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Author : William Lithgow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Discourse of a peregrination in Europe, Asia and Affricke. London 1614 written by William Lithgow and published by . This book was released on 1682 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Lithgow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Discourse of a peregrination in Europe, Asia and Affricke. London 1614 written by William Lithgow and published by . This book was released on 1692 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Manfred Pfister
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004650857
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Italies of British Travellers written by Manfred Pfister and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-04-12 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first anthology of British travel writing on Italy which traces the development of the genre and the history of the British perception of Italy from the Renaissance to the present. As an anthologie raissonnée it presents the texts in thematic clusters and chronological order, providing commentary and annotations for each of them and their nearly hundred authors (some of them, like Smollett, Byron, Dickens or Huxley, well-known, others virtually unknown, amongst them many unduly neglected women writers). Further features are a substantial introduction to the travelogue and the writing of Italy, more than thirty illustrations visualizing the British experience of Italy, and an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources.
Author : Monica Matei-Chesnoiu
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838641958
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere written by Monica Matei-Chesnoiu and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how Eastern European spaces and meanings are constituted in specific cultural contexts in early modern English drama. Focusing on the ways in which these texts integrate the articulation of Eastern European space and geography into a variety of interpretative conventions, the book develops ways of thinking critically and reflexively about the production of knowledge and identity in Shakespeare and his contemporaries through representations of space in drama.
Author : Alastair Hamilton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191537187
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Copts and the West, 1439-1822 written by Alastair Hamilton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and their Church to retain traces of early Christian practices as well as early Egyptian customs. Now available in paperback for the first time, this first, full-length study of the subject, discusses the attempts of Catholic missionaries to force the Church of Alexandria into union with the Church of Rome and the slow accumulation of knowledge of Coptic beliefs, undertaken by Catholics and Protestants. It ends with a survey of the study of the Coptic language in the West and of the uses to which it was put by Biblical scholars, antiquarians, theologians, and Egyptologists.
Author : Eva Johanna Holmberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030972283
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)
Download or read book British Encounters with Ottoman Minorities in the Early Seventeenth Century written by Eva Johanna Holmberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British travellers regarded all inhabitants of the seventeenth-century Ottoman empire as ‘slaves of the sultan’, yet they also made fine distinctions between them. This book provides the first historical account of how British travellers understood the non-Muslim peoples they encountered in Ottoman lands, and of how they perceived and described them in the mediating shadow of the Turks. In doing so it changes our perceptions of the European encounter with the Ottomans by exploring the complex identities of the subjects of the Ottoman empire in the English imagination, de-centering the image of the ‘Terrible Turk’ and Islam.
Author : Jonathan Burton
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874139136
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Traffic and Turning written by Jonathan Burton and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It will be of interest to all those interested in questions of early modern contact history, English relations with Islam and the East, English theater history, and cultural politics."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Constance Caroline Relihan
Publisher : Kent State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780873388115
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Cosmographical Glasses written by Constance Caroline Relihan and published by Kent State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cosmographical Glasses Constance Relihan examines the ways in which sixteenth-century English texts - traveler's reports, ethnographic studies, and geographic guides - provide the foundation for how fictional prose of the period envisions the locations in which its tales are set. Relihan suggests that this nonfictional discourse becomes central to how the fictional prose of the period imagines cultural identity, fictional purpose, and gender identity. Places and cultures were defined in opposition to each other in early modern romances. In the examples in Cosmographical Glasses, writers attempt to define the spaces of their texts in an effort to identify what it means to be male, English, and Elizabethan. pieces seize the spirit of ethnographic and geographic texts, as well as the ways in which historically identifiable and overtly fictional places were used to complicate representations of utopian fantasies. A number of prose romances and novella collections and their use of historical and geographical facts are analyzed in order to explore the associations between the genre, the discourses of colonialism, and the construction of gender. These texts become glasses that reflect and refract the social and cultural realities of early modern England. Those interested in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature, the history of the novel, and the influence of travel literature on fictional texts will appreciate Cosmographical Glasses.
Author : Stephen Clucas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351771000
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book The Crisis of 1614 and The Addled Parliament written by Stephen Clucas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. The aim of The Crisis of 1614 and The Addled Parliament is to bring literary historians together with constitutional and state historians to reflect on the political and ideological upheavals of Britain in 1614 from various perspectives. In the aftermath of new historicism and 'revisionist' Stuart historiography the time seems right for the detailed study of highly specific historical moments and localities, and 1614 seemed particularly in need of renewed attention because few traditional historians have seriously addressed the constitutional crisis of the ill-fated parliament of that year. Literary historians, too, seemed to have failed to bring this significant political moment into focus, despite the fact that there were many literary interventions in contemporary debates of the period. The volume investigates a number of key issues of this decisive political watershed - and examines not only the disastrous parliament, but also wider problems connected to commerce and economics and the freedom of political debate.
