Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

The Art of The Faerie Queene is the first book centrally focused on the forms and poetic techniques employed by Spenser.

Dubbed 'the English Virgil' in his own lifetime, Spenser has been compared to the Augustan laureate ever since.

Republic to restoration cuts across artificial divides between periods and disciplines,often imposed for reasons of convenience rather than reality.

The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti's major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (14041472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissancea fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardt's mythologizing of Alberti as a Renaissance or Universal Man.

Inspiration in the Age of Enlightenment reconsiders theories of apostrophe and poetic authority to argue that the Augustan age created a new form of inspiration, one that not only changed the relationship of literary production to authority in the modern period but also crucially contributes to defining the movement of secularization in literature from the Renaissance to Romanticism.

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Dublin: Renaissance city of literature interrogates the notion of a literary 'renaissance' in Dublin.

The first comprehensive study of Calderon in EnglishPedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists - many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish Golden Age.

Recupera la preceptiva retórica sobre el infortunio, desde sus fundamentos antiguos hasta los énfasis que recibió en autores del siglo XVI.

Collection of the best scholarly essays from the 2020 Southeastern Renaissance Conference plus essays submitted directly to the journal.

In mittelalterlichen Texten haben Dinge so unterschiedlichen wie perspektivabhängigen Charakter.

This book analyses three Shakespearean plays that particularly deal with abusive forms of banishment: King Richard II, Coriolanus, and King Lear.

Spenser's extraordinary Shepheardes Calender as first printed in 1579 is arguably the seminal book of the Elizabethan literary renaissance.

An examination of the themes of pain and compassion in key Renaissance writers, at a time when religious attitudes to suffering were changing.

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

Dublin: Renaissance city of literature interrogates the notion of a literary 'renaissance' in Dublin.

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies.

In den wilden Steppen und den heiligen Klöstern der Ukraine entstand eine Literatur, die ihresgleichen sucht.

More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority.

The names Edmund Spenser and John Donne are typically associated with different ages in English poetry, the former with the sixteenth century and the Elizabethan Golden Age, the latter with the 'metaphysical' poets of the seventeenth century.

The first comprehensive study of Calderon in EnglishPedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists - many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish Golden Age.

This engaging study appreciably advances recent critical developments in the way the playwright created his worlds to reflect concurrent cartographic, geopolitical and social anxieties.

Perception and analogy explores ways of seeing scientifically in the eighteenth century.

The Burley manuscript is a miscellany compiled in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, unique in size and variety.

During Shakespeare's lifetime, John Lyly was repeatedly described as the central figure in contemporary English literature.

Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies.

This book writes a performance history of Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's most ambiguous play, from 1606 to the present.

Poison's Dark Works in Renaissance England considers the ways sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fears of poisoning prompt new models for understanding the world even as the fictive qualities of poisoning frustrate attempts at certainty.