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Renaissance Papers 2014 by Jim Pearce 9781571139283
RRP: £80.00£77.01Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2014 volume opens and closes with essays on historically based explorations of identity: the first on the circle of Jane Scroop in... -
Renaissance Papers 2015 by Jim Pearce 9781571139641
RRP: £70.00£67.24Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2015 volume features essays from the conference held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as essays submitted... -
The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature by Tina Skouen 9781472488053
RRP: £135.00£117.28The stigma of haste pervaded early modern English culture, more so than the so-called stigma of print. The period's writers were perpetually short on time, but what does it mean for authors to present themselves as hasty or slow, or to characterize... -
Renaissance Papers 2022 by Jim Pearce 9781640141643
RRP: £60.00£57.15Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The theme of this year's volume is "sacred places, secular spaces." It begins with a "who is it" mystery, examining two portraits by... -
Anthony Munday: The Honourable, Pleasant, and Rare Conceited Historie of Palmendos: A Critical Edition with an Introduction, Critical Apparatus, Notes, and Glossary by Leticia Alvarez-Recio 9781580444811
RRP: £26.50£21.47Munday's translation is based on a Spanish original entitled Primaleon de Grecia I (Salamanca, 1512). This Spanish romance, the second book in the Palmerin cycle, soon became a best-seller in the Spanish market, with several editions published between... -
English Literary Criticism: The Renascence by J. W. H. Atkins 9780367763329
RRP: £29.99£26.64Originally published in 1947, this volume reviews the critical achievement at the Renaissance. It discusses the ideas of literature then current in England, as revealed in contemporary theorizing and judgments. The period has sometimes been dismissed as... -
Renaissance Papers 2021 by Jim Pearce 9781640141438
RRP: £70.00£67.24Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The present volume opens with an essay on early modern chess, arguing that it covertly upheld an Aristotelian concept of virtue against... -
A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric by Lee A. Sonnino
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1968, A Handbook to Sixteenth-Century Rhetoric is designed primarily to assist the student of renaissance literature in the science of rhetoric. It gathers together the information provided by the various different authorities who... -
England's Asian Renaissance by Su Fang Ng
RRP: £32.00£27.67England's Asian Renaissance explores how Asian knowledges, narratives, and customs inflected early modern English literature. Just as Asian imports changed England's tastes and enriched the English language, Eastern themes, characters, and motifs helped... -
Agents beyond the State: The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe by Mark Netzloff
RRP: £94.00£85.55The early modern period is often seen as a pivotal stage in the emergence of a recognizably modern form of the state. Agents beyond the State returns to this context in order to examine the literary and social practices through which the early modern... -
Renaissance Papers 2020 by William Given
RRP: £65.00£61.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640141124Author William GivenFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Camden House IncPublisher Boydell & Brewer LtdWeight(grams) 139g -
Anthony Munday: The Honourable, Pleasant, and Rare Conceited Historie of Palmendos: A Critical Edition with an Introduction, Critical Apparatus, Notes, and Glossary by Leticia Alvarez-Recio
RRP: £57.00£55.62Munday's translation is based on a Spanish original entitled Primaleon de Grecia I (Salamanca, 1512). This Spanish romance, the second book in the Palmerin cycle, soon became a best-seller in the Spanish market, with several editions published between... -
Imagining World Order: Literature and International Law in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 by Chenxi Tang
RRP: £57.00£48.45In early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purporting to establish a normative order for the perilous international world. However, it was intrinsically fragile and... -
Vital Strife: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Early Modern Ethics of Care by Benjamin Parris
RRP: £61.00£52.70Vital Strife examines the close yet puzzling relationship between sleep and ethical care in early modernity. The plays, poems, and philosophical essays at the heart of this book-by Jasper Heywood, William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, and... -
The Early Spenser, 1554-80: 'Minde on Honour Fixed' by Jean R. Brink
RRP: £85.00£26.99Brink's provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx's described as 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'. In this readable and informative account, Spenser is depicted as the protege of a circle of London clergymen,... -
The Early Spenser, 1554–80: 'Minde on Honour Fixed' by Jean R. Brink
RRP: £25.00£17.92Brink's provocative biography shows that Spenser was not the would-be court poet whom Karl Marx's described as 'Elizabeth's arse-kissing poet'. In this readable and informative account, Spenser is depicted as the protege of a circle of London clergymen,... -
Frontier Narratives: Liminal Lives in the Early Modern Mediterranean by Steven Hutchinson
RRP: £20.00£14.53This book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages. The Muslim-Christian divide in the region produced an unusual kind of slavery, fostered a...