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Pragya Ranjan deposited Cave of Spleen – a feminist perspective: Status of women in early 18th century England in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months ago“The Rape of the Lock” by Alexander Pope published in 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative which satirically
glorifies trivial incident of cutting of locks of protagonist Belinda. This poem was written in the
Augustan Era (1660-1784) which is marked by the period of scientific reason and rationality, whose
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Oeconomia and the Vegetative Soul: Rethinking Revenge in The Spanish Tragedy in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy creates a subtle apologia for the “middling sort” by challenging the socially constructed predicates of aristocratic privilege. A scrivener’s son, Kyd undertsood oeconomia, or household management, as both the means for material advancement among the “middling sort” and a potential threat to aristocratic insular…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited “The Comedy of Errors, Haecceity, and the Metaphysics of Individuation” in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoExamines Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors and the epistemological challenges of differentiating twins in light of Aristotle’s Metaphysics, specifically his theories of substance and individuation.
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Refashioning Fable through the Baconian Essay: De sapientia veterum and Mythologies of the Early Modern Natural Philosopher in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoShortly after publishing the first edition of his Essays in 1597, Francis Bacon drafted De sapientia veterum, a series of unpublished essays designed to re-read classical mythology as indicative of political and scientific truths. An early, if partial, expression of Bacon’s project to facilitate mastery over the natural order, De sapientia has c…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited “’Strange Serious Wantoning:’ Early Modern Chess Manuals and the Ethics of Virtuous Subterfuge in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThis essay examines English Renaissance chess manuals in order to understand why chess, a game that encourages subterfuge and stratagem, was nonetheless figured as the paradigmatic example of a virtuous pastime. Particular attention is given to da Odenara Damiano’s The Pleasaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts (1564), Arthur Saul’s The Famous Gam…[Read more]
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Elton Barker deposited Journeying through Space and Time with Pausanias’s Description of Greece in the group
Open-source historical mapping on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSometime in the second century CE, Pausanias of Magnesia (modern-day Turkey) wrote the Description of Greece. Ostensibly a tour of the places to see on the Greek mainland, the Description also provides historical accounts related to the topography through which Pausanias moves. Little attention has been given to how these building blocks of…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited “Woman, Why Weepest Thou?” Re-Visioning the Golden Age Magdalen in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis article examines Mary Magdalene’s biblical identity and poetic representation in selected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish texts. An alternative reading or “re-visioning” (Adrienne Rich’s term) of the narratives that tell her story reclaims her figure from masculinist characterizations of Mary Magdalene that have made an enduring…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Iglesia, mar y Casa Real: Imaginario de la odisea en la épica del Siglo de Oro in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn this book chapter, Dr. Davis examines the depiction of a dissimulated desire for material improvement (mejora) as it is expressed in the epic poetry of imperial Spain, particularly in Alonso de Ercilla’s La Araucana. She shows that within the aristocratic context of the times, the desire for personal betterment or “mejora” is always contingent…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited La promesa del náufrago: el motivo marinero del ex-voto, de Garcilaso a Quevedo in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe nautical motif of the ex-voto (votive offering) is a lyric genre that reflects poetically the possible experience of a shipwreck survivor. Paradoxically, many of the poets who evoke the perils of sea travel never left Spain or, at most, sailed only the waters of the Mediterranean. Their writing of the sea remained consistently codified in…[Read more]
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Paulino Capdepon deposited Josquin Des Prez: Un legado culminante del Renacimiento in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe biographical trajectory of the Franco-Flemish composer Josquin des Prez can be described as exciting and his musical contribution as transcendent in an era of sublime creativity that coincided with the artistic and intellectual rediscovery of the values of classical Greco-Latin antiquity. A contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo,…[Read more]
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Christopher Crosbie deposited Aristotelian Time, Ethics, and the Art of Persuasion in Shakespeare’s Henry V in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn his response to the Dauphin, his threats before Harfleur’s walls, and his St. Crispin’s Day oration, Henry V deploys what we might call proleptic histories of the present as a means of rhetorical persuasion. Henry invites his audiences, that is, to imagine themselves in the future, understanding the present as part of their own history. Hen…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Un soneto de Quevedo al nacimiento de Cristo: ¿ortodoxo o astrológico? in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoIn this early article, written in the wake of the publication of Alessandro Martinengo’s _La astrología en la obra de Quevedo_ (Madrid: Alhambra, 1983), Dr. Davis focuses on the astrological tropes in a Quevedo sonnet on the nativity of Christ to see whether this poetic text can shed additional light on the poet’s documented penchant for…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Conquistas de las Indias de Dios: Early Poetic Appropriations of the Indies by the Spanish Renaissance in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoProfessor Davis’s early article on appropriations of the Indies by Spanish poets who remained in Spain invites us to contemplate a body of poetry that plays the idea of American treasures against the value of true, spiritual riches.
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Hagiographic Jest in Quevedo: Tradition and Departure in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoSeveral of Francisco de Quevedo’s hagiographic poems are puzzling because of their irreverent tone. Edward M. Wilson and Jose Manuel Blecua both noted that “la relacion entre las dos caras de un Quevedo es cuestión difícil y delicada para los modernos;” indeed, the writer’s particular blend of “las burlas con las veras” has attracted attention s…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited Quevedo and the Rending of the Rocks in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis essay analyzes the work of the poetic function as defined by Roman Jakobson in poems by Francisco de Quevedo that concern themselves with the trope of the rending of the rocks at the moment of Christ’s death on the cross, and in other poetic texts of Quevedo.
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited The Duchy of Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses: Patronage, Politics, and Power, 1453–1502 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoFocussing on the Duchy of Cornwall’s organisational structure during the Wars of the Roses, this survey examines the principal offices (which evolved around administration of its marine and terrene regalities) and personnel (administrative elite) in Cornwall and Devon. Consideration of successive Princes’ Councils and counsellors (and Councils of…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited A Duchy Officer and a Gentleman: The Career and Connections of Avery Cornburgh (d.1487) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAvery Cornburgh (d.1487) of Bere Ferrers (Devon) and Dovers (Essex) – a Lancastrian, Yorkist, and Tudor household servant – was one of the appreciable numbers of crown servants utilised in local government during the fifteenth century. Serving in Cornwall and Essex as JP, MP, sheriff, and commissioner, he was prominent in Cornish affairs as a res…[Read more]
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Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth deposited From Minority to Maturity: The Evolution of Later Lollardy in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThough English supporters of the Oxford theologian John Wycliffe (d.1384)—known as “Lollards”—had been drawn from academic and noble/gentry circles during the later-fourteenth and early-fifteenth centuries, persecution, equation of heresy with sedition, and the failure of Sir John Oldcastle’s Rebellion (1414) ensured overt abandonment of Lollard i…[Read more]
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Lukas Fuchsgruber deposited Digitale Vermittlung ohne Facebook und Co in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 3 years, 1 month agoIm Zeitalter von Smartphones und Social Media sind digitale Netze ein allgegenwärtiger und zentraler gesellschaftlicher Raum geworden. Kulturvermittlung arbeitet oft in diesem neuen digitalen Kontext, trotz zahlreicher Enthüllungen über das skandalöse Geschäftsmodell der kostenlosen Social Media Plattformen. Darum müssen wir über Datenethik in der…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Results of automatic language identification of works by Erasmus and Aleandro in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoResults of automatic language identification in Erasmus’ Praise of Folly, Aleandro’s diaries, and a 1512 letter from Aleandro to Erasmus
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