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Author : Ashmolean Museum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tradescant's Rarities written by Ashmolean Museum and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections
Author : Marjorie Swann
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203178
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Curiosities and Texts written by Marjorie Swann and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular? In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum. Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts—both as material objects and as vehicles of representation—participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.
Author : Linda Levy Peck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521842327
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Consuming Splendor written by Linda Levy Peck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the ways in which consumption transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. It reveals for the first time the emergence of consumer society in seventeenth-century England.
Author : Mea Allan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Tradescants written by Mea Allan and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Hunter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851155944
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy written by Michael Hunter and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1995 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his introduction Michael Hunter draws on these studies to propound a new theory of intellectual change in this key period. Traditionally it has been seen in terms of simple polarisations - modernity against obfuscation, orthodoxy against subversion. Here, it is argued that such polarisations represent influential but idealised extremes, to which thinkers individually responded; scholars must in future have due regard to the balance between ideal types and individual complexities thus revealed.
Author : Ken Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351953591
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Cabinets for the Curious written by Ken Arnold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last few years has, within museums, witnessed nothing short of a revolution. Worried that the very institution was itself in danger of becoming a dusty, forgotten, culturally irrelevant exhibit, vigorous efforts have been made to reshape the museum mission. Fearing that history was coming to be ignored by modern society, many institutions have instead marketed a de-intellectualised heritage, overly relying on computer technology to captivate a contemporary audience. The theme of this work is that we can do much to reassess the rationale that inspires contemporary collections through a study of seventeenth century museums. England's first museums were quite literally wonderful; founded that is on the disciplined application of the faculty of wonder. The type of wonder employed was not that post-Romantic idea of disbelief, but rather an active form of curiosity developed during the Renaissance, particularly by the individuals who set about gathering objects and founding museums to further their enquiries. The argument put forward in this book is that this museological practice of using objects actually to create, as well as disseminate knowledge makes just as much sense today as it did in the seventeenth century and, further, that the best way of reinvigorating contemporary museums, is to return to that form of wonder. By taking such a comparative approach, this book works both as a scholarly historical text, and as an historically informed analysis of the key issues facing today's museums. As such, it will prove essential reading both for historians of collecting and museums, and for anyone interested in the philosophies of modern museum management.
Author : Jennifer Potter
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1782395466
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Strange Blooms written by Jennifer Potter and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2008-06-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, this beautifully written and gorgeously produced book describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son. In 17th-century Britain, a new breed of "curious" gardeners was pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son were at the vanguard of this change—as gardeners, as collectors, and above all as exemplars of an age that began in wonder and ended with the dawning of science. Meticulously researched and vividly evoking the drama of their lives, this book takes readers to the edge of an expanding universe, and is a magnificent pleasure for gardeners and non-gardeners alike.
Author : Vera Keller
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142144593X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Interlopers written by Vera Keller and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2023-04-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reframing of how scientific knowledge was produced in the early modern world. Many accounts of the scientific revolution portray it as a time when scientists disciplined knowledge by first disciplining their own behavior. According to these views, scientists such as Francis Bacon produced certain knowledge by pacifying their emotions and concentrating on method. In The Interlopers, Vera Keller rejects this emphasis on discipline and instead argues that what distinguished early modernity was a navigation away from restraint and toward the violent blending of knowledge from across society and around the globe. Keller follows early seventeenth-century English "projectors" as they traversed the world, pursuing outrageous entrepreneurial schemes along the way. These interlopers were developing a different culture of knowledge, one that aimed to take advantage of the disorder created by the rise of science and technological advances. They sought to deploy the first submarine in the Indian Ocean, raise silkworms in Virginia, and establish the English slave trade. These projectors developed a culture of extreme risk-taking, uniting global capitalism with martial values of violent conquest. They saw the world as a riskscape of empty spaces, disposable people, and unlimited resources. By analyzing the disasters—as well as a few successes—of the interlopers she studies, Keller offers a new interpretation of the nature of early modern knowledge itself. While many influential accounts of the period characterize European modernity as a disciplining or civilizing process, The Interlopers argues that early modernity instead entailed a great undisciplining that entangled capitalism, colonialism, and science.
