Eleanor Davies: Printed Writings 1500–1640: Series I, Part by Teresa Feroli

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

Within the ultimate a long time of the fifteenth-century, the ecu musical international used to be shaken to its foundations through the onset of a veritable tradition warfare at the artwork of polyphony. Now in paperback, The obstacle of song 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 glossy England didn't suggest what it does this present day; yet what did it suggest? Unveiling quite a few types and interpretations of eco-friendly, this publication bargains a cultural background of a colour that illuminates the distinct valences greenness possessed in early glossy tradition. whereas treating eco-friendly as a panacea for something from sore eyes to in poor health minds, early moderns additionally perceived verdure as conscious of their verse, sympathetic to their sufferings, and endowed with striking powers of animation.

Eroticism in Early Modern Music

Eroticism in Early sleek song contributes to a small yet major literature on song, sexuality, and intercourse in 16th- and seventeenth-century Europe. Its chapters have grown from an extended discussion among a bunch of students, who hire quite a few varied ways to the repertoire: musical and visible research; archival and cultural background; gender stories; philology; and function.

Shakespeare's Binding Language

This amazing, cutting 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 previous, current, and to return. In early glossy England, such binding language used to be in every single place.