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Book The Works of William Fowler  Secretary to Queen Anne  Wife of James VI

Download or read book The Works of William Fowler Secretary to Queen Anne Wife of James VI written by William Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of William Fowler  Secretary to Queen Anne  Wife of James VI

Download or read book The Works of William Fowler Secretary to Queen Anne Wife of James VI written by William Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of William Fowler  Secretary to Queen Anne  Wife of James VI

Download or read book The Works of William Fowler Secretary to Queen Anne Wife of James VI written by William Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of William Fowler  Secretary to Queen Anne  Wife of James VI

Download or read book The Works of William Fowler Secretary to Queen Anne Wife of James VI written by William Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603   1612

Download or read book The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603 1612 written by Allison L. Steenson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612. The material is representative of Fowler’s ephemeral and occasional production, largely unknown to modern scholars. Through the lenses of the Hawthornden fragments, this book engages in the exploration of one of the "cultural places of the European Renaissance", represented by the extensive use of emblems and other literary devices, and by the use of manuscript copies to circulate them. The discourse mainly focuses on the Jacobean courtly establishment in the first decade of the seventeenth century, from the point of view of a Scottish insider. By focusing on the intellectual makeup of the court in the newly united Great Britain, this work aims at bridging manuscript scholarship and literary studies with a wider perspective on contemporary society, politics and culture.

Book The Works of William Fowler  Secretary to Queen Anne  Wife of James VI

Download or read book The Works of William Fowler Secretary to Queen Anne Wife of James VI written by William Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Machiavelli in the British Isles

Download or read book Machiavelli in the British Isles written by Alessandra Petrina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelli in the British Isles reassesses the impact of Machiavelli's The Prince in sixteenth-century England and Scotland through the analysis of early English translations produced before 1640, surviving in manuscript form. This study concentrates on two of the four extant sixteenth-century versions: William Fowler's Scottish translation and the Queen's College (Oxford) English translation, which has been hitherto overlooked by scholars. Alessandra Petrina begins with an overview of the circulation and readership of Machiavelli in early modern Britain before focusing on the eight surviving manuscripts. She reconstructs each manuscript's history and the afterlife of the translations before moving to a detailed examination of two of the translations. Petrina's investigation of William Fowler's translation takes into account his biography, in order to understand the Machiavellian influence on early modern political thought. Her study of the Queen's College translation analyses the manuscript's provenance as well as technical details including writing and paper quality. Importantly, this book includes annotated editions of both translations, which compare the texts with the original Italian versions as well as French and Latin versions. With this volume Petrina has compiled an important reference source, offering easy access to little-known translations and shedding light on a community of readers and scholars who were fascinated by Machiavelli, despite political or religious opinion.

Book A Palace in the Wild

    Book Details:
  • Author : L. A. J. R. Houwen
  • Publisher : Peeters Publishers
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9789042908994
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book A Palace in the Wild written by L. A. J. R. Houwen and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection share an overall purpose : they aim to shed new light on Scottish culture during the century and a half (1475-1625) which saw the full emergence of Scotland as a player on the European political and cultural stages. Throughout the book, awareness of the larger European background is considered an essential element in the proper appraisal of the productions of Scottish culture. Topics discussed include : the Scottish reception of, and participation in, general humanist learning; the impact of Burgundian patterns of late-medieval piety; international diplomacy; courtly culture under Kings James III, IV, V and VI, and Mary Stuart; poetry and politics; law; libraries; and historiography. The contributions in this volume offer innovative contextualisations and interpretations of many canonical works of Scottish culture; at the same time they also seek to expand that canon by examining several less familiar artistic productions. All those interested in the cultural changes inherent in the transition from the late-medieval to the early modern periods, and in the Northern manifestations of the European Renaissance, will find much of interest in this book. In the words of R.L. Stevenson, the cultural achievement of Scotland during this period may be described as constituting a metaphoric "palace in the wild".

Book A Companion to Scottish Literature

Download or read book A Companion to Scottish Literature written by Gerard Carruthers and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2023-12-08 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Scottish Literature offers fresh readings of major authors and periods of Scottish literary production from the first millennium to the present. Bringing together contributions by many of the world’s leading experts in the field, this comprehensive resource provides the historical background of Scottish literature, highlights new critical approaches, and explores wider cultural and institutional contexts. Dealing with texts in the languages of Scots, English, and Gaelic, the Companion offers modern perspectives on the historical milieux, thematic contexts and canonical writers of Scottish literature. Original essays apply the most up-to-date critical and scholarly analyses to a uniquely wide range of topics, such as Gaelic literature, national and diasporic writing, children’s literature, Scottish drama and theatre, gender and sexuality, and women’s writing. Critical readings examine William Dunbar, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Muriel Spark and Carol Ann Duffy, amongst others. With full references and guidance for further reading, as well as numerous links to online resources, A Companion to Scottish Literature is essential reading for advanced students and scholars of Scottish literature, as well as academic and non-academic readers with an interest in the subject.