Author : Michael Cyril William Hunter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851155067
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Establishing the New Science written by Michael Cyril William Hunter and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1989 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone interested in the scientific revolution these essays are compulsory reading. HISTORY A fresh view of the formative years of the Royal Society. `Hunter's reputation as one of the foremost students of Restoration science in England can only be further enhanced by this volume.' NATURE `For anyone interested in the scientific revolution these essays are compulsory reading. Elegantly written and carefully researched, they are a welcome addition to the already extensive literature on the early years of the Royal Society.'HISTORY In a series of detailed case studies, Michael Hunterpresents a fresh view of the formative years of Britain's oldest scientific institution; The Royal Society of London, founded in 1660.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The English Cyclopædia written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The English Cyclopaedia: Cyclopaedia of biography written by Charles Knight and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428320
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Invention of Rare Books written by David McKitterick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using examples from across Europe, David McKitterick looks at how rare books developed from being desirable objects of largely private interest to become public and even national concerns.
Author : Ray Desmond
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1466573872
Total Pages : 3619 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (665 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Of British And Irish Botantists And Horticulturalists Including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers written by Ray Desmond and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 3619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive treatment of all British and Irish botanists through 1976.
Author : Tara E. Pedersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317097211
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England written by Tara E. Pedersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We no longer ascribe the term ’mermaid’ to those we deem sexually or economically threatening; we do not ubiquitously use the mermaid’s image in political propaganda or feature her within our houses of worship; perhaps most notably, we do not entertain the possibility of the mermaid’s existence. This, author Tara Pedersen argues, makes it difficult for contemporary scholars to consider the mermaid as a figure who wields much social significance. During the early modern period, however, this was not the case, and Pedersen illustrates the complicated category distinctions that the mermaid inhabits and challenges in 16th-and 17th-century England. Addressing epistemological questions about embodiment and perception, this study furthers research about early modern theatrical culture by focusing on under-theorized and seldom acknowledged representations of mermaids in English locations and texts. While individuals in early modern England were under pressure to conform to seemingly monolithic ideals about the natural order, there were also significant challenges to this order. Pedersen uses the figure of the mermaid to rethink some of these challenges, for the mermaid often appears in surprising places; she is situated at the nexus of historically specific debates about gender, sexuality, religion, the marketplace, the new science, and the culture of curiosity and travel. Although these topics of inquiry are not new, Pedersen argues that the mermaid provides a new lens through which to look at these subjects and also helps scholars think about the present moment, methodologies of reading, and many category distinctions that are important to contemporary scholarly debates.
Author : Greg Clingham
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753835
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (538 download)
Download or read book Questioning History written by Greg Clingham and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional eighteenth-century paradigms of reason, truth, and nature underlie modern concepts of self, gender, sex, etc. that are challenged today in the name of a more liberated and pluralistic problematics. This book is the first of two volumes of essays that identify this postmodern challenge. It examines the historiography of postmodern phenomena in relation to the eighteenth-century texts that they ventriloquize. More essays on the topic are contained in Making History (Bucknell Review, Vol. 42, No. 1).
Author : Karen L. Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521017480
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Milton and the Natural World written by Karen L. Edwards and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton and the Natural World overturns prevailing critical assumptions by offering a fresh view of Paradise Lost, in which the representation of Eden's plants and animals is shown to be fully cognizant of the century's new, scientific natural history. The fabulous lore of the old science is wittily debunked, and the poem embraces new imaginative and symbolic possibilities for depicting the natural world, suggested by the speculations of Milton's scientific contemporaries including Robert Boyle, Thomas Browne and John Evelyn. Karen Edwards argues that Milton has represented the natural world in Paradise Lost, with its flowers and trees, insects and beasts, as a text alive with meaning and worthy of close reading.
Author : Gregory A. Waselkov
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803298613
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Powhatan's Mantle written by Gregory A. Waselkov and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considered to be one of the all-time classic studies of southeastern Native peoples, Powhatan's Mantle proves more topical, comprehensive, and insightful than ever before in this revised edition for twenty-first century scholars and students.
