Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

Anthony Copley's A Fig for Fortune was the first major poetic response to Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

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.

Love poetry in the Spanish Golden Age redefines the lyric poetry that is located at the centre of Imperial Spanish culture's own self-image and self-definition.

You may have heard that churches in Europe are vanishing.

Spirituality at the School Gate is an innovative and explorative new study grounded in the field of lived religion.

Have you ever wondered how we got here?

Popular Catholic podcaster Haley Stewart insists that there's no better life coach than nineteenth-century British novelist Jane Austen.

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge-now in paperback.

In this fascinating study, Anthony J.

The Confessions of Saint Augustine outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity.

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.

Despite our best efforts to create welcoming and affirming congregations, the reality is that church can still be a harmful place to LGBTQIA youth.

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

Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time.

The importance of honor is present in the earliest records of civilization.

Annual volume presenting the best essays received by the Southeastern Renaissance Conference.

The work of contemporary Italian thinkers, what Roberto Esposito refers to as Italian Theory, is attracting increasing attention around the world.

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.

The Great Convergence explores the existential foundations of human consciousness and the deep existential dimensions of reality, as well as their connection to the concept of The Creator.

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.

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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.

This collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables exploration of issues ranging from gender to race to religious conflict, as well as providing us with some of the earliest dramatic representations of the lives of ordinary Englishmen and women.

This collection of newly commissioned essays explores the extraordinary versatility of Renaissance tragedy and shows how it enables exploration of issues ranging from gender to race to religious conflict, as well as providing us with some of the earliest dramatic representations of the lives of ordinary Englishmen and women.

English Literary Afterlives traces life narratives of early modern authors created for them after their deaths by readers or publishers, who retrospectively tried to make sense of the author's life and works.

English Literary Afterlives traces life narratives of early modern authors created for them after their deaths by readers or publishers, who retrospectively tried to make sense of the author's life and works.

This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions.

This volume questions and qualifies commonly accepted assumptions about the early modern English sonnet: that it was a strictly codified form, most often organised in sequences, which only emerged at the very end of the sixteenth century and declined as fast as it had bloomed, and that minor poets merely participated in the sonnet fashion by replicating established conventions.

In exploring links between the early modern English theatre and France, Richard Hillman focuses on Shakespeare's deployment of genres whose dominant Italian models and affinities might seem to leave little scope for French ones.

In exploring links between the early modern English theatre and France, Richard Hillman focuses on Shakespeare's deployment of genres whose dominant Italian models and affinities might seem to leave little scope for French ones.