was one of the great commonplaces of the Renaissance and one to which Shakespeare alluded frequently.Shakespeare’s plays, however, transformed this familiar notion from a cliché to a fertile source of invention. In the past two decades, and especially since the publication of Anne Righter’s Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play in 1962, the idea has received considerable critical attention. This new work supplements and extends recent studies by examining in detail the function of the histrionic metaphors, both verbal and other, in Shakespeare’s plays.In Role-playing in Shakespeare, Professor Van Laan argues that the theatrical allusions, disguises, impersonations, and conscious or unconscious self-misrepresentations which abound in these plays exemplify a basic concern
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Cornell University Press Living by the Sword
Book SynopsisSharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living by the Sword reveals that warrior culture, with the sword as its ultimate symbol, was deeply rooted in ritual long before the introduction of gunpowder weapons transformed the battlefield.Neuschel argues that objects have agency and that decoding their meaning involves seeing them in motion: bought, sold, exchanged, refurbished, written about, displayed, and used in ceremony. Drawing on evidence about swords (from wills, inventories, records of armories, and treasuries) in the possession of nobles and royalty, she explores the meanings people attached to them from the contexts in which they appeared. These environments included other prestige goods such as tapestries, jewels, and tablewareall used to construct and display status.Living by the Sword draws on an exciting diversity of sources from archaeology, milTrade ReviewLiving by the Sword cuts through a broad swath of history, and such a scope is necessary for a project that charts how swords were understood over time. Kristen Neuschel's Living by the Sword will interest a wide range of readers. * Comitatus *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Do Swords Mean? 1. Swords and Oral Culture in the Early Middle Ages 2. Swords and Chivalric Culture in the High Middle Ages 3. Swords, Clothing, and Armor in the Late Middle Ages 4. Swords and Documents in the Sixteenth Century Conclusion
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Cornell University Press Living by the Sword
Book SynopsisSharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living by the Sword reveals that warrior culture, with the sword as its ultimate symbol, was deeply rooted in ritual long before the introduction of gunpowder weapons transformed the battlefield.Neuschel argues that objects have agency and that decoding their meaning involves seeing them in motion: bought, sold, exchanged, refurbished, written about, displayed, and used in ceremony. Drawing on evidence about swords (from wills, inventories, records of armories, and treasuries) in the possession of nobles and royalty, she explores the meanings people attached to them from the contexts in which they appeared. These environments included other prestige goods such as tapestries, jewels, and tablewareall used to construct and display status.Living by the Sword draws on an exciting diversity of sources from archaeology, milTrade ReviewLiving by the Sword cuts through a broad swath of history, and such a scope is necessary for a project that charts how swords were understood over time. Kristen Neuschel's Living by the Sword will interest a wide range of readers. * Comitatus *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Do Swords Mean? 1. Swords and Oral Culture in the Early Middle Ages 2. Swords and Chivalric Culture in the High Middle Ages 3. Swords, Clothing, and Armor in the Late Middle Ages 4. Swords and Documents in the Sixteenth Century Conclusion
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University of Pennsylvania Press Sex Lives: Intimate Infrastructures in Early
Book SynopsisIn Sex Lives, Joseph Gamble draws from literature, art, and personal testimonies from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe to uncover how early moderns learned to have sex. In the early modern period, Gamble contends, everyone from pornographers to Shakespeare recognized that sex requires knowledge of both logistics (how to do it) and affect (how to feel about it). And knowledge, of course, takes practice. Gamble turns to a wide range of early modern texts and images from England, France, and Italy, ranging from personal accounts to closet dramas to visual art in order to excavate and analyze a variety of sexual practices in early modernity. Using an intersectional, phenomenological approach to bring historical light to the quotidian sexual experiences of early modern subjects, the book develops the critical concept of the “sex life”—a colloquialism that opens up methodological avenues for understanding daily lived experience in granular detail, both in the distant past and today. Through this lens, Gamble explores how sex organized and permeated everyday life and experiences of gender and race in early modernity. He shows how affects around sex structure the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, revealing the role of sexual feeling and sexual racism in early modern English drama. Sex Lives reshapes how we understand Renaissance literature, the history of sexuality, and the meaning of sex in both early modern Europe and our own moment.Trade Review"With verve and exactitude, Sex Lives unpacks the epistemological and affective infrastructures that undergird a ‘sex life.’ Boldly moving beyond the discursive paradigm that has long governed the history of sexuality, it lingers on the process of learning how to have sex—exploring both sexual ‘know-how’ and sexual ‘feel-how’ through an impassioned commitment to queer thriving." * Valerie Traub, author of Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns *"Original, wry, and winningly earnest, Sex Lives reveals a highly provocative truth often made invisible, that sex, like other quotidian acts that shape our experience and sense of self, is a learned practice." * Patricia Akhimie, author of Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference *
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Fordham University Press The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the
Book SynopsisThis book works to uncover the logic of hatred, to understand how this affect manifests itself historically in persecution and terror apparatuses. More than a historical genealogy of persecution, The Logic of Hatred shows what phenomenology can offer to historical understanding. Focusing on the witch-hunts waged in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, the first part of the book analyzes the techniques instigators used to designate and annihilate their targets: the search for diabolical stigma, the confession of “truth” extracted by torture, the constitution of an absolute Enemy through the suggestion of conspiracy, of a world turned upside-down, or the figure of Satan. Rogozinski locates one of the origins of the witch-hunt in the anguish that popular uprisings arouse in dominant classes. The second part of the book extends the investigation to related phenomena, such as the extermination of lepers in the Middle Ages and the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. By studying these historical experiences and marking their differences and similarities, this book shows the passage from exclusion to persecution and how revolts of the oppressed can let themselves be transformed and captured by persecutory politics. The analyses presented thus shed light on conspiracy theory and the terror apparatuses of our time.Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Forgotten Massacre | 1 1. “All Women Are Witches” | 27 2. A Death Mark | 75 3. Confessing the Truth | 88 4. The Capital Enemy | 106 5. The World Upside Down: Contribution to a Phenomenology of Multitudes | 144 6. Behind the Devil’s Mask | 164 7. Worse Than Death | 189 8. A Stranger among Us | 217 Conclusion: “The Truth Will Set You Free” | 245 Afterword, by Carlo Ginzburg | 251 A Response to Carlo Ginzburg | 255 Continuing Our Dialogue | 259 In Memoriam: Index of Witch Hunt Victims | 261 Yizkor | 263 Notes | 265
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Fordham University Press The Logic of Hatred: From Witch Hunts to the
Book SynopsisThis book works to uncover the logic of hatred, to understand how this affect manifests itself historically in persecution and terror apparatuses. More than a historical genealogy of persecution, The Logic of Hatred shows what phenomenology can offer to historical understanding. Focusing on the witch-hunts waged in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, the first part of the book analyzes the techniques instigators used to designate and annihilate their targets: the search for diabolical stigma, the confession of “truth” extracted by torture, the constitution of an absolute Enemy through the suggestion of conspiracy, of a world turned upside-down, or the figure of Satan. Rogozinski locates one of the origins of the witch-hunt in the anguish that popular uprisings arouse in dominant classes. The second part of the book extends the investigation to related phenomena, such as the extermination of lepers in the Middle Ages and the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. By studying these historical experiences and marking their differences and similarities, this book shows the passage from exclusion to persecution and how revolts of the oppressed can let themselves be transformed and captured by persecutory politics. The analyses presented thus shed light on conspiracy theory and the terror apparatuses of our time.Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Forgotten Massacre | 1 1. “All Women Are Witches” | 27 2. A Death Mark | 75 3. Confessing the Truth | 88 4. The Capital Enemy | 106 5. The World Upside Down: Contribution to a Phenomenology of Multitudes | 144 6. Behind the Devil’s Mask | 164 7. Worse Than Death | 189 8. A Stranger among Us | 217 Conclusion: “The Truth Will Set You Free” | 245 Afterword, by Carlo Ginzburg | 251 A Response to Carlo Ginzburg | 255 Continuing Our Dialogue | 259 In Memoriam: Index of Witch Hunt Victims | 261 Yizkor | 263 Notes | 265
