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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 24,8 Mb
• Release Date : 30 July 2007

A contributory volume on the effect of medieval culture and literature on early modern England.

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 31,8 Mb
• Release Date : 15 November 2008

In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the

• Publisher : University of Michigan Press
• File Size : 28,9 Mb
• Release Date : 28 October 2013

In romances—Renaissance England’s version of the fantasy novel—characters often discover books that turn out to be magical or prophetic, and to offer insights into their readers’ selves.

• Publisher : University of Toronto Press
• File Size : 47,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2019

Fruit of the Orchard sheds light on how Catherine of Siena served as a visible and widespread representative of English piety becoming a part of the devotional landscape of the

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 40,5 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

A study of writing, publishing and marketing history books in the early modern period.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 34,8 Mb
• Release Date : 17 February 2005

Reading Material in Early Modern England rediscovers the practices and representations of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English readers. By telling their stories and insisting upon their variety, Brayman Hackel displaces both

• Publisher : Interventions: New Studies Med
• File Size : 39,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 June 2024

Examines how medieval and early modern British texts use descriptions of archaeological objects to produce aesthetic and literary responses to questions of historicity and epistemology.

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 21 July 2015

This collection explores how situations of authority, governance, and influence were practised through both gender ideologies and affective performances in medieval and early modern England. Authority is inherently relational it

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 29,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 October 2018

This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• File Size : 21,6 Mb
• Release Date : 28 July 2012

Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an array of documentary evidence—from library