Courtly Letters In The Age Of Henry Viii

Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521590013
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Courtly Letters in the Age of Henry VIII written by Seth Lerer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revisionary study of the origins of courtly poetry reveals the culture of spectatorship and voyeurism that shaped early Tudor English literary life. Through research into the reception of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, it demonstrates how Pandarus became the model of the early modern courtier. His blend of counsel, secrecy and eroticism informed the behaviour of poets, lovers, diplomats and even Henry VIII himself. In close readings of the poetry of Hawes and Skelton, the drama of the court, the letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn, the writings of Thomas Wyatt, and manuscript anthologies and early printed books, Seth Lerer illuminates a 'Pandaric' world of displayed bodies, surreptitious letters and transgressive performances. In the process, he redraws the boundaries between the medieval and the Renaissance and illustrates the centrality of the verse epistle to the construction of subjectivity.

Author : I. Moulton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137405058
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century written by I. Moulton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love in Print in the Sixteenth Century explores the impact of print on conflicting cultural notions about romantic love in the sixteenth century. This popularization of romantic love led to profound transformations in the rhetoric, ideology, and social function of love - transformations that continue to shape cultural notions about love today.

Author : Kevin Sharpe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113943683X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England written by Kevin Sharpe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific historical moments from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It also charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts during the period. A team of expert contributors cover topics including the processes of book production and distribution, audiences and markets, the material text, the relation of print to performance, and the politics of acts of reception. In addition, the volume emphasises the independence of early modern readers and their role in making meaning in an age in which increased literacy equaled social enfranchisement and interpretation was power. Meaning was not simply an authorial act but the work of many hands and processes, from editing, printing, and proofing, to reproducing, distributing, and finally reading.

Author : Henry VIII (King of England)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn written by Henry VIII (King of England) and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII written by Great Britain. Public Record Office and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donatella Montini
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319719521
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth I in Writing written by Donatella Montini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection investigates Queen Elizabeth I as an accomplished writer in her own right as well as the subject of authors who celebrated her. With innovative essays from Brenda M. Hosington, Carole Levin, and other established and emerging experts, it reappraises Elizabeth’s translations, letters, poems and prayers through a diverse range of approaches to textuality, from linguistic and philological to literary and cultural-historical. The book also considers Elizabeth as “authored,” studying how she is reflected in the writing of her contemporaries and reconstructing a wider web of relations between the public and private use of language in early modern culture. Contributions from Carlo M. Bajetta, Guillaume Coatelen and Giovanni Iamartino bring the Queen’s presence in early modern Italian literary culture to the fore. Together, these essays illuminate the Queen in writing, from the multifaceted linguistic and rhetorical strategies that she employed, to the texts inspired by her power and charisma.

Author : Marcy L. North
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226594378
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anonymous Renaissance written by Marcy L. North and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book trade, she argues, created many intriguing and paradoxical uses for anonymity, even as the authorial name became more marketable. Among ecclesiastical debates, for instance, anonymity worked to conceal identity, but it could also be used to identify the moral character of the author being concealed. In court and coterie circles, meanwhile, authors turned name suppression into a tool for the preservation of social boundaries. Finally, in both print and manuscript, anonymity promised to liberate an authentic female voice, and yet it made it impossible to authenticate the gender of an author. In sum, the writers and book producers who helped to create England's literary culture viewed anonymity as a meaningful and useful practice."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022658268X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Lyric Stage written by Seth Lerer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances—which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection—somehow fall short of the listener’s expectations? As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare’s late plays invite us to contemplate that very question, offering up lyric as a displaced and sometimes desperate antidote to situations of duress or powerlessness. Lerer argues that the theme of lyric misalignment running throughout The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Henry VIII, and Cymbeline serves a political purpose, a last-ditch effort at transformation for characters and audiences who had lived through witch-hunting, plague, regime change, political conspiracies, and public executions. A deep dive into the relationship between aesthetics and politics, this book also explores what Shakespearean lyric is able to recuperate for these “victims of history” by virtue of its disjointed utterances. To this end, Lerer establishes the concept of mythic lyricism: an estranging use of songs and poetry that functions to recreate the past as present, to empower the mythic dead, and to restore a bit of magic to the commonplaces and commodities of Jacobean England. Reading against the devotion to form and prosody common in Shakespeare scholarship, Lerer’s account of lyric utterance’s vexed role in his late works offers new ways to understand generational distance and cultural change throughout the playwright’s oeuvre.

Author : Carlo M. Bajetta
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137435534
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth I's Italian Letters written by Carlo M. Bajetta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first edition ever of the Queen’s correspondence in Italian. These letters cast a new light on her talents as a linguist and provide interesting details as to her political agenda, and on the cultural milieu of her court. This book provides a fresh analysis of the surviving evidence concerning Elizabeth’s learning and use of Italian, and of the activity of the members of her ‘Foreign Office.’ All of the documents transcribed here are accompanied by a short introduction focusing on their content and context, a brief description of their transmission history, and an English translation.

Author : Natalie Grueninger
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526776995
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Final Year of Anne Boleyn written by Natalie Grueninger and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-12-02 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are few women in English history more famous or controversial than Queen Anne Boleyn. She was the second wife of Henry VIII, mother of Elizabeth I and the first English queen to be publicly executed. Much of what we think we know about her is colored by myth and legend, and does not stand up to close scrutiny. Reinvented by each new generation, Anne is buried beneath centuries of labels: homewrecker, seductress, opportunist, witch, romantic victim, Protestant martyr, feminist. In this vivid and engaging account of the triumphant and harrowing final year of Queen Anne Boleyn’s life, the author reveals a very human portrait of a brilliant, passionate and complex woman. The last twelve months of Anne’s life contained both joy and heartbreak. This telling period bore witness to one of the longest and most politically significant progresses of Henry VIII’s reign, improved relations between the royal couple, and Anne’s longed-for pregnancy. With the dawning of the new year, the pendulum swung. In late January 1536, Anne received news that her husband had been thrown from his horse in his tiltyard at Greenwich. Just days later, tragedy struck. As the body of Anne’s predecessor, Katherine of Aragon, was being prepared for burial, Anne miscarried her son. The promise of a new beginning dashed, the months that followed were a rollercoaster of anguish and hope, marked by betrayal, brutality and rumour. What began with so much promise, ended in silent dignity, amid a whirlwind of scandal, on a scaffold at the Tower of London. Through close examination of these intriguing events considered in their social and historical context, readers will gain a fresh perspective into the life and death of the woman behind the tantalising tale. "Natalie Grueninger skilfully unravels the myths surrounding Anne Boleyn’s downfall, and presents the most compelling account of her final months to date. A Triumph.” - Dr Owen Emmerson, Historian and Assistant Curator, Hever Castle "A heart-stirring account of Anne Boleyn's last living year. Researched flawlessly, the events are revealed in a compelling read; little-known facts adding to the tension which builds toward an emotional end. A must-read for fans and students of Tudor history." - S.V author of Anne Boleyn's Letter From the Tower; A New Assessment "Genuinely ground-breaking, provocative yet sensitive, exquisitely well-researched and fair - both to Anne's friends and enemies - Natalie Grueninger's book shows us the complexities, and the secrets, that wove together during Anne Boleyn's final twelve months as queen. This is an exciting and important book of Tudor history." - Gareth Russell, Historian and author of The Ship of Dreams and Young and Damned and Fair “Astonishingly well-researched, 'The Final Year of Anne Boleyn' triumphantly re-writes the fall of one of England's most famous queen consorts, shedding new light on a well-known story. A riveting and emotional read.” - Kate McCaffrey, Assistant Curator, Hever Castle