Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600 Books

Translating Petrarch in early modern Britain gathers twelve essays by international scholars focusing on the translation of Petrarch's vernacular verse (Canzoniere and Triumphi) into English, from the Tudor age to the mid-seventeenth century (and beyond)...

L'Edició maguntina de Ramón Lull amb un apéndix bibliogràfic dels manuscrits i impresos Lulians de Maguncia és un estudi exhaustiu sobre l'edició de les obres de Ramon Llull a Maguncia, acompanyat d'un apèndix...

"Spenser's Faerie Queene," edited by Thomas J. Wise and illustrated by Walter Crane, is a timeless edition of Edmund Spenser's epic poem. This sixth volume presents a captivating journey through allegorical landscapes and chivalrous adventures. Spenser's...

Casual Shakespeare is the first full-length study of the thousands of quotations both in and of Shakespeare's works which represent intertextuality outside of what is conventionally appreciated as literary value. Drawing on the insights...

Het Boek Genesis: In Het Makassaarsch Vertaald (1872) is een vertaling van het Bijbelboek Genesis in het Makassaars, een taal die gesproken wordt in het zuiden van het Indonesische eiland Sulawesi. De vertaling werd gedaan door B.F. Matthes en werd voor...

Poems By E. S. H. (1874) is a collection of poems written by Elizabeth Still Stanhope. The book contains a variety of poems, including sonnets, ballads, and lyrical pieces. The themes of the poems range from love and nature to religion and morality. The...

This collection shows various declinations of the early modern Italian marvellous, whose English translation often became a moralized version of Italy's uniqueness.Through the analysis of various literary genres the volume focuses on the mechanisms of...

This is the first book to study how a vital element of European Renaissance culture, the motif of the angelic lady, is translated into the British Enlightenment by some major seventeenth- as well as eighteenth-century poets. It offers a close study of...

The evolving adventures and myth of Don Quixote from farcical social criticism to Romantic idealism and then melancholy. Hagiography, Jansenism and its interpretation of Pascal's break with empiricism, Sarah and Henry Fielding, and Rousseau's use of the...

This book considers the new ways time was experienced in the 16th- and 17th-century Hispanic world in the framework of global Catholicism. It examines how authors adapt Christ-centered conceptions of existence to accommodate both a volatile...

Massinger's Italy offers the first book-length account of the pervasive role of Italy and its culture in Massinger's corpus, discussing to which extent Massinger contributed to energizing the myth of Italy.

Taking up the invitation extended by tentative attempts over the past three decades to construct a functioning definition of the genre, Jonathan Bradbury traces the development of the vernacular miscellany in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and...

This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeare's scenes of hospitality-with their...

This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact...

This 1986 study offers a challenging contribution to the on-going critical debate surrounding the English literary Renaissance. Although informed by the 'new historicism' and post-structuralism, Hidden Designs makes a plea for criticism to be practiced...

Don Quixote's madly ideal fiction is as relevant as ever in our "post-truth" era of virtual reality. Classic Christian paradigms of prophetic revelation and expiatory self-sacrifice emerge transformed in the startling new light of current social...

With its thirteen essays, spanning different types of Italian 'resources', from novellas to dramas, scenarios and dialogues, the book aims at offering a wide-ranging array of topics that foregrounds a more complex dynamics of circulation and...

Sir John Denham (1614/15-1669) Reassessed shines new light on a singular, colourful yet elusive figure of seventeenth-century English letters. Despite his influence as a poet, wit, courtier, exile, politician and surveyor of the king's works, Denham,...

With its many rites of initiation (religious, educational, professional or sexual), Elizabethan and Jacobean education emphasized both imitation and discovery in a struggle to bring population to a minimal literacy, while more demanding techniques were...

The study of literature still tends to be nation-based, even when direct evidence contradicts longstanding notions of an autonomous literary canon. In a time when current events make inevitable the acceptance of a global perspective, the essays in this...

This authoritative text of the first edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost transcribes the original 10-book poem, records its textual problems and numerous differences from the second edition, and discusses in critical commentary the importance of...

