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Author : Anthony Fletcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 1987-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521349321
This book attempts both to take stock of directions in the field and to suggest alternative perspectives on some central aspects of the period.
Author : Ken MacMillan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,34 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1487588488
This innovative textbook recounts famous and infamous incidents of death and disorder in early modern England, including the executions of St. Thomas More and Mary Queen of Scots and the untimely end of thousands of others.
Author : Garthine Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1139435116
An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.
Author : Order & Disorder In Early Mode
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 1987
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Author : Matthew J. Smith
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0268104689
In Performance and Religion in Early Modern England, Matthew J. Smith seeks to expand our view of “the theatrical.” By revealing the creative and phenomenal ways that performances reshaped religious material in early modern England, he offers a more inclusive and integrative view of performance culture. Smith argues that early modern theatrical and religious practices are better understood through a comparative study of multiple performance types: not only commercial plays but also ballads, jigs, sermons, pageants, ceremonies, and festivals. Our definition of performance culture is augmented by the ways these events looked, sounded, felt, and even tasted to their audiences. This expanded view illustrates how the post-Reformation period utilized new capabilities brought about by religious change and continuity alike. Smith posits that theatrical practice at this time was acutely aware of its power not just to imitate but to work performatively, and to create spaces where audiences could both imaginatively comprehend and immediately enact their social, festive, ethical, and religious overtures. Each chapter in the book builds on the previous ones to form a cumulative overview of early modern performance culture. This book is unique in bringing this variety of performance types, their archives, venues, and audiences together at the crossroads of religion and theater in early modern England. Scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and those generally interested in the Renaissance will enjoy this book.
Author : Ken MacMillan
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781487588519
"In Death and Disorder, award-winning teacher Ken MacMillan introduces readers to the tumultuous world of England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this period, numerous kings and queens were killed, their advisors assassinated, treasonous nobles beheaded, religious heretics burned at the stake, and common criminals--among them murderers, thieves, and witches--executed by hanging. Combined with devastating plagues, a high rate of infant mortality, violence on the battlefield, and attempts to conquer New World Indigenous peoples, these events caused a "crisis of mortality" that became an overarching theme of the period. Early modern England was a society obsessed with order, and it was often through death and disorder that order was restored and change occurred. In three distinct sections of the book--"The Tudors," "The Stuarts," and "Empire and Society"--MacMillan argues that both despite and because of the prevalence of death and disorder in early modern England, these two centuries saw critical historical developments. Each chapter opens and closes with vignettes that highlight important themes, and the book also includes a timeline, two dozen images, engaging discussion questions for each chapter, and a list of further resources."--
Author : Katharine Hodgkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351871579
A fascinating case study of the complex psychic relationship between religion and madness in early seventeenth-century England, the narrative presented here is a rare, detailed autobiographical account of one woman's experience of mental disorder. The writer, Dionys Fitzherbert, recounts the course of her affliction and recovery and describes various delusions and confusions, concerned with (among other things) her family and her place within it; her relation to religion; and the status of the body, death and immortality. Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England presents in modern typography an annotated edition of the author's manuscript of this unusual and compelling text. Also included are prefaces to the narrative written by Fitzherbert and others, and letters written shortly after her mental crisis, which develop her account of the episode. The edition will also give a modernized version of the original text. Katharine Hodgkin supplies a substantial introduction that places this autobiography in the context of current scholarship on early modern women, addressing the overarching issues in the field that this text touches upon. In an appendix to the volume, Hodgkin compares the two versions of the text, considering the grounds for the occasional exclusion or substitution of specific words or passages. Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England adds an important new dimension to the field of early modern women studies.
Author : Markku Peltonen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139436694
Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. The advocates of the duel, following Italian and French examples, contended that it maintained and enhanced politeness; its critics by contrast increasingly severed duelling from civility, and this separation became part of a vigorous attempt in the late seventeenth century and beyond to redefine civility, politeness and indeed the nature and evolution of Englishness. To understand the duel is to understand much more fully some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and Markku Peltonen's study will thus engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.
Author : Samantha Frénée-Hutchins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 35,56 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317172957
This diachronic study of Boudica serves as a sourcebook of references to Boudica in the early modern period and gives an overview of the ways in which her story was processed and exploited by the different players of the times who wanted to give credence and support to their own belief systems. The author examines the different apparatus of state ideology which processed the social, religious and political representations of Boudica for public absorption and helped form the popular myth we have of Boudica today. By exploring images of the Briton warrior queen across two reigns which witnessed an act of political union and a move from English female rule (under Elizabeth I) to British/Scottish masculine rule (under James VI & I) the author conducts a critical cartography of the ways in which gender, colonialism and nationalism crystallised around this crucial historical figure. Concentrating on the original transmission and reception of the ancient texts the author analyses the historical works of Hector Boece, Raphael Holinshed and William Camden as well as the canonical literary figures of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. She also looks at aspects of other primary sources not covered in previous scholarship, such as Humphrey Llwyd’s Breuiary of Britayne (1573), Petruccio Ubaldini’s Le Vite delle donne illustri, del regno d’Inghilterra, e del regno di Scotia (1588) and Edmund Bolton’s Nero Caesar (1624). Furthermore, she incorporates archaeological research relating to Boudica.
Author : Bert Roest
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9004243631
In Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform, Bert Roest provides an up-to-date and comprehensive history of the Poor Clares from their early beginnings until the sixteenth century.