Renaissance

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781883389Author Cecilia MuratoriFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 170g

This collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career within the richly diverse contours of his cultural and political milieu. It identifies the ways in which his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781881156Author Margaret TylerFormat PaperbackImprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research AssociationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781884461Author Michel JeanneretFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596054844Author Walter PaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979121Author Will StocktonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 376g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949979411Author Will StocktonFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Clemson University PressPublisher Clemson University PressWeight(grams) 726g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849021197Author Thomas WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 472g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599103327Author Annibal CaroFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 417g

David and Bathsheba presents a modernised edition of George Peele's explosive biblical drama about the tangled lives, deadly liaisons, and twisted histories of Ancient Israel's royal family. Martin's critical edition is the first modern single-volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849021234Author Thomas WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 210g

Spenser's ethics offers a novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, situating his ethics at the nexus of moral philosophy's profound transformation in the early modern era, and the English colonisation of Ireland in the turbulent 1580's and...

By 1520, NiccolO Machiavelli's life in Florence was steadily improving: he had achieved a degree of literary fame, and, following his removal from the Florentine Chancery by the Medici family, he had managed to gain their respect and patronage. But there...

The Spanish Arcadia analyzes the figure of the shepherd in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish imaginary, exploring its centrality to the discourses on racial, cultural, and religious identity. Drawing on a wide range of documents, including...

Using a comparative, feminist approach informed by English and Italian literary and theatre studies, this book investigates connections between Shakespearean comedy and the Italian novella tradition. Shakespeare's comedies adapted the styles of wit,...

This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research. The 13 chapters fall into six groups focusing on questions of space, theology,...

Bernadette Andrea's groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and...

The powerful influence of Petrarch on the development of Renaissance vernacular poetry has long been recognized as one of the major factors in early modern cultural history; this work provides a far more comprehensive catalogue of the direct evidence for...

To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time. The practice of entertaining ideas suggests rumination and meditation, inviting us to think of philosophy as a form of hospitality and a kind of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907322051Author Neil RhodesFormat HardbackPage Count 558Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838464172Author Katarzyna Anna KapitanFormat HardbackImprint Taylor Institution LibraryPublisher Taylor Institution Library

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784177484634Author Jesse G HannaFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Ali Shah PublisherPublisher Ali Shah PublisherWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789971453Author Michael MeereFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Peter Lang International Academic PublishersPublisher Peter Lang International...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781884454Author Professor Michel JeanneretFormat HardbackImprint LegendaPublisher LegendaWeight(grams) 549g

This book explores how humans in the Renaissance lived with, attended to, and considered the minds, feelings, and sociality of other creatures. It examines how Renaissance literature and natural history display an unequal creaturely world: all creatures...

This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have diminished the international dimensions of his life and...

Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period...

Filling an important gap in the history of print and reading, Elspeth Jajdelska offers a new account of the changing relationship between speech, rank and writing from 1600 to 1750. Jajdelska draws on anthropological findings to shed light on the...

What happens when poetry deals explicitly with a serious theological issue? In Poetry Does Theology, Jim Rhodes seeks one answer to that question by analyzing the symbiotic relationship that existed between theology and poetry in fourteenth-century...

Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia...

In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era's most enduring literature, from the riddles of the...

Modern readers and writers find it natural to contrast the agency of realistic fictional characters to the constrained range of action typical of literary personifications. Yet no commentator before the eighteenth century suggests that prosopopoeia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the Authorchner /f Joan /i MarieBook InformationISBN 9780837174914Format HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

The Parable of the Prodigal Son is one of the best-known stories in the Bible. It has captured the imagination of commentators, preachers and writers. Alison M. Jack explores the reconfiguring of the character of the Prodigal Son and his family in...

Conspiracy has been a political phenomenon throughout history, relevant to any form of power from antiquity to the post-modern era. This means of resistance against power was prevalent during the Renaissance, and the Italian fifteenth century, in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393002614Author Bush DouglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 152gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

In The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena, Konrad Eisenbichler analyzes the work of Sienese women poets, in particular, Aurelia Petrucci, Laudomia Forteguerri, and Virginia Salvi, during the first half of the...

In this broad ranging study, Gretchen Woertendyke reconfigures US literary history as a product of hemispheric relations. Hemispheric Regionalism: Romance and the Geography of Genre, brings together a rich archive of popular culture, fugitive slave...

Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the greatness of Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, and of the differences in the power and effect of their work. This book shows how differing philosophical commitments help explain differences in the...

A collection of essays which show how early drama traditions were transformed, recycled, re-used and reformed across time to form new relationships with their audiences. Medieval afterlives brings new insight to the ways in which peoples in the sixteenth...