Author: James Dougal Fleming
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040047327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient medical discourse of melancholy humour, or black bile. Timothie Bright (1550–1615), physician and priest, prompts the juxtaposition. For he was the author, not only of the period’s original shorthand manual—Characterie (1588)—but also of the first book in English on the dark humour: The Treatise of Melancholy (1586). Bright’s account of melancholy involves a cybernetic phenomenology of the human. Essentially, we are psyches (souls or minds). We are sealed off from our bodies, operating them as automata across an interface. Psychological presence, for Bright, is illusion and pathology. Engrossing performances or representations therefore bring great danger, and so does the doctrine of predestination—less for its content than its typical delivery. Painful preaching was indispensable in sixteenth-century English Protestantism. But it falls foul of Bright’s proscriptions. These are followed by his publication of the first known system for verbatim shorthand notation since antiquity, its technique heavily inflected toward a vocabulary of the pulpit. The passionate, oral performance of the inspired preacher receives an unprecedented textual preservative—and prophylactic. Bright’s technology of information serves his phenomenology of alienation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the early modern period, the tradition of melancholy, and the history of information—as theory, and technology.
Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand
Author: James Dougal Fleming
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040047327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient medical discourse of melancholy humour, or black bile. Timothie Bright (1550–1615), physician and priest, prompts the juxtaposition. For he was the author, not only of the period’s original shorthand manual—Characterie (1588)—but also of the first book in English on the dark humour: The Treatise of Melancholy (1586). Bright’s account of melancholy involves a cybernetic phenomenology of the human. Essentially, we are psyches (souls or minds). We are sealed off from our bodies, operating them as automata across an interface. Psychological presence, for Bright, is illusion and pathology. Engrossing performances or representations therefore bring great danger, and so does the doctrine of predestination—less for its content than its typical delivery. Painful preaching was indispensable in sixteenth-century English Protestantism. But it falls foul of Bright’s proscriptions. These are followed by his publication of the first known system for verbatim shorthand notation since antiquity, its technique heavily inflected toward a vocabulary of the pulpit. The passionate, oral performance of the inspired preacher receives an unprecedented textual preservative—and prophylactic. Bright’s technology of information serves his phenomenology of alienation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the early modern period, the tradition of melancholy, and the history of information—as theory, and technology.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040047327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In Timothie Bright and the Origins of Early Modern Shorthand, J.D. Fleming brings together two areas of sixteenth-century intellectual history. One is the period emergence of artificial systems for verbatim shorthand notation—a crucial episode in the history of information. The other is the ancient medical discourse of melancholy humour, or black bile. Timothie Bright (1550–1615), physician and priest, prompts the juxtaposition. For he was the author, not only of the period’s original shorthand manual—Characterie (1588)—but also of the first book in English on the dark humour: The Treatise of Melancholy (1586). Bright’s account of melancholy involves a cybernetic phenomenology of the human. Essentially, we are psyches (souls or minds). We are sealed off from our bodies, operating them as automata across an interface. Psychological presence, for Bright, is illusion and pathology. Engrossing performances or representations therefore bring great danger, and so does the doctrine of predestination—less for its content than its typical delivery. Painful preaching was indispensable in sixteenth-century English Protestantism. But it falls foul of Bright’s proscriptions. These are followed by his publication of the first known system for verbatim shorthand notation since antiquity, its technique heavily inflected toward a vocabulary of the pulpit. The passionate, oral performance of the inspired preacher receives an unprecedented textual preservative—and prophylactic. Bright’s technology of information serves his phenomenology of alienation. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the early modern period, the tradition of melancholy, and the history of information—as theory, and technology.
A Letter to a Great Character [i.e. John Adams, President of the United States of America; commenting upon his public conduct]. [By William Cunningham, of Fitchburg].
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Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Pages : 64
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Memoirs by a celebrated literary and political character [i.e. R. G.], from the resignation of Sir R. Walpole in 1742, to Lord Chatham's second administration in 1757, containing strictures on some of the most distinguished men of that time. A new edition
Author: Richard Glover
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Timothe Bright, Doctor of Phisicke
Author: William John Carlton
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Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Category : Physicians
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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The Material Letter in Early Modern England
Author: J. Daybell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137006064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137006064
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.
Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries
Author: John Considine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198832281
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This is the first of three volumes offering a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. This volume focuses on the period from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600, exploring the first printed dictionaries, Latin and foreign language dictionaries, and specialized English wordlists.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198832281
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This is the first of three volumes offering a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. This volume focuses on the period from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600, exploring the first printed dictionaries, Latin and foreign language dictionaries, and specialized English wordlists.
A History of Shorthand
Author: Sir Isaac Pitman
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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John Willis, S.t.b., and Edmond Willis
Author: Alexander Tremaine Wright
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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Category : Shorthand
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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A Study of the Prose Works of John Donne
Author: Evelyn Mary Spearing Simpson
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Category : Donne, John
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Donne, John
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Bulletin
Author: Willis-Byrom Club
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Pages : 138
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