John Dee

William H Sherman

• Paperback | Engels | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• This book challenges the conventional image of John Dee (1527-1609) as an isolated, eccentric philosopher. Instead, William H. Sherman presents Dee in... Lees meer

Conceived Presences

Raphael Falco

• Hardcover | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• Explores the manner in which English Renaissance poets invented a poetic genealogy. Falco applies the notion of ""conceived presences"" to the poets o... Lees meer

Word Against Word

James R. Siemon

• Hardcover | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• Applies the work of M.M. Bakhtin and his circle to the study of Shakespearean drama and, in particular, to Shakespeare's ""Richard II"". The book expl... Lees meer

Love's Quarrels

Evan Gurney

• Paperback | Engels | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• Early modern English writers often complained that "charity had grown cold," lamenting the dissolution of society's communal bonds. But far from dimin... Lees meer

Forms of Association

• Hardcover | Engels | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• In today's connected and interactive world, it is hard to imagine a time when cultural and intellectual interests did not lead people to associate wit... Lees meer

Feting the Queen

John Mark Adrian

• Hardcover | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• While previous scholars have studied Elizabeth I and her visits to the homes of influential courtiers, Feting the Queen places a new emphasis on the c... Lees meer

The Portable Queen

Mary Hill Cole

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• Every spring and summer of her forty-four years as queen, Elizabeth I (1533-1603) insisted that her court go "on progress," a series of royal visits t... Lees meer

The Book of the Play

• Paperback | Engels | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• The Book of the Play is a collection of essays that examines early modern drama in the context of book history. Focusing on the publication, marketing... Lees meer

Love's Quarrels

Evan A. Gurney

• Hardcover | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• Charts charity's complex history from the 1520s to the 1640s and details the ways in which it can be best understood in biblical translations of the e... Lees meer

Divulging Utopia

David Weil Baker

• Hardcover | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• A study in intellectual history and the history of the book, this work examines the humanist movement in 16th-century England and traces the reception... Lees meer

The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England

Skiles Howard

• Hardcover | Engels | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• This book argues that in early modern England, dance was not merely a pleasant pastime, but an intricate network of bodily negotiations of power, sex,... Lees meer

Spenser's Life and the Subject of Biography

• Hardcover | Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture
• The first ""life"" of Edmund Spenser was written by the poet himself, in allegorical fictions of poetic ambition, envy and anxiety. Succeeding readers... Lees meer