Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought, Hardback - Joanne Paul

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the 'monarchy of counsel', from th...

Counsel and Command in Early Modern English Thought establishes the precise role political counsel played during the 'monarchy of counsel', from th...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 2 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 154 x 2...

The only book that comprehensively studies the soliloquy's history and diversity of form, its theatrical functions, rhetoric, and socio-cultural si...

This is the first book to systematically analyze the role the performing arts played in English schools after the Reformation. Amanda Eubanks Winkl...

As chaste women devoted to God, nuns are viewed as the purest of the pure. Yet, as females who reject courtship, sex, marriage, child bearing, and ...

DescriptionThe Concept of Nature in Early Modern English Literature traces a genealogy of ecology in seventeenth-century literature and natural phi...

DescriptionThis study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. During the early moder...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Drew DanielIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Thinking Lite...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Drew DanielIllustration(s): 3 halftonesNumber of pages: 288Collection: Thinking Lite...

Bringing together intellectual history, international political thought and international law, Schroeder explores the extent to which seventeenth-c...

A major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early modern England from the advent of the Reformation to the aftermath of the failed Gunpowder P...

DescriptionEarly modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questio...

Skin-tones mattered in early modern England. Indexing health, social status, religious affiliation and national allegiance, they helped explain (aw...

DescriptionBodily contrasts from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and...

Explores the ambivalent legacy of indigenous peoples' natural rights articulated by Europeans in Spanish and English colonial contexts. It will app...

Publisher: Modern Language Association of AmericaNumber of pages: 396Collection: Options for Teaching 25Publication date: 2010Cover type: HardbackE...

Children have posed a longstanding dilemma for liberalism. The authority of adults over children has always been difficult to square with liberalis...

This book describes the English language between the years 1500 and 1700 - the different varieties of the language, the attitudes of its speakers t...

Building on the previous edition's success, this book tells the story of English from its early stages to today's still-evolving language, using re...

This volume updates current assumptions about the early modern English sonnet and its reception and inclusion in poetic collections. It deals both ...

Reducere. An introduction to Early Modern English, this book helps students of English and linguistics to place the language of the period 1500-1700 in its h...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A seminal piece of Royal Marines Commando history, this 1950s doctrine summing up the lessons of World War II is published for the first time.Illus...

Reducere. This book presents the esoteric original core of Christianity, with its concern for illuminating and healing the inner life of the individual. It i...

This book examines the writings of seven English women economists from the period 1735-1811. It reveals that contrary to what standard accounts of ...

Medicine, Magic and Art in Early Modern Norway is essential for those looking to advance their studies in magical beliefs and practices in early mo...

Reducere. In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides a...

This innovative, interdisciplinary collection addresses religion and the life course in England c. 1550-1800. Considering Catholic, Protestant and ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Focussing on the many exchanges and the rich relationships that these intersections have created from the modernist to the postmodernist period, th...

Islamist thinkers used to debate the doctrine of the caliphate of man, which holds that God is sovereign but has appointed the multitude of believe...

The opulent wares of the renowned Sevres manufactory are prominently displayed in palaces and art galleries throughout the world. By contrast, the ...

Harry R. McCarthy's innovative study draws on theatre history and present-day performance to foreground how boys' physical skills shaped the plays ...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Judith HudsonNumber of pages: 256Collection: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance CulturePubli...

Galvani and Volta underwent two revolutions. This text is concerned with the revolution in published communications and in its research, aims to sh...

The relationship between technology, philosophy, and politics is both contentious and vital to our understanding of human nature and the ways human...

John Christopoulos provides a comprehensive account of abortion in early modern Italy. Bringing together medical, religious, and legal perspectives...

This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that e...

Conserving Health brings together scholarship from across the disciplinary spectrum to illustrate the role of preventive culture in early modern En...

Witchcraft in Early Modern England provides a fascinating introduction to the history of witches and witchcraft in England from the sixteenth to th...

The beginning of the eighteenth century opened Spain to an influx of people, books and ideas and gave the country its own brief age of Enlightenmen...

Education has always been an important pursuit in Islam. The Prophet Muhammad enjoined his followers to 'seek knowledge, even unto China.' Within t...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressNumber of pages: 304Collection: Edinburgh Studies in LawPublication date: 2020Dimensions: 165 x 239 x 29Cover ...