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Renaissance Papers 1999
Book SynopsisNewest annual volume of selected essays on aspects of the Renaissance. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays on all aspects of the Renaissance submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference, organized originally in the early 1950s by scholars at Duke University and the universities of North and South Carolina. This year's annual volume, the forty-sixth to be published by the Conference and the fourth by Camden House, is the most substantial ever, containing twelve articles. Five articles on Shakespeare range from alchemy and hermaphroditism in Sonnet 20 to Leontes and skepticism in The Winter's Tale. There are two pieces on Milton, one involving his feminine representation of himself as author, the other attempting a breakthrough in interpretation of Samson Agonistes. There are also literary studies of Mucedorus, the most popular play in the English Renaissance, and of Spenser's two female protagonists, Britomart and Amoret. There are also an examination of the power struggles in an Italian convent, a new assessment of Stephen Gardiner's role in the Counter-Reformation in England, and a study of the early characteristics of Cromwellin the press of the English Civil War.Table of ContentsFamily and Faction in a Milanese Convent, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - `The King's Good Servant, But God's First': Stephen Gardiner and the Early English Reformation - Karen Guest Britomart and Amoret: Reading Escape in Spenser's Mysticism - Melinda Spencer Hortensio's Role in Closing The Taming of the Shrew's Induction - Mary Free Mucedorus's Wild Man: Disorderly Acts on the Early Modern Stage - Abigail Scherer `A Madman's epistles are no gospels': Alienation in Twelfth Night and Anti-Martinist Discourse - L. Caitlin Jorgensen Goodly Physic: Disease, Purgation, and Anatomical Display in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - Christopher J. Crosbie Sex in a Bottle: The Alchemical Distillation of Shakespeare's Hermaphrodite in Sonnet 20 - Peggy Munoz Simonds Bearing Parts: Leontes' Skeptical Delivery of Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale - Connie Snyder Mick `The Valiant Champion Lieut-General Cromwell'; `So perfect a hater of images': Oliver Cromwell and the Civil War Press - Vivienne S. Johnson Arrested Spiritual Development in Milton's Samson Agonistes - Kent R. Lehnhof
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Renaissance Papers 2000
Book SynopsisEleven articles on aspects of the Renaissance, chief among them women writers, art, and drama. Renaissance Papers is a collection of the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. Organized and sponsored in the early 1950s by Duke University and the universities of South Carolina and North Carolina, the annual meeting is now hosted by various colleges and universities across the southeastern United States. The conference accepts papers on all subjects relating to the Renaissance -- music, art, history, literature, etc. -- from scholars all over North America and Europe. This is the forty-seventh volume of Renaissance Papers. It includes articles on 15th-c. Florentine wedding chests, called cassoni, on Isabella Whitney, on Spenser's 'April' woodcut, on Cervantes' El Trato del Argel, on Thomas Nashe's Christ's Tears over Jerusalem, on the crone as type in English Renaissance drama, on female speech and disempowerment in Marlowe's Tamberlane I, on Shakespeare's Richard II and Marlowe's Edward II, on Chaucer's contribution to The Tempest, and on echoes of Ovid in Donne's elegies. T. H. HOWARD-HILL and PHILIP ROLLINSON are professors of English at the University of South Carolina.Table of ContentsCassoni: The Inside Story - Jo-Kate Collier "We Are Not All Alyke nor of Complexion One": Truism and Isabella Whitney's Multiple Readers - Boyd M. Berry Allusive Resonance in the Woodcut in Spenser's "April" - Hugh Davis El Trato del Argel: A First Step Towards the Creation of a Masterpiece - Pamela Peek Voices of Prophecy and Prayer in Thomas Nashe's Christ's Tears Over Jerusalem - Catherine I. Cox Types of the Crone: The Nurse and the Wise Woman in English Renaissance Drama - Jeanne A. Roberts "Divine Zenocrate," "Wretched Zenocrate": Female Speech and Disempowerment in Tamberlane I - Pam Whitfield Narrativity: Edward II and Richard II - George L. Geckle Chaucer's Contribution to The Tempest: A Reappraisal - Lewis Walker "Over Reconing" the "Undertones": A Preface to "Some Elegies" by John Donne - M. Thomas Hester A Partial Liberty: Gender and Class in Jane Cavendish and Elizabeth Brackley's The Concealed Fancies - Robin O. Warren
