The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care, Restoration Publicist
The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care, Restoration Publicist

Author: Lois G. Schwoerer

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780801867279

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Henry Care was a Restoration publicist who worked during the Exclusion Crisis and the reign of King James II. By exploring his life and work, this text offers insight into how the non-elite affected politics.

Printing Spinoza
Printing Spinoza

Author: Jeroen M.M. van de Ven

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-04-04

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 9004467998

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In Printing Spinoza Jeroen van de Ven systematically examines all seventeenth-century printed editions of Spinoza’s writings, published between 1663 and 1694, as well as their variant ‘issues’. In focus are Spinoza’s 1663 adumbration of René Descartes’s ‘Principles of Philosophy’ with his own ‘Metaphysical Thoughts’, the ‘Theological-Political Treatise’ (1670), and the posthumous writings (1677), including the famously-known ‘Ethics’. Van de Ven’s descriptive bibliography studies, contextualizes, and records all aspects of the publication history of Spinoza’s writings from manuscript to print and assesses their immediate reception. It discusses the printed books’ codicology, philology, typographical and textual relationships, illustration programmes, as well as their dissemination in early Enlightenment Europe, in view of the physical aspects of 1,246 extant copies and their provenance.

The Printed Image in Early Modern London
The Printed Image in Early Modern London

Author: Joseph Monteyne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1351541269

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Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation, this study offers the first sustained analysis of the vital interrelationship between printed images and urban life in early modern London. The study differs from all other books on early modern British print culture in that it seeks out printed forms that were active in shaping and negotiating the urban milieu-prints that troubled categories of high and low culture, images that emerged when the political became infused with the creative, as well as prints that bear traces of the roles they performed and the ways they were used in the city. It is distinguished by its close and sustained readings of individual prints, from the likes of such artists as Wenceslaus Hollar, Francis Barlow, and William Faithorne; and this visual analysis is complemented with a thorough examination of the dynamics of print production as a commercial exchange that takes place within a wider set of exchanges (of goods, people, ideas and money) across the city and the nation. This study challenges scholars to re-imagine the function of popular prints as a highly responsive form of cultural production, capable not only of 'recording' events, spaces and social actions, but profoundly shaping the way these entities are conceived in the moment and also recast within cultural memory. It offers historians of print culture and British art a sophisticated and innovative model of how to mobilize rigorous archival research in the service of a thoroughly historicized and theorized analysis of visual representation and its relationship to space and social identity.