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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"Early modern England"”.
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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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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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Male Prophets in Early Modern England, 1559-1662
… examines the phenomenon of male prophecy in England between the mid-sixteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries. It focusses on Protestant expressions of prophecy, especially those which existed within the godly and dissenting communities. Grace Sujin Pak has recently highlighted the multivalency …
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Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640
… literary property among a coterie of writers in early modern England. It argues that the recognition of literary misappropriation emerged as a result of the instrumental reading habits of early humanist scholars and that the subsequent distinction between authors and plagiarists depended more …
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Speak'st, Art Sound: The Material Voice in Early Modern England
This thesis argues that early moderns conceived of speech as a material phenomenon; voice struck out from bodies into environments. Early modern voices thus participate in what sound studies scholars call the soundscape, which I link to current new materialist and ecological theories of network and …
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Impossible Heroes: Heroism and Political Experience in Early Modern England
… between competing concepts of the political. England's political culture had traditionally combined monarchy with local autonomy, office-holding, and a republican ethos that understood politics in terms of dynamic individual action and potentiality. In the Renaissance, however, this plural and …
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Renouncing sex and the self: asceticism in early modern England
… might seem that ascetic practices disappeared in England with the introduction of Protestantism. With the monasteries demolished, priests encouraged to marry, and the laity cautioned against superstitious practices of mortification, how can there be a cultural history of asceticism after the …
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Improvising Otherwise: Sound, Nature, and Coloniality in Early Modern England
… which we can listen to alternative stories of early modern English music history, situating my musical research within histories of the body, sounds of nature, Anglo-Ottoman relations, and the coloniality of the travelogue. Through reading theological texts, travelogues, literature about the …
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Technology in Society: The Pipe Organ in Early Modern England
… Protestantism produced a curious phenomenon in early modern England: the silencing of pipe organs in cathedrals and parish churches across the land. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this ecclesiastical instrument figuratively embodied and literally gave voice to the Roman Catholic …
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Wifely Figures: Gender, Marriage, and Biblical Typology in Early Modern England
… the conception of the female life cycle in early modern English literature, especially the social roles of maid, wife, and widow. Reading texts from a variety of genres and by both male and female authors, this dissertation argues that a typological understanding of marriage gave additional, …
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Clamor: Malefica, Protest, And The Occult Economy In Early Modern England
… weaponry, the thesis establishes a theory of early modern terror that corresponds to the effects of these tactics on local and national levels. Readings of traditional witchcraft literature and Shakespeare's Macbeth will hopefully allow for an understanding of witchcraft that is heavily …
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Works of Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England
… Mercy: Literature, Compassion, and Devotion in Early Modern England,” argues for the crucial role of literature in shaping, expanding, and contesting the limits of compassion in early seventeenth century England. Reading Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Donne’s Devotions Upon Emergent …
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Manorial Officeholding in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, 1300-1600
… The study deliberated bridges the medieval/early modern divide, analysing the period 1300-1600. The evidence base for this investigation relies on the reconstruction of officeholding from the court rolls of three case-study manors. These consist of Little Downham (Cambs.), Horstead (Norf.) …
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Magic and the material culture of healing in early modern England
… objects to preserve health and cure illness in early modern England. Each chapter focuses on a different object or group of objects, to make interventions in the history of contemporary healing, and to demonstrate what we can learn about early modern healing from a study that places things at …
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Textual monumentality and memory in early modern England, 1560–c.1650
… as a site of memory and commemoration in early modern England, creating ‘textual monuments’ to individuals, families, and communities. This dissertation shifts scholarly attention from genre and the structures of texts to the commemorative function of a vast array of texts, from diaries to …
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The Persistence of Vengeance from Early Modern England to Postmodern New York
… period reveals, the subject of vengeance is nearly inescapable; on billboards, websites, and year end lists, revenge represents a curious constant even amid disparate media. This study explores the cultural commonalities that align revenge texts of the English Renaissance and exploitation …
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