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Book Anatomie of the English Nunnery at Lisbon in Portugal

Download or read book Anatomie of the English Nunnery at Lisbon in Portugal written by Thomas Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1623 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anatomie of the English Nunnery at Lisbon in Portugal

Download or read book The Anatomie of the English Nunnery at Lisbon in Portugal written by Thomas Robinson and published by . This book was released on 1623 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Convents in Exile  1600   1800

Download or read book The English Convents in Exile 1600 1800 written by James E. Kelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1598, the first English convent was established in Brussels and was to be followed by a further 21 enclosed convents across Flanders and France with more than 4,000 women entering them over a 200-year period. In theory they were cut off from the outside world; however, in practice the nuns were not isolated and their contacts and networks spread widely, and their communal culture was sophisticated. Not only were the nuns influenced by continental intellectual culture but they in turn contributed to a developing English Catholic identity moulded by their experience in exile. During this time, these nuns and the Mary Ward sisters found outlets for female expression often unavailable to their secular counterparts, until the French Revolution and its associated violence forced the convents back to England. This interdisciplinary collection demonstrates the cultural importance of the English convents in exile from 1600 to 1800 and is the first collection to focus solely on the English convents.

Book Reading Shakespeare   s Poems in Early Modern England

Download or read book Reading Shakespeare s Poems in Early Modern England written by S. Roberts and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare's poems in print and manuscript, Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England makes a compelling contribution both to Shakespeare studies and the history of the book. Examining gendered readerships and the use of erotic works, reading practises and manuscript culture, textual forms and transmission, literary taste and the canonisation of Shakespeare, this book argues that historicist criticism can no longer ignore histories of reading.

Book Privacy  Domesticity  and Women in Early Modern England

Download or read book Privacy Domesticity and Women in Early Modern England written by Corinne S. Abate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early modern England. While other literary critics have focused their studies of female privacy on widows, witches, female recusants and criminals, the contributors to this collection propose that the early modern subculture of femaleness is more expansive and formative than is typically understood. They maintain that the subculture includes segregated, sometimes secluded, domestic places for primarily female activities like nursing, sewing, cooking, and caring for children and the sick. It also includes hidden psychological realms of privacy, organized by women's personal habits, around intimate friendships or kinship, and behind institutional powerlessness. The texts discussed in the volume include plays not only by Shakespeare but also Ford, Wroth, Marvell, Spenser and Cavendish, among others. Through the lens of literature, contributors consider the unstructured, fluid quality of much everyday female experience as well as the dimensions, symbols, and the ever-changing politics and culture of the household. They analyze the complex habits of female settings-the verbal, spatial, and affective strategies of early-modern women's culture, including private rituals, domestic practices, and erotic attachments-in order to provide a broader picture of female culture and of female authority. The authors argue-through a range of critical approaches that include feminist, historical, and psychoanalytic-that early modern women often transformed their confinement into something useful and necessary, creating protected and even sacred spaces with their own symbols and aesthetic.

Book Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe written by Nancy S. Struever and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe. Although the range of theoretical approaches and methodologies represented here is diverse, the essays collectively explore the theories and practices, innovations and interventions, that underwrite the shared concerns of medicine, moral philosophy, and rhetoric: care and consolation, reading, policy, and rectitude, signinference, selfhood, and autonomy-all developed and refined at the intersection of areas of inquiry usually thought distinct. From Italy to England, from the sixteenth through to the mid-eighteenth century, early modern moral philosophers and essayists, rhetoricians and physicians investigated the passions and persuasion, vulnerability and volubility, theoretical intervention and practical therapy in the dramas, narratives, and disciplines of public and private cure. The essays are relevant to a wide range of readers, including cultural, literary, and intellectual historians, historians of medicine and philosophy, and scholars of rhetoric.

Book The Lesbian Premodern

Download or read book The Lesbian Premodern written by N. Giffney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key scholars in the field of lesbian and sexuality studies take part in an innovative conversation that offers a radical new methodology for writing lesbian history and geography, drawing new conclusions on the important and often overlooked work being done on female same-sex desire and identity in relation to premodern cultures.

