Literary studies: c 1400 to c 1600

Ralf Simons vorliegende Studie erschließt das Werk Johann Gottfried Herders vom Thema des Gedächtnisses her.

In mittelalterlichen Texten haben Dinge so unterschiedlichen wie perspektivabhängigen Charakter.

In Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700-2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects, fourteen scholars turn to the archives to challenge the way the history of modern encyclopedism has long been told.

A showcase of innovative, global, collaborative Shakespeare education projects between institutions, educators, practitioners and students.

"e;The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come.

First published in 1968, A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric is designed primarily to assist the student of renaissance literature in the science of rhetoric.

First published in 1968, A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric is designed primarily to assist the student of renaissance literature in the science of rhetoric.

A showcase of innovative, global, collaborative Shakespeare education projects between institutions, educators, practitioners and students.

McManus presents an intellectual history of the conservative and reactionary tradition, stretching from Aristotle and Filmer to Alexander Dugin and Patrick Deneen.

Lauren Robertson shows how the commercial theater transformed early modernity''s crisis of uncertainty into spectacular onstage display.

Through classical, Scriptural, and global notions of virtue, this handbook illuminates the shared worlds of Shakespeare''s plays.

A new literary history of the origins of metaphysical poetry in the urban environment of early modern London.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

Adam Smith's contribution to economics is well recognised, yet scholars have recently been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works.

Andre Siegfried (1875-1959) was a leading figure in French academic and cultural life for over five decades.

Andre Siegfried (1875-1959) was a leading figure in French academic and cultural life for over five decades.

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

Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness.

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.

This study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne.

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

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.

Brink's provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx's described as 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'.

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

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "e;existential risks.

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction, from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on "e;existential risks.

A new literary history of the origins of metaphysical poetry in the urban environment of early modern London.

This is the first extended study of the reception of Chaucer''s medieval manuscripts in the early modern period.

This is the first extended study of the reception of Chaucer''s medieval manuscripts in the early modern period.

This book offers new perspectives on the early and formative years of the German-Jewish philosopher Hans Jonas, through innovative studies of his German and Hebrew work in pre-war Germany and Palestine.

This volume fills a gap in the literature on digital humanities (DH) in the Hispanic context by gathering a heterogeneous group of specialists who, from different standpoints in the humanities, explore Spanish texts as the object of study, DH as the work methodology, and Medieval and Early Modern Times as the historical framework.

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 is the first complete edition and English translation of John Hall's Little Book of Cures, a fascinating medical casebook composed in Latin around 1634-5.

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.

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.

Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of Philip Melanchthon the Protestant theologian.

Scholars of Edmund Spenser have focused much more on his accomplishments in epic and pastoral than his work in satire.

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

Pretty tails belong to the most magnificent sea creatures!

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

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

This is the first ample collection of facetiae, or witty tales, from the Italian Renaissance to be published in English.

This book presents a series of case studies and reflections on the historiographical assumptions, methods and approaches that shape the way in which philosophers construct their own past.

This book presents a series of case studies and reflections on the historiographical assumptions, methods and approaches that shape the way in which philosophers construct their own past.

This book will be the field-defining statement on American puritan literature, presenting a clear and accessible introduction to puritan studies in the twenty-first century.