Author : Tobias P. Graf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198791437
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The Sultan's Renegades written by Tobias P. Graf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early modern Christian Europeans who wrote about the Ottoman Empire. As few contemporaries failed to remark, converts were disproportionately represented among those who governed, administered, and fought for the sultan. Unsurprisingly, therefore, renegades have attracted considerable attention from historians of Europe as well as students of European literature. Until very recently, however, Ottomanists have been surprisingly silent on the presence of Christian-European converts in the Ottoman military-administrative elite. The Sultan's Renegades inserts these 'foreign' converts into the context of Ottoman elite life to reorient the discussion of these individuals away from the present focus on their exceptionality, towards a qualified appreciation of their place in the Ottoman imperial enterprise and the Empire's relations with its neighbours in Christian Europe. Drawing heavily on Central European sources, this study highlights the deep political, religious, and cultural entanglements between the Ottoman Empire and Christian Europe beyond the Mediterranean Basin as the 'shared world' par excellence. The existence of such trans-imperial subjects is not only symptomatic of the Empire's ability to attract and integrate people of a great diversity of backgrounds, it also illustrates the extent to which the Ottomans participated in processes of religious polarization usually considered typical of Christian Europe in this period. Nevertheless, Christian Europeans remained ambivalent about those they dismissed as apostates and traitors, frequently relying on them for support in the pursuit of familial and political interests.
Author : National Art Library (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1140 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: L to Z written by National Art Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cian Duffy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009032623
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime written by Cian Duffy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion considers the Romantic sublime in both European and American contexts and features essays by leading scholars from a range of national backgrounds and subject specialisms, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities. An accessible, wide-ranging, and thorough introduction, aimed at researchers, students, and general readers alike, and including extensive suggestions for further reading, The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime is the go-to book on the subject.
Author : Matthew Woodcock
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 184384432X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Medieval Into Renaissance written by Matthew Woodcock and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on topics of literary interest crossing the boundaries between the medieval and early modern period.
Author : James Schiffer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041597335X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Twelfth Night written by James Schiffer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Shakespeare Criticism series offers a range of approaches to Twelfth Night, including its critical reception, performance history, and relation to early modern culture. James Schiffer's extensive introduction surveys the play's critical reception and performance history, while individual essays explore a variety of topics relevant to a full appreciation of the play: early modern notions of love, friendship, sexuality, madness, festive ritual, exoticism, social mobility, and detection. The contributors approach these topics from a variety of perspectives, such as new critical, new historicist, cultural materialist, feminist and queer theory, and performance criticism, occasionally combining several approaches within a single essay. The new essays from leading figures in the field explore and extend the key debates surrounding Twelfth Night, creating the ideal book for readers approaching this text for the first time or wishing to further their knowledge of this stimulating, much loved play.
Author : L. McJannet
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601499
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book The Sultan Speaks written by L. McJannet and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of English historical plays about the Turks, using works in Greek, Arabic, and Turkish. Drawing on Bakhtin's concept of the dialogic, McJannet shows that instead of adverse authorial commentary playwrights such as Marlowe and Fulke Greville use dialogue and commentary to enhance the sultan's stature and mitigate his negative acts.
Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198711865
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles selected for this anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance period represent the world-picture of 16th and 17th century English readers. The extracts are grouped geographically and prefaced by headnotes.
Author : Rosalind Crone
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527566978
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives in British Cultural History written by Rosalind Crone and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is composed of a selection of papers presented at a conference in Cambridge in December 2005. Cultural history is a relatively new sub-discipline. Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly apparent that a new generation of historians has emerged. These scholars have become concerned with research, sources and questions traditionally beyond the scope of the discipline of history. Indeed, recent monographs in history have demonstrated a growing awareness of the cultural imagination in analyses of patterns of change and continuity in the past. Such a movement has also encouraged the development of new networks between different disciplines in the Arts and Social Sciences. The authors of these chapters come from a wide range of academic backgrounds. While all are concerned with crucial issues of the past, they represent a substantial variety of disciplines. In addition to the historians are those trained and working in literary studies, art history, design, music and science. As early-career scholars, the research they present is cutting edge: these contributions represent the very latest trends in cultural studies and demonstrate the attempts of new researchers to answer the most current and challenging questions that are being proposed in this field.
