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  • The Early Seventeenth Century Verse Miscellany

    Directions and Re-Directions

    by Cedric C. Brown ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    A deeply researched study of the social transmission and adaptation of poetry texts originating in pre-Civil War England, traced through the seventeenth century and sometimes beyond. Both manuscript and printed miscellanies are used, as well as other forms of publication, and case studies unusually span elite, popular and provincial audiences. As far as possible, texts are placed according to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Friendship and its Discourses in the Seventeenth Century

    by Cedric C. Brown ...
    Cedric C. Brown combines the study of literature and social history in order to recognize the immense importance of friendship bonds to early modern society. Drawing on new archival research, he acknowledges a wide range of types of friendship, from the intimate to the obviously instrumental, and sees these practices as often co-terminous with gift exchange. Failure to recognize the inter ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

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  • Cultures of Plague

    Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

    by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. ...
    Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social characteristics of its victims, so too did medical thinking about plague develop. This study of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Foxe's Book of Martyrs

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    by John Foxe ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.' Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be burnt alive for heresy come from John Foxe's magisterial Acts and Monuments, popularly known as the Book of Martyrs. This vast collection of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Florence, Italy: Birthplace of the Renaissance | Children's Renaissance History

    by Baby Professor ...
    The renaissance period is long gone but its influence can still be felt up until the present times. Reading the contents of this book, your child will understand more about the period and why Florence, Italy seems to be the hub of the most powerful people during this era. Be prepared for some mind-blowing questions only your child can think of. Get a copy today! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Material Culture of the Jacobites

    by Neil Guthrie ...
    The Jacobites, adherents of the exiled King James II of England and VII of Scotland and his descendants, continue to command attention long after the end of realistic Jacobite hopes down to the present. Extraordinarily, the promotion of the Jacobite cause and adherence to it were recorded in a rich and highly miscellaneous store of objects, including medals, portraits, pin-cushions, glassware and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe

    Performance, Geography, Privacy

    Edited by Angela Vanhaelen, Joseph P. Ward ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through the performative uptake of shared cultural forms and practices. The contributors argue that such forms ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Church in the Early Modern Age

    by C. Scott Dixon ...
    Series series I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
    The years 1450-1650 were a momentous period for the development of Christianity. They witnessed the age of Reformation and Counter-Reformation: perhaps the most important era for the shaping of the faith since its foundation. C Scott Dixon explores how the ideas that went into the making of early modern Christianity re-oriented the Church to such an extent that they gave rise to new versions of ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Money

    How much did he make and what did this mean?

    by Robert Bearman ...
    There is no doubting Shakespeare's literary genius, immortalised in his published work. However, statements along these lines are frequently followed by laments of how little is known about this life. This is true if we wish to know about Shakespeare's movements on even a month-by-month basis, or about his working practices and relationships with his theatrical fellows. However, too great an ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England

    Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James

    by Jane Rickard ...
    King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects commented upon, appropriated and reworked these royal writings. Jane Rickard highlights the vitality of such responses across genres - including poetry, court masque, sermon, polemic and drama - and in ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote

    by Susan Byrne ...
    Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history – into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel.Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640

    Edited by Andrew Hadfield ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD