Author: John Weever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Ancient funerall monuments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent
Author: John Weever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
Ancient Funerall Monuments
Author: John Weever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Antient Funeral Monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent
Author: John Weever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England
Author: Peter Sherlock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351916815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superior to the living, as monuments trumpeted their fame and their confidence in the resurrection. This study aims to stimulate historians to attempt to reconstruct and engage with the world view of past generations through the unique and under-utilised medium of funeral monuments. In so doing it is hoped that more light may be shed on how memory was created, controlled and contested in pre-modern society, and encourage the on-going debate about the ways in which understandings of the past shape the present and future.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351916815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superior to the living, as monuments trumpeted their fame and their confidence in the resurrection. This study aims to stimulate historians to attempt to reconstruct and engage with the world view of past generations through the unique and under-utilised medium of funeral monuments. In so doing it is hoped that more light may be shed on how memory was created, controlled and contested in pre-modern society, and encourage the on-going debate about the ways in which understandings of the past shape the present and future.
Memory's Library
Author: Jennifer Summit
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226781720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226781720
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In Jennifer Summit’s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey’s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory’s Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory’s Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
Memorials & Monuments Old and New
Author: Lawrence Weaver
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sepulchral monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sepulchral monuments
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Ancient Fvnerall Monvments with in the Vnited Monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the Ilands Adiacent,
Author: John Weever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epitaphs
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Ancient funerall monuments
Author: John Weever
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
John Weever
Author: E. A. J. Honigmann
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719023293
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719023293
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Female Mourning in Medieval and Renaissance English Drama
Author: Katharine Goodland
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754651017
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. The author explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England; brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past; and addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were, after the Reformation, increasingly viewed as disturbing.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754651017
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Looking at the plays of Shakespeare, Kyd, and Webster this book presents a new perspective on early modern drama grounded upon three original interrelated points. The author explores how the motif of the mourning woman on the early modern stage embodies the cultural trauma of the Reformation in England; brings to light the extent to which the figures of early modern drama recall those of the recent medieval past; and addresses how these representations embody actual mourning practices that were, after the Reformation, increasingly viewed as disturbing.