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The period from the Reformation to the English Civil War saw an evolving understanding of social identity in England. This book uses four illuminating case studies to chart a discursive shift from mid-sixteenth-century notions of an individually generated, spiritually motivated …
English mercuries -- Men, money, iron, and bread -- Thomas Churchyard's "Valiant soldiers" and the "Public state"--A tale of two cities: George Gascoigne's Antwerp and Alarum for London -- John Donne's Emblem of war -- John Harington's Journey home -- Remembering soldiers: Ben J…
Introduction: edified by the margin -- Florio's theatrical Montaigne -- Sexuality and censorship in the Essayes -- On the tyranny of 'Custome': ideology and appropriation -- from an English Montaigne to The Dutch courtesan: common customers -- Montaignian conscience and the Shak…
The Handbook of Iconometry (ca. 1687) reproduces, in facsimile, a lavishly illustrated treatise describing the iconometic principles and measurements at the heart of the 17th-century art of Tibet. It includes over 150 drawings of buddhas, bodhisattvas and divinities, 70 script t…
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, widespread fear of criminal assault motivated the publication of hundreds of pamphlets tracing the lives and misdeeds of London's most notorious rogues. Turned to Account is a study that focuses on the popular genre of criminal biogra…
"This work describes in accessible language the technical foundations of the Old Italian School of Singing. It enables the reader to grasp the teachings of the old masters theoretically and practically. For its research are used not only the old treatises from the 1700's onwards…