Book A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland  c 1525   1638

Download or read book A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland c 1525 1638 written by Ian Hazlett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Reformation in Scotland deals with the making, shaping, and development of the Scottish Reformation. 28 authors offer new analyses of various features of a religious revolution and select personalities in evolving theological, cultural, and political contexts.

Book Petrarch   s Triumphi in English

Download or read book Petrarch s Triumphi in English written by Alessandra Petrina and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition argues that Petrarch's text has been neglected by modern scholarship in favour of the translations of the Canzoniere, while it can be shown that the Triumphi enjoyed a much earlier and much more durable fame in Europe as well as in the British Isles, being translated at least twice in its entirety, with individual books and smaller sections being translated or adapted a number of times. Critical editions of the translations are accompanied by analysis of the reception of Petrarch's work in the British Isles, looking at the circulation of the book in the original Italian and in the various French translations, as well as at the use that is made of the Triumphi motifs not only in literature, but in paintings, music, etc.

Book Regency in Sixteenth century Scotland

Download or read book Regency in Sixteenth century Scotland written by Amy Blakeway and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the actions and responsibilities of those taking temporary power during the minority of a monarch.

Book Women on the Renaissance Stage

Download or read book Women on the Renaissance Stage written by Clare McManus and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through detailed historicized and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna Denmark in the Scottish and English Jacobean Courts, Women on the Renaissance Stage fundamentally reassesses women's relationship to early modern performance. It investigates the staging conditions, practices, and gendering of Denmark's performances, and brings current critical theorizations of race, class, gender, space, and performance to bear on the female court of the early 17th century.

Book Early Modern Exchanges

Download or read book Early Modern Exchanges written by Helen Hackett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Gheeraerts’s portrait of a ’Persian lady’ - probably in fact an English lady in masquing costume - exemplifies the hybridity of early modern English culture. Her surrounding landscape and the embroidery on her gown are typically English; but her head-dress and slippers are decidedly exotic, the inscriptions beside her are Latin, and her creator was an ’incomer’ artist. She is emblematic of the early modern culture of exchange, both between England and its neighbours, and between Europe and the wider world. This volume presents fresh research into such early modern exchanges, exploring how new identities, subjectivities and artefacts were forged in dialogues and encounters between diverse cultures, nations and language communities. The early modern period was a time of creative interactions between cultures and disciplines, and accordingly this is a multidisciplinary volume, drawing together international experts in literature, history, modern and ancient languages and art history. It understands cultural exchange as encompassing both the geographical mobilities of travel and trade and the transmission of ideas across borders and between languages, as enabled by the new technology of print. Sites of exchange were located not only in distant and unfamiliar lands, but also in the bookseller’s shop and the scholar’s study. The volume also explores the productive and complex dialogues between early modern culture and the classical past. The types of exchanges discussed include the linguistic transactions of translation and imitation; interactions between cultural elites, such as monarchs, courtiers and diplomats; and the catalytic influences of particularly mobile or outward-looking individuals and groups. Ranging from the neo-Latin poetry of an English author to the plays of a nun in seventeenth-century New Spain, from royal portraits exchanged in diplomatic negotiations to travelling companions in the Ottoman Empire, the volume sheds new light

Book Anna of Denmark

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jemma Field
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2020-06-11
  • ISBN : 1526142511
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book Anna of Denmark written by Jemma Field and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultures, female agency and the role of kinship networks and genealogical identity for early modern royal women. Illustrated with a fascinating array of objects and artworks, the book follows a trajectory that begins with Anna’s exterior spaces before moving to the interior furnishings of her palaces, the material adornment of the royal body, an examination of Anna’s visual persona and a discussion of Anna’s performance of extraordinary rituals that follow her life cycle. Underpinned by a wealth of new archival research, the book provides a richer understanding of the breadth of Anna’s interests and the meanings generated by her actions, associations and possessions.

Book Bulletin  1908 23

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  • Author : Boston Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 844 pages

Download or read book Bulletin 1908 23 written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: