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This book visits the fact that, in the pre-modern world, saints and lords served structurally similar roles, acting as patrons to those beneath them on the spiritual or social ladder with the word "patron" used to designate both types of elite sponsor. Chapman argues that this elision of patron saints and patron lords remained a distinctive feature of the early modern English imagination and that it is central to some of the key works of literature in the period. Writers like Jonson, Shakespeare, Spenser, Drayton, Donne and, Milton all use medieval patron saints in order to represent and to challenge early modern ideas of patronage -- not just patronage in the narrow sense of the immediate economic relations obtaining between client and sponsor, but also patronage as a society-wide system of obligation and reward that itself crystallized a whole culture’s assumptions about order and degree. The works studied in this book -- ranging from Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI, written early in the 1590s, to Milton’s Masque Performed at Ludlow Castle, written in 1634 -- are patronage works, either aimed at a specific patron or showing a keen awareness of the larger patronage system. This volume challenges the idea that the early modern world had shrugged off its own medieval past, instead arguing that Protestant writers in the period were actively using the medieval Catholic ideal of the saint as a means to represent contemporary systems of hierarchy and dependence. Saints had been the ideal -- and idealized -- patrons of the medieval world and remained so for early modern English recusants. As a result, their legends and iconographies provided early modern Protestant authors with the perfect tool for thinking about the urgent and complex question of who owed allegiance to whom in a rapidly changing world.

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Art --- Granvelle [family] --- anno 1500-1599 --- Italy --- congres / 1992 --- History --- patronage --- Granvelle (familie) --- Granvelle, de, Nicolas Perrenot --- Granvelle, de, Antoine Perrenot --- Art patronage --- Literary patrons --- Book collectors --- Art, Italian --- Mécénat --- Mécènes de la littérature --- Bibliophiles --- Art italien --- Congresses --- Histoire --- Congrès --- Granvelle, Nicolas Perrenot de, --- Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de, --- Granvelle family --- Family --- Library --- Catalogs --- Besançon (France) --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Constructions --- 929.5 GRANVELLE --- 017.2 <44> PERRENOT DE GRANVELLE, ANTOINE --- 094 =50 --- 7.078.2 --- Genealogie--GRANVELLE --- Catalogi van persoonsbibliotheken--Frankrijk--PERRENOT DE GRANVELLE, ANTOINE --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Italiaans --- Kunstbescherming door particulieren: sponsoring; mecenaat --- Conferences - Meetings --- 7.078.2 Kunstbescherming door particulieren: sponsoring; mecenaat --- 094 =50 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Italiaans --- 017.2 <44> PERRENOT DE GRANVELLE, ANTOINE Catalogi van persoonsbibliotheken--Frankrijk--PERRENOT DE GRANVELLE, ANTOINE --- 929.5 GRANVELLE Genealogie--GRANVELLE --- Mécénat --- Mécènes de la littérature --- Congrès --- Besançon (France) --- Italian art --- Bamboccianti (Group of artists) --- Corrente (Group of artists) --- Cracking Art (Group of artists) --- Fronte nuovo delle arti (Group of artists) --- Geometria e ricerca (Group of artists) --- Girasole (Group of artists) --- Gruppo 1 (Group of artists) --- Gruppo Aniconismo dialettico (Group of artists) --- Gruppo di Como (Group of artists) --- Gruppo di Scicli (Group of artists) --- Gruppo Enne (Group of artists) --- Gruppo Forma uno (Group of artists) --- Italiens de Paris (Group of artists) --- Mutus Liber (Group of artists) --- Novecento italiano (Group of artists) --- Nuovi-nuovi (Group of artists) --- Origine (Group of artists) --- Sei pittori di Torino (Group of artists) --- Transvisionismo (Group of artists) --- De Granvelle, Nicolas Perrenot, --- Perrenot de Granvelle, Nicolas, --- De Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot, --- Granvelle, --- Granvelle, Antonio Perrenot di, --- Perrenot de Granvelle, Antoine, --- Congresses. --- Palais Granvelle (Besançon, France) --- Vesontio (France) --- Bisontina (France) --- Civilization --- Italian influences --- Perrenotus a Gramuella, Nicolaus --- Granvelle, Nicolas Perrenot de (1485-1550) --- Granvelle, Antoine Perrenot de (1517-1586) --- Bibliothèque --- Et les arts --- Et l'Italie