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Poetry, Medieval --- European poetry --- Study and teaching --- 1450-1600

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A guide to the rich and diverse literature of Tudor England. Includes entries for numerous authors who wrote between 1485 and 1603.

English literature --- Early modern, 1500-1700 --- Bio-bibliography --- Dictionaries --- European literature --- 1450-1600 (Renaissance) --- Authors [English ] --- Biography --- Authors [European ] --- European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - Bio-bibliography - Dictionaries. --- Authors, European - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - Biography - Dictionaries. --- Authors, English --- Authors, European --- European authors --- English authors --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- England --- Civilization --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales

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Literature, Medieval --- European literature --- Visual perception in literature. --- Description (Rhetoric) --- History and criticism. --- Renaissance, 1450-1600 --- Description (Rhetoric). --- French literature --- To 1500 --- History and criticism --- 16th century --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism. --- European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism. --- ANTHROPOLOGIE CULTURELLE --- REGARD --- HISTOIRE CULTURELLE --- EUROPE --- HISTOIRE --- 12E-16E SIECLES

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Cosmopoiesis means world-making, and in this erudite, polemical book, Professor Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art, and theatre. The Renaissance is usually read from a Cartesian or Hegelian (via Burckhardt) perspective. It is viewed as a time of individualities or it is studied in terms of disembodied ideas and abstract forms. Mazzotta calls for a new approach: the necessity to study the Renaissance in terms of the ongoing conversation of the arts and sciences. His is an encyclopedic grasp that takes into consideration literature, philosophy, politics, history, and theology. The book's theoretical premise lies in the thought of the eighteenth-century Italian philosopher, Giambattista Vico. Vico's own reading of the Renaissance, available in his New Science, is obliquely, yet clearly reproposed as the alternate interpretive key for opening up the deeper imaginative concerns of this extraordinary period of Western history. By a series of rigorous textual analyses that range from Poliziano to Ariosto, from Machiavelli to Bacon, to Shakespeare and Cervantes, "Cosmopoiesi"s highlights the ongoing dialogue between literature and philosophy (or literature and science, or, in Vichian terms, philology and philosophy) in some of the central texts of the time. In this dialogue across time and the barriers of space, the esthetic world - the world of the pastoral, romances, epics, utopian fictions, the theatre, and the lyric - far from signalling an evasion from history, is steadily and vitally engaged with the most pressing exigencies of the time. Consistently, the analyses conducted in "Cosmopoiesis" come to grips with these exigencies: the power of science, the relationship between politics and science, and the emergence of a new ethics in the midst of the secretive techniques by new elites in their exercise of political power. Above all, these central texts argue for a necessary reconstitution of the unity of knowledge, for the "encyclopedic" compass of the arts and sciences. The retrieval of this unity is made possible by reclaiming a role for the esthetic or contemplative mode of thought which underlies and shapes the most creative achievements in the world of making.

European literature --- Italian literature --- Philosophy, Renaissance. --- Philosophy, Modern --- Renaissance philosophy --- History and criticism. --- European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism --- Italian literature - History and criticism --- Philosophy, Renaissance --- Italienisch.

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Shakespeare was not only aware of the socio-cultural fears and anxieties generated by the older woman’s body but with the characterization of his tragic ageing females, Shakespeare becomes the first literary giant to explore the physiological and psychosocial condition that we have come to know as ‘menopause’. Although ‘menopause’ was not defined as a medical, physiological or sociocultural event for the early moderns, this book argues that such a medical and cultural transition can, in fact, be identified by sub-textual clues distinguished by various embodied anxieties. It explores several ageing women of the Shakespearean tragedies as they transition through this liminal menopausal period. Theoretically underscored by humoral theory, the analysis is metonymically centered upon the womb as the seat of menopausal anxiety. These menopausal undercurrents, not only permeate the dramatic action of each play, but also emanate outward to reflect the medical, physiological, cultural, social, and religious concerns generated by the ageing woman of the early modern period at large.

European literature --- Medicine and the humanities. --- Theater --- Women --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- Medical Humanities. --- Theatre History. --- Women's History / History of Gender. --- Renaissance, 1450-1600. --- History. --- Menopause in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Shakespeare, William, --- Characters.