The Oxford Handbook Of Holinsheds Chronicles

Author : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199565759
Total Pages : 811 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles written by Paulina Kewes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 811 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.

Author : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191655023
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's Chronicles written by Paulina Kewes and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-12-27 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), issued under the name of Raphael Holinshed, was the crowning achievement of Tudor historiography, and became the principal source for the historical writings of Spenser, Daniel and, above all, Shakespeare. While scholars have long been drawn to Holinshed for its qualities as a source, they typically dismissed it as a baggy collection of materials, lacking coherent form and analytical insight. This condescending verdict has only recently given way to an appreciation of the literary and historical qualities of these chronicles. The Handbook is a major interdisciplinary undertaking which gives the lie to Holinshed's detractors, and provides original interpretations of a book that has lacked sustained academic scrutiny. Bringing together leading specialists in a variety of fields - literature, history, religion, classics, bibliography, and the history of the book - the Handbook demonstrates that the Chronicles powerfully reflect the nature of Tudor thinking about the past, about politics and society, and about the literary and rhetorical means by which readers might be persuaded of the truth of narrative. The volume shows how distinctive it was for one book to chronicle the history of three nations of the British archipelago. The various sections of the Handbook analyse the making of the two editions of the Chronicles; the relationship of the work to medieval and early modern historiography; its formal properties, genres and audience; attitudes to politics, religion, and society; literary appropriations; and the parallel descriptions and histories of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The result is a seminal study that shows unequivocally the vitality and complexity of the chronicle form in the late sixteenth century.

Author : Raphael Holinshed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781391938
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Holinshed's Chronicles written by Raphael Holinshed and published by . This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the time of Noah's flood to the end of Roman dominion."

Author : Robert Malcolm Smuts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199660840
Total Pages : 849 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare written by Robert Malcolm Smuts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title offers literary scholars a variety of perspectives, insights and methodologies found in current historical work that inform the study of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Author : Karen Mossberger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199709939
Total Pages : 696 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics written by Karen Mossberger and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies. The editors are all recognized experts, and are well connected to the leading scholars in urban politics. The handbook covers the major themes that animate the subfield: the politics of space and place; power and governance; urban policy; urban social organization; citizenship and democratic governance; representation and institutions; approaches and methodology; and the future of urban politics. Given the caliber of the editors and proposed contributors, the volume sets the intellectual agenda for years to come.

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191655066
Total Pages : 768 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 written by Andrew Hadfield and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of English Prose 1500-1640 is the only current overview of early modern English prose writing. The aim of the volume is to make prose more visible as a subject and as a mode of writing. It covers a vast range of material vital for the understanding of the period: from jestbooks, newsbooks, and popular romance to the translation of the classics and the pioneering collections of scientific writing and travel writing; from diaries, tracts on witchcraft, and domestic conduct books to rhetorical treatises designed for a courtly audience; from little known works such as William Baldwin's Beware the Cat, probably the first novel in English, to The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer and Richard Hooker's eloquent statement of Anglican belief, The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The work not only deals with the range and variety of the substance and types of English prose, but also analyses the forms and styles of writing adopted in the early modern period, ranging from the Euphuistic nature of prose fiction inaugurated by John Lyly's mannered novel, to the aggressive polemic of the Marprelate controversy; from the scatological humour of comic writing to the careful modulations of the most significant sermons of the age; and from the pithy and concise English essays of Francis Bacon to the ornate and meandering style of John Florio's translation of Montaigne's famous collection. Each essay provides an overview as well as comment on key passages, and a select guide to further reading.

Author : American Medical Association
Publisher : American Medical Association Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603591522
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Annabel Patterson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226649115
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book Reading Holinshed's Chronicles written by Annabel Patterson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-10-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Holinshed's Chronicles is the first major study of the greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles. Holinshed's Chronicles—a massive history of England, Scotland, and Ireland—has been traditionally read as the source material for many of Shakespeare's plays or as an archaic form of history-writing. Annabel Patterson insists that the Chronicles be read in their own right as an important and inventive cultural history. Although we know it by the name of Raphael Holinshed, editor and major compiler of the 1577 edition, the Chronicles was the work of a group, a collaboration between antiquarians, clergymen, members of parliament, poets, publishers, and booksellers. Through a detailed reading, Patterson argues that the Chronicles convey rich insights into the way the Elizabethan middle class understood their society. Responding to the crisis of disunity which resulted from the Reformation, the authors of the Chronicles embodied and encouraged an ideal of justice, what we would now call liberalism, that extended beyond the writing of history into the realms of politics, law, economics, citizenship, class, and gender. Also, since the second edition of 1587 was called in by the Privy Council and revised under supervision, the work constitutes an important test case for the history of early modern censorship. An essential book for all students of Tudor history and literature, Reading Holinshed's Chronicles brings into full view a long misunderstood masterpiece of sixteenth-century English culture.

Author : Raphael Holinshed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1491 pages
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Download or read book The Third Volume of the Chronicles written by Raphael Holinshed and published by . This book was released on 1587 with total page 1491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198778171
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book Stuart Succession Literature written by Paulina Kewes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-01-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moments of royal succession, which punctuate the Stuart era (1603-1714), occasioned outpourings of literature. Writers, including most of the major figures of the seventeenth century from Jonson, Daniel, and Donne to Marvell, Dryden, and Behn, seized upon these occasions: to mark the transition of power; to reflect upon the political structures and values of their nation; and to present themselves as authors worthy of patronage and recognition. This volume of essays explores this important category of early modern writing. It contends that succession literature warrants attention as a distinct category: appreciated by contemporaries, acknowledged by a number of scholars, but never investigated in a coherent and methodical manner, it helped to shape political reputations and values across the period. Benefitting from the unique database of such writing generated by the AHRC-funded Stuart Successions Project, the volume brings together a distinguished group of authors to address a subject which is of wide and growing interest to students both of history and of literature. It illuminates the relation between literature and politics in this pivotal century of English political and cultural history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the volume will be indispensable to scholars of early modern British literature and history as well as undergraduates and postgraduates in both fields.