This book challenges the conventional image of John Dee (1527--1609) as an isolated, eccentric philosopher. Instead, William H. Sherman presents Dee in a fresh context, revealing that he was a well-connected adviser to the academic, courtly, and commercial circles of his day.
This book challenges the conventional image of John Dee (1527--1609) as an isolated, eccentric philosopher. Instead, William H. Sherman presents De...
The Book of the Play is a collection of essays that examines early modern drama in the context of book history. Focusing on the publication, marketing, and readership of plays opens fresh perspectives on the relationship between the cultures of print and performance and more broadly between drama and the public sphere. Marta Straznicky's introduction offers a survey of approaches to the history of play reading in this period, and the collection as a whole consolidates recent work in textual, bibliographic, and cultural studies of printed drama.
Individually, the essays advance our...
The Book of the Play is a collection of essays that examines early modern drama in the context of book history. Focusing on the publication, market...
In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate with others who shared similar views and preoccupations. In this volume of essays, fifteen scholars explore how these kinds of relationships began to transform early modern European culture. Forms of Association grows out of the oMaking Publics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early Modern Europeo (MaPs) project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. This scholarly initiative convened an interdisciplinary...
In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate wit...
Charts charity's complex history from the 1520s to the 1640s and details the ways in which it can be best understood in biblical translations of the early sixteenth century, in Elizabethan polemic and satire, and in the political and religious controversies arriving at the outset of civil war.
Charts charity's complex history from the 1520s to the 1640s and details the ways in which it can be best understood in biblical translations of the e...
