Book Description
Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.
Author : Margaret Connolly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1108426778
Explores the reception of fifteenth-century English manuscripts and two generations of a Tudor family who owned and read them.
Author : Henry S. Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 1948
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Edward Gordon Duff
Publisher : [London] : Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Ernest Fraser Jacob
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category :
ISBN : 9780198217145
Author : William Denton
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 1888
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Michael Hicks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1134603436
English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century is a new and original study of how politics worked in late medieval England, throwing new light on a much-discussed period in English history. Michael Hicks explores the standards, values and principles that motivated contemporary politicians, and the aspirations and interests of both dukes and peasants alike. Hicks argues that the Wars of the Roses did not result from fundamental weaknesses in the political system but from the collision of exceptional circumstances that quickly passed away. Overall, he shows that the era was one of stability and harmony, and that there were effective mechanisms for keeping the peace. Structure and continuities, Hicks argues, were more prominent than change.
Author : Karen A. Winstead
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0268108552
In Fifteenth-Century Lives, Karen A. Winstead identifies and explores a major shift in the writing of Middle English saints’ lives. As she demonstrates, starting in the 1410s and ’20s, hagiography became more character-oriented, more morally complex, more deeply embedded in history, and more politically and socially engaged. Further, it became more self-consciously literary and began to feature women more prominently—and not only traditional virgin martyrs but also matrons and contemporary holy women. Winstead shows that this literature placed a premium on scholarship and teaching. Hagiography celebrated educators and scholars to a greater extent than ever before and became a vehicle for educating readers about Christian dogma. Focusing both on authors well known, such as John Lydgate and Margery Kempe, and on others less known, such as Osbern Bokenham and John Capgrave, Winstead argues that the values promoted by fifteenth-century hagiography helped to shape the reformist impulses that eventually produced the Reformation. Moreover, these values continued to influence post-Reformation hagiography, both Protestant and Catholic, well into the seventeenth century. In exploring these trends in fifteenth-century hagiography, identifying the factors that contributed to their emergence, and tracing their influence in later periods, Fifteenth-Century Lives marks an important contribution to revisionary scholarship on fifteenth-century literature. It will appeal to students and scholars of late medieval English literature and late medieval religion.
Author : Luís Urbano Afonso
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 37,63 MB
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781909400597
The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied and illuminated in Lisbon in 1496, this volume discusses a wide scope of topics related with the production, consumption and circulation of medieval decorated Hebrew manuscripts. Among the issues discussed in this volume we highlight the role played by three distinct artistic languages (Mudejar, Late Gothic and Renaissance) in the shapping of 15th century Sephardic illumination, the codicological specificity of some solutions in terms of layout and the relation between the layout of these manuscripts and Hebrew incunabula, the use of geometric decoration in scientific diagrams, or the afterlife of these manuscripts in Europe and Asia following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia.
Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780199519057
Author : Edward Gordon Duff
Publisher : [London] : Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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