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Author : Douglas Brooks-Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719009549
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Mercurian Monarch written by Douglas Brooks-Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198208082
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Thinking with Demons written by Stuart Clark and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major work offers a new interpretation of the witchcraft beliefs of European intellectuals between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, showing how these beliefs fitted rationally with other beliefs of the period and how far the nature of rationality is dependent on its historical context.
Author : Vaughan Hart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134876793
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Art and Magic in the Court of the Stuarts written by Vaughan Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldry, gardens, architecture and processions. As such, magic of the kind enshrined in Neoplatonic philosophy and the court art which expressed its cosmology, played their part in the complex causes of the Civil War and the destruction of the Stuart image which followed in its wake.
Author : Douglas Brooks-Davies
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719017353
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Pope's Dunciad and the Queen of Night written by Douglas Brooks-Davies and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martina Zamparo
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303105167X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale written by Martina Zamparo and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Hermetic philosophy in one of Shakespeare’s last plays, The Winter’s Tale. A perusal of the vast literary and iconographic repertory of Renaissance alchemy reveals that this late play is imbued with several topoi, myths, and emblematic symbols coming from coeval alchemical, Paracelsian, and Hermetic sources. It also discusses the alchemical significance of water and time in the play’s circular and regenerative pattern and the healing role of women. All the major symbols of alchemy are present in Shakespeare’s play: the intertwined serpents of the caduceus, the chemical wedding, the filius philosophorum, and the so-called rex chymicus. This book also provides an in-depth survey of late Renaissance alchemy, Paracelsian medicine, and Hermetic culture in the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. Importantly, it contends that The Winter’s Tale, in symbolically retracing the healing pattern of the rota alchemica and in emphasising the Hermetic principles of unity and concord, glorifies King James’s conciliatory attitude.
Author : Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843841142
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Devil Theatre written by Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The so-called "Devil Theatre" is here set against its context of non-dramatic texts on possession and exorcism, providing many new insights. Representations of demonic possession and exorcism rituals abound in English Renaissance drama, an area which this book seeks to illuminate by comparison with non-dramatic works. The author investigates stage images of possessionin relation to a range of early modern demonological, theological and medical prose texts on the subject, looking specifically at how the theatre responded to these texts. He argues that the stage appropriated debates over demonicpossession to explore the competing roles of the inner life and the body in early modern definitions of selfhood. The theatre also employed the contemporary controversy over possession and exorcism to investigate the politics ofreligion, and to consider the nature of monarchic power. Moreover, because demonic possession cases and exorcism rituals were frequently dismissed by conformist writers as a piece of theatre, they offered an opportunity to reflecton the nature of drama and role-playing. JAN FRANS VAN DIJKHUIZEN is lecturer and research fellow at the University of Leiden.
Author : Constance Jordan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501744437
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Monarchies written by Constance Jordan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constance Jordan looks at how Shakespeare, through his romances, contributed to the cultural debates over the nature of monarchy in Jacobean England. Stressing the differences between absolutist and constitutionalist principles of rule, Jordan reveals Shakespeare's investment in the idea that a head of state should be responsive to law, and not be governed by his unbridled will. Conflicts within royal courts which occur in the romances show wives, daughters, and servants resisting tyrannical husbands, fathers, masters, and monarchs by relying on the authority of conscience. These loyal subjects demonstrated to Shakespeare's diverse audiences that the vitality of the body politic, its dynastic future, and its material productivity depend on a cooperative union of ruler and subject. Drawing on representations of servitude and slavery in the humanist and political literature of the period, Jordan shows that Shakespeare's abusive rulers suffer as much as they impose on their subjects. Shakespeare's Monarchies recognizes the romances as politically inflected texts and confirms Shakespeare's involvement in the public discourse of the period.
Author : Jim Pearce
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 164014143X
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Papers 2021 written by Jim Pearce and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings of Sidney, Wroth, Spenser, and Shakespeare; and several topics involving the New World.
