Author: Marilynn Desmond
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452900742
Category : Carthage (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 318

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Author: Margaret W. Ferguson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226243184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 521

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Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson reveals in Dido's Daughters, this description is inadequate, because it fails to help us understand heated conflicts over literacy during the emergence of print culture. The fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, she shows, were a contentious era of transition from Latin and other clerical modes of literacy toward more vernacular forms of speech and writing. Fegurson's aim in this long-awaited work is twofold: to show that what counted as more valuable among these competing literacies had much to do with notions of gender, and to demonstrate how debates about female literacy were critical to the emergence of imperial nations. Looking at writers whom she dubs the figurative daughters of the mythological figure Dido—builder of an empire that threatened to rival Rome—Ferguson traces debates about literacy and empire in the works of Marguerite de Navarre, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cary, and Aphra Behn, as well as male writers such as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Wyatt. The result is a study that sheds new light on the crucial roles that gender and women played in the modernization of England and France.

Author: Galbraith Miller Crump
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1477119817
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Influenced by Virgils great epic with its tragic tale of the love of Queen Dido for Aeneas comes this new and passionate story of a separate love affair between two lesser people. Didos sister Anna and one of Aeneas captains are thrown together by chance or destiny after years of wandering as refugees in a hostile world. Caught up in the web and dictates of history, they struggle to maintain the integrity of their love against the demands of the world. Events over which they have little or no control lead to nearly insurmountable challenges of loyalty to family and devotion to duty. This is their story. It is the story of love held hostage to the fate of others of far greater importance then themselves. Rising out of the dim pages of history, Didos Sister is a love story as modern as it is universal.

Author: Marjorie Curry Woods
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691170800
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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"Published as part of the E.H. Gombrich lecture series, cosponsored by the Warburg Institute and Princeton University Press. The lectures upon which this book is based were delivered in October 2014"--Copyright page.

Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage" by Christopher Marlowe. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Adèle Geras
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1849920060
Category : Betrayal
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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While she was still trembling with the complete unexpectedness of what Aeneas had just said and done, he leaned forward a little and kissed her on the mouth. Just one swift, soft touch of his lips on hers and then he turned and walked away.Love c

Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Author: Fergus Mason
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781499358964
Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Dido Elizabeth Belle was born in 1761. It would be nearly 100 years before slavery was abolished. The date would be of little importance if not for one important factor: Belle's father was white, but her mother was of African descent. It was an unthinkable act for the time, and Belle's life was destined for only bad things. But remarkably bad things did not happen. Belle was sent to live with her uncle, the Earl of Mansfield; here she was raised as a free woman and given the same privileged upbringing as her cousins. This book tells the inspiring true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, and how the life of a woman most people have never heard helped pave the way for future change.

Author: Christopher Marlowe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Thomas Nash
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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