The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

The Memory Arts in Renaissance England
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2016-07-28
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316495418

This is the first critical anthology of writings about memory in Renaissance England. Drawing together excerpts from more than seventy writers, poets, physicians, philosophers and preachers, and with over twenty illustrations, the anthology offers the reader a guided exploration of the arts of memory. The introduction outlines the context for the tradition of the memory arts from classical times to the Renaissance and is followed by extracts from writers on the art of memory in general, then by thematically arranged sections on rhetoric and poetry, education and science, history and philosophy, religion, and literature, featuring texts from canonical, non-canonical and little-known sources. Each excerpt is supported with notes about the author and about the text's relationship to the memory arts, and includes suggestions for further reading. The book will appeal to students of the memory arts, Renaissance literature, the history of ideas, book history and art history.

The Death Arts in Renaissance England

The Death Arts in Renaissance England
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108800394

The first-ever critical anthology of the death arts in Renaissance England, this book draws together over 60 extracts and 20 illustrations to establish and analyse how people grappled with mortality in the 16th and 17th centuries. As well as providing a comprehensive resource of annotated and modernized excerpts, this engaging study includes commentary on authors and overall texts, discussions of how each excerpt is constitutive and expressive of the death arts, and suggestions for further reading. The extended Introduction takes into account death's intersections with print, gender, sex, and race, surveying the period's far-reaching preoccupation with, and anticipatory reflection upon, the cessation of life. For researchers, instructors, and students interested in medieval and early modern history and literature, the Reformation, memory studies, book history, and print culture, this indispensable resource provides at once an entry point into the field of early modern death studies and a springboard for further research.

Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England

Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2022-10-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108910424

Drawing together leading scholars of early modern memory studies and death studies, Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England explores and illuminates the interrelationships of these categories of Renaissance knowing and doing, theory and praxis. The collection features an extended Introduction that establishes the rich vein connecting these two fields of study and investigation. Thereafter, the collection is arranged into three subsections, 'The Arts of Remembering Death', 'Grounding the Remembrance of the Dead', and 'The Ends of Commemoration', where contributors analyse how memory and mortality intersected in writings, devotional practice, and visual culture. The book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, book history, art history, and the history of mnemonics and thanatology, and will prove an indispensable guide for researchers, instructors, and students alike.

The Art of Memory

The Art of Memory
Author: Marius D'Assigny
Publisher:
Total Pages: 114
Release: 1706
Genre: Memory
ISBN:

Microcosmography

Microcosmography
Author: John Earle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1897
Genre: Characters and characteristics
ISBN:

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England

Memory and Affect in Shakespeare's England
Author: Jonathan Baldo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2023-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316517691

The first book to systematically combine the two vibrant yet hitherto unconnected fields of memory and affect in Shakespeare's England.

Renaissance Bodies

Renaissance Bodies
Author: Lucy Gent
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 1990
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780948462085

Renaissance Bodies is a unique collection of views on the ways in which the human image has been represented in the arts and literature of English Renaissance society. The subjects discussed range from high art to popular culture - from portraits of Elizabeth I to polemical prints mocking religious fanaticism - and include miniatures, manners, anatomy, drama and architectural patronage. The authors, art historians and literary critics, reflect diverse critical viewpoints, and the 78 illustrations present a fascinating exhibition of the often strange and haunting images of the period. With essays by John Peacock, Elizabeth Honig, Andrew and Catherine Belsey, Jonathan Sawday, Susan Wiseman, Ellen Chirelstein, Tamsyn Williams, Anna Bryson, Maurice Howard and Nigel Llewellyn. "The whole book ... presents a mirror of contemporary concerns with power, the merits and demerits of individualism, sex-roles, 'selves', the meaning of community and (even) conspicuous consumption."--The Observer

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
Author: Ann Rosalind Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2000
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9780521786638

This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.