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Yale University Press Hamlets Choice Religion and Resistance in
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[I]lluminates afresh two of the most popular plays of Shakespeare’s own time. . . . Lake’s approach is primarily historical, but his admirable close reading engages thoroughly with literary contexts.”—Paul Edmondson, Church Times“Taking Hamlet’s Choice together with How Shakespeare Put Politics on Stage, Peter Lake has established himself as one of the principal voices of the historical contextualization of Shakespeare.”—Stephen Greenblatt“Compelling. . . . A strikingly fresh and rich account of what religion and resistance meant in Elizabethan England, Hamlet’s Choice is required reading for historians, theologians and Shakespeareans.”—Tiffany Stern, general editor of the fourth series of Arden Shakespeare“The depth of Peter Lake’s historical research shows just how these plays’ urgent questions kept the audience on the edges of their seats.”—David Norbrook, author of Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance“With great deftness, Lake startlingly and compellingly connects the worlds of stage revenge, religious conversion and political allegiance. To read Hamlet’s Choice is as clarifying and cathartic as a great performance of a revenge play itself.”—Nigel Smith, author of Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon
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University of California Press Renaissance Futurities
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University of California Press Music of the Renaissance
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Music of the Renaissance is a fascinating discourse on the cultural and aesthetic relationships that characterize musical thought and practice from roughly the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. …It is a brilliant piece of work that packs a world of information into a relatively slim volume. Highly recommended.” * Journal of the Anglican Association of Musicians *"The vast scope of the study and the short length of the book mean that we are presented with various tantalizing snapshots of a rich musical culture that connects more broadly with the liberal arts." * European History Quarterly *"Unlike traditional histories of music IN the Renaissance, this stud of music OF the Renaissance eschews the detailed and comprehensive examination of the oeuvres of individual composers, the development of different genres and the identification of musical styles in favour of attempting to understand how musical production and practice "fits" or meshes with general artistic expression and tendencies of the period. . . . Music of the Renaissance is highly recommended reading for anyone with an interest in cultural creativity and activity in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries." * Revue de Musicologie *Table of ContentsForeword by Christopher Reynolds Preface Chapter 1 • The Era and Its Terms Chapter 2 • Social Reality and Cultural Interaction Chapter 3 • Text and Texts Chapter 4 • Forms of Perception Chapter 5 • Memoria Glossary Notes Bibliography Index
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Harvard University Press Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern
Book SynopsisWhen Europeans came to the American continent in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they were confronted with what they perceived as sacrificial practices. Sacrifice and Conversion in the Early Modern Atlantic World examines the encounter between European and American conceptions of sacrifice expressed in texts, music, rituals, and images.
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Harvard University Press Selected Letters Volume 2
Book SynopsisFrancesco Petrarca (13041374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive the cultural and moral excellence of ancient Greece and Rome. This two-volume set contains an ample, representative sample from his enormous and fascinating correspondence with all the leading figures of his day.
