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Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500 -1889 (Book)Title: Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500 -1889
Editor: Hal Langfur
Abstract: The earliest European accounts of Brazil's indigenous inhabitants focused on the natives' startling appearance and conduct--especially their nakedness and cannibalistic rituals--and on the process of converting them to clothed, docile Christian vassals. This volume contributes to the unfinished task of moving beyond such polarities and dispelling the stereotypes they fostered, which have impeded scholars' ability to make sense of Brazil's rich indigenous past.
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories. Incorporating the tools of anthropology, geography, cultural studies, and literary analysis, alongside those of history, the contributors revisit old sources and uncover new ones. They examine the Indians' first encounters with Portuguese explorers and missionaries and pursue the consequences through four centuries. Some of the peoples they investigate were ultimately defeated and displaced by the implacable advance of settlement. Many individuals died from epidemics, frontier massacres, and forced labor. Hundreds of groups eventually disappeared as distinct entities. Yet many others found ways to prolong their independent existence or to enter colonial and later national society, making constrained but pivotal choices along the way.
Year: 2014
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/native-brazil-beyond-the-convert-and-the-cannibal-1500-1900/oclc/862222085&referer=brief_resultsPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 978-0826338419
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes
Recovering Brazil's Indigenous Pasts (Book Section)Title: Recovering Brazil's Indigenous Pasts
Author: Hal Langfur
Editor: Hal Langfur
Abstract: The earliest European accounts of Brazil's indigenous inhabitants focused on the natives' startling appearance and conduct--especially their nakedness and cannibalistic rituals--and on the process of converting them to clothed, docile Christian vassals. This volume contributes to the unfinished task of moving beyond such polarities and dispelling the stereotypes they fostered, which have impeded scholars' ability to make sense of Brazil's rich indigenous past.
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories. Incorporating the tools of anthropology, geography, cultural studies, and literary analysis, alongside those of history, the contributors revisit old sources and uncover new ones. They examine the Indians' first encounters with Portuguese explorers and missionaries and pursue the consequences through four centuries. Some of the peoples they investigate were ultimately defeated and displaced by the implacable advance of settlement. Many individuals died from epidemics, frontier massacres, and forced labor. Hundreds of groups eventually disappeared as distinct entities. Yet many others found ways to prolong their independent existence or to enter colonial and later national society, making constrained but pivotal choices along the way.
Year: 2014
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/native-brazil-beyond-the-convert-and-the-cannibal-1500-1900/oclc/862222085&referer=brief_resultsPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
Book Title: Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1889
ISBN: 978-0826338419
Indian Autonomy and Slavery in the Forests and Towns of Colonial Minas Gerais (Book Section)Title: Indian Autonomy and Slavery in the Forests and Towns of Colonial Minas Gerais
Author: Hal Langfur
Author: Maria Leônia Chaves de Resende
Editor: Hal Langfur
Abstract: The earliest European accounts of Brazil's indigenous inhabitants focused on the natives' startling appearance and conduct--especially their nakedness and cannibalistic rituals--and on the process of converting them to clothed, docile Christian vassals. This volume contributes to the unfinished task of moving beyond such polarities and dispelling the stereotypes they fostered, which have impeded scholars' ability to make sense of Brazil's rich indigenous past.
This volume is a significant contribution to understanding the ways Brazil's native peoples shaped their own histories. Incorporating the tools of anthropology, geography, cultural studies, and literary analysis, alongside those of history, the contributors revisit old sources and uncover new ones. They examine the Indians' first encounters with Portuguese explorers and missionaries and pursue the consequences through four centuries. Some of the peoples they investigate were ultimately defeated and displaced by the implacable advance of settlement. Many individuals died from epidemics, frontier massacres, and forced labor. Hundreds of groups eventually disappeared as distinct entities. Yet many others found ways to prolong their independent existence or to enter colonial and later national society, making constrained but pivotal choices along the way.
