Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

In Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700-2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects, fourteen scholars turn to the archives to challenge the way the history of modern encyclopedism has long been told.

We have become accustomed to economists and politicians talking about "e;market forces"e; as if they are immutable laws of the universe.

From Lucretius's horror loci and Buddhist drowsiness to the religious boredom of acedia and the philosophical explorations of Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, boredom has long been a subject of philosophical fascination.

The war on heresy obsessed medieval Europe in the centuries after the first millennium.

In sailing to Utopia, we must first chart our ships through the Renaissance to discover our radical intellectual origins.

We have become accustomed to economists and politicians talking about "e;market forces"e; as if they are immutable laws of the universe.

The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of "e;God's cause"e;-a struggle for liberty and republican freedom.

The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright: William Shakespeare.

The term "e;crisis,"e; with its complex history, has emerged as one of the pivotal notions of political modernity.

Notwithstanding their neglect in many histories of ideas in the West, the Cambridge Platonists constitute the most significant and influential group of thinkers in the Platonic tradition between the Florentine Renaissance and the Romantic Age.

Notwithstanding their neglect in many histories of ideas in the West, the Cambridge Platonists constitute the most significant and influential group of thinkers in the Platonic tradition between the Florentine Renaissance and the Romantic Age.

Have you ever wondered how we got here?

From Lucretius's horror loci and Buddhist drowsiness to the religious boredom of acedia and the philosophical explorations of Kant, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, boredom has long been a subject of philosophical fascination.

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge.

In this fascinating study, Anthony J.

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance explores political, literary, social, religious, medical, and artistic events between 1300 and 1670 that led beyond the bounds of reason into the nonrational, irrational, and suprarational phenomena of the European Renaissance.

An expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal.

The renaissance period is long gone but its influence can still be felt up until the present times.

The renaissance period has so much to share and to teach today's young children.

Everything you see and experience these days started from small beginnings.

This book must be one of the best references in the science's invention department of the renaissance.

Before a great discovery, the Renaissance scientists had to endure long days of working in sometimes unhygienic places.

How you live today is very different from how a Renaissance child lived.

Religion and politics during the Renaissance period could be complex topics for young learners to digest, don't you think?

During the Renaissance period, artists and scientists were considered as the highest individuals in society.

Pretty tails belong to the most magnificent sea creatures!

The Renaissance period is widely celebrated for the artistic advancements that happened during the time.

Jonathan Parry presents a history of Liberalism that is organized around themes in British Liberal politics since the early nineteenth century.

The Darker Vision of the Renaissance explores political, literary, social, religious, medical, and artistic events between 1300 and 1670 that led beyond the bounds of reason into the nonrational, irrational, and suprarational phenomena of the European Renaissance.

This book is the first ever concordance to the rhymes of Spenser's epic.

Ralph Knevet's Supplement of the Faery Queene (1635) is a narrative and allegorical work, which weaves together a complex collection of tales and episodes, featuring knights, ladies, sorcerers, monsters, vertiginous fortresses and deadly battles - a chivalric romp in Spenser's cod medieval style.

For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries - often more so.

For educated poets and readers in the Renaissance, classical literature was as familiar and accessible as the work of their compatriots and contemporaries - often more so.

This volume offers the first in-depth investigation of Thomas Heywood's engagement with the classics.

This volume offers the first in-depth investigation of Thomas Heywood's engagement with the classics.

Edmund Spenser and the romance of space advances the exploration of literary space into new areas, firstly by taking advantage of recent interdisciplinary interests in the spatial qualities of early modern thought and culture, and secondly by reading literature concerning the art of cosmography and navigation alongside imaginative literature with the purpose of identifying shared modes and preoccupations.

Edmund Spenser and the romance of space advances the exploration of literary space into new areas, firstly by taking advantage of recent interdisciplinary interests in the spatial qualities of early modern thought and culture, and secondly by reading literature concerning the art of cosmography and navigation alongside imaginative literature with the purpose of identifying shared modes and preoccupations.

This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres.

This volume explores the transnationality and interculturality of early modern performance in multiple languages, cultures, countries and genres.