{"product_id":"being-elizabethan-9781119168249","title":"Being Elizabethan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaptures the worldviews, concerns, joys, and experiences of people living through the cultural changes in the second half of the sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century, Shakespeare's age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElizabethans lived through a time of cultural collapse and rejuvenation as the impacts of globalization, the religious Reformation, economic and scientific revolutions, wars, and religious dissent forced them to reformulate their ideas of God, nation, society and self. This well-written, accessible book depicting how Elizabethans perceived reality and acted on their perceptions illustrates Elizabethan life, offering readers well-told stories about the Elizabethan people and the world around them. It defines the older ideas of pre-Elizabethan culture and shows how they were shattered and replaced by a new culture based on the emergence of individual conscience. The book posits that post-Reformation English culture, emphasizing the internalization of religious certainties, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Idealized Lives: Speak Nothing but Good of the Dead 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Divine Social and Political Orders 31\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Roles 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Taming the Natural Child: Preparations for Living 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Seeing the World Anew 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Reimagining England’s Past 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Living Under Divine Providence 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Personal Virtue 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Moral Economies 201\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Creating the Godly State 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 A Generation of Hearers 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Elizabethan Lives Lived 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrimary Bibliography 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecondary Bibliography 325\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 335\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407001559383,"sku":"9781119168249","price":30.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781119168249.jpg?v=1730497847","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/being-elizabethan-9781119168249","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}