Year: 2014
Primary URL:
https://www.worldcat.org/title/native-brazil-beyond-the-convert-and-the-cannibal-1500-1900/oclc/862222085&referer=brief_resultsPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
Book Title: Native Brazil: Beyond the Convert and the Cannibal, 1500-1889
ISBN: 978-0826338419
A Gentleman May Wander: Inheritance, Travel and the Prodigal Son on the Jacobean Stage (Article)Title: A Gentleman May Wander: Inheritance, Travel and the Prodigal Son on the Jacobean Stage
Author: Michelle Dowd
Abstract: This essay reexamines the popularity of the prodigal son motif in Jacobean drama by reading the prodigal son within the socio-economic context of seventeenth-century inheritance practices. I argue that by equating prodigality with travel and displacement, John Fletcher’s Monsieur Thomas and Thomas Heywood’s If You Know Not Me dramatize the prodigal heir’s profound ability to disrupt patrilineal inheritance. However, these plays also revise the traditional understanding of primogeniture by redefining prodigality as potentially productive, providing elite Englishmen in a burgeoning mercantile economy with a better understanding of risk and a loss of naïveté that will ultimately benefit them when they return to their family responsibilities.
Year: 2014
Primary URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674684Primary URL Description: JSTOR
Access Model: Subscription; available online through JSTOR
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Renaissance Drama
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press for Northwestern University
1874: Tea and Japan’s New Trading Regime (Book Section)Title: 1874: Tea and Japan’s New Trading Regime
Author: Robert Hellyer
Editor: Helen Siu
Editor: Peter Perdue
Editor: Eric Tagliacozzo
Abstract: The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, "Asia Inside Out: Changing Times" brings into focus the dynamic networks that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries. Each author examines a single year or decade that redefined Asia.
Year: 2015
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/asia-inside-out-changing-times/oclc/876000038&referer=brief_resultsPrimary URL Description: WorldCat Entry
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Title: Asia Inside Out: Trading Empires of the South China Coast, South Asia, and the Gulf Region, Volume 1: Changing Times
ISBN: 9780674598508
Mid Nineteenth-Century Nagasaki: Western and Japanese Merchant Communities within Commercial and Political Transitions (Book Section)Title: Mid Nineteenth-Century Nagasaki: Western and Japanese Merchant Communities within Commercial and Political Transitions
Author: Robert Hellyer
Editor: Yuju Lin
Editor: Madeline Zelin
Abstract: Merchant communities have come increasingly into focus as a dynamic area of academic study. This book is the first to use local primary sources to explore the interaction between foreign and native merchants in Asian countries. Contributors discuss the different economic, political and cultural conditions that gave rise to a variety of merchant communities in Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore and India. The book complements existing research on merchant communities in Europe and shows the importance of Asian mercantile communities to the growth of a global economic system. It will be of interest to economic and business historians, as well as those researching Asian and world history.
Year: 2014
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/merchant-communities-in-asia-1600-1980/oclc/893632100&referer=brief_resultsPrimary URL Description: WorldCat Entry
Publisher: Pickering and Chatto
Book Title: Merchant Communities in Asia, 1600-1980
ISBN: 9781781444603
The West, the East, and the Insular Middle: Trading Systems, Demand, and Labour in the Integration of the Pacific, 1750-1875 (Article)Title: The West, the East, and the Insular Middle: Trading Systems, Demand, and Labour in the Integration of the Pacific, 1750-1875
Author: Robert Hellyer
Abstract: This article offers the novel interpretation that Pacific integration began in the ocean’s western sphere and later moved into its insular middle and eastern sphere. It demonstrates this by tracing three ocean-wide trends: the emergence of common trading goals and systems, the expansive role of reciprocal demand, and the shared experiences of Pacific peoples, who, both as slaves and in tribute-based and free labour systems, produced prominent trade goods. It presents additional new perspectives by identifying a ‘silver-substitute century’ in maritime commerce from 1750 to 1850, and by establishing the 1850s and 1860s as a period of transition from the influence of China-centred to Western-centred demand in Pacific trade. It thus reveals the limits of established interpretations that emphasize Western state and imperial initiatives and the role of Western technological and manufacturing dominance in the process of integration.
Year: 2013
Primary URL:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9021216&fileId=S174002281300034XPrimary URL Description: Link to the article on Cambridge Journal of Global History
Access Model: Purchase, download
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Global History
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Frontier/Fronteira: A Transnational Reframing of Brazil’s Inland Colonization (Article)Title: Frontier/Fronteira: A Transnational Reframing of Brazil’s Inland Colonization
Author: Hal Langfur
Abstract: The following essay examines Portuguese and Brazilian understandings of the frontier as a term and concept applicable to Brazil's colonial history. It argues that Brazilian scholars often rejected the frontier as an analytical concept because of perceived excesses in its application to U.S. history. These reservations proved prescient, as their North American colleagues would come to share many of the same objections. In pushing the idea aside, however, Brazilian scholars sometimes overlooked the historical relevance of frontier incorporation during the colonial period. A renewal of scholarly interest in the subject points to a growing conviction that the colonial history of Brazil cannot be adequately rendered without close attention to internal territorial consolidation, whether or not the term frontier is used to describe this process. This foreign paradigm from the past century, one that never quite caught on among Brazilian intellectuals, has now been reshaped and rehabilitated.
