Download or read book Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater written by Sara Morrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has become a standard reading of the Petrarchan convention of dismembering the beloved through poetic description. At the same time, it contributes to a growing understanding of the relationship between the material conditions of theater and interpretations of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The chapters in this collection are organized into five thematic parts emphasizing the conventions of theater that compel us to consider bodies as both literally present and figuratively represented through languge. The first part addresses the dramatic blazon as used within the conventions of courtly love. Examining the classical roots of the Petrarchan blazon, the next part explores the violent eroticism of a poetic technique rooted in Ovidian notions of metamorphosis. With similar attention paid to brutality, the third part analyzes the representation of blazonic dismemberment on stage and screen. Figurative battles become real in the fourth part, which addresses the frequent blazons surfacing in historical and political plays. The final part moves to the role of audience, analyzing the role of the observer in containing the identity of the blazoned woman as well as her attempts to resist becoming an objectified spectacle.

Download or read book Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours Renaissance Colour Symbolism I written by Roy Osborne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours' brings together the original texts with original English translations of two closely related primary sources on Renaissance colour symbolism. 'Le Blason de toutes armes et scutz' (The blazon of all arms and shields) was completed about 1420 by Jean Courtois (c. 1375-1436), the Sicily Herald, and printed in Paris in 1495. The second, 'Le Blason des couleurs en armes, livr es, et devises' (The blazon of colours in arms, liveries and devices), by Gilles Corrozet (1510-68), was published in Paris in 1527 by Pierre Le Brodeur. They were first two books on colour to be printed in Europe, and are now available in English for the first time in five centuries. Roy Osborne is an artist, educator and historian, and author of books on colour. He was awarded the Turner Medal of the Colour Group (Great Britain) in 2003, and the Colour in Art, Design and Environment Medal of the International Colour Association in 2019.

Download or read book A New Dictionary of Heraldry Containing All the Rules of Blazon written by James Coats and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Grammar of British Heraldry Consisting of Blazon and Marshalling with an Introduction on the Rise and Progress of Symbols and Ensigns written by William Sloane Sloane-Evans and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Japanese Blazon written by Lilian Cailleaud and published by Kaemon Press. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not about the meaning of the individual charges of Japanese heraldry. Its aim is to help the reader “blazon” Japanese Mon in their original language. While some books have given a cursory view of a few terms used to describe Mon, a thorough explanation has been missing. It is my goal to remedy this by providing as precise and exhaustive a list as possible. Moreover it is my belief that by mastering the concepts associated with the description of Mon it will be possible to design new ones respecting the spirit of Japanese heraldry.

Download or read book The Blazon of Gentrie Deuided Into Two Parts The First Named The Glorie of Generositie The Second Lacyes Nobilitie Comprehending Discourses of Armes and of Gentry Wherein is Treated of the Beginning Parts and Degrees of Gentlenesse Vvith Her Lawes of the Bearing and Blazon of Cote armors of the Lawes of Armes and of Combats Compiled by Iohn Ferne Gentleman for the Instruction of All Gentlemen Bearers of Armes Whome and None Other this Worke Concerneth written by Sir John Ferne and published by . This book was released on 1586 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Literature of the French Renaissance written by Arthur Augustus Tilley and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1959 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Warfare in Ancient Greece written by Tim Everson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussing the background, weapons and tactics of the ancient Greeks, this title describes the weapons, armour, chariots and other military equipment used from 1550 to 150 BC. It traces how and when various pieces of equipment came into use; where they were introduced from; the effectiveness of the equipment; and when and why things changed.

Download or read book Airman written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical with the Truc Ant of Blazon According to the Most Approved Heralds in Europe Illustrated with Suitable Examples of Armorial Figures and Atchievements of the Most Considerable Svinames and Families in Scotland Etc Together with Historical and Genealogical Memorials Relative Thereto written by Alexander Nisbet and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Treasures of the Parthenon and Erechtheion written by Diane Harris and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two hundred fragments of these stelai which have survived are the only evidence for these cult objects, gifts to Athena, and treasures of the city, since the items themselves have long since vanished - either stolen, melted down, or disintegrated. This volume presents the evidence for these ancient treasures for the first time, and provides data with important implications for the history of Athens and Greek religion. Chapters include a history of the treasures on the Acropolis, catalogues of each object kept in the Opisthodomus, Proneos, Parthenon, Hekatompedos Neos, and Erechtheion, and an analysis of the individual worshippers and allied-city states who gave gifts and offerings to their goddess, Athena.

Download or read book Report on the Laing Manuscripts Preserved in the University of Edinburgh written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reports written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rabelais and His World written by Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.

Download or read book Webster s Unabridged Dictionary 2nd 100 Pages written by Noah Webster and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-03-16 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive English language dictionary by Noah Webster. This dictionary offers readers an extensive collection of English words and their meanings, making it an invaluable reference for language enthusiasts and scholars.

Download or read book Birth Passages written by Theresa M. Krier and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birth Passages offers a provocative and eloquent challenge to the nostalgia for the maternal, sometimes influenced by classic Freudian theory, which pervades many discourses. Theresa M. Krier suggests an alternative to the common characterizations of "the maternal" as a force inspiring both desire and dread, a force that must be repressed if subjectivity and culture are to be established. Instead, drawing on the work of Melanie Klein, D. W. Winnicott, and Luce Irigaray, Krier seeks to establish a new model of the relationship between mother and infant, one in which birth is seen not as the tragic ending to the prenatal union but rather as the child's claiming both distance from and proximity to this parent. Krier's insightful readings of poetic works from antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance show these texts in opposition to their cultures' insistent nostalgia for the maternal. Their authors, she maintains, recognize such longing as a symptom of a glamorous but false and disabling fantasy. In her analysis of the Song of Songs, Lucretius's De rerum natura, Chaucer's Parlement of Foules, Spenser's Amoretti and Faerie Queene, and Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost and The Winter's Tale, Krier details how the writings represent the intersubjective nature of birth.

Download or read book The Politics of Obscenity in the Age of the Gutenberg Revolution written by Peter Frei and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does obscene mean? What does it have to say about the means through which meaning is produced and received in literary, artistic and, more broadly, social acts of representation and interaction? Early modern France and Europe faced these questions not only in regard to the political, religious and artistic reformations for which the Renaissance stands, but also in light of the reconfiguration of its mediasphere in the wake of the invention of the printing press. The Politics of Obscenity brings together researchers from Europe and the United States in offering scholars of early modern Europe a detailed understanding of the implications and the impact of obscene representations in their relationship to the Gutenberg Revolution which came to define Western modernity.