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Book The Gallants Burden

Download or read book The Gallants Burden written by Thomas Adams and published by . This book was released on 1612 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book St Paul s Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Download or read book St Paul s Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture written by Roze Hentschell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the 1666 fire of London, St Paul's Cathedral was an important central site for religious, commercial, and social life in London. The literature of the period - both fictional and historical - reveals a great interest in the space, and show it to be complex and contested, with multiple functions and uses beyond its status as a church. St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices animates the cathedral space by focusing on the every day functions of the building, deepening and sometimes complicating previous works on St Paul's. St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture is a study of London's cathedral, its immediate surroundings, and its everyday users in early modern literary and historical documents and images, with special emphasis on the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. It discusses representations of several of the seemingly discrete spaces of the precinct to reveal how these spaces overlap with and inform one another spatially, and argues that specific locations should be seen as mutually constitutive and in a dynamic and ever-evolving state. The varied uses of the precinct, including the embodied spatial practices of early modern Londoners and visitors, are examined, including the walkers in the nave, sermon-goers, those who shopped for books, the residents of the precinct, the choristers, and those who were devoted to church repairs and renovations.

Book Anti Atheism in Early Modern England 1580 1720

Download or read book Anti Atheism in Early Modern England 1580 1720 written by Kenneth Sheppard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atheists generated widespread anxieties between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. In response to such anxieties a distinct genre of religious apologetics emerged in England between 1580 and 1720. By examining the form and the content of the confutation of atheism, Anti-Atheism in Early Modern England demonstrates the prevalence of patterned assumptions and arguments about who an atheist was and what an atheist was supposed to believe, outlines and analyzes the major arguments against atheists, and traces the important changes and challenges to this apologetic discourse in the early Enlightenment.

Book Children of the Queen s Revels

Download or read book Children of the Queen s Revels written by Lucy Munro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of boy actors in England during the Elizabethan Age.

Book Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice  1550   1650

Download or read book Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice 1550 1650 written by A. Bailey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading authors in the field of early modern studies explore a range of bad behaviours - like binge drinking, dicing, and procuring prostitutes at barbershops - in order to challenge the notion that early modern London was a corrupt city that ruined innocent young men.

Book In the Shadow of St  Paul s Cathedral

Download or read book In the Shadow of St Paul s Cathedral written by Margaret Willes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard--the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known is the neighborhood at its base that hummed with life for over a thousand years, becoming a theater for debate and protest, knowledge and gossip. For the first time Margaret Willes tells the full story of the area. She explores the dramatic religious debates at Paul's Cross, the bookshops where Shakespeare came in search of inspiration, and the theater where boy actors performed plays by leading dramatists. After the Great Fire of 1666, the Churchyard became the center of the English literary world, its bookshops nestling among establishments offering luxury goods. This remarkable community came to an abrupt end with the Blitz. First the soaring spire of Old St. Paul's and then Wren's splendid Baroque dome had dominated the area, but now the vibrant secular society that had lived in their shadow was no more.

Book Early English Printed Books in the University Library  Cambridge  Volume 1  Caxton to F  Kingston

Download or read book Early English Printed Books in the University Library Cambridge Volume 1 Caxton to F Kingston written by C. E. Sayle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Sayle's catalogue (1900) lists rare incunabla, and early printed books produced in London.

Book Like Angels from a Cloud

    Book Details:
  • Author : Horton Davies
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2004-10-08
  • ISBN : 1592449344
  • Pages : 517 pages

Download or read book Like Angels from a Cloud written by Horton Davies and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-10-08 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the very first study made in depth and detail of over forty Anglican preachers in the Golden Age of the English Pulpit. There have been individual studies of the sermons of Donne and Andrewes, but none of the metaphysical preachers as a whole. It is the aim of this book to introduce to the reader some of the less familiar preachers: men such as John Hacket and Ralph Brownrig, Calvinist preachers in the metaphysical style such as the Elizabethan Henry Smith (known as silver-tongued for his oratory), or Thomas Adams, who was styled the prose Shakespeare of Puritan theologians. These men, and others, were widely admired in their day and, in many cases, their contemporary popularity challenged that even of Donne. This study provides explanations for the popularity of the metaphysical style, and incidentally proves untenable the stereotype that all the metaphysical preachers were of the Arminian persuasion, since a fair proportion of the group were Calvinists who rejected the Puritan plain style in favor of a metaphysical mode of expression. One explanation of the popularity of this style for a period of some fifty years is that practically every metaphysical divine was also a poet, and that daring imagery, wit, and arcane knowledge were the chief differentia of this style of poetry. Furthermore, James I and Charles I were great admirers of wit and learning. They chose royal chaplains for these qualities: learning made them good apologists, and their wit kept the captive congregations at court intrigued. Equal attention is given to the biographies of the preachers, the themes of their sermons, and the techniques of preaching and sermon construction, with separate chapters on learning and eloquence, wit and imagery, and the uses to which they were put. The result is a full picture of the group of seventeenth-century divines who preached like angels from a cloud.

Book Early English Printed Books  1475 to 1640

Download or read book Early English Printed Books 1475 to 1640 written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sale Catalogues

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  • Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1126 pages

Download or read book Sale Catalogues written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sale

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  • Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1154 pages

Download or read book Sale written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sale

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  • Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1918
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1238 pages

Download or read book Sale written by Anderson Galleries, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Political Bible in Early Modern England

Download or read book The Political Bible in Early Modern England written by Kevin Killeen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.

Book The Making of an Imperial Polity

Download or read book The Making of an Imperial Polity written by Lauren Working and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This significant reassessment of Jacobean political culture reveals how colonizing America transformed English civility in early seventeenth-century England. This title is also available as Open Access.

Book From Courtesy to Civility

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Bryson
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780198217657
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book From Courtesy to Civility written by Anna Bryson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What counted as good and bad manners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries? Anna Bryson explores what is often entertaining evidence for Tudor and Stuart ideas of bodily decency and decorum, table manners and polite conversation, and also shows the crucial importance of the values of "courtesy" and "civility" in an aristocratic society.

Book The Three Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity

Download or read book The Three Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity written by David Kuchta and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-05-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1666 King Charles II introduced a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. This text examines the inspiration behind this royal revolution in masculine attire.