Book Syon Abbey and Its Books

    Book Details:
  • Author : Edward Alexander Jones
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1843835479
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Syon Abbey and Its Books written by Edward Alexander Jones and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2010 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the turbulent history of Syon Abbey, focussing on the role played by reading and writing in constructing its identity and experience. Founded in 1415, the double monastery of Syon Abbey was the only English example of the order established by the fourteenth-century mystic St Bridget of Sweden. After its dispersal at the Dissolution, the community survived in exile and was briefly restored during the reign of Mary I; but with the accession of Elizabeth I, some of the nuns and brothers once again sought refuge on the Continent, first in the Netherlands and later in Lisbon. This volumeof essays traces the fortunes of Syon Abbey and the Bridgettine order between 1400 and 1700, examining the various ways in which reading and writing shaped its identity and defined its experience, and exploring the interconnections between late medieval and post-Reformation monastic history and the rapidly evolving world of communication, learning, and books. They extend our understanding of religious culture and institutions on the eve of the Reformationand the impulses that inspired initiatives for early modern Catholic renewal, and also illuminate the spread of literacy and the gradual and uneven transition from manuscript to print between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries. In the process, the volume engages with larger questions about the origins and consequences of religious, intellectual and cultural change in late medieval and early modern England. E.A. JONES is Senior Lecturerin English, University of Exeter; ALEXANDRA WALSHAM is Professor of Modern History and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Contributors: E.A. Jones, Alexandra Walsham, Peter Cunich, Virginia Bainbridge, Vincent Gillespie, C. Annette Grise, Claire Walker, Caroline Bowden, Claes Gejrot, Ann Hutchison

Book Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Rhetoric and Medicine in Early Modern Europe written by Dr Stephen Pender and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-12-28 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close analysis of texts, cultural and civic communities, and intellectual history, the papers in this collection, for the first time, propose a dynamic relationship between rhetoric and medicine as discourses and disciplines of cure in early modern Europe. Although the range of theoretical approaches and methodologies represented here is diverse, the essays collectively explore the theories and practices, innovations and interventions, that underwrite the shared concerns of medicine, moral philosophy, and rhetoric: care and consolation, reading, policy, and rectitude, signinference, selfhood, and autonomy-all developed and refined at the intersection of areas of inquiry usually thought distinct. From Italy to England, from the sixteenth through to the mid-eighteenth century, early modern moral philosophers and essayists, rhetoricians and physicians investigated the passions and persuasion, vulnerability and volubility, theoretical intervention and practical therapy in the dramas, narratives, and disciplines of public and private cure. The essays are relevant to a wide range of readers, including cultural, literary, and intellectual historians, historians of medicine and philosophy, and scholars of rhetoric.

Book Catalogue of a Choice and Valuable Selection of Books from the Library of a Gentleman     which Will be Sold by Auction by Mr  Sotheby and Son     on Wednesday  June 15  1831  and Three Following Days

Download or read book Catalogue of a Choice and Valuable Selection of Books from the Library of a Gentleman which Will be Sold by Auction by Mr Sotheby and Son on Wednesday June 15 1831 and Three Following Days written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perspectives on Renaissance Drama

Download or read book Perspectives on Renaissance Drama written by Mary Beth Rose and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance. Volume XXIV, "Perspectives on Renaissance Drama," includes essays that focus on a wide range of topics about the drama in England, France, and Italy, including female-female eroticism, women's silences in Renaissance texts, early Jacobean political tragedy, and virginity in John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis.

Book The Wars of Succession of Portugal and Spain from 1826 to 1840

Download or read book The Wars of Succession of Portugal and Spain from 1826 to 1840 written by William Bollaert and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of books in various languages  etc  1813  1815  1817  1819

Download or read book Catalogue of books in various languages etc 1813 1815 1817 1819 written by J. STURT (Bookseller.) and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Autographs  Etc

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1012 pages

Download or read book Catalogue of Autographs Etc written by Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Literature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Duff Traill
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1898
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 816 pages

Download or read book Literature written by Henry Duff Traill and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: