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Author: Simon Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-11-30
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1009098063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full-length study to uncover the profound impact of early modern musical culture on George Herbert's religious verse.
Author: Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-02-05
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780521832700
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPsalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature examines the powerful influence of the biblical Psalms on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. It explores the imaginative, beautiful, ingenious and sometimes ludicrous and improbable ways in which the Psalms were 'translated' from ancient Israel to Renaissance and Reformation England. No biblical book was more often or more diversely translated than the Psalms during the period. In church psalters, sophisticated metrical paraphrases, poetic adaptations, meditations, sermons, commentaries, and through biblical allusions in secular poems, plays, and prose fiction, English men and women interpreted the Psalms, refashioning them according to their own personal, religious, political, or aesthetic agendas. The book focuses on literature from major writers like Shakespeare and Milton to less prominent ones like George Gascoigne, Mary Sidney Herbert and George Wither, but it also explores the adaptations of the Psalms in musical settings, emblems, works of theology and political polemic.
Author: Greg Miller
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2022-08-09
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1526164078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Herbert (1593-1633), the celebrated devotional poet, and his brother Lord Herbert of Cherbury (1583-1648), often described as the father of English deism, are rarely considered together. This collection explores connections between the full range of the brothers’ writings and activities, despite the apparent differences both in what they wrote and in how they lived their lives. More specifically, the volume demonstrates that despite these differences, each conceived of their extended republic of letters as militating against a violent and exclusive catholicity; theirs was a communion in which contention (or disputation) served to develop more dynamic forms of comprehensiveness. The literary, philosophical and musical production of the Herbert brothers appears here in its full European context, connected as they were with the Sidney clan and its investment in international Protestantism. The disciplinary boundaries between poetry, philosophy, politics and theology in modern universities are a stark contrast to the deep interconnectedness of these pursuits in the seventeenth century. Crossing disciplinary and territorial borders, contributors discuss a variety of texts and media, including poetry, musical practices, autobiography, letters, council literature, orations, philosophy, history and nascent religious anthropology, all serving as agents of the circulation and construction of transregionally inspired and collective responses to human conflict and violence. We see as never before the profound connections, face-to-face as well as textual, linking early modern British literary culture with the continent.
Author: Francesca Cioni
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-01-11
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0198874405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book uses textual and material evidence -- in poetry, prayers, physiologies, sermons, church buildings and monuments, manuscript diaries and notebooks -- to explore how material things held spiritual meaning in George Herbert's poetry, and to reflect on scholarly approaches to matter and form in devotional poetry.
Author: Eleanor Chan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024-10-08
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0197748171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe visual, material, and literary cultures of the English Renaissance are littered with objects that depict, utilise, or respond to the metaphor of musical harmony--yet harmony in this period relied on a certain amount of carefully mannered dissonance. Using visual and literary sources alongside musical works, author Eleanor Chan explores the rise of the false relation, a variety of dissonance that, despite being officially frowned upon by contemporary theoretical treatises, became characteristic of English vocal music between ca. 1550 and 1630.
Author: Annette Kern-Stähler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2023-07-20
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 019284377X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Literature and the Senses critically probes the role of literature in capturing and scrutinizing sensory perception. Organized around the five traditional senses, followed by a section on multisensoriality, the collection facilitates a dialogue between scholars working on literature written from the Middle Ages to the present day. The contributors engage with a variety of theorists from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Michel Serres to Jean-Luc Nancy to foreground the distinctive means by which literary texts engage with, open up, or make uncertain dominant views of the nature of perception. Considering the ways in which literary texts intersect with and diverge from scientific, epistemological, and philosophical perspectives, these essays explore a wide variety of literary moments of sensation including: the interspecies exchange of a look between a swan and a young Indigenous Australian girl; the sound of bees as captured in an early modern poem; the noxious smell of the 'Great Stink' that recurs in the Victorian novel; the taste of an eggplant registered in a poetic performance; tactile gestures in medieval romance; and the representation of a world in which the interdependence of human beings with the purple hibiscus plant is experienced through all five senses. The collection builds upon and breaks new ground in the field of sensory studies, focusing on what makes literature especially suitable to engaging with, contributing to, and challenging our perennial understandings of, the senses.
Author: Peter Bennett
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-27
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1108830633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the strategies by which sacred music and liturgy was used to legitimate Louis XIII's power.
Author: Charles John Sommerville
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0195074270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study overcomes the ambiguity and daunting scale of the subject of secularization by using the insights of anthropology and sociology, and by examining an earlier period than usually considered. Concentrating not only on a decline of religious belief, which is the last aspect of secularization, this study shows that a transformation of England's cultural grammar had to precede that loosening of belief, and that this was largely accomplished between 1500 and 1700. Only when definitions of space and time changed and language and technology were transformed (as well as art and play) could a secular world-view be sustained. As aspects of daily life became divorced from religious values and controls, religious culture was supplanted by religious faith, a reasoned, rather than an unquestioned, belief in the supernatural. Sommerville shows that this process was more political and theological than economic or social.
Author: Owen Rees
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1107054427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first substantial study of Victoria's Requiem, among the most prominent Renaissance musical works, encompassing its genesis, style, and impact.
Author: Colin Timms
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-29
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1107154642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book discusses literary and dramatic aspects of musical works for voices and instruments performed in English theatres (c.1650 and 1750).
