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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Renaissance Studies"”.
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La mandragola
… both a theatre director and a student of Italian Renaissance literature—has proven otherwise. In particular, Sices’s translation of La Mandragola (titled The Mandrake in his edition) plays upon a misguided image of Machiavelli the villain, a stereotype that has plagued Italian Renaissance studies …
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Dante's Divine Comedy as a theurgic act, a guide for the blessed reader from a state of misery to a state of bliss.
… only scholars of medieval literature, Italian or Renaissance studies, but also scholars of modern cosmology and mathematics who, seeking explanations for their research results, rediscover and find inspiration in Dante’s poetry. In this widespread scholarly discussion the dissertation proposes an …
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Jean Passerat (1534 - 1602): a critical biography, and study of selected works
… – should be carried out in the field of French Renaissance studies.<br/><br/>From the outset, the aim of my research was to unearth as much new information on Passerat as was possible, in order to build up a thorough and accurate picture of his background, education, and career: thus the sources …
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EARLY INSTRUMENTS IN 21ST CENTURY COMPOSITION AND AN ORIGINAL COMPOSITION FOR SAXOPHONES AND VIOLS
<p>Composers continually seek new timbres and sonorities to bend to their will. The early music revival of the twentieth century has resurrected dozens of instruments that have gone unutilized in contemporary composition for centuries. The historically-informed-performance movement has now evolved …
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Singing Petrarch in the Cinquecento: Embodied Reading and the Italian Madrigal
… for musical analysis is rather unique in that it studies the text settings primarily in individual parts, rather than through interplay and cadences between the voice parts. Partbooks can function as autonomous musical expressions of the text that contain sufficient musical emphasis of the verse’s …
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Plagiarism and Proprietary Authorship in Early Modern England, 1590-1640
… not only better to understand the nature of Renaissance authorship but also to equip their students for the future.
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Examining the Intersectionality of Religious Faith, Spirituality, and Healthcare Communication
… each historical period—ancient, medieval, Renaissance, and modern—also shows the deep ties that religion has to medicine and healthcare. The views that developed in each of these periods show a progressive outlook and connection to healthcare communication. The ancient period shows that the …
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A “Medieval” Myth for a “Modern” Empire Britain under the Shadow of Arthur (1461–1612)
<p>This dissertation studies the use of the Arthurian myth from the fifteenth through early seventeenth centuries, as a narrative that connected a set of political principles for the unification of Britain and its imperial expansion. Joining other competing political myths in the British …
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Women and Ventriloquism in Early Modern English Drama
<p>Bringing together feminist and theater-centered readings, this dissertation examines the status of female vessels that foreign voices inhabit and animate in early modern drama, arguing that the Greek model of ventriloquism represented by the Pythia exerted a powerful influence on the period’s …
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Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France
… in my study valorize women’s abilities to shape Renaissance culture. If recognized earlier, these exchanges and their implications could have greatly modified the early modern literary canon and the understanding of women’s intellectual role in society.</p>
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Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569)
… page’s visual rhetoric is the employment of the Renaissance stock image of the Roman soldier—in this study referred to as the “antique soldier”—to depict Brutus of Troy and his three sons, the primordial kings of Britain described in the <em>Historia Regum Britanniae </em>of Geoffrey of Monmouth. …
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Meet Me in the Middle Ages: Engaging with fantasy, reality, and collaborative world-building
… and summarize research into the contemporary renaissance faire, using both it and personal experience to critique and examine interactions with imaginary worlds created through stories which have real world outcomes. Finally, I describe examples from my project that relate to the themes of …
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Bloodied Hearts and Bawdy Planets: Greco-Roman Astrology and the Regenerative Force of the Feminine in Shakespeare’s <i>The Winter’s Tale</i>
… one must read it with an understanding of Renaissance astrology, a science that was fully embedded in Shakespeare’s cultural milieu. The astrological worldview accepts that the motion of planets in the heavens impact life on earth, and this is crystallized in the Renaissance belief of …