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Arc Humanities Press The Hussites
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Arc Humanities Press A Companion to the Cavendishes
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Arc Humanities Press Jewish Theatre Making in Mantua, 1520–1650
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Arc Humanities Press Women and Economic Power in Premodern Royal
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Arc Humanities Press Bishop John Vitez and Early Renaissance Central
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Arc Humanities Press Two Missionary Accounts of Southeast Asia in the
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Arc Humanities Press Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The
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Arc Humanities Press Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic:
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Arc Humanities Press A Companion to the Cavendishes
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Arc Humanities Press Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe: The
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University of Delaware Press Ordering Customs: Ethnographic Thought in Early
Book SynopsisOrdering Customs explores how Renaissance Venetians sought to make sense of human difference in a period characterized by increasing global contact and a rapid acceleration of the circulation of information. Venice was at the center of both these developments. The book traces the emergence of a distinctive tradition of ethnographic writing that served as the basis for defining religious and cultural difference in new ways. Taylor draws on a trove of unpublished sources—diplomatic correspondence, court records, diaries, and inventories—to show that the study of customs, rituals, and ways of life not only became central in how Venetians sought to apprehend other peoples, but also had a very real impact at the level of policy, shaping how the Venetian state governed minority populations in the city and its empire. In contrast with the familiar image of ethnography as the product of overseas imperial and missionary encounters, the book points to a more complicated set of origins. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Study of Customs 2 Ambassadors as Ethnographers 3 Ethnography and the Venetian State 4 Reading Ethnography in Early Modern Venice 5 Ethnography, the City, and the Place of Religious Minorities Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Iter Press Subject/Object and Beyond: Women in Early Modern
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on early modern women from a collection of leading figures in the field.Subject/Object and Beyond brings together essays by established and emerging scholars to honor the exceptionally rich contributions and career of scholar Colette H. Winn. It also celebrates fifty years of sustained scholarship on early modern women, along with the foundation of Women’s Studies as a recognized academic discipline in North America. The collection comprises seventeen articles that explore multiple perspectives on early modern women, including their writings, translations, reception, and contributions to various fields, including literature, music, politics, religion, and science.Trade Review“These essays give a sense of the really broad and incredibly varied swath of studies in early modern literature and culture that Colette Winn has influenced and helped to cultivate. The field of studying early modern women/writers is an incredibly vibrant, rich, and complex one, with really exciting things happening on many fronts." -- Nora Peterson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln“…une contribution substantielle aux études sur les femmes de la première modernité.” -- Luc Vaillancourt, Université de Quebec à ChicoutimiTable of ContentsIllustrations viiContributors ixPréfaceFrançois Rouget xviiColette H. Winn Publications 1IntroductionNancy M. Frelick, Edith Benkov 15PART ONETranslating “damoiselline facherie”: Claude Scève, Claude Nourry,and Urbain le mescongneu filz de l’Empereur Federic BarberousseEmily E. Thompson 25Hélisenne de Crenne’s “Roman de Dido”Marian Rothstein 49« Car ce te sera honte de quereler avec une femme » :Hélisenne de Crenne, Louise Labé et la satire au fémininBernd Renner 71Lost in the Labérynthe: Mythologizing Louise Labé and the École lyonnaiseNancy M. Frelick 91PART TWOFrom Trickery to Triumph: Female Alliances and the Paths to Powerin Heptaméron 4 and 58Dora E. Polachek 127Femmes, bagues et anneaux dans l’Heptaméron : le labyrintherhétorique du parcours amoureuxBrigitte Roussel 149Cross-Dressed Monks in Saints’ Lives and Their Parodies:A Source for Heptaméron 31Scott Francis 173Chasteté et honneur des veuves de l’Heptaméron de Margueritede NavarreCynthia Skenazi 195Gossip, Commérage, and