Contributors to this collection examine the complex significations of "Asia" in the literary and cultural production of early modern England.
Contributors to this collection examine the complex significations of "Asia" in the literary and cultural production of early modern England
The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia is an important collection of essays that examine the complex significations of "Asia" in the literary and cultural production of early modern England. It posits that the interest in merchant and overseas ventures and fa…
"The English Renaissance, Orientalism, and the Idea of Asia is an important collection of essays that examine the complex significations of "Asia" in the literary and cultural production of early modern England. It posits that the interest in merchant and overseas ventures and f…
"Anthropology is a notoriously polysemous term. Within a continental European academic context, it is usually employed in the sense of philosophical anthropology, and mainly concerned with exploring concepts of a universal human nature. By contrast, Anglo-American scholarship al…
Biographical note: Andreas Höfele and Stephan Laqué, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
"Anthropology is a notoriously polysemous term. Within a continental European academic context, it is usually employed in the sense of philosophical anthropology, and mainly concerned with exploring concepts of a universal human nature. By contrast, Anglo-American scholarship al…
"Anthropology is a notoriously polysemous term. Within a continental European academic context, it is usually employed in the sense of philosophical anthropology, and mainly concerned with exploring concepts of a universal human nature. By contrast, Anglo-American scholarship al…
'Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England' offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval generally. R…
'Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England' offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval generally. R…
Includes information on Arthurian romances, Migel de Cervantes Saavedra, Captain Cox, George Gascoigne, Heraldry, Edward Herbert, Ben Johnson, Francis Kirkman, Gautier de Costes de la Calprenede, Robert Laneham, Sir Thomas Malory, John Marston, William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Si…
Chivalry and Romance in Renaissance England offers a reinterpretation of the place and significance of chivalric culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century and explores the implications of this reconfigured interpretation for an understanding of the medieval generally.