Natale Conti's Mythologiae: Books I-V
Author: Natale Conti
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 520
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Natale Conti's Mythologiae: Books VI-X
Author: Natale Conti
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 536
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrench Books III & IV (FB) (2 vols.)
Author: Andrew Pettegree
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2011-10-14
Total Pages: 1964
ISBN-13: 900421500X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrench Books III & IV complete a comprehensive bibliographical survey of all books published in France in the first age of print. It lists over 40,000 editions printed in France in languages other than French during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries together with bibliographical references, an introduction and indexes. It draws on the analysis of over 3,000 collections situated in libraries throughout the world. French Books will be an invaluable research tool for all students and scholars interested in the history, culture and literature of France, as well as historians of the early modern book world. For vols. I & II please go to French Vernacular Books.
The Emblematic Queen
Author: D. Barrett-Graves
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1137303107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines representations of early modern female consorts and regnants via extra-literary emblematics such as paintings, jewelry, miniature portraits, carvings, placards, masques, funerary monuments, and imprese.
Arthur Golding’s 'A Moral Fabletalk' and Other Renaissance Fable Translations
Author: Liza Blake
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 2017-01-03
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 1781886067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together five translations of Aesopian fables that range from the beginning to the end of the English Renaissance. At the centre of the volume is an edition of the entirety of Arthur Golding’s manuscript translation of emblematic fables, A Morall Fabletalke (c. 1580s). By situating Golding’s text alongside William Caxton’s early printed translation from French (1485), Richard Smith’s English version of Robert Henryson’s Middle-Scots Moral Fabillis (1577), John Brinsley’s grammar school translation (1617), and John Ogilby’s politicized fables translated at the end of the English Civil War (1651), this book shows the wide-ranging forms and functions of the fable during this period.
Lavinia Fontana’s Mythological Paintings
Author: Liana De Girolami Cheney
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-08-18
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1527558274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume investigates emblematic and art-historical issues in Lavinia Fontana’s mythological paintings. Fontana is the first female painter of the sixteenth century in Italy to depict female nudes, as well as mythological and emblematic paintings associated with concepts of beauty and wisdom. Her paintings reveal an appropriation of the antique, a fusion between patronage and culture, and a humanistic pursuit of Mannerist conceits. Fontana’s secular imagery provides a challenging paragone with the male tradition of history painting during the sixteenth century and paves the way for new subjects to be depicted and interpreted by female painters of the seventeenth century.
Medieval Mythography, Volume Three
Author: Jane Chance
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 699
ISBN-13: 1532688970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal. No other work examines the mythographic interrelationships among these poets and their unique and personal approaches to mythological commentary.
Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Travel Culture, 1550–1700
Author: Karl A.E. Enenkel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9004401067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores the early modern manuals on travelling (Artes apodemicae), a new genre of advice literature that originated in the sixteenth century, when it became communis opinio among intellectuals that travelling was an important means of acquiring knowledge and experience, and that an extended tour abroad was a vital, if not indispensable part of humanist, academic and political education. In this volume, the formation of this new genre, between 1550 and 1700, is studied in its historical, social and cultural context. Furthermore, the volume examines the impact of this new genre on the acquisition and collection of knowledge in the early modern period, empirical or otherwise. Contributors: Justin Stagl, Karl Enenkel, Jan Papy, Thomas Haye, Robert Seidel, Gabor Gelléri, Bernd Roling, Harald Hendrix, Jan L. de Jong, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Johanna Luggin, Marc Laureys, and Justina Spencer.
Hercules and the King of Portugal
Author: Dian Fox-Hindley
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2019-01-08
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1496212177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHercules and the King of Portugal investigates how representations of masculinity figure in the fashioning of Spanish national identity, scrutinizing ways that gender performances of two early modern male icons—Hercules and King Sebastian—are structured to express enduring nationhood. The classical hero Hercules features prominently in Hispanic foundational fictions and became intimately associated with the Hapsburg monarchy in the early sixteenth century. King Sebastian of Portugal (1554–78), both during his lifetime and after his violent death, has been inserted into his own land’s charter myth, even as competing interests have adapted his narratives to promote Spanish power. The hybrid oral and written genre of poetic Spanish theater, as purveyor and shaper of myth, was well situated to stage and resolve dilemmas relating both to lineage determined by birth and performance of masculinity, in ways that would ideally uphold hierarchy. Dian Fox’s ideological analysis exposes how the two icons are subject to political manipulations in seventeenth-century Spanish theater and other media. Fox finds that officially sanctioned and sometimes popularly produced narratives are undercut by dynamic social and gendered processes: “Hercules” and “Sebastian” slip outside normative discourses and spaces to enact nonnormative behaviors and unreproductive masculinities.
Bodies beyond Labels
Author: Daniel Holcombe
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2024-06-03
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1487556918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBodies beyond Labels explores moments of joy and joyful expressions of self-identity, intimacy, sexuality, affect, friendship, social relationships, and religiosity in imperial Spanish cultures, a period when embodiments of such joy were shadowed by comparatively more constrictive social conventions. Viewed in this manner, joy frames historic references to gender, sexuality, and present-day concepts of queerness through homoeroticism, non-labelled bodies, gender fluidity, and performativity. This collection reveals diverse glimmers of joy through a variety of genres, including plays, poems, novels, autobiographies, biblical narratives, and civil law texts, among others. The book is divided into five categories: theatrical works that use mythology to enjoy themes of homoeroticism; narrative prose and visual arts that reveal public and private homoerotic expressions; scopophilia within garden and museum spaces that make possible joyous observations of non-labelled and non-corporeal bodies; biblical narratives and epistolary works that signal religious transgressions of gender and friendship; and sexual geographies explored in historic and legal documents. As new generations develop more nuanced senses of gender and sexual identities, Bodies beyond Labels strives to provide new academic optics, as framed by non-labelled bodies, queer theorizations, joy in unexpected places, and the light that has historically (re)emerged from the shadows.
