Coinage and State Formation in Early Modern English by S. Deng

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

Within the ultimate many years of the fifteenth-century, the eu musical global used to be shaken to its foundations via the onset of a veritable tradition battle at the artwork of polyphony. Now in paperback, The concern of song in Early sleek Europe tells the tale of this cultural upheaval, drawing on a variety of little-known texts and records, 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 sleek England didn't suggest what it does this present day; yet what did it suggest? Unveiling a variety of types and interpretations of eco-friendly, this e-book bargains a cultural historical past of a colour that illuminates the designated valences greenness possessed in early glossy tradition. whereas treating eco-friendly as a panacea for whatever from sore eyes to unwell minds, early moderns additionally perceived verdure as aware of their verse, sympathetic to their sufferings, and endowed with wonderful powers of animation.

Eroticism in Early Modern Music

Eroticism in Early smooth track 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 gaggle of students, who hire numerous assorted techniques to the repertoire: musical and visible research; archival and cultural background; gender reports; philology; and function.

Shakespeare's Binding Language

This amazing, cutting edge ebook explores the importance in Shakespeare's performs of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the opposite utterances and acts through which characters dedicate themselves to the reality of items prior, current, and to return. In early sleek England, such binding language was once all over the place.