Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts including poetry, drama, letters and prose, this incisive book sheds new and important light on the early modern world, forms of rhetoric, and the role of women in the culture and politics of the time.
Drawing upon a wide range of literary texts including poetry, drama, letters and prose, this incisive book sheds new and important light on ...
The art of conversation was widely believed to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literature (the main source for "civil conversation"), Jennifer Richards reveals new ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. Richards explores the interest in civil conversation among mid-Tudor humanists, John Cheke, Thomas Smith and Roger Ascham, as well as their self-styled successors, Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spencer.
The art of conversation was widely believed to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literatu...
The art of conversation was widely believed to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literature (the main source for "civil conversation"), Jennifer Richards reveals new ways of thinking about humanism as a project of linguistic and social reform. Richards explores the interest in civil conversation among mid-Tudor humanists, John Cheke, Thomas Smith and Roger Ascham, as well as their self-styled successors, Gabriel Harvey and Edmund Spencer.
The art of conversation was widely believed to have been inspired by the republican philosopher Cicero. Recognizing his influence on courtesy literatu...
This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scots - among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles - by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period; it recovers some of the lost associations of civility as well as the complex use of the adjectives 'civil' and 'barbarous' in cultural and colonial encounters.
This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scots - among them, condu...