Caquets: Women’s Words in Early Modern FranceKathleen M. Llewellyn 213PART THREEA Huguenot Noblewoman’s Poetry Collection:The Album Belonging to Louise de Coligny (1555–1620)Jane Couchman 237The Poetics of a Poetry AlbumStephen Murphy 263Music for Women and Fleas: The Example of Catherine Des RochesKendall Tarte 287Souvenir anatomique d’une femme : l’autopsie en vers de Madamede MercoeurHélène Martin 309PART FOURLa tragicomédie du suicide couplé, ou : lien et devoir conjugal selon « De trois bonnes femmes » (Montaigne, Essais, II, 35)Corinne Noirot 337“Le mestier des femmes”: Queens, Nuns, Peacemaking, and theWars of ReligionEdith Benkov 361Reading the Bodies of Witches: The Case of Jeanne des Anges(1632–1637)Cathy Yandell 381“[Dieu] se servit de Jeanne d’Arc”: The Textual Public Identity and Political Agency of Mining Engineer Martine de Bertereau, Baronne de Beausoleil (c. 1584–c. 1643)Anne R. Larsen 403
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Building Accounts of the Savoy Hospital,
Book SynopsisFirst printed edition of the building accounts of one of London's most remarkable edifices. Founded by Henry VII, the Savoy hospital was designed to execute corporal works of mercy and commemorate the king through prayer by housing one hundred poor men every night in palatial surroundings. The building complex, one of the landmarks of early Tudor London, was unique for English hospitals in its adoption of a cross-shaped ward, but its structural details have remained obscure. Published for the first time here, the building accounts record, edited here for the first time, provides detailed evidence of that structure, as well as of the hundreds of craftsmen and laborers who toiled to complete it. In addition to the accounts themselves, this volume contains a thorough contextual introduction, elucidatory notes, and a glossary of building terms. Charlotte A. Stanford is Associate Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters at Brigham Young University.Trade ReviewThese important accounts [...] throw much valuable light on the appearance of the hospital at its creation.... Of enormous value for historians of the late medieval and the early sixteenth century building trade, and those interested in building materials and economic activity in the London area. * ARCHIVES & RECORDS *An admirable piece of work [that] will be an invaluable source for economic historians. * THE RICARDIAN *Stanford's edition of the building accounts is a welcome addition to the Westminster Abbey Record Series. She has transcribed the complete account, and her introduction provides a variety of contexts for understanding the accounts. The index of last names also means that individual workers can be tracked, which would allow for further analysis of the work habits of skilled and unskilled laborers. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Workers' Wages from 27 September 1512 through 21 July 1515 Materials and Piecework from 22 August 1513 through 29 April 1520 Glossary Bibliography
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Arc Humanities Press The Perils of Persiles and Sigismunda, a
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V: The
Book SynopsisShows how Charles V used music and ritual to reinforce his image and status as the most important and powerful sovereign in Europe. The presentation of Charles V as universal monarch, defender of the faith, magnanimous peacemaker, and reborn Roman Emperor became the mission of artists, poets, and chroniclers, who shaped contemporary perceptions of him and engaged in his political promotion. Music was equally essential to the making of his image, as this book shows. It reconstructs musical life at his court, by examining the compositions which emanated from it, the ordinances prescribing its rituals and ceremonies, and his prestigious chapel, which reflected his power and influence. A major contribution, offering new documentary material and bringing together the widely dispersed information on the music composed to mark the major events of Charles's life. It offers.a very useful insight into music as one of many elements that served to convey the notion of the emperor-monarch in the Renaissance. TESS KNIGHTON Mary Ferer is Associate Professor at the College of Creative Arts, West Virginia University.Trade ReviewThe strongest commendation should be given to the painstaking and thorough research that is collated and presented in this book. This results in a handy volume that is virtually exhaustive in content ... Without a doubt, this book should be in the music libraries of universities, conservatories, and specialists interested in the Renaissance. * NOTES, December 2013 *[A] valuable [...] addition to any music library. * The CONSORT *Ferer has provided a comprehensive, critical overview that collects, evaluates, and summarizes much of the secondary literature and the disparate registers, paylists, and other primary sources. She offers a clear, readable narrative that makes sense out of a wide array of data. * FONTES ARTIS MUSICAE *Table of ContentsCharles V [1500-1558]: Defender of the Faith and Universal Monarch The Genesis of the Chapel The Reconstruction of the Capilla Flamenca The Chapel Ordinances: Ritual and Repertory at the Court Music and Ceremony at the Court of Charles V Charles V as Crusader and Christian Knight The Presentation of the Emperor Appendix A: Chapel Rosters Appendix B: Chapel Statutes and Ordinances Appendix C: Selected Chapel Personnel Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Fifteenth Century XIII: Exploring the
Book SynopsisThis series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Of necessity, historians of the late Middle Ages have to rely on an eclectic mix of sources, ranging from the few remaining medieval buildings, monuments, illuminated manuscripts and miscellaneous artefacts, to a substantial but often uncatalogued body of documentary material, much of it born of the medieval administrator's penchant for record keeping. Exploring this evidence requires skills in lateral thinking and interpretation - qualities which are manifested in this volume. Employing the copious legal records kept by the English Crown, one essay reveals the thinking behind exceptions to pardons sold by successive kings, while another, using clerical taxation returns, adds colour to contemporary criticism of friars for betraying their vows of poverty. Case studies of the registers of two hospitals, one in London the other in Canterbury, lead to insights into the relations of their administrators with civic and spiritual authorities. A textual dissection of the epilogues in William Caxton's early printed works focuses on the universal desire for commemoration. Other essays about royal livery collars and the English coinage are nourished by material remains, and where contemporary records fail to survive, as in the listing of burials in parish churches, notes kept by sixteenth-century heralds and antiquaries provide clues for novel identifications. The book-ends are exemplars of the historian's craft: the one, taking as its starting point the will of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, explores in forensic detail how his executors coped with their enormous task in a time of civil war; the other,by examining research into the economy of fifteenth-century England undertaken since the 1880s, provides an over-view which scholars of the period will find invaluable. Contributors: Martin Allen, Christopher Dyer, David Harry, Susanne Jenks, Maureen Jurkowski, Simon Payling, Euan Roger, Christian Steer, Sheila Sweetinburgh, Matthew Ward.Table of ContentsThe 'Grete Laboure and the Long and Troublous Tyme': The Execution of the Will of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, and the Foundation of Tattershall College - Simon J. Payling A Royal Grave in a Fifteenth-Century London Parish Church - Christian Steer The Livery Collar: Politics and Identity During the Fifteenth Century - Matthew J. Ward William Caxton and Commemorative Culture in Fifteenth-Century England - David Harry Blakberd's Treasure: a Study in Fifteenth-Century Administration at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London - Euan C. Roger Placing the Hospital: The Production of St. Lawrence's Hospital Registers in Fifteenth-Century Canterbury - Sheila Sweetinburgh Were Friars Paid Salaries? Evidence from Clerical Taxation Records - Maureen Jurkowski Exceptions in General Pardons, 1399-1450 - Susanne Jenks The English Crown and the Coinage, 1399-1485 - Martin Allen England's Economy in the Fifteenth Century - Christopher Dyer
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Book SynopsisA study of the actions and responsibilities of those taking temporary power during the minority of a monarch. Three monarchs of Scotland (James V, Mary Queen of Scots, and James VI/I) were crowned during the sixteenth century; each came to the throne before their second birthday. Throughout all three royal minorities, the Scots remained remarkably consistent in their governmental preferences: that an individual should "bear the person" of the infant monarch, with all the power and risks that entailed. Regents could alienate crown lands, call parliament, raise taxes, and negotiate for the monarch's marriage, yet they also faced the potential of a shameful deposition from power and the assassin's gun. In examining the careers of the six men and two women who became regent in context with each other and contemporary expectations, Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland offers the first study of regency as a political office. It provides a major reassessment of both the office of regency itself and of individual regents. The developments in how the Scots thought about regency are charted, and the debates in which they engaged on this subject are exposed for the first time. Drawing on a broad archival base of neglected manuscript materials, ranging from financial accounts, to the justiciary court records, to diplomatic correspondence scattered from Edinburgh to Paris, the book reveals a greater level of continuity between the personal rules of the adult Stewarts and of their regents than has hitherto been appreciated. AMY BLAKEWAY is a Lecturer in Scottish History, University of St Andrews.Trade ReviewWell written and superbly researched, and should encourage further research into minority rule.. This is an impressive monograph from the new generation of Scottish historians. * NORTHERN SCOTLAND *[A] well-structured and engaging book about an aspect of governance of Scotland in the sixteenth century which has been largely neglected. * HISTORY *Amy Blakeway has written an interesting and informative book that makes a valuable contribution to the debate on the nature of sixteenth-century Scottish government, although it is very much a view from the center in what was a highly diffuse political culture. She sits the Scottish case in the wider context, and European historians grappling with the question of how kingdoms without kings were ruled will find Regency in Sixteenth-Century Scotland a useful comparative resource. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *Thoroughly researched, deftly written and highly informative. [It] makes a significant contribution to the field, and will be essential reading for future students and scholars interested in this crucial period of Scottish history. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *The meticulously detailed archival study is a major strength of this impressive, energetically-argued book, which is a valuable addition to the field of sixteenth-century Scots studies. * SCOTTISH STUDIES NEWSLETTER *[B]eautifully written, exhaustively documented, and compellingly argued. . . . Blakeway asks and answers a series of penetrating questions about the function of crown institutions during a formative period of the early modern Scottish state, and for this reason alone her book will appeal to a wide readership. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *This fine-grained study makes a significant contribution to an important topic. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Concepts of Regency Concepts of Regency in Practice Regency Finances Households and Courts Justice and Regency Regency Diplomacy Conclusion Appendices Bibliography
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Music in Elizabethan Court Politics
Book SynopsisMusic and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers. Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) had a strong reputation for musicality; her court musicians, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, even suggested that music was indispensable to the state. But what roles did music play in Elizabethan court politics? How did a musical image assist the Queen in projecting her royal authority? What influence did her private performances have on her courtships, diplomatic affairs, and relationships with courtiers? To what extent did Elizabeth control court music, or could others appropriate performances to enhance their own status and achieve their ambitions? Could noblemen, civic leaders, or even musicians take advantage of Elizabeth's love of music to present their complaints and petitions in song? This book unravels the connotations surrounding Elizabeth's musical image and traces the political roles of music at the Elizabethan court. It scrutinizes the most intimate performances within the Privy Chamber, analyses the masques and plays performed in the palaces, and explores the grandest musical pageantry of tournaments, civic entries, and royal progresses. This reveals how music served as a valuable means for both the tactful influencing of policies and patronage, and the construction of political identities and relationships. In the late Tudor period music was simultaneously a tool of authority for the monarch and an instrumentof persuasion for the nobility. KATHERINE BUTLER is a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, Newcastle.Trade ReviewA fascinating book. * THE CONSORT *No one who reads this fine study will again treat music as a background to the Elizabethan court. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *[A] major undertaking of importance, a careful and thorough study of numerous examples of secular music that is undergirded by a keen understanding of music's role in the political life of a fascinating era. * EARLY MUSIC *Tightly organized and impeccably researched, this engaging study triangulates the disciplines of musicology, literary history, and iconography to present the political roles music could play within Elizabeth's court, and adds welcome nuance to the preexisting scholarly narratives of monarchial control over the arts. * RENAISSANCE QUARTERLY *[O]ffers a ... detailed and focused look at the application of music to the specific context of the world of the Elizabethan court. * NORTHERN RENAISSANCE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Music, Authority, and the Royal Image The Politics of Intimacy The Royal Household and its Revels Noble Masculinity at the Tournaments Politics, Petition, and Complaint on the Royal Progresses Conclusion Appendices Bibliography
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Bodleian Library John Leland: De uiris illustribus / On Famous Men
Book SynopsisEquipped with a commission from Henry VIII, John Leland began to record the contents of English monastic libraries in 1533 before they were dispersed. His booklists were compiled as the primary resources for his comprehensive dictionary of British writers in four books, entitled De uiris illustribus. This remarkable testament to medieval and early modern habits of book collecting, but also to history and national identity, lay incomplete at Leland’s death. The sole extant witness to the author’s ambitious task is the autograph manuscript, now Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Top. gen. c. 4. Although antiquaries made use of De uiris illustribus over the next generations it did not see its way into print until 1709 when Anthony Hall produced a careless edition, a significant number of passages omitted, under the title Commentarii de scriptoribus Britannicis. Hall’s text has formed the basis for subsequent scholarship. This new edition is based on a thorough examination of the autograph, supplemented with readings from John Bale’s epitome, now Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.7.15 (753). True to Leland’s original text, this new edition shows how unreliable and misleading Hall’s was in many respects. It includes a complete English translation, published on facing pages accompanying the Latin text. The translation seeks to capture Leland’s own excitement with his project and also to convey his shifts in interpretation during the process of revision: the text mirrors in miniature the stages of the English reformation under Henry VIII. The extensive introduction provides a full history of the manuscript, examines sources, and shows the relationship of the text to Leland’s booklists and other contemporary documents.Trade Review'A magisterial work of textual scholarship.' -- Matthew Woodcock * Sixteenth Century Journal *
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York Medieval Press Health and the City: Disease, Environment and
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the health, sanitation, and cleanliness of one of England's most important medieval and early modern cities. In 1559, William Cuningham MD published an image of a quintessentially healthy city. The source of his inspiration was Norwich, one of England's largest and wealthiest provincial boroughs. Though idealized, Cuningham's "map" fairly represented the municipalities' attempts to rebuild and improve the infrastructure. But his image also covered up many problems: Norwich in reality was pocked by decayed housing, deteriorating streets and polluted waterways, andwas home to significant numbers of sick and impoverished residents. This book brings both viewpoints to life. Cuningham's particular brand of "environmental health" imitated ancient ideas (in particular the Hippocratic textAirs, Waters, Places), and drew upon astrology, the study of the weather, and local topography. The book shows that amongst the citizens, a complementary form of medical culture existed that put individuals under the spotlight. It included neighbourhood reactions to illness and disability; the responsibilities of the governing elite for sanitation; and judgments about the lifestyles of different members of the community. Hygiene from this perspective was not only about cleanliness, but also about behaviour, hierarchy, and property. The study draws together a wide range of source materials (including images, medical notebooks and objects, human remains, the corporation's archives, and civic ritual and drama), considering both high and low culture.Trade ReviewDemonstrates the vitality of local history and the merits of interdisciplinarity. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Wide-ranging, well-researched and thoroughly engaging [...] Health and the City will remain an important and indeed essential contribution to the history of urban health. * SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A 'Healthfull and Pleasant' City Air and smell: hygiene and networks of authority in an urban context An epitome of hygiene: William Cuningham's prospect plan Placing disease in the urban landscape: the osteoarchaeological evidence Placing health in the urban landscape: the gardens of Norwich Cleaning up: reforming the urban environment 1300-1570 Housing, self-management and healing in the Tudor city Epilogue Appendices Bibliography
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De Gruyter Verzeichnis Der in Den Supplikenregistern Der
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Pegasus Crime Execution: A Giordano Bruno Thriller
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