Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England: by Catherine Richardson

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

Within the ultimate a long time of the fifteenth-century, the ecu musical global was once shaken to its foundations through the onset of a veritable tradition conflict at the paintings of polyphony. Now in paperback, The predicament of tune in Early sleek Europe tells the tale of this cultural upheaval, drawing on quite a lot 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 sleek England didn't suggest what it does at the present time; yet what did it suggest? Unveiling numerous types and interpretations of eco-friendly, this ebook bargains a cultural background of a colour that illuminates the precise valences greenness possessed in early sleek tradition. whereas treating eco-friendly as a panacea for whatever from sore eyes to in poor health 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 glossy track contributes to a small yet major literature on track, sexuality, and intercourse in 16th- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from an extended discussion among a gaggle of students, who hire various diverse ways to the repertoire: musical and visible research; archival and cultural background; gender experiences; philology; and function.

Shakespeare's Binding Language

This striking, leading edge booklet explores the importance in Shakespeare's performs of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the opposite utterances and acts wherein characters dedicate themselves to the reality of items prior, current, and to return. In early glossy England, such binding language used to be in all places.