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Book Abraham Fraunce  Symbolicae Philosophiae Liber

Download or read book Abraham Fraunce Symbolicae Philosophiae Liber written by Abraham Fraunce and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first modern edition of Fraunce's manuscript treatise, which is a more accurate reflection of what he wrote and intended than the badly printed text of 1588. The edition presents on facing pages a transcription of the Latin text and an English translation. Also included are the additions which Fraunce made to the printed text in the form of two Appendices. For the first time modern cholars will be able to read what Fraunce wrote. The edition has an introduction and notes. The introduction discusses the nature of the manuscript, the relationship between manuscript and the later printed version, noting Fraunce's sources, debts and borrowings. Manning provides an assessment of Fraunce's contribution to the English emblem tradition and his relation to the Sidneys.

Book English Mythography in its European Context  1500 1650

Download or read book English Mythography in its European Context 1500 1650 written by Anna-Maria Hartmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this genre, English mythographies have not gained sustained critical attention, largely because they have been wrongly considered mere copies of their European counterparts. This volume focuses on the English mythographies written between 1577 and 1647 by Stephen Batman, Abraham Fraunce, Francis Bacon, Henry Reynolds, and Alexander Ross: it places their texts into a wider, European context to reveal their unique English take on the genre and also unfolds the significant role myth played in the broader culture of the period, influencing not only literary life, natural philosophy and poetics, but also religious conflicts and Civil War politics. In doing so it demonstrates, for the first time, the considerable explanatory value classical mythology holds for the study of the English Renaissance and its literary culture in particular, and how early modern England answered a question we still find fascinating today: what is myth?

Book Tudor England

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arthur F. Kinney
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2000-11-17
  • ISBN : 1136745297
  • Pages : 1747 pages

Download or read book Tudor England written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000-11-17 with total page 1747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first encyclopedia to be devoted entirely to Tudor England. 700 entries by top scholars in every major field combine new modes of archival research with a detailed Tudor chronology and appendix of biographical essays.Entries include: * Edward Alleyn [actor/theatre manager] * Roger Ascham * Bible translation * cloth trade * Devereux fami

Book Music in Elizabethan Court Politics

Download or read book Music in Elizabethan Court Politics written by Katherine Butler (Music tutor) and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music and musical entertainments are here shown to be used for different ends, by both monarch and courtiers.

Book Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England

Download or read book Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England written by Liz Oakley-Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England, Liz Oakley-Brown considers English versions of the Metamorphoses - a poem concerned with translation and transformation on a multiplicity of levels - as important sites of social and historical difference from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. Through the exploration of a range of canonical and marginal texts, from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus to women's embroideries of Ovidian myths, Oakley-Brown argues that translation is central to the construction of national and gendered identities.

Book The Mind of the Book

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alastair Fowler
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 0198717660
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book The Mind of the Book written by Alastair Fowler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title pages printed in England from the early modern era to the nineteenth century, exploring their place in the history of the book for the first time. He illuminates key features of title page design and presents 16 illustrations of significant title-pages with commentaries, from Chaucer to Dickens.

Book Legal Emblems and the Art of Law

Download or read book Legal Emblems and the Art of Law written by Peter Goodrich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition as a juridical genre, along with the concept of, and training in, obiter depicta, in things seen along the way to judgment. It argues that these books depict norms and abuses in classically derived forms that become the visual standards of governance. Despite the plethora of vivid figures and virtual symbols that define and transmit law, contemporary lawyers are not trained in the critical apprehension of the visible. This book is the first to reconstruct the history of the emblem tradition, evidencing the extent to which a gallery of images of law already exists and structuring how the public realm is displayed, made present and viewed.

Book Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature

Download or read book Allegory and Epic in English Renaissance Literature written by Kenneth Borris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging conventional notions that literary allegorism declined precipitously around 1600, Kenneth Borris reassesses the Renaissance relations between allegory and heroic poetry, particularly in the major texts of Sidney, Spenser and Milton. Through wide-ranging consideration of Homeric and Virgilian reception and its influence on both continental and English literary theory, he shows that allegorical epic tended to double for and displace epic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Borris offers a fresh approach to the interaction of allegory with literary genres; focusing on epic, he further analyses the distinctive codes and conventions that constituted the generic repertoire of Renaissance allegorical epic poetry. Whereas standard literary history assumes Sidney opposes allegory, and that Milton minimises or rejects it in following Spenser, Borris's detailed readings demonstrate that Sidney and Milton are also major allegorists, and that Spenser remained so even in the latter books of The Faerie Queene. This book was first published in 2000.

Book The Emblematics of the Self

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth B. Bearden
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2012-01-21
  • ISBN : 144269615X
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book The Emblematics of the Self written by Elizabeth B. Bearden and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Greek romances of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus were widely imitated by early modern writers such as Miguel de Cervantes, Philip Sidney, and Mary Wroth. Like their Greek models, Renaissance romances used ekphrasis, or verbal descriptions of visual representation, as a tool for characterization. The Emblematics of the Self shows how the women, foreigners, and non-Christians of these tales reveal their identities and desires in their responses to the ‘verbal pictures’ of romance. Elizabeth B. Bearden illuminates how ‘verbal pictures’ enliven characterization in English, Spanish, and Neolatin romances from 1552 to 1621. She notes the capacity for change among characters — such as cross-dressed Amazons, shepherdish princesses, and white Mauritanians — who traverse transnational cultural and aesthetic environments. Engaging and rigorous, The Emblematics of the Self breaks new ground in understanding hegemonic and cosmopolitan European conceptions of the ‘other,’ as well as new possibilities for early modern identities, in an increasingly global Renaissance.

Book Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts

Download or read book Bibliography of Emblematic Manuscripts written by Sandra Sider and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography provides descriptions of 432 manuscripts from Europe and the United States, of which 341 contain visual imagery in various media. The manuscripts feature tripartite emblems proper, as well as festivity books, hieroglyphic texts, proto-emblematic material, allegories, triumphs, symbolic source books, schemata, devotional handbooks, and libri amicorum with emblematic imagery.

Book Humanistica Lovaniensia   Volume XLII

Download or read book Humanistica Lovaniensia Volume XLII written by Gilbert Tournoy and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-15 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 42

Book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare s First Folio

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare s First Folio written by Emma Josephine Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of scholars covers every aspect of one of the most famous books in the English language.

Book Anglo Dutch Relations in the Field of the Emblem

Download or read book Anglo Dutch Relations in the Field of the Emblem written by Westerweel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first of its kind. It approaches Anglo-Dutch relations from the angle of the production of the highly popular emblem book and its influence on important cultural and political events, mainly in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Book Writing After Sidney

Download or read book Writing After Sidney written by Gavin Alexander and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Writing After Sidney' examines the literary response to Sir Philip Sidney, author of the 'Arcadia, Astrophil and Stella' and 'The Defence of Poesy', and the influential writer of the Elizabethan period.

Book A Sidney Chronology

Download or read book A Sidney Chronology written by M. Brennan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-09-09 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sidney Chronology: 1554-1654 offers a comprehensive chronological survey of the literary, political and personal history of the Sidney family of Penshurst Place, Kent. As royal servants, courtiers, diplomats, soldiers, writers and patrons of numerous other authors, the Sidneys occupied a central position in the development of Early-Modern English literature. Particular attention is paid to the lives and writings of Sir Philip Sidney; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester; and Lady Mary Wroth.

Book Emblematic Variants

Download or read book Emblematic Variants written by William Sebastian Heckscher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a listing of words and phrases which, in the course of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries have been used as substitutes for and extensions of the term emblema used by Andrea Alciato. More than 1000 entries are provided.

Book The Emblems of Margaret Gatty

Download or read book The Emblems of Margaret Gatty written by Wendy Roberta Katz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Gatty was a mid-Victorian children's author, who also wrote Book of Emblems in 1872. This critical study examines the relationship of that book to 19th-century allegorical writings for children.