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Book SynopsisThis study investigates ideas of self in relation to place, politics, religion and rhetoric. Concentrating on the early 16th century, it shows how humankind's self-perception shifted under the influence of Renaissance ideas. Shifts which bring the Early Modern subject into being are charted.
Table of ContentsIntroduction - A. J. Piesse; 1. Finding identity in the Middle Ages - Douglas Gray; 2. English place-names in the sixteenth century: the search for identity - Victor Watts; 3. John Leyland's Itinerary and the identity of England - John Scattergood; 4. New English ideology in Ireland and the two Sir Willaim Herberts - Ciaran Brady; 5. Sackville tragicus: a case of poetic identity - Michael Pincombe; 6. 'Strange ceremonies': sacred space and bodily presence in the English Reformation - Eilean ni Chuilleanain; 7. 'The birth day of my selfe': Jon Donne, Martha Moulsworth and the emergence of individual identity' - Helen Wilcox
