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Author: Christopher Marsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 625
ISBN-13: 1107610249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensive, lavishly illustrated survey of English popular music during the early modern period. Accompanied by specially commissioned recordings.
Author: Linda Phyllis Austern
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2017-02-13
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0253024978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish music studies often apply rigid classifications to musical materials, their uses, their consumers, and performers. The contributors to this volume argue that some performers and manuscripts from the early modern era defy conventional categorization as "amateur" or "professional," "native" or "foreign." These leading scholars explore the circulation of music and performers in early modern England, reconsidering previously held ideas about the boundaries between locations of musical performance and practice.
Author: Linda Phyllis Austern
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020-07-15
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 022670467X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoth from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical performance, and the remarkable ways in which English people understood music to inform other endeavors, from astrology and self-care to divinity and poetics. Music was considered both art and science, and discussions of music and musical terminology provided points of contact between otherwise discrete fields of human learning. This book demonstrates how knowledge of music permitted individuals to both reveal and conceal membership in specific social, intellectual, and ideological communities. Attending to materials that go beyond music’s conventional limits, these chapters probe the role of music in commonplace books, health-maintenance and marriage manuals, rhetorical and theological treatises, and mathematical dictionaries. Ultimately, Austern illustrates how music was an indispensable frame of reference that became central to the fabric of life during a time of tremendous intellectual, social, and technological change.
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: Mervyn Evans James
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780521368773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe social, political and cultural factors determining conformity and obedience as well as dissidence and revolt are traced in sixteenth and early seventeenth century England.
Author: Alexandra Shepard
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1783270179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. A tribute to the work of Keith Wrightson, Remaking English Society re-examines the relationship between enduring structures and social change in early modern England. Collectively, the essays in the volume reconstruct the fissures and connections that developed both within and between social groups during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Focusing on the experience of rapid economic and demographic growth and on related processesof cultural diversification, the contributors address fundamental questions about the character of English society during a period of decisive change. Prefaced by a substantial introduction which traces the evolution of early modern social history over the last fifty years, these essays (each of them written by a leading authority) not only offer state-of-the-art assessments of the historiography but also represent the latest research on a variety of topics that have been at the heart of the development of 'the new social history' and its cultural turn: gender relations and sexuality; governance and litigation; class and deference; labouring relations, neighbourliness and reciprocity; and social status and consumption. STEVE HINDLE is W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California. ALEXANDRA SHEPARD is Reader in History, University of Glasgow. JOHN WALTER is Professor of History, University of Essex. Contributors: Helen Berry, Adam Fox, H. R. French, Malcolm Gaskill, Paul Griffiths, Steve Hindle, Craig Muldrew, Lindsay O'Neill, Alexandra Shepard, Tim Stretton, Naomi Tadmor, John Walter, Phil Withington, Andy Wood
Author: Mary Lindemann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-07
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0521425921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.
Author: Sasha Handley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-09-27
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 0300220391
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Author: J. A. Sharpe
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780713165128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Leslie C. Dunn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 1317130480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSong offers a vital case study for examining the rich interplay of music, gender, and representation in the early modern period. This collection engages with the question of how gender informed song within particular textual, social, and spatial contexts in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Bringing together ongoing work in musicology, literary studies, and film studies, it elaborates an interdisciplinary consideration of the embodied and gendered facets of song, and of song’s capacity to function as a powerful-and flexible-gendered signifier. The essays in this collection draw vivid attention to song as a situated textual and musical practice, and to the gendered processes and spaces of song's circulation and reception. In so doing, they interrogate the literary and cultural significance of song for early modern readers, performers, and audiences.
