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Against All England
Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656
Häftad, 2009
707 kr
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Examines a diverse set of poems, plays, and chronicles produced in Cheshire and its vicinity from the 1190s to the 1650s that argue for the localization of British literary history. This title challenges chronologies of literary history that emphasize cultural rupture and view the 'Renaissance' as …
Maudlin Impression
English Literary Images of Mary Magdalene, 1550-1700
Häftad, 2009
752 kr
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Investigates the figure of Mary Magdalene in post-medieval English religious writings and visual representations. This title argues that the medieval Magdalene story was not discarded as part of Reformation iconoclasm, but was enthusiastically embraced by English writers and artists and retold in a …
Writing Faith and Telling Tales
Literature, Politics, and Religion in the Work of Thomas More
Häftad, 2013
635 kr
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Thomas More is a complex and controversial figure who has been regarded as both saint and persecutor, leading humanist and a representative of late medieval culture. His religious writings, with their stark and at times violent attacks on what More regarded as heresy, have been hotly debated. In …
English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution
Av Alice Dailey
Häftad, 2012
654 kr
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By putting history and literary form in dialogue, Dailey describes not only the reformation of one of the oldest, most influential genres of the Christian West but a revolution in the very concept of martyrdom. Rather than being a static genre, martyrology emerges in Dailey’s study as deeply …
Miserere Mei
The Penitential Psalms in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Häftad, 2012
654 kr
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In Miserere Mei, Clare Costley King'oo examines the critical importance of the Penitential Psalms in England between the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. During this period, the Penitential Psalms inspired an enormous amount of creative and intellectual work: in …
Transforming Work
Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry
Häftad, 2013
752 kr
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Pastoral poetry has long been considered a signature Renaissance mode: originating in late sixteenth-century England via a rediscovery of classical texts, it is concerned with self-fashioning and celebrating the court. But, as Katherine C. Little demonstrates in Transforming Work: Early Modern …
Tropologies
Ethics and Invention in England, C.1350-1600
Häftad, 2016
758 kr
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The first book-length study to elaborate the medieval and early modern theory of the tropological, or moral, sense of scripture. Ryan McDermott argues that tropology is not only a way to interpret the Bible but also a theory of literary and ethical invention. The “tropological imperative” demands …
Mysticism and Reform, 1400–1750
Häftad, 2015
758 kr
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The apparent disappearance of mysticism in the Protestant world after the Reformation used to be taken as an example of the arrival of modernity. However, as recent studies in history and literary history reveal, the "Reformation" was not experienced in such a drastically transformative manner, not …
Civic Cycles
Artisan Drama and Identity in Premodern England
Av Nicole R. Rice, Margaret Aziza Pappano
Häftad, 2015
827 kr
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The civic religious drama of late medieval England—financed, produced, and performed by craftspeople—offers one of the earliest forms of written literature by a non-elite group in Europe. In this innovative study, Nicole R. Rice and Margaret Aziza Pappano trace an artisanal perspective on medieval …
Island Garden
England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell
Av Lynn Staley
Häftad, 2012
767 kr
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For centuries England's writers used the metaphor of their country as an island garden to engage in a self-conscious debate about national identity. In The Island Garden: England's Language of Nation from Gildas to Marvell, Lynn Staley suggests that the trope of Britain as an island garden …
Unwritten Verities
The Making of England's Vernacular Legal Culture, 1463-1549
Häftad, 2015
752 kr
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Argues that the commitment by English common law to an unwritten tradition, along with its association with Lancastrian political ideas of consensual government, generated a vernacular legal culture on the eve of the Reformation that challenged the centralizing ambitions of Tudor monarchs, the …
Embodied Word
Female Spiritualities, Contested Orthodoxies, and English Religious Cultures, 1350-1700
Häftad, 2010
722 kr
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Explores the topic of female spirituality. Through her analyses of the variety of ways in which medieval spirituality was deliberately and actively carried forward to the early modern period, Nancy Bradley Warren underscores both continuities and revisions that challenge conventional distinctions …
Volition's Face
Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature
Inbunden, 2017
2186 kr
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Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia signals a form of reduced agency. Andrew Escobedo …
Volition's Face
Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature
Häftad, 2017
782 kr
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Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia signals a form of reduced agency. Andrew Escobedo …
Shadow and Substance
Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama Across the Reformation Divide
Av Jay Zysk
Inbunden, 2017
2186 kr
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Presents a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking …
Shadow and Substance
Eucharistic Controversy and English Drama Across the Reformation Divide
Av Jay Zysk
Häftad, 2017
872 kr
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Presents a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking …
Queen of Heaven
The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin in Early Modern English Writing
Inbunden, 2018
1767 kr
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Offers an insight into England's religious pluralism, revealing a porousness between medieval and early modern perspectives toward the Virgin and dispelling the notion that Catholic and Protestant attitudes on the subject were completely different.