Year: 2014
Primary URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hic3.12200/abstractAccess Model: Subscription; purchase
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: History Compass
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
The Sophy: News of Shah Ismail Safavi in Renaissance Europe (Article)Title: The Sophy: News of Shah Ismail Safavi in Renaissance Europe
Author: Margaret Meserve
Abstract: Shah Ismail Safavi emerged as the revolutionary leader of a new, Shi?ite movement in western Iran in the early years of the sixteenth century. News of his rise to power reached Western Europe almost immediately and provoked a wide range of responses: some observers hoped he would join the Christian princes of Europe in a new offensive against their common enemy, the Ottoman Turks. Others saw him as an economic and social revolutionary who brought justice to the poor and dispossessed of Persia and whose works might occasion similar reforms in Europe. Yet others saw his rise as a providential event, freighted with apocalyptic significance, or perhaps a divine endorsement of some more particular domestic agenda. Learned humanist observers in Italy and elsewhere found themselves on several sides of the question, expressing first scepticism and then later qualified enthusiasm for this new Islamic prince. The circulation of information about Shah Ismail was fluid, unpredictable, and shaped by local conditions; the printing press also played an important role in transmitting—and transforming—the story of the “Sophy” across Renaissance Europe.
Year: 2014
Access Model: Subscription; download
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Early Modern History
Publisher: Brill Publishers
Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians (Book)Title: Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians
Editor: Susan Sleeper-Smith
Abstract: A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of the standard American history survey. Contributors reassess major events, themes, groups of historical actors, and approaches--social, cultural, military, and political--consistently demonstrating how Native American people, and questions of Native American sovereignty, have animated all the ways we consider the nation’s past. The uniqueness of Indigenous history, as interwoven more fully in the American story, will challenge students to think in new ways about larger themes in U.S. history, such as settlement and colonization, economic and political power, citizenship and movements for equality, and the fundamental question of what it means to be an American.
Year: 2015
Primary URL:
http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3646Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 9781469621203
Inca Architecture from the Andes to the Adriatic: Pedro Sancho’s Description of Cuzco (Article)Title: Inca Architecture from the Andes to the Adriatic: Pedro Sancho’s Description of Cuzco
Author: Michael Schreffler
Abstract: In 1556, Giovanni Battista Ramusio facilitated the publication in Venice of a report by Pedro Sancho, official secretary to the conquistador Francisco Pizarro. Sancho’s text included a lengthy description of the architecture and plan of Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, and was the first such description to appear in print. Previous scholarship has used it as a primary source for reconstructing the appearance of Inca Cuzco as seen by Sancho, Pizarro, and their cohort at the moment of their arrival there in 1533. The text, however, is also evidence for other kinds of historical information, for it demonstrates how habits of description engaged in the production of space. The impact of Sancho’s textual representation of Cuzco is evident in a contemporary reaction to it — a woodcut print that accompanied it when it was first published. Considered together, the text and image lay bare the ways in which modes of representation facilitated political, architectural, and urbanistic change in the sixteenth-century New World.
Year: 2014
Primary URL:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/679781Primary URL Description: JSTOR entry
Access Model: Available through JSTOR
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Renaissance Quarterly
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Renaissance Society of America
Thomas Harriot’s Optics, Between Experiment and Imagination: The Case of Mr. Bulkeley’s Glass (Article)Title: Thomas Harriot’s Optics, Between Experiment and Imagination: The Case of Mr. Bulkeley’s Glass
Author: Robert Goulding
Abstract: Sometime in the late 1590s, the Welsh amateur mathematician John Bulkeley wrote to Thomas Harriot asking his opinion about the properties of a truly gargantuan (but totally imaginary) plano-spherical convex lens, 48 feet in diameter. While Bulkeley’s original letter is lost, Harriot devoted several pages to the optical properties of “Mr Bulkeley his Glasse” in his optical papers (now in British Library MS Add. 6789), paying particular attention to the place of its burning point. Harriot’s calculational methods in these papers are almost unique in Harriot’s optical remains, in that he uses both the sine law of refraction and interpolation from Witelo’s refraction tables in order to analyze the passage of light through the glass. For this and other reasons, it is very likely that Harriot wrote his papers on Bulkeley’s glass very shortly after his discovery of the law and while still working closely with Witelo’s great Optics; the papers represent, perhaps, his very first application of the law. His and Bulkeley’s interest in this giant glass conform to a long English tradition of curiosity about the optical and burning properties of large glasses, which grew more intense in late sixteenth-century England. In particular, Thomas Digges’s bold and widely known assertions about his father’s glasses that could see things several miles distant and could burn objects a half-mile or further away may have attracted Harriot and Bulkeley’s skeptical attention; for Harriot’s analysis of the burning distance and the intensity of Bulkeley’s fantastic lens, it shows that Digges’s claims could never have been true about any real lens (and this, I propose, was what Bulkeley had asked about in his original letter to Harriot). There was also a deeper, mathematical relevance to the problem that may have caught Harriot’s attention
Year: 2014
Primary URL:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00407-013-0125-1Primary URL Description: Link to the article on the publisher's website
Access Model: Purchase; rent
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publisher: Springer
The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage (Book)Title: The Dynamics of Inheritance on the Shakespearean Stage
Author: Michelle M. Dowd
Abstract: Early modern England's system of patrilineal inheritance, in which the eldest son inherited his father's estate and title, was one of the most significant forces affecting social order in the period. Demonstrating that early modern theatre played a unique and vital role in shaping how inheritance was understood, Michelle M. Dowd explores some of the common contingencies that troubled this system: marriage and remarriage, misbehaving male heirs, and families with only daughters. Shakespearean drama helped question and reimagine inheritance practices, making room for new formulations of gendered authority, family structure, and wealth transfer. Through close readings of canonical and non-canonical plays by Shakespeare, Webster, Jonson, and others, Dowd pays particular attention to the significance of space in early modern inheritance and the historical relationship between dramatic form and the patrilineal economy. Her book will interest researchers and students of early modern drama, Shakespeare, gender studies, and socio-economic history.
Year: 2015
Primary URL:
http://www.worldcat.org/title/dynamics-of-inheritance-on-the-shakespearean-stage/oclc/895117031&referer=brief_resultsPrimary URL Description: WorldCat entry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9781107099777
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes
The Parker Society (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: The Parker Society
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Author: Lori Anne Ferrell
Date: 11/15/2015
Location: California Book Club and California Book School (US Berekeley) joint meeting
Victorian Obsessions: the Story of the Parker Society (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Victorian Obsessions: the Story of the Parker Society
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Author: Lori Anne Ferrell
Date: 02/15/2016
Location: Zamorano Club, Pasadena, California
How the Parker Society got Its Name (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: How the Parker Society got Its Name
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Author: Lori Anne Ferrell
Date: 03/15/2016
Location: Corpus Christi College Cambridge
Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion [Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 41] (Book)Title: Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion [Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 41]
Editor: Bart Ramakers
Editor: Walter Melion
Abstract: Personification, or prosopopeia, the rhetorical figure by which something not human is given a human identity or ‘face’, is readily discernible in early modern texts and images, but the figure’s cognitive form and function, its rhetorical and pictorial effects, have rarely elicited sustained scholarly attention. The aim of this volume is to formulate an alternative account of personification, to demonstrate the ingenuity with which this multifaceted device was utilized by late medieval and early modern authors and artists in Italy, France, England, Scotland, and the Low Countries. Personification is susceptible to an approach that balances semiotic analysis, focusing on meaning effects, and phenomenological analysis, focusing on presence effects produced through bodily performance. This dual approach foregrounds the full scope of prosopopoeic discourse—not just the what, but also the how, not only the signified, but also the signifier.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.brill.com/products/book/personificationPublisher: Brill
Type: Edited Volume
Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image, 1400-1700 [Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 39] (Book)Title: Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image, 1400-1700 [Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 39]
Editor: Walter Melion
Editor: L.P. Wandel
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Year: 2015
Publisher: Brill
Type: Edited Volume
Introduction (Book Section)Title: Introduction
Author: Walter Melion
Author: L.P. Wandel
Editor: Walter Melion
Editor: L.P. Wandel
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Year: 2015
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image, 1400-1700 [Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 39]
Convent and cubiculum cordis: The Incarnational Thematic of Materiality in the Cistercian Prayerbook of Martin Boschman (1610) (Book Section)Title: Convent and cubiculum cordis: The Incarnational Thematic of Materiality in the Cistercian Prayerbook of Martin Boschman (1610)
Author: Walter Melion
Editor: Walter Melion
Editor: L.P. Wandel
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Year: 2015
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Image and Incarnation: The Early Modern Doctrine of the Pictorial Image, 1400-1700 [Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 39]
Apellea et ipse manu: Hieronymus Cock and His Allegories of Art—Apollo, Diana, and the Niobids, The Labors of Hercules, Hercules and the Pygmies, and The Raising of the Brazen Serpent (Book Section)Title: Apellea et ipse manu: Hieronymus Cock and His Allegories of Art—Apollo, Diana, and the Niobids, The Labors of Hercules, Hercules and the Pygmies, and The Raising of the Brazen Serpent
Author: Walter Melion
Editor: B. Barryte
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Year: 2015
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Book Title: Myth, Allegory, and Faith: The Kirk Edward Long Collection of Mannerist Prints
Personification; An Introduction (Book Section)Title: Personification; An Introduction
Author: Walter Melion
Editor: Bart Ramakers
Editor: Walter Melion
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Year: 2016
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion [Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 41]
Figured Personification and Parabolic Embodiment in Jan David’s Occasio arrepta, neglecta (Book Section)Title: Figured Personification and Parabolic Embodiment in Jan David’s Occasio arrepta, neglecta
Author: Walter Melion
Editor: Bart Ramakers
Editor: Walter Melion
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Year: 2016
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Personification: Embodying Meaning and Emotion [Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture 41]
Men are lived over again: the transmigrations of Thomas Browne (Public Lecture or Presentation)Title: Men are lived over again: the transmigrations of Thomas Browne
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Author: Jessica Wolfe
Date: 10/15/2015
Location: Harvard University
Browne and the Silent Text (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Browne and the Silent Text
Author: Jessica Wolfe
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Date: 01/15/2016
Conference Name: “Truth and Error in Early Modern Science: Thomas Browne and his World,” Henry E. Huntington Library and Yale University Renaissance Center (March 2016)
Thomas Browne and the Disorientation of Man (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Thomas Browne and the Disorientation of Man
Author: Jessica Wolfe
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Date: 04/15/2016
Conference Name: "Macrocosm and Microcosm," sponsored by the Discipline of English Literature, Renaissance Society of America
The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference (Book)Title: The Limits of Identity: Early Modern Venice, Dalmatia, and the Representation of Difference
Author: Karen-edis Barzman
Abstract: This book considers the production of collective identity in Venice (Christian, civic-minded, anti-tyrannical), which turned on distinctions drawn in various fields of representation from painting, sculpture, print, and performance to classified correspondence. Dismemberment and decapitation bore a heavy burden in this regard, given as indices of an arbitrary violence ascribed to Venice’s long-time adversary, “the infidel Turk.” The book also addresses the recuperation of violence in Venetian discourse about maintaining civic order and waging crusade. Finally, it examines mobile populations operating in the porous limits between Venetian Dalmatia and Ottoman Bosnia and the distinctions they disrupted between “Venetian” and “Turk” until their settlement on farmland of the Venetian state. This occurred in the eighteenth century with the closing of the borderlands, thresholds of difference against which early modern “Venetian-ness” was repeatedly measured and affirmed.
Year: 2017
Primary URL:
http://www.brill.com/products/book/limits-identity-early-modern-venice-dalmatia-and-representation-differencePrimary URL Description: Publisher's website
Publisher: Brill
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9789004331501
Copy sent to NEH?: No
Thomas Browne and the Disorientation of Man (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Thomas Browne and the Disorientation of Man
Author: Jessica Wolfe
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Date: 10/01/2016
Conference Name: Southeastern Renaissance Conference
Thomas Browne and the Limits of Hieroglyphic Authority (Conference Paper/Presentation)Title: Thomas Browne and the Limits of Hieroglyphic Authority
Author: Jessica Wolfe
Abstract: Paper presentation and roundtable presentation on early translations of Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Date: 03/25/2017
Conference Name: Renaissance Society of America Conference
Introduction: The Jesuit Engagement with the Status and Functions of the Visual Image (Book Section)Title: Introduction: The Jesuit Engagement with the Status and Functions of the Visual Image
Author: Walter S. Melion
Editor: Walter S. Melion
Editor: W. de Boer
Editor: K. A. E. Enenkel
Abstract: The Jesuit investment in images, whether verbal or visual, virtual or actual, pictorial or poetic, rhetorical or exegetical, was strong and sustained, and may even be identified as one of the order’s defining characteristics. Although this interest in images has been richly documented by art historians, theatre historians, and scholars of the emblem, the question of Jesuit image theory has yet to be approached from a multi-disciplinary perspective that examines how the image was defined, conceived, produced, and interpreted within the various fields of learning cultivated by the Society: sacred oratory, pastoral instruction, scriptural exegesis, theology, collegiate pedagogy, poetry and poetics, etc. The papers published in this volume investigate the ways in which Jesuits reflected visually and verbally on the status and functions of the imago, between the foundation of the order in 1540 and its suppression in 1773. Part I examines texts that purport explicitly to theorize about the imago and to analyze its various forms and functions. Part II examines what one might call expressions of embedded image theory, that is, various instances where Jesuit authors and artists use images implicitly to explore the status and functions of such images as indices of image-making.
Contributors include Wietse de Boer, James Clifton, Ralph Dekoninck, Karl Enenkel, Pierre Antoine Fabre, David Graham, Agnès Guiderdoni, Anna Knaap, Walter Melion, Jeffrey Muller, Hilmar Pabel, Aline Smeesters, Andrea Torre, and Steffen Zierholz
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.brill.com/products/book/jesuit-image-theoryPrimary URL Description: Publisher's website
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Jesuit Image Theory
ISBN: 9789004319110
Libellus piarum precum (1575): Iterations of the Five Holy Wounds in an Early Jesuit Prayerbook (Book Section)Title: Libellus piarum precum (1575): Iterations of the Five Holy Wounds in an Early Jesuit Prayerbook
Author: Walter S. Melion
Editor: W. de Boer
Editor: K. A. E. Enenkel
Editor: Walter S. Melion
Abstract: The Jesuit investment in images, whether verbal or visual, virtual or actual, pictorial or poetic, rhetorical or exegetical, was strong and sustained, and may even be identified as one of the order’s defining characteristics. Although this interest in images has been richly documented by art historians, theatre historians, and scholars of the emblem, the question of Jesuit image theory has yet to be approached from a multi-disciplinary perspective that examines how the image was defined, conceived, produced, and interpreted within the various fields of learning cultivated by the Society: sacred oratory, pastoral instruction, scriptural exegesis, theology, collegiate pedagogy, poetry and poetics, etc. The papers published in this volume investigate the ways in which Jesuits reflected visually and verbally on the status and functions of the imago, between the foundation of the order in 1540 and its suppression in 1773. Part I examines texts that purport explicitly to theorize about the imago and to analyze its various forms and functions. Part II examines what one might call expressions of embedded image theory, that is, various instances where Jesuit authors and artists use images implicitly to explore the status and functions of such images as indices of image-making.
Contributors include Wietse de Boer, James Clifton, Ralph Dekoninck, Karl Enenkel, Pierre Antoine Fabre, David Graham, Agnès Guiderdoni, Anna Knaap, Walter Melion, Jeffrey Muller, Hilmar Pabel, Aline Smeesters, Andrea Torre, and Steffen Zierholz
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.brill.com/products/book/jesuit-image-theoryPrimary URL Description: Publisher's website
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Jesuit Image Theory
ISBN: 9789004319110
Scripture (Book Section)Title: Scripture
Author: Lori Anne Ferrell
Editor: Anthony Milton
Abstract: Volume one of The Oxford History of Anglicanism examines a period when the nature of "Anglicanism" was still heavily contested. Rather than merely tracing the emergence of trends that we associate with later Anglicanism, the contributors instead discuss the fluid and contested nature of the Church of England's religious identity in these years, and the different claims to what should count as "Anglican" orthodoxy. After the introduction and narrative chapters explain the historical background, individual chapters then analyze different understandings of the early church and church history; variant readings of the meaning of the royal supremacy, the role of bishops and canon law, and cathedrals; the very diverse experiences of religion in parishes, styles of worship and piety, church decoration, and Bible usage; and the competing claims to "Anglican" orthodoxy of puritanism, "avant-garde conformity" and Laudianism. Also analyzed are arguments over the Church of England's confessional identity and its links with the foreign Reformed Churches, and the alternative models provided by English Protestant activities in Ireland, Scotland and North America. The reforms of the 1640s and 1650s are included in their own right, and the volume concludes that the shape of the Restoration that emerged was far from inevitable, or expressive of a settled "Anglican" identity.
Year: 2016
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Title: Reformation and Identity: The Early Struggle for Anglicanism, c. 1520-1661
ISBN: 978019963973
Religion (Book Section)Title: Religion
Author: Lori Anne Ferrell
Editor: Bruce Smith
Abstract: Description
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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare aims to replicate the expansive reach of Shakespeare’s global reputation. In pursuit of that vision, this work is transhistorical, international, and interdisciplinary. Shakespeare’s World, 1500–1660, volume one, includes a comprehensive survey of the world in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived, while The World’s Shakespeare, 1660–Present, volume two, examines what the world has made of Shakespeare as a cultural icon over the past four centuries. For each of the work’s twenty-eight broad subject areas, ranging from translation to popular culture to performing arts, an overview is followed by a series of shorter essays taking up particular aspects of the subject at hand. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images between the two volumes, this work brings the world, life, and afterlife of Shakespeare to readers, from non-academic Shakespeare fans and students to theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.
Year: 2016
Primary URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/literature/renaissance-and-early-modern-literature/cambridge-guide-worlds-shakespeare?format=WX&utm_source=print&utm_campaign=cgwsPrimary URL Description: Publisher webpage
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Title: The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781107057258
News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 (Book)Title: News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945
Author: Rachel Galvin
Abstract: Argues that even poems that do not directly comment on war can evoke civilian relationships to distant fighting
Examines the poetry of César Vallejo, W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, Raymond Queneau, Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein
Presents the idea that these poets experienced a crisis of conscience during wartime, which in turn significantly influenced their writing
Year: 2018
Primary URL:
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/news-of-war-9780190623920?cc=us&lang=en&Publisher: Oxford University Press
Copy sent to NEH?: No
“Five versions of Ramus’s Geometry.” (Book Section)Title: “Five versions of Ramus’s Geometry.”
Author: Robert Goulding
Editor: A. Ossa-Richardson
Editor: Margaret Meserve
Abstract: Jill Kraye, Professor Emerita of the Warburg Institute, is renowned internationally for her scholarship on Renaissance philosophy and humanism. This volume pays tribute to her achievements with essays by friends, colleagues, and doctoral students—all leading scholars—on subjects as diverse as her work. Articles on canonical figures such as Marsilio Ficino and Justus Lipsius mix with more quirky pieces on alphabetic play and the Hippocratic aphorisms. Many chapters seek to bridge the divide between humanism and philosophy, including David Lines's survey of the way fifteenth-century humanists actually defined philosophy and Brian Copenhaver's polemical essay against the concept of humanist philosophy. The volume includes a full bibliography of Professor Kraye's scholarly publications.
Contributors are: Michael Allen, Daniel Andersson, Lilian Armstrong, Stefan Bauer, Dorigen Caldwell, Brian Copenhaver, Martin Davies, Germana Ernst, Guido Giglioni, Robert Goulding, Anthony Grafton, James Hankins, J. Cornelia Linde, David Lines, Margaret Meserve, John Monfasani, Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Jan Papy, Michael Reeve, Alessandro Scafi, and William Stenhouse.
Year: 2018
Primary URL:
https://brill.com/view/title/31513Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Et amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy in honour of Jill Kraye
“Introduction: Picturing Love and Artifice,” (Book Section)Title: “Introduction: Picturing Love and Artifice,”
Author: Walter Melion
Editor: W.S. Melion
Editor: J. Woodall
Editor: M. Zell
Abstract: An examination of the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700
“The Trope of Anthropomorphosis in Hendrick Goltzius’s Venus and Cupid (1590), Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres (1503), and Portrait of Frederick de Vries (1597)”, (Book Section)Title: “The Trope of Anthropomorphosis in Hendrick Goltzius’s Venus and Cupid (1590), Venus, Bacchus, and Ceres (1503), and Portrait of Frederick de Vries (1597)”,
Author: Walter Melion
Editor: W.S. Melion
Editor: J. Woodall
Editor: M. Zell
Abstract: An examination of the related themes of lovemaking and image-making in the visual arts of Europe, China, Japan, and Persia.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Brill
Book Title: Ut pictura amor: The Reflexive Imagery of Love in Artistic Theory and Practice, 1500-1700
Judith Shakespeare’s Brother (Article)Title: Judith Shakespeare’s Brother
Author: Michelle Dowd
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2019
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Modern Language Quarterly 80.1
“So like an old tale”: Staging Inheritance and the Lost Child in Shakespeare’s Romances (Book Section)Title: “So like an old tale”: Staging Inheritance and the Lost Child in Shakespeare’s Romances
Author: Michelle Dowd
Editor: Edel Semple
Editor: Rory Loughnane
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Title: Staged Normality in Shakespeare’s England
Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792 (Book)Title: Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest: Indian Women of the Ohio River Valley, 1690-1792
Author: Susan Sleeper-Smith
Abstract: Indigenous Prosperity and American Conquest recovers the agrarian village world Indian women created in the lush lands of the Ohio Valley. Algonquian-speaking Indians living in a crescent of towns along the Wabash tributary of the Ohio were able to evade and survive the Iroquois onslaught of the seventeenth century, to absorb French traders and Indigenous refugees, to export peltry, and to harvest riparian, wetland, and terrestrial resources of every description and breathtaking richness. These prosperous Native communities frustrated French and British imperial designs, controlled the Ohio Valley, and confederated when faced with the challenge of American invasion.
By the late eighteenth century, Montreal silversmiths were sending their best work to Wabash Indian villages, Ohio Indian women were setting the fashions for Indigenous clothing, and European visitors were marveling at the sturdy homes and generous hospitality of trading entrepôts such as Miamitown. Confederacy, agrarian abundance, and nascent urbanity were, however, both too much and not enough. Kentucky settlers and American leaders—like George Washington and Henry Knox—coveted Indian lands and targeted the Indian women who worked them. Americans took women and children hostage to coerce male warriors to come to the treaty table to cede their homelands. Appalachian squatters, aspiring land barons, and ambitious generals invaded this settled agrarian world, burned crops, looted towns, and erased evidence of Ohio Indian achievement. This book restores the Ohio River valley as Native space.
Year: 2018
Primary URL:
https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469640587/indigenous-prosperity-and-american-conquest/Primary URL Description: Publisher's website
Publisher: Omohundro Institute of Early American History and the University of North Carolina Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 978-1-4696-405
Copy sent to NEH?: No
How to Hit Pause: Language, Transcendence and the Capacity for Judgment in Shaftesbury’s ‘Soliloquy; or, Advice to an Author (Book Section)Title: How to Hit Pause: Language, Transcendence and the Capacity for Judgment in Shaftesbury’s ‘Soliloquy; or, Advice to an Author
Author: Vivasan Soni
Editor: Vivasvan Soni
Editor: Thomas Pfau
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2018
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Book Title: Judgment and Action: Fragments toward a History
Judgment and Action: Fragments toward a History (Book)Title: Judgment and Action: Fragments toward a History
Editor: Thomas Pfau
Editor: Vivasvan Soni
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2018
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Type: Edited Volume
Copy sent to NEH?: No
Cuzco: Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City (Book)Title: Cuzco: Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City
Author: Michael Schreffler
Abstract: Through objects, buildings, and colonial texts, this book tells the story of how Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, was transformed into a Spanish colonial city. When Spaniards invaded and conquered Peru in the 16th century, they installed in Cuzco not only a government of their own but also a distinctly European architectural style. Layered atop the characteristic stone walls, plazas, and trapezoidal portals of the former Inca town were columns, arcades, and even a cathedral.00This fascinating book charts the history of Cuzco through its architecture, revealing traces of colonial encounters still visible in the modern city. A remarkable collection of primary sources reconstructs this narrative: writings by secretaries to colonial administrators, histories conveyed to Spanish translators by native Andeans, and legal documents and reports. Cuzco's infrastructure reveals how the city, wracked by devastating siege and insurrection, was reborn as an ethnically and stylistically diverse community.
Year: 2020
Publisher: Yale University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780300218114
Ratio emblematum: Characteristic Features of the Jesuit Emblem (Article)Title: Ratio emblematum: Characteristic Features of the Jesuit Emblem
Author: Walter S. Melion
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2024
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Jesuit Studies 11
Trompe-l’oeil Mirrors of the Soul in Jan David, S.J.’s Duodecim specula (Twelve Mirrors) of 1610 (Article)Title: Trompe-l’oeil Mirrors of the Soul in Jan David, S.J.’s Duodecim specula (Twelve Mirrors) of 1610
Author: Walter S. Melion
Abstract: n/a
Year: 2024
Format: Journal
Periodical Title: Journal of Jesuit Studies 11