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  • Antiquity Made Whole

    The Renaissance Continuation of Ancient Literature

    de Leah Whittington ...
    Series series Singleton Center Books in Premodern Europe
    How Renaissance writers reimagined the ancient world, one fragment at a time.Across the European Renaissance, ancient literature circulated in damaged, incomplete, and fragmentary forms. Missing lines, lost endings, and textual gaps were not obstacles to reading the classics; instead, they were invitations to fill in the blanks. In Antiquity Made Whole, Leah Whittington studies the practice of ... Leer más

    $57.39 USD

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  • Renaissance Suppliants

    Poetry, Antiquity, Reconciliation

    de Leah Whittington ...
    Renaissance Suppliants studies supplication as a social and literary event in the long European Renaissance. It argues that scenes of supplication are defining episodes in a literary tradition stretching back to Greco-Roman antiquity, taking us to the heart of fundamental questions of politics and religion, ethics and identity, sexuality and family. As a perennial mode of asymmetrical ... Leer más

    $97.19 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Renaissance

    Edición de Michael Wyatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    The Renaissance in Italy continues to exercise a powerful hold on the popular imagination and on scholarly enquiry. This Companion presents a lively, comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and current approach to the period that extends in Italy from the turn of the fourteenth century through the latter decades of the sixteenth. Addressed to students, scholars, and non-specialists, it introduces the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Mirror of Simple Souls

    de Margaret Porette, Edmund Colledge, O.S.A., J. C. Marler, Judith Grant ...
    Series series Notre Dame Texts in Medieval Culture
    When Dr. Romana Guarnieri, in a letter to Osservatore Romano (16 June 1946), announced her discovery that Margaret Porette (d. 1 June 1310) was the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, certainly a major French document of pre-Reformation spirituality, a sensation was created in the academic world. Although The Mirror is one of the few heretical documents to have survived the Middle Ages in its ... Leer más

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  • Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland

    Edición de Gregory Hulsman, Caoimhe Whelan ...
    Series Libro 4 - Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    This collection offers a range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the occupation of space and theories of place in Britain and Ireland throughout the medieval and early modern periods. It considers space in both its physical and abstract sense, exploring literature, history, art, manuscript studies, religion, geography and archaeology. The buildings and ruins still occupying our urban and rural ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

    Volume 2: 1558-1660

    Edición de Patrick Cheney, Philip Hardie ...
    Series series Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
    The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents ... Leer más

    $48.59 USD

  • The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature

    Volume 1: 800-1558

    Edición de Rita Copeland ...
    Series series Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature
    The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • English Mythography in its European Context, 1500-1650

    de Anna-Maria Hartmann ...
    Series series Classical Presences
    Greco-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 genre, English mythographies have not gained sustained critical attention, largely because they have been wrongly considered mere copies of their ... Leer más

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  • Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli

    Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague

    de William J. Landon ...
    By 1520, Niccolò 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 is one figure whose substantial contributions to Machiavelli’s restoration has been hitherto neglected – Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi (1482–1549), ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Homer and the Question of Strife from Erasmus to Hobbes

    de Jessica Wolfe ...
    From antiquity through the Renaissance, Homer’s epic poems – the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the various mock-epics incorrectly ascribed to him – served as a lens through which readers, translators, and writers interpreted contemporary conflicts. They looked to Homer for wisdom about the danger and the value of strife, embracing his works as a mythographic shorthand with which to describe and ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Speaking Spirits

    Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy

    de Sherry Roush ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    In classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as eidolopoeia. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not only to co-opt the authority of their predecessors but in order to express partisan or politically dangerous arguments.In Speaking Spirits, ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • Milton's Angels

    The Early-Modern Imagination

    de Joad Raymond ...
    Milton's Paradise Lost, the most eloquent, most intellectually daring, most learned, and most sublime poem in the English language, is a poem about angels. It is told by and of angels; it relies upon their conflicts, communications, and miscommunications. They are the creatures of Milton's narrative, through which he sets the Fall of humankind against a cosmic background. Milton's angels are real ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD