'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks, by Ian Munro,Betty S. Travitsky,Anne Lake Prescott

The Crisis of Music in Early Modern Europe, 1470-1530

Within the ultimate many years of the fifteenth-century, the eu musical international was once shaken to its foundations through the onset of a veritable tradition conflict at the artwork of polyphony. Now in paperback, The predicament of tune in Early sleek Europe tells the tale of this cultural upheaval, drawing on a variety of little-known texts and files, and weaving them jointly in a story that takes the reader on an eventful musical trip via early-modern Europe.

Reading Green in Early Modern England

Eco-friendly in early smooth England didn't suggest what it does this day; yet what did it suggest? Unveiling numerous models and interpretations of eco-friendly, this e-book deals a cultural heritage of a colour that illuminates the distinct valences greenness possessed in early smooth tradition. whereas treating eco-friendly as a panacea for something from sore eyes to ill minds, early moderns additionally perceived verdure as conscious of their verse, sympathetic to their sufferings, and endowed with impressive powers of animation.

Eroticism in Early Modern Music

Eroticism in Early smooth tune contributes to a small yet major literature on track, sexuality, and intercourse in 16th- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from a protracted discussion among a bunch of students, who hire various assorted ways to the repertoire: musical and visible research; archival and cultural heritage; gender reviews; philology; and function.

Shakespeare's Binding Language

This amazing, leading edge ebook explores the importance in Shakespeare's performs of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the opposite utterances and acts in which characters devote themselves to the reality of items earlier, current, and to return. In early smooth England, such binding language was once far and wide.