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Early modern masters of suspicion
… Montaigne, Bacon, and Milton, whom I define as “early modern Masters of Suspicion”, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Bacon, and Milton. In the same way Ricœur analysed the context of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, I will do the same with Niccolò Machiavelli, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, and John …
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… uses contemporary posthumanist and media theory, early modern educational and literary humanist texts, and the dramatic work of Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, and William Shakespeare to chart the variety of theatrical response to early modern ideas of “humanity” in the wake of …
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Swords in early modern English plays
… sword weapons employed as stage properties in Early Modern performance, discussing details such as their outward appearance and materials. Chapter three examines descriptions of swords in play texts. Especially focusing on the sword with a curved blade, this chapter investigates representations …
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Displacing Desires in Early Modern Drama
… to demonstrate affinities between Lacanian and early modern theories of a constitutively displaced desire, a perspective often overlooked by ostensibly more historicist approaches. The first chapter looks at the triangular jealous rivalries of Shakespeare and Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen, in …
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Infants' Emotions in Early Modern England
… age of two years were sensed and understood in early modern England. Within early modern histories of pregnancy, the family, and childhood, infants’ perspectives are under-explored, their biological speechlessness traditionally equated with historical silence. Contemporary writers theorised that …
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Mediating War in Early Modern German Prose
… of its social and aesthetic implications. When early modern people discussed gunpowder warfare in texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they were astonished by its ability to destroy people, places, and things, as well as an aesthetic of warfare upon which war stories had long been …
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Writing Geography: Traversing Early Modern English Chorographies
Early modern English chorographies are diverse, hybrid texts that defy reduction and reward curiosity. As a genre of geographical writing focused on locally-scaled, regional surveys, chorographies are characterized by their rich combinations of intellectual considerations and literary forms. To …
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Hydraulic philosophy in early modern European cities
… philosophy—a proposed new name for the branch of early modern natural philosophy concerned with water. Both the production of hydraulic knowledge and its practical application happened in context; the thesis focuses on one of these contexts, early modern European cities. Three …
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Ralph Crane and Early Modern Scribal Culture
… One considers the place of manuscript copies in early modern England. It introduces Crane as one of the figures responsible for the production of these copies, and details what is known of his life and career. Chapter Two situates Crane's work alongside that of other scribes, using the manuscript …
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Making Up Race in Early Modern England
Chapter one explores the pervasive fascination and concern with cosmetics in a variety of documents, including travel writings, conduct books, theatrical records, anti-theatrical texts, sermons, cook books, medical texts, and anti-cosmetic pamphlet literature. Chapter two explores how Queen …
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Frenzy in early modern England, 1485–1640
… of the mind and brain as they were understood in early modern England, with a focus on the condition known to contemporaries as ‘frenzy’. Frenzy was an inflammation of the brain which caused dramatic changes to mood, speech, cognition, and behaviour. It was understood to be capable of spreading …
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Theorising the will in early modern English literature
… the faculty of the will was conceptualised in early modern English literature. The attempt to understand its function and purpose was a crucial concern for a vast range of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, largely because of the important role the notion of the will played in the development of …
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Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671
Suffering and the early modern imagination, 1570-1671 is a study of the imaginative handling of suffering in Renaissance England literature. Beginning with the Reformed Protestant hermeneutics detailing the redemptive qualities of pain with John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs in 1570, the thesis goes on to …
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Colour in Early Modern English Literature and Culture
In early modern England, colour was both a material and a textual preoccupation. However, the polychromatic palette that surrounded English men and women, and the particoloured palette of early modern writers, has thus far received little scholarly attention. This thesis rethinks the culture of …
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
… executions of noble men and women in Tudor and early Jacobean England and the theatrical representations of executions that mirrored real life spectacles of deadly punishment. Historical scaffold confessions followed a formulaic pattern and condemned traitors performed their final moments before …
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Performing at the Block: Scripting Early Modern Executions
… executions of noble men and women in Tudor and early Jacobean England and the theatrical representations of executions that mirrored real life spectacles of deadly punishment. Historical scaffold confessions followed a formulaic pattern and condemned traitors performed their final moments before …
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Luminescence Dating of Medieval and Early Modern Brickwork
Essex is a county rich in significant historic brickwork spanning the medieval period. A great deal of earlier archaeological study has focused on the development and use of brick during this period, providing a framework of understanding as to how this material was employed in Essex through the …
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