Thomas Dekker (c.1572-1632) was a prolific playwright and pamphleteer chiefly remembered for his vivid and witty portrayals of everyday London life. This book uses Dekker's prose pamphlets (published between 1613 and 1628) as a way in to a crucial and...

In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the...

How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? New discoveries in medicine and anatomy led Restoration writers to question the substance of the soul and its motions in literature written during the neo-Epicurean revival. Writers...

Examining the representation of love in conduct books, philosophical treatises, letter-writing manuals, and medical texts, Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of printing on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the...

Bringing far-removed time periods into startling conversation, this book argues that certain attitudes and practices present in Europe's Middle Ages were foundational in the development of the western concept of race. As early as the twelfth and...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Ältere Deutsche Literatur, Mediävistik, Note: 2,0, Universität Rostock (Institut für Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Stellenkommentar und kulturwissenschaftlicher Kontext am Beispiel von Briefen...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Deutsch - Literatur, Werke, Note: 2,7, Universität Hildesheim (Stiftung) (Institut für deutsche Sprache und Literatur), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit zum Thema die Bedeutung...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Komparatistik, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Note: 2,3, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Fakultät für Philologie), Veranstaltung: Lessings Dramen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Verlauf dieser...

Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama represents the first sustained study of Middleton's dramatic works as responses to James I's governance. Through examining Middleton's poiesis in relation to the political theology of Jacobean...

This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more than being simply a narrative or character-driven issue, is a vital component in the evolving...

While recent scholarship has usefully positioned Burns within the context of British Romanticism as a spokesperson of Scottish national identity, Robert Burns and Transatlantic Culture considers Burns's impact in the United States, Canada, and South...

Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and...

Original and thought-provoking, this collection sheds new light on an important yet understudied feature of seventeenth-century England's political and cultural landscape: exile. Through an essentially literary lens, exile is examined both as physical...

Das Buch ""Den Beyerske Robenson Det Er En Meget Merckvaordig Historie Om Hertug Ernst"" von Anonymous, ver������ffentlicht im Jahr 1766, erz�����hlt eine bemerkenswerte Geschichte �����ber Herzog Ernst. Das Werk beschreibt die Abenteuer des Herzogs, der...

Ben Jonson's The Fountain of Self-Love: Or Cynthias Revels is a play that was first performed in 1601. It is a satirical comedy that mocks the vanity and self-absorption of the courtiers and social climbers of the time. The play is set in the court of...

""Babylonian Letters of the Hammurapi Period"" is a book written by Arthur Ungnad and originally published in 1915. The book is a collection of letters written in cuneiform script during the reign of Hammurabi, the sixth king of the Babylonian Empire...

""M�����moires Historiques Et Critiques V1-2: Sur Divers Points De L'Histoire De France, Et Plusieurs Autres Sujets Curieux"" est un livre �����crit par Fran�����ois-Eudes de Mezeray et publi����� en 1732. Ce livre est une collection de m�����moires...

Le livre ""Histoire des Quatre Fils d'Aymon"" a �����t����� publi����� en 1700 par l'�����diteur Limoges. Il s'agit d'un r�����cit m�����di�����val fran�����ais qui raconte les aventures de quatre fr�����res, Renaud, Alard, Richard et Guichard, qui sont...

Dr. Bhagyalipi Malla is closely acquainted with Odia cultural practices, both traditional and contemporary and, owing to her service in the Department of Culture, takes due care to develop public awareness about the same. She regularly writes on art,...

""I Cantici di Fidentio Glottogrysio Ludimagistro"" ����� un libro scritto da Camillo Scrofa nel 1743. Quest'opera ����� una raccolta di poesie e canzoni in lingua italiana, che celebrano la figura di Fidentio Glottogrysio, un insegnante di lingue molto...

Carlo""Enimmi Di Caton Luticense Lucchese"" est liber scriptus ab Eritaco, Gian Carlo, anno MDCCCLXV. Liber est biographia Cato Maioris, patris familiae Romanae, qui fuit notus pro virtutibus suis et auctoritate in Republica Romana. In hoc libro,...