The Memory Arts in Renaissance England
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-18
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1107086817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-18
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1107086817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-10-13
Total Pages: 311
ISBN-13: 1108910424
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the collection is arranged into three subsections, 'The Arts of Remembering Death', 'Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead', and 'The Ends of Commemoration', where contributors analyse how memory and mortality intersected in writings, devotional practice, and visual culture. The book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, book history, art history, and the history of mnemonics and thanatology, and will prove an indispensable guide for researchers, instructors, and students alike.
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-09-08
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1108800394
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death's intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research.
Author: George Puttenham
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780801486524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first modernized and fully annotated edition of Puttenham's 1589 text.
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780199257621
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Author: Ann Rosalind Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780521786638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2005-10-01
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0892367857
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Author: Jonathan Baldo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-06-30
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1316517691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first book to systematically combine the two vibrant yet hitherto unconnected fields of memory and affect in Shakespeare's England.
Author: Lucy Gent
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780948462085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Renaissance Bodies is a unique collection of views on the ways in which the human image has been represented in the arts and literature of English Renaissance society. The subjects discussed range from high art to popular culture - from portraits of Elizabeth I to polemical prints mocking religious fanaticism - and include miniatures, manners, anatomy, drama and architectural patronage. The authors, art historians and literary critics, reflect diverse critical viewpoints, and the 78 illustrations present a fascinating exhibition of the often strange and haunting images of the period. With essays by John Peacock, Elizabeth Honig, Andrew and Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Sawday, Susan Wiseman, Ellen Chirelstein, Tamsyn Williams, Anna Bryson, Maurice Howard and Nigel Llewellyn. "The whole book ... presents a mirror of contemporary concerns with power, the merits and demerits of individualism, sex-roles, 'selves', the meaning of community and (even) conspicuous consumption."--The Observer