Queen of Heaven
The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin in Early Modern English Writing
Häftad, 2018
842 kr
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Offers an insight into England's religious pluralism, revealing a porousness between medieval and early modern perspectives toward the Virgin and dispelling the notion that Catholic and Protestant attitudes on the subject were completely different.
Theater of the Word
Selfhood in the English Morality Play
Inbunden, 2019
1767 kr
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Sheds light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that addresses the question of what it means to be human and takes up the ritual traditions of confession and penance, long associated …
Theater of the Word
Selfhood in the English Morality Play
Häftad, 2019
514 kr
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In Theater of the Word: Selfhood in the English Morality Play , Julie Paulson sheds new light on medieval constructions of the self as they emerge from within a deeply sacramental culture. The book examines the medieval morality play, a genre that explicitly addresses the question of what it means …
Performance and Religion in Early Modern England
Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street
Inbunden, 2018
2265 kr
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Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of ""the theatrical."" By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance culture.
Performance and Religion in Early Modern England
Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street
Häftad, 2018
732 kr
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In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England , Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of "the theatrical." By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance …
Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
Inbunden, 2019
1767 kr
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Adopts a comparative, boundary-crossing approach to consider one of the most canonical of literary figures, Geoffrey Chaucer. This book breaks new ground by considering Chaucer's Continental interests as they inform his participation in religious debates concerning such subjects as female …
Chaucer and Religious Controversies in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
Häftad, 2019
842 kr
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Adopts a comparative, boundary-crossing approach to consider one of the most canonical of literary figures, Geoffrey Chaucer. This book breaks new ground by considering Chaucer's Continental interests as they inform his participation in religious debates concerning such subjects as female …
Fifteenth-Century Lives
Writing Sainthood in England
Inbunden, 2020
1767 kr
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In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints' lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and '20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more …
Fifteenth-Century Lives
Writing Sainthood in England
Häftad, 2020
842 kr
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In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints' lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and '20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more …
Versions of Election
From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton
Av David Aers
Inbunden, 2020
2186 kr
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Concepts of predestination and reprobation were central issues in the Protestant Reformation, especially within Calvinist churches, and thus have often been studied primarily in the historical context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In Versions of Election: From Langland and Aquinas to …
Versions of Election
From Langland and Aquinas to Calvin and Milton
Av David Aers
Häftad, 2020
617 kr
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Concepts of predestination and reprobation were central issues in the Protestant Reformation, especially within Calvinist churches, and thus have often been studied primarily in the historical context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In Versions of Election: From Langland and Aquinas to …
Festive Enterprise
The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England
Inbunden, 2021
1767 kr
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Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama.In Festive Enterprise, Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies of theatricality and spectatorship to examine how English Renaissance plays employed forms and …
Festive Enterprise
The Business of Drama in Medieval and Renaissance England
Häftad, 2021
917 kr
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Festive Enterprise reveals marketplace pressures at the heart of dramatic form in medieval and Renaissance drama.In Festive Enterprise, Jill P. Ingram merges the history of economic thought with studies of theatricality and spectatorship to examine how English Renaissance plays employed forms and …