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Princeton University Press A King Travels
Book SynopsisExamines the scripting and performance of festivals in Spain between 1327 and 1620, offering a look at the different types of festivals that were held in Iberia during this crucial period of European history. This book focuses on the travels and festivities of Philip II, exploring the relationship between power and ceremony.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "Accomplished historian Ruiz examines festivals in Spain from approximately 1200 to the mid-17th century. Starting from the premise that these events conveyed social, political, and ideological content, the author argues effectively that a close analysis over time of various festivals and related traditions--e.g., those associated with royal entries and visits to major municipalities; royal births, weddings, and funerals; Corpus Christi and Carnival--improves historians' understanding of changes in political processes and culture... The book provides information and insight that anthropologists, students of Spanish literature, and historians of Spain and colonial Spanish America will draw upon for many years."--Choice "[O]ne may recommend the present study as a labour of love--a detailed and interesting introduction to that colourful world of chivalry which, as he confesses, has captivated the author since his youth."--James Casey, European History Quarterly "Ruiz is ... a master storyteller. The chroniclers who originally recounted these festivities and processions in loving detail intended to recreate for their readers a complete vision of the clothing, music, food, decorative arches, dances, and jousts that constituted them, and Ruiz has done the same service for us."--Jodi Campbell, English Historical Review "This study brings to the forefront the Iberian Peninsula, a geographical area usually neglected in the studies of these celebrations, while it informs, enlightens, and entertains. A great read."--Candelas Gala, European LegacyTable of ContentsPreface ix Abbreviations xiii Chapter I: Festivals in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: An Introduction 1 Chapter II: The Meaning of Festivals: A Typology 34 Chapter III: Royal Entries, Princely Visits, Triumphal Celebrations in Spain, c. 1327-1640 68 Chapter IV: The Structure of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Royal Entry: Change and Continuity 113 Chapter V: A King Goes Traveling: Philip II in the Crown of Aragon, 1585-86 and 1592 146 Chapter VI: Martial Festivals and the Chivalrous Imaginary 193 Chapter VII: Kings and Knights at Play in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain 210 Chapter VIII: From Carnival to Corpus Christi 246 Chapter IX: Noncalendrical Festivals: Life Cycles and Power 293 Conclusion 331 Appendix: The Feasts of May 1428 at Valladolid 335 Bibliography 339 Index 345
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Princeton University Press Bravura
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Suthor invigorates this subject in myriad ways, not least by the sheer verve of her writing and the ambition of her project. The book is itself a bravura performance, galloping through several centuries of European art history with considerable wit and erudition."---Alexander Marr, Apollo Magazine"[A] pioneering book. . . . this brilliant and well-illustrated book confirms that bravura was one of the most cognitively demanding techniques of Renaissance painting. The brilliance of Suthor’s analysis lies in her fresh terminology and perceptive language of description of even the smallest and most easily overlooked details of composition, and in her critical ability to relate such intricacies to larger issues taken up in paintings and in criticism. She writes in engaging, precise language, and makes persuasive connections with contemporary art criticism and modern aesthetics and cultural theory."---Goran Stanivukovic, Renaissance and Reformation"Bravura surveys the breadth of meaning that bravura conveys, probing the subtleties of the concept from multiple viewpoints. . . . This breadth, which makes it possible to see patterns and similarities over centuries and national boundaries, is refreshing in our age of narrowly defined specialist studies and helps us see the consistency over longer periods in European art, something that is often lost in our focus on differences. . . . [Suthor’s] skill at integrating theory and practice is commendable and provides a service to the theorists and biographers who were artists themselves, reminding those who would study paintings in isolation from the ideas valued by their makers that they do so at serious peril."---Janis Bell, Renaissance Quarterly
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Princeton University Press The Hungry Eye
Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Hungry Eye is a food-obsessed frolic through the artwork, writing, and philosophy of hundreds of years of Western history. . . . From the fruits that adorn Renaissance portraits of the Madonna and Child to the platter that carries St. John the Baptist’s head, Barkan parses the past with gusto."---Hyperallergic, Lauren Moya Ford"A foundational text of Food Studies. . . . This book does for food in art and literature what Sidney Mintz did for food and global politics in Sweetness and Power. It should be right up there with Mintz’s book as a foundational text of Food Studies. . . . Everyone interested in Food Studies as a discipline, food in art, and anything having to do with food and culture will want to read this book—for its ideas, its gorgeousness, and for sheer pleasure."---Marion Nestle, Food Politics"It's unusual to have a culinary history that is also highly recommended for arts holdings; but The Hungry Eye is a feast of mind and eye that holds much food for thought for scholarly audiences interested in a different approach to food and drink's importance in human affairs." * Donovan’s Literary Services *"Leonard Barkan has written a terrific book that ranges far more widely than one might expect, is impressively learned, and yet is remarkably accessible and often entertaining. . . . One closes the book convinced of the centrality of food and drink in European culture. This is a fine addition to the literature on the history of food that adds depth to the largely narrative histories that have preceded it."---Rod Phillips, The World of Fine Wine"Sumptuous, eminently absorbing, delectably erudite and cornucopian. . . . [The Hungry Eye] is a beautifully personal, resonantly learned, beguilingly written chronicle of how food, throughout the centuries, has brought the via contemplativa and the via activa together. . . . A feast for the eyes and for the mind."---Mika Provata-Carlone, Bookanista"In a beautifully written and illustrated book, [Barkan] has explored how what is eaten and imbibed —literally and figuratively –portray, shape and explain how Western culture from Rome through the Renaissance. . . . The result is a delicious rich broth filled with depth and nuance that will satisfy the learned reader and urge her or him to ask for more."---Richard Zimmer, Food Anthropology
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Princeton University Press The Sack of Rome 1527
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Princeton University Press The Clock and the Mirror Girolamo Cardano and
Book SynopsisTrade Review"If one wanted to know just what effect the Renaissance had on medicine, this book would be the place to start. Nancy Siraisi proposes lucidly and elegantly her answer to this important academic puzzle. Her use of Girolamo Cardano's self-revelations makes this the liveliest of works on the famous scholar."—Vivian Nutton, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine"Girolamo Cardano was an idiosyncratic man in an idiosyncratic age, and Nancy Siraisi has traced the processes of accommodation between the drive for invention and the reliance on convention so prevalent to Cardano and his century. Her story of Cardano's role in the history of medicine bridges the history of the body, Renaissance occultism, and the emerging science of experimental philosophy and probabilistic knowledge. Siraisi has read Cardano with great intelligence and erudition, and is a sure guide through the paradox and particulars of his age."—Mary J. Voss, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsNote to the ReaderAbbreviationsPt. 1Cardano's Medical WorldCh. 1Introduction3Ch. 2Practitioner and Patients24Pt. 2Theory and PracticeCh. 3Argument and Experience43Ch. 4Time, Body, Food: The Parameters of Health70Pt. 3The Old and the NewCh. 5The Uses of Anatomy93Ch. 6The New Hippocrates119Pt. 4Medical WondersCh. 7The Hidden and the Marvelous149Ch. 8The Medicine of Dreams174Pt. 5Medical NarrativesCh. 9Historia, Narrative, and Medicine195Ch. 10The Physician as Patient214Epilogue225Notes231Bibliography329Index353
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Princeton University Press Between Friends
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Cornell University Press The End of Satisfaction
Book SynopsisHeather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term "satisfaction" as used in dramas of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.Trade ReviewHirschfeld's readings are consistently imaginative and challenging. Her book is the product of wide reading and deep and sustained thinking and does enough to satisfy this reader. -- Kennth J.E. Graham * Early Theatre *One mark of a good critical book is that it creates a minifield and brings together disparate scholarship into new connections. This characterizes Heather Hirschfield's new book, which coalesces around the term "satisfaction." If the subject were only the satisfaction for sin discussed by theology, the result might be predictable. But Hirschfield connects theological satisfaction with an unexpected context, the Rolling Stones’ "I can’t get no satisfaction," a playful connection that is, in fact, productive. -- Dennis Taylor * Renaissance Quarterly *Part of the book's achievment is that the questions it continually seems to elicit from the reader are as suprising as Hirshcfield's own argument is provocative.... The End of Satisfaction makes a real contribution to our sense of how changing theologies of penitence were registered by the culture—and especially drama—of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. -- William Junker * Comparative Drama *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Where's Satisfaction? 1. "Adew, to all Popish satisfactions": Reforming Repentance in Early Modern England 2. The Satisfactions of Hell: Doctor Faustus and the Descensus Tradition 3. Setting Things Right: The Satisfactions of Revenge 4. As Good as a Feast?: Playing (with) Enough on the Elizabethan Stage5. "Wooing, wedding, and repenting": The Satisfactions of Marriage in Othello and Love’s Pilgrimage Postscript: Where’s the Stage at the End of Satisfaction?
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Cornell University Press Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Science
Book SynopsisThe Renaissance philosopher Giordano Bruno was a notable supporter of the new science that arose during his lifetime; his role in its development has been debated ever since the early seventeenth century. Hilary Gatti here reevaluates Bruno's...Trade Review... Hilary Gatti has turned the spotlight back on Bruno, Bruno as a scientific thinker, Bruno as a man whose merits are to be judged by the 'new sicience' and its methods as they were recognized at the end of the sixteenth century and as they were aopted and adapted in the decades that follow....For all who wish to draw closer to an understanding of Bruno's thought processes, this book is essential reading. -- J.D. North * Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Four Treatises of Theophrastus Von Hohenheim
Book SynopsisTogether these essays show one of the most original minds of the Renaissance at the height of his powers.Trade ReviewA welcome addition to collections of his work which have appeared in recent years... The texts are translated with explanatory introductions by four very eminent past historians of medicine. Indeed the collection is as much a tribute to their contribution as to the understanding of Paracelsus as it is a celebration of Paracelsus himself. British Journal for the History of ScienceTable of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Seven Defensiones, the Reply to Certain Calumniations of His EnemiesChapter 2. On the Miners' Sickness and Other Miners' DiseasesChapter 3. The Diseases That Deprive Man of His Reason, Such as St. Vitus' Dance, Falling Sickness, Melancholy, and Insanity, and Their Correct Treatment Chapter 4. A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, and on the Other SpiritsLiterature
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Johns Hopkins University Press Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe
Book SynopsisHall details the efforts of armorers across Europe as they experimented with a variety of gunpowder recipes and gunsmithing techniques, and he examines the integration of new weapons into the existing structure of European warfare.Trade ReviewHall has long been recognized as a leading authority on early modern military technology. Scholars of the period and historians in general will find this the best treatment to date of the impact of gunpowder on Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. History: Reviews of New Books Combines a good grasp of military history with an understanding of the history of technology... Hall manages to integrate his technical discussion into a refreshing reinterpretation of general military history in the period, and his book is an engrossing read. American Historical Review
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Johns Hopkins University Press Cinematic Illuminations The Middle Ages on Film
Book SynopsisCinematic Illuminations offers medievalists, literary and cultural theorists, and film theorists and buffs a fresh approach to understanding how popular culture interprets and makes use of the past through the medium of film.Trade ReviewOne of the most refreshing aspects of this book is that Finke and Shichtman combine encyclopedic knowledge of and masterful control over their material-including but not limited to film studies, medieval literature and history, and popular culture-with nuanced analysis, deft prose, and a palpable enjoyment of the topic. The authors are clearly having a grand time and invite readers to join in. -- Mary K. Ramsey Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe 2010 Through Finke and Shichtman's use of film theory and cinema criticism, along with their sensitive deployment of medieval historical and literary details, the Middle Ages emerges as a period production in this excellent and innovative study. -- Holly A. Crocker Speculum 2011Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsPart 1: Theory and Methods of Cinematic Medievalism1. Traversing the Fantasy: Screening the Middle Ages2. Signs of the Medieval: A Sociological Stylistics of Film3. Celluloid History: Cinematic Fidelity and InfidelityPart 2: The Politics of Cinematic Medievalism4. Mirror of Princes: Representations of Political Authority in Medieval Films5. The Politics of Hagiography: Joan of Arc on the Screen6. The Hagiography of Politics: Mourning in America7. The Crusades: War of the Cross or God's Own Bloodbath?Part 3: Cinematic Medievalism and the Anxieties of Modernity8. Looking Awry at the Grail: Mourning Becomes Modernity9. Apocalyptic Medievalism: Rape and Disease as Figures of Social Anomie10. Forever Young: The Teen Middle AgesNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Toronto Press Herefordshire Worcestershire
Book SynopsisThe Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early English drama, music, ceremonial dance, and other forms of communal public entertainment in Britain from the Middle Ages to 1642, when the Puritans closed the London theatres.
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University of Nebraska Press Separation Scenes Domestic Drama in Early Modern
Book SynopsisThis analysis of five exemplary domestic plays offers a new approach to the emerging ideology of the private and public, or what Ann C. Christensen terms “the tragedy of the separate spheres”. Separation Scenes exposes the intimate and disruptive relationships between the domestic culture and business culture of early modern England.Trade Review"Christensen's study is a welcome addition to the excellent studies of early modern domestic drama that have appeared in recent years . . . especially in its fresh readings of, and original insights into, plays that are now receiving much deserved, though delayed, attention."—Iman Sheeha, English"Separation Scenes is strong, and necessary, in the way that it "notices" and analyzes aspects of these plays that tend to be ignored in our focus on their erring female protagonists, but which are crucial to understanding those same characters."—Margaret Mikesell, Renaissance Quarterly"By layering a historical account of gender, sexuality, and marriage in the period with analyses of domestic labor, domestic space, and the geography of urban commerce, Christensen is able to provide a powerful model of a feminist reading practice."—Henry S. Turner, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900"Separation Scenes is useful for its attention to domestic spaces, marital relations, and economic conditions in the early modern period."—Joseph F. Stephenson, Sixteenth Century Journal"Given the significance of sex and money to the exploration of commercial travel and separation, Christensen's observations will likely also prove of interest to those working on city comedies, which share those themes, as well as to those interested in poetry, marriage treatises, ballads, and other writings from this period that fall outside the domestic drama genealogy, but share many of its concerns. So too, the tension between absent husbands and stay-at-home wives reverberates through a myriad of more recent writing, suggesting that Christensen's informative and vibrant study of the impact of globalization on domestic economies and structures will have broad and ongoing relevance."—Aoise Stratford, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism"Ann C. Christensen’s Separation Scenes: Domestic Drama in Early Modern England adds to excellent recent studies of domestic drama."—Jennifer Cryar, The Year’s Work in English Studies“With one brilliant insight, Separation Scenes demonstrates the entanglement of the global and the domestic in the Elizabethan and Jacobean years. Ann Christensen’s readings of key domestic plays are both entirely fresh and historically true.”—Lena Cowen Orlin, professor of English at Georgetown University, executive director of the Shakespeare Association of America, and author of Locating Privacy in Tudor London “Thorough, original, and revelatory, Separation Scenes brings to life the domestic drama of early modern England and elegantly illuminates a history of domesticity that includes the labors of women and men within and, crucially, far beyond the thresholds of the home.”—Ariane M. Balizet, associate professor of English at Texas Christian University and author of Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage “Ann C. Christensen provides the best and most original study of early modern domestic tragedy to date. . . . Christensen allows us to see with greater clarity how the emergence of the ‘domestic’ is closely entangled with the rise of the ‘global.’ This is an important intervention.”—Jonathan Gil Harris, dean of academic affairs and professor of English at Ashoka University and author of Shakespeare and Literary Theory Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Absent Husbands and Unpartnered Wives in Early Modern England 1. Housekeeping and Forlorn Travel in Arden of Faversham 2. The Doorstep and the Exchange in A Warning for Fair Women 3. One Man’s Calling in A Woman Killed with Kindness 4. Women, Work, and Windows in Women Beware Women 5. The East India Company and the Domestic Economy in The Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman’s Honest Wife Epilogue: John and Anne Donne and the Culture of Business Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Earthly Republic
Book SynopsisPresents seven edited and translated primary texts that shed light on the subject of civic humanism in the Renaissance. This work includes a treatise of Francesco Petrarca on government, two representative letters from Coluccio Salutati, Leonardo Bruni's panegyric to Florence and Francesco Barbaro's letter on wifely duty.Trade Review"An enlightening and stimulating source book and as good an introduction to Renaissance humanism as one can find." * Speculum *"The translations are fluent and accurate. The introductions to each of the authors, with bibliographies, effectively summarize contemporary American and continental scholarship." * Church History *Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations General Introduction —Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt Francesco Petrarca Introduction —Benjamin G. Kohl How a Ruler Ought to Govern His State —Translated by Benjamin G. Kohl Coluccio Salutati Introduction —Ronald G. Witt Letter to Peregrino Zambeccari —Translated by Ronald G. Witt Letter to Caterina di messer Vieri di Donatino d'Arezzo —Translated by Ronald G. Witt Leonardo Bruni Introduction —Ronald G. Witt Panegyric to the City of Florence —Translated by Benjamin G. Kohl
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University of Pennsylvania Press Strangers Nowhere in the World
