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Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England by Neil Rhodes
RRP: €35.09€32.31This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in... -
The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan by Michael Davies
€57.02The Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and... -
Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England by Claire M. L. Bourne
RRP: €108.29€103.48Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed... -
English Mythography in its European Context, 1500-1650 by Anna-Maria Hartmann 9780198807704
€133.96Greco-Roman mythology and its reception are at the heart of the European Renaissance, and mythographies-texts that collected and explained ancient myths-were considered indispensable companions to any reader of literature. Despite the importance of this... -
Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Cartographic Anxiety by Christine Barrett 9780198816874
€106.31The Cartographic Revolution in the Renaissance made maps newly precise, newly affordable, and newly ubiquitous. In sixteenth-century Britain, cartographic materials went from rarity to household decor within a single lifetime, and they delighted,... -
Common: The Development of Literary Culture in Sixteenth-Century England by Neil Rhodes 9780198704102
RRP: €130.90€90.31This volume explores the development of literary culture in sixteenth-century England as a whole and seeks to explain the relationship between the Reformation and the literary renaissance of the Elizabethan period. Its central theme is the 'common' in... -
England's Asian Renaissance by Su Fang Ng 9781644532416
RRP: €147.56€127.85.Book InformationISBN 9781644532416Author Su Fang NgFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint University of Delaware PressPublisher Associated University PressesWeight(grams) 152g -
The Renaissance and the Postmodern: A Study in Comparative Critical Values by Thomas L. Martin 9780367870102
RRP: €47.59€41.72The Renaissance and the Postmodern reconsiders postmodern readings of Renaissance texts by engaging in a dialectics the authors call comparative critical values. Rather than concede the contemporary hierarchy of theory over literature, the book takes the... -
Textual Spaces: French Renaissance Writings on the Italian Voyage by Richard E. Keatley 9780271081298
RRP: €110.61€95.02In Textual Spaces, Richard E. Keatley examines how French travelers experienced, consumed, and represented Italian space during the early modern period. This study digs beneath the facade of leisurely travel literature to unearth a complex web of... -
Renaissance Papers 2018 by Jim Pearce 9781640140592
RRP: €95.20€91.17Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The 2018 volume features essays presented at the conference at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, as well as essays... -
Renaissance Papers 2014 by Jim Pearce 9781571139283
RRP: €95.20€91.64Renaissance 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: €95.20€91.17Renaissance 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 Tina Skouen 9781472488053
RRP: €160.65€139.56The 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: €95.20€91.17Renaissance 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: €29.75€24.16Munday'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: €38.07€33.71Originally 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: €95.20€91.17Renaissance 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: €109.47€94.96First 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: €34.50€29.70England'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: €111.86€101.80The 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: €95.20€91.17Apologies 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: €62.48€61.30Munday'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: €63.07€54.67In 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: €66.64€57.69Vital 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: €101.15€32.12Brink'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: €29.75€21.32Brink'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 Steven Hutchinson 9781526167071
RRP: €23.80€17.29This 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... -
Clement Marot`s Epistles Clement Marot 9780866986427
RRP: €76.16€72.91The first complete, versified English-language translation of the epistles of Renaissance poet Clement Marot. Clement Marot (1496-1544), a royal poet in Renaissance France who ushered in new verse forms and renewed existing ones, stands as one of the... -
Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance Vin Nardizzi 9781487500702
RRP: €98.77€83.95A multidisciplinary study of the art and science of botany in Shakespeare’s time, Marvellous Vegetables in the English Renaissance excavates plant natural history as a vital resource for reimagining categories of embodiment, including gender and sex. -
Renaissance Papers 2023 James M Pearce 9781640141872
€106.96Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. This volume examines the sacred and the profane in the early modern period. The 2023 volume features essays from the conference held at...