Author : Margaret Healy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107782759
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare, Alchemy and the Creative Imagination written by Margaret Healy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-28 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's sonnets and A Lover's Complaint constitute a rich tapestry of rhetorical play about Renaissance love in all its guises. A significant strand of this spiritual alchemy is working the 'metal' of the mind through meditation on love, memory work and intense imagination. Healy demonstrates how this process of anguished soul work - construed as essential to inspired poetic making - is woven into these poems, accounting for their most enigmatic imagery and urgency of tone. The esoteric philosophy of late Renaissance Neoplatonic alchemy, which embraced bawdy sexual symbolism and was highly fashionable in European intellectual circles, facilitated Shakespeare's poetry. Arguing that Shakespeare's incorporation of alchemical textures throughout his late works is indicative of an artistic stance promoting religious toleration and unity, this book sets out a crucial new framework for interpreting the 1609 poems and transforms our understanding of Shakespeare's art.
Author : Murray G. H. Pittock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521030277
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Poetry and Jacobite Politics in Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland written by Murray G. H. Pittock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefinition of the Augustan age as a 'four nations' history using popular literary sources.
Author : Gary A. Schmidt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317066510
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Hybrids written by Gary A. Schmidt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book-length study explicitly to connect the postcolonial trope of hybridity to Renaissance literature, Gary Schmidt examines how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English authors, artists, explorers and statesmen exercised a concerted effort to frame questions of cultural and artistic heterogeneity. This book is unique in its exploration of how 'hybrid' literary genres emerge at particular historical moments as vehicles for negotiating other kinds of hybridity, including but not limited to cultural and political hybridity. In particular, Schmidt addresses three distinct manifestations of 'hybridity' in English literature and iconography during this period. The first category comprises literal hybrid creatures such as satyrs, centaurs, giants, and changelings; the second is cultural hybrids reflecting the mixed status of the nation; and the third is generic hybrids such as the Shakespearean 'problem play,' the volatile verse satires of Nashe, Hall and Marston, and the tragicomedies of Beaumont and Fletcher. In Renaissance Hybrids, Schmidt demonstrates 'postmodern' considerations not to be unique to our own critical milieu. Rather, they can fruitfully elucidate cultural and literary developments in the English Renaissance, forging a valuable link in the history of ideas and practices, and revealing a new dimension in the relation of early modern studies to the concerns of the present.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198848617
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Political Way written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops an original approach to theories of political power and seeks to show the particular value of examining these issues through the frame of Shakespeare's plays.
Author : Marsha Keith Schuchard
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004183124
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven written by Marsha Keith Schuchard and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on unpublished diplomatic and Masonic archives, this study reveals the career of Emanuel Swedenborg as a secret intelligence agent for Louis XV and the pro-French, pro-Jacobite party of “Hats” in Sweden. Utilizing Kabbalistic meditation techniques, he sought political intelligence on earth and in heaven.
Author : Sean Kelsey
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719050572
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Inventing a Republic written by Sean Kelsey and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The character and appearance of English governance were changed utterly in 1649, when Charles I was executed and the monarchy abolished. At a stroke, legitimate authority in the nation was stripped of the charismatic focus from whence it had derived much of its apparently ageless dignity. This volume provides a study of how England's political culture was reinvented by the new parliamentary republic. It describes how government members colonized and revived the abandoned royal palace at Whitehall, and describes the imaginative and consistently iconographic and ceremonial languages with which they replaced the imagery and spectacle of the monarchy. It makes a case for the comprehensive revision of the historio-graphical preconceptions surrounding England's only lengthy period of kinglessness.
Author : A. D. Cousins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000264033
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne written by A. D. Cousins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn’s landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope’s writings from across the reign of Queen Anne and just beyond. It focuses, in particular, on his interaction with the courtly culture constellated round the Queen. It examines, for instance, his representations of Queen Anne herself, his portrayals of politics and patronage under her reign, his negotiations with current literary theory, with the classical tradition, with chronologically distant yet also contemporaneous English poets, with current thought on the passions, and with membership of a religious minority. In doing so, it comprehensively reconsiders anew the ways in which Pope, increasingly supportive of Anne’s rule and mindful of the Virgilian rota, sought at first to realise his authorial aspirations.
Author : Thomas M. McCoog
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1094 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mercurian Project written by Thomas M. McCoog and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pat Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199274398
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Pope and the Destiny of the Stuarts written by Pat Rogers and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book gives a complete account of Pope's life and work in his early twenties, and supplies a new political interpretation, including a careful analysis of possible Jacobite colourings."--Jacket.