Book SynopsisDrawing on sources as various as Inquisition records and spy reports, minutes of scientific societies and the writings of political revolutionaries, Margaret C. Jacob reveals a moment in European history when an ideal of cultural openness came to seem strong enough to counter centuries of prevailing chauvinism and xenophobia.Trade Review"Although the book's focus lies across the Atlantic, centuries ago, Strangers Nowhere in the World has much to tell Americans and other contemporaries who would call themselves 'citizens of the world.'" * Wall Street Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Censors, Inquisitors, and Cosmopolites 2. Alchemy, Science, and a Universalist Language 3. Markets Not So Free 4. Secrecy and the Paradox at the Heart of Modernity (the Masonic Moment) 5. Liberals, Radicals, and Bohemians Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Communication Knowledge and Memory in Early
Book SynopsisExamines how speech, visual images, and written texts all interact as manifestations of the human desire to know and remember. This book seeks to address the reductive opposition both between written and oral texts and between script and print in the Early Modern period.Trade Review"A fascinating romp through the cultural landscape of early modern Spain. Even specialists in the field will find tidbits of ideas and texts that will surprise and delight them." * Journal of Modern History *"An ambitious exposition of the topic of memory and the transmission of knowledge in early modern Spain." * Comitatus *Table of ContentsForeword, by Roger Chartier 1. Hearing, Seeing, Reading, and Writing: The Forms and Uses of Words, Images, and Writing 2. The Persuasion of the Word: A Voice; The Wonder of Images: A Portrait; The Power of Writing: A Talisman 3. Natural History of the Written Text: Authors, Scribes, Printers, Booksellers, and Readers 4. Classrooms, Libraries, and Archives as the Culmination of Human Memory Notes Bibliography Index of Names Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Disknowledge
Book SynopsisKatherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying on alchemy despite its recognized flaws.Trade Review"Rich, detailed, subtle and bold. . . . Eggert is fully alive to the duplicity of alchemy and its claims." * Times Literary Supplement *"Eggert approaches her esoteric subjects with deep learning, masterful analysis, and exceptionally clear prose. Scrupulous but never sloppy, Disknowledge makes us think differently not just about the history of fiction making but also about the forms of unknowing at the heart of early modern knowledge systems. It provides a compelling account of a society that experienced acutely what she calls 'epistemological risk' in the face of new global flows of wealth and learning." * Modern Philology *"In this sharp and original book, Katherine Eggert takes on the challenge of characterizing knowledge formation in the period between early humanism and the rise of Baconian empiricism . . .Disknowledge, in Eggert's clever framework, has its own methodologies for impeding progress, including conscious forgetting, skimming texts, or treating relevant knowledge as immaterial." * Review of English Studies *"Katherine Eggert's Disknowledge breathes new life into a topic whose quirky fascination in early modern studies has foreclosed more nuanced ways of reading the specificities of its cultural potency . . . Eggert's analysis convincingly shows how the alchemical expressions of disknowledge may indeed 'model for modernity a kind of nimble epistemological and literary inventiveness' that imagines how looking backward may sometimes be the best way to move forward, but not without risk." * Studies in English Literature. *"Disknowledge's vigour and curiosity are inspiring . . . Eggert's line of argument is usually stringent, always erudite, and all the while tends to anticipate possible counterarguments . . . a valuable, rich and frequently thought-provoking addition to its field." * Early Modern Culture Online *"Disknowledge is a stimulating read, as this book challenges and provokes the reader to think deeply about what we as historians have come to know, and why, inviting response to Eggert's stated position from diverse disciplinary perspectives. As a scholarly resource, Disknowledge is an important and useful work for the ways in which Eggert sheds light on the inherent messiness of the state of learning during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . . . [A] significant work for opening up new ways to probe the project of knowledge-making in early modern England, and beyond." * Early Science and Medicine *"An unusually wide-ranging and original book, written with real stylistic flair. Eggert shows how alchemy, as both a discourse and a set of knowledge-practices, illuminates problems in many different domains, from transubstantiation to Kabbalah to debates over anatomy and reproduction. By using alchemy as a guiding thread, she reveals how each domain points up the limits of humanism in the early modern period. A delicately balanced, timely study that will be widely of interest to scholars of literature, science, medicine, and intellectual history more broadly." * Henry S. Turner, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsNotes on Texts, Biblical Quotations, and Bibliography Introduction Chapter 1. How to Sustain Humanism Chapter 2. How to Forget Transubstantiation Chapter 3. How to Skim Kabbalah Chapter 4. How to Avoid Gynecology Chapter 5. How to Make Fiction Afterword Notes Select Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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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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