The chapters in this book include: 'Spectacle and Sacrilege: The Croxton'; 'Performance and Polemic'; 'Staging Iconoclasm: Lewis Wager's 'Life and Repentaunce of Mary Magdalene' and Cranmer's Laws Against Images'; and much more.
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The drama of reform' examines the relationship between drama and religion, between theatricality and theology in England before and during the Reformation. 'The drama of reform' establishes the impact of late medieval and early modern religious reform on dramaturgy. Taking an in…
"The Drama of Reform establishes the impact of late medieval and early modern religious reform on dramaturgy. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it examines the interactions between theatricality and theology across a range of different plays including the Croxton Play of the…
This book unravels the complex interaction of the paradigms of luxury and greed which lie at the origins of modern consumption practices. In the Western world, the phenomenon of luxury and the ethical dilemmas it raised appeared, for the first time since antiquity, in early mode…
Luxury and the ethics of greed in early modern Italy
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Le site de l'éditeur indique : "A new, scholarly, and lively appraisal of the twin paradigms of Luxury and Greed as they were debated, disseminated, enacted, and feigned in early modern Italy. This book unravels the complex interaction of the paradigms of luxury and greed which …
A new, scholarly, and lively appraisal of the twin paradigms of Luxury and Greed as they were debated, disseminated, enacted, and feigned in early modern Italy. This book unravels the complex interaction of the paradigms of luxury and greed which lie at the origins of modern con…
When Janet Abu-Lughod sketched the contours of a medieval 'world system' in 1989, she located most communication networks in the southern hemisphere. In recent decades, however, new trends in research and new forms of evidence have complicated, enriched, and expanded this pictur…
When Janet Abu-Lughod sketched the contours of a medieval "world system" in 1989, she located most communication networks in the southern hemisphere. In recent decades, however, new trends in research and new forms of evidence have complicated, enriched, and expanded this pictur…
When Janet Abu-Lughod sketched the contours of a medieval "world system" in 1989, she located most communication networks in the southern hemisphere. In recent decades, however, new trends in research and new forms of evidence have complicated, enriched, and expanded this pictur…
"This work of history examines how the Renaissance popes adopted print as a medium for political discourse in the first decades after the technology's invention (ca. 1470-1520). Drawing on literary and material analyses of dozens of little-known incunabula and early sixteenth-ce…
"This work of history examines how the Renaissance popes adopted print as a medium for political discourse in the first decades after the technology's invention (ca. 1470-1520). Drawing on literary and material analyses of dozens of little-known incunabula and early sixteenth-ce…
"This work of history examines how the Renaissance popes adopted print as a medium for political discourse in the first decades after the technology's invention (ca. 1470-1520). Drawing on literary and material analyses of dozens of little-known incunabula and early sixteenth-ce…
Introduction -- Urbi et orbi -- Humanists, Printers, and Others -- Sixtus IV and his Pamphlet Wars -- Broadsides in Basel -- The Holy Face, Imprinted and in Print -- Refugee Relics -- Kissing the Papal Foot -- Brand Julius -- Conclusion. "This work of history examines how the R…