King Lear and the Naked Truth
King Lear and the Naked Truth

Author: Judy Kronenfeld

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Opening the play up to the implications of these contexts and this interpretive theory, she reveals much about Lear, English Reformation religious culture, and the state of contemporary criticism.

Locating Privacy in Tudor London
Locating Privacy in Tudor London

Author: Lena Cowen Orlin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-12-13

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0199226253

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Lena Orlin paints a dense picture of everyday life in Renaissance England, with an emphasis on personal privacy, the built environment, and the life story of a remarkable undiscovered woman - merchant's wife and mother of four, Alice Barnham - with a central role in some of the most important untold stories of sixteenth-century women.

By the Numbers
By the Numbers

Author: Jessica Marie Otis

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2024

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0197608779

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"During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English numerical practices underwent a complex transformation with wide-ranging impacts on English society and modes of thought. At the beginning of the early modern period, English men and women believed that God had made humans universally numerate, although numbers were not central to their everyday lives. Over the next two centuries, rising literacy rates and the increasing availability of printed books revolutionized modes of arithmetical education, upended the balance between the multiple symbolic systems used to express popular numeracy, and contributed to a wider transformation in numbers as a technology of knowledge"--

The Pricing of Progress
The Pricing of Progress

Author: Eli Cook

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0674976282

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The political arithmetic of price -- Seeing like a capitalist -- The spirit of non-capitalism -- The age of moral statistics -- The hunt for growth -- The coronation of King Capital -- State of statistical war -- The pricing of progressivism -- Epilogue: Toward GDP