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Book The Reformation of the Decalogue

Download or read book The Reformation of the Decalogue written by Jonathan Willis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the English Reformation transformed the meaning of the Ten Commandments, which in turn helped shape the Reformation itself.

Book Learning Languages in Early Modern England

Download or read book Learning Languages in Early Modern England written by John Gallagher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle, Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England's 'educational revolution'. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel. Learning Languages offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England's encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.

Book Images of the Educational Traveller in Early Modern England

Download or read book Images of the Educational Traveller in Early Modern England written by Sara Warneke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1995 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides valuable new insights into the public debate over educational travel in early modern England, and examines the seven major images of the educational traveller and the fears and insecurities within English society that engendered them.

Book Why Travel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beuret, Kris
  • Publisher : Policy Press
  • Release : 2021-07
  • ISBN : 1529216370
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Why Travel written by Beuret, Kris and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together leading experts to show how our travel choices are shaped by a wide range of social, physical, psychological and cultural factors, which have profound implications for the design of future transport policies.

Book Mind Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England

Download or read book Mind Travelling and Voyage Drama in Early Modern England written by D. McInnis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of drama from across the seventeenth century, including works by Marlowe, Heywood, Jonson, Brome, Davenant, Dryden and Behn, this book situates voyage drama in its historical and intellectual context between the individual act of reading in early modern England and the communal act of modern sightseeing.

Book The Meaning of Travel

Download or read book The Meaning of Travel written by Emily Thomas and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we think more deeply about our travels? This was the question that inspired Emily Thomas' journey into the philosophy of travel. Part philosophical ramble, part travelogue, The Meaning of Travel begins in the Age of Discovery, when philosophers first started taking travel seriously. It meanders forward to consider Montaigne on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness. On our travels with Thomas, we discover the dark side of maps, how the philosophy of space fuelled mountain tourism, and why you should wash underwear in woodland cabins... We also confront profound issues, such as the ethics of 'doom tourism' (travel to 'doomed' glaciers and coral reefs), and the effect of space travel on human significance in a leviathan universe. The first ever exploration of the places where history and philosophy meet, this book will reshape your understanding of travel.

Book The Duel in Early Modern England

Download or read book The Duel in Early Modern England written by Markku Peltonen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. The advocates of the duel, following Italian and French examples, contended that it maintained and enhanced politeness; its critics by contrast increasingly severed duelling from civility, and this separation became part of a vigorous attempt in the late seventeenth century and beyond to redefine civility, politeness and indeed the nature and evolution of Englishness. To understand the duel is to understand much more fully some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and Markku Peltonen's study will thus engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.

Book Part the Second of a Catalogue of Literary Curiosities

Download or read book Part the Second of a Catalogue of Literary Curiosities written by Thomas Kerslake and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature

Download or read book The Bibliographer s Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture

Download or read book The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture written by Bernadette Andrea and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernadette Andrea’s groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Andrea’s thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records, and literary works focuses on five extraordinary women: Elen More and Lucy Negro, both from Islamic West Africa; Ipolita the Tartarian, a girl acquired from Islamic Central Asia; Teresa Sampsonia, a Circassian from the Safavid Empire; and Mariam Khanim, an Armenian from the Mughal Empire. By analysing these women’s lives and their impact on the literary and cultural life of proto-colonial England, Andrea reveals that they are simultaneously significant constituents of the emerging Anglo-centric discourse of empire and cultural agents in their own right. The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture advances a methodology based on microhistory, cross-cultural feminist studies, and postcolonial approaches to the early modern period.

Book The Established Church in England and Wales

Download or read book The Established Church in England and Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare s Last Plays

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare s Last Plays written by Catherine M. S. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, leading international Shakespeare scholars consider the significant characteristics of Shakespeare's last plays and place them in their Jacobean context.

Book Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought

Download or read book Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought written by Joanne Paul and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of early modern English political counsel and its association with the discourse of sovereignty.

Book The Cambridge Companion to The Essay

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to The Essay written by Kara Wittman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book studies the history and theory of the essay and its social, political, and aesthetic contexts.