Real Lives in the Eighteenth Century presents a global history using four sets of biographies to illustrate corresponding situations in different geographical regions....Loe edasi...
The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Religion surveys new and longstanding critical conversations about the role of religion in Shakespeares plays and poems. It features thirty-four chapters authored by leading scholars on topics from antithea...Loe edasi...
Jungian Shakespeare is an original work of Jungian literary criticism, examining the psychological expression within three plays from different times in Shakespeares career through a Jungian framework....Loe edasi...
Infanticide in Tudor and Stuart England explores one of societys darkest crimes using archival sources and discussing its representation in the drama, pamphlets and broadside ballads of the early modern period....Loe edasi...
This book provides the first account of how the reputation of King Edward II (1307-1327) of having engaged in sexual and romantic relationships with his male favourites, developed, providing new insights into the processes and priorities that shaped...Loe edasi...
Games and Theatre in Shakespeares England brings together theories of play and game with theatre and performance to produce new understandings of the history and design of early modern English drama....Loe edasi...
Exploring the ways the early modern Italian culture of food was imagined in the literature of the time, this text reveals that while a moral and disciplinary vision tried to control the discourse on food and eating in medical and dietetic treatises...Loe edasi...
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is best known for his natural philosophical and mathematical works. This volume provides the first analysis of the genesis and evolution of Newtons studies of ancient history and demonstrates how these emerged from that othe...Loe edasi...
Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes our understanding of both....Loe edasi...
This study of ludic literary society in sixteenth-century France addresses Italianate practices of philosophical and literary sociability as they took root there. It asserts that entertainment activities of women-led circles illustrate the richly co...Loe edasi...
This collection of essays examines the vogue for games and game playing as expressed in art, architecture, and literature in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe....Loe edasi...
This book accounts for the outpouring of celebrations in the Habsburg Empire upon the 1657 birth of Felipe Próspero, heir to Philip IV of Spain. A study of zarzuela texts, opera libretti, music, paintings, poems, and historical documents show that a...Loe edasi...
The study adds a new focus on female letter writing, the formation of social networks, and the gender dynamics at play in the households and communities of early modern Florence and Tuscany....Loe edasi...
This wide-ranging transnational collection theorizes how late medieval and early modern Western women critically and creatively negotiated their faith and feminism, taking into account intersecting factors such as class, culture, confessional stance...Loe edasi...
This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the outstanding female figure of the Italian Renaissance, a leading Petrarchist poet, and an important figure in the Italian Reform movement. This volume comprises...Loe edasi...
The first volume on the topic; it is interdisciplinary (with contributions from historians, art historians, literary critics, etc); it brings together essays within multiple perspectives( e.g, slave women, indiginous women, poor and aristocratic wom...Loe edasi...
Aims to tell the full story of early English shipboard performers, who have been historically absent from conversations about English navigation, maritime culture, and economic expansion....Loe edasi...
This book traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muses renown and studies how her worldly celebrity was altered posthumously by elegists in her Fama y obras póstumas ( Fame and Posthumous Works) of 1700....Loe edasi...
Through analysis of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Cavendish, the author reveals how this reconceptualized selfhood offered ecological benefits by valuing human rational capacities while maintaining environmental connection....Loe edasi...
