Tracing Private Conversations In Early Modern Europe
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Tracing Private Conversations in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Johannes Ljungberg |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9783031466304 |
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The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Warren Boutcher |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2017-03-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780191066016 |
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This major two-volume study offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Montaigne's Essais and their fortunes in early modern Europe and the modern western university. Volume one focuses on contexts from within Montaigne's own milieu, and on the ways in which his book made him a patron-author or instant classic in the eyes of his editor Marie de Gournay and his promoter Justus Lipsius. Volume two focuses on the reader-writers across Europe who used the Essais to make their own works, from corrected editions and translations in print, to life-writing and personal records in manuscript. The two volumes work together to offer a new picture of the book's significance in literary and intellectual history. Montaigne's is now usually understood to be the school of late humanism or of Pyrrhonian scepticism. This study argues that the school of Montaigne potentially included everyone in early modern Europe with occasion and means to read and write for themselves and for their friends and family, unconstrained by an official function or scholastic institution. For the Essais were shaped by a battle that had intensified since the Reformation and that would continue through to the pre-Enlightenment period. It was a battle to regulate the educated individual's judgement in reading and acting upon the two books bequeathed by God to man. The book of scriptures and the book of nature were becoming more accessible through print and manuscript cultures. But at the same time that access was being mediated more intensively by teachers such as clerics and humanists, by censors and institutions, by learned authors of past and present, and by commentaries and glosses upon those authors. Montaigne enfranchised the unofficial reader-writer with liberties of judgement offered and taken in the specific historical conditions of his era. The study draws on new ways of approaching literary history through the history of the book and of reading. The Essais are treated as a mobile, transnational work that travelled from Bordeaux to Paris and beyond to markets in other countries from England and Switzerland, to Italy and the Low Countries. Close analysis of editions, paratexts, translations, and annotated copies is informed by a distinct concept of the social context of a text. The concept is derived from anthropologist Alfred Gell's notion of the 'art nexus': the specific types of actions and agency relations mediated by works of art understood as 'indexes' that give rise to inferences of particular kinds. Throughout the two volumes the focus is on the particular nexus in which a copy, an edition, an extract, is embedded, and on the way that nexus might be described by early-modern people.
Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Andrea Pearson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781351872263 |
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As one of the first books to treat portraits of early modern women as a discrete subject, this volume considers the possibilities and limits of agency and identity for women in history and, with particular attention to gender, as categories of analysis for women's images. Its nine original essays on Italy, the Low Countries, Germany, France, and England deepen the usefulness of these analytical tools for portraiture. Among the book's broad contributions: it dispels false assumptions about agency's possibilities and limits, showing how agency can be located outside of conventional understanding, and, conversely, how it can be stretched too far. It demonstrates that agency is compatible with relational gender analysis, especially when alternative agencies such as spectatorship are taken into account. It also makes evident the importance of aesthetics for the study of identity and agency. The individual essays reveal, among other things, how portraits broadened the traditional parameters of portraiture, explored transvestism and same-sex eroticism, appropriated aspects of male portraiture to claim those values for their sitters, and, as sites for gender negotiation, resistance, and debate, invoked considerable relational anxiety. Richly layered in method, the book offers an array of provocative insights into its subject.
Self Commentary in Early Modern European Literature 1400 1700
Author | : Francesco Venturi |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 445 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9789004396593 |
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An investigation into the various ways in which Renaissance writers comment on, present, and defend their own works, and at the same time themselves in Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, and the Dutch Republic.
Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Timothy McCall,Sean Roberts |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2013-03-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781612480930 |
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Secrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicized books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers’ shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative paintings, ecclesiastical furnishings and engravers’ tools. Topics include how patrons of art and architecture deployed secrets to construct meanings and distinguish audiences, and how artists and patrons manipulated the content and display of the subject matter of artworks to create an aura of exclusive access and privilege. Essays examine the ways in which popes and princes skillfully deployed secrets in works of art to maximize social control, and how artists, printers, and folk healers promoted their wares through the impression of valuable, mysterious knowledge. The authors contributing to the volume represent both established authorities in their field as well as emerging voices. This volume will have wide appeal for historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introducing readers to a fascinating and often unexplored component of early modern culture.
Human Empire
Author | : Ted McCormick |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2022-04-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781009123266 |
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Shows how modern demographic thought began not with counting individuals but with manipulating marginalized and colonized groups.
Religion Magic and Science in Early Modern Europe and America
Author | : Allison P. Coudert |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011-10-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780275996741 |
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This fascinating study looks at how the seemingly incompatible forces of science, magic, and religion came together in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries to form the foundations of modern culture. As Religion, Magic, and Science in Early Modern Europe and America makes clear, the early modern period was one of stark contrasts: witch burnings and the brilliant mathematical physics of Isaac Newton; John Locke's plea for tolerance and the palpable lack of it; the richness of intellectual and artistic life, and the poverty of material existence for all but a tiny percentage of the population. Yet, for all the poverty, insecurity, and superstition, the period produced a stunning galaxy of writers, artists, philosophers, and scientists. This book looks at the conditions that fomented the emergence of such outstanding talent, innovation, and invention in the period 1450 to 1800. It examines the interaction between religion, magic, and science during that time, the impossibility of clearly differentiating between the three, and the impact of these forces on the geniuses who laid the foundation for modern science and culture.
Ritual in Early Modern Europe
Author | : Edward Muir |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1997-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521409675 |
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A comprehensive study of the ritual practices in traditional Christian Europe.