The Death Arts in Renaissance England

Herausgeber: Engel, William E.; Williams, Grant; Loughnane, Rory

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This critical anthology, an ideal resource for researchers, instructors, and students, outlines the cultural contexts in which people grappled with their mortality in Renaissance England. Illuminating death's intersections with gender, sex, and race, this book offers indispensable insights into living with death in early modern England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781108749565
• ISBN-10: 1108749569
• Artikelnr.: 72489483

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Preparatory and dying Arts: I.1. To know well to die (1490)
I.2. The Calendar of Shepherds (1518)
I.3. The way of dying well (1534)
I.4. The Lamentation of a Sinner (1547)
I.5. 'A Meditation of a penitent Sinner' (1560)
I.6. A Fruitful treatise...against the fear of Death (1564)
I.7. A Spiritual Consolation (1578)
I.8. The repentance of Robert Greene (1592)
I.9. A Salve for a Sick Man (1595)
I.10. The Mother's Blessing (1616)
I.11. Selected Works (1628, 1635)
I.12. 'The unnatural Wife' (1628)
I.13. An antidote against purgatory (1634)
I.14. Holy dying (1651)
I.15. The virgin's pattern (1661)
I.16. A Token for Children (1676)
I.17. 'A True account of...last dying speeches' (1690)
Part II. Funereal and Commemorative Arts: II.1.Chronicles (1548)
II.2. 'The Order for the burial of the dead' (1549)
II.3. The Primer set forth at large (1559)
II.4. Acts and Monuments (1576)
II.5. The Glorious Martyrdom of twelve Priests (1582)
II.6. The life and death of Sir Philip Sidney (1587)
II.7. The French History (1589)
II.8. 'Doleful Lay of Clorinda' (1595)
II.9. Selected Works (1603, 1604)
II.10. 'A Mirror of Modesty' (1621)
II.11. 'A Sermon...the 5th of November, 1606' (1629)
II.12. The Phoenix of these late times (1637)
II.13. Eikon Basilike (1649)
II.14. 'An Elegy on the Lady Markham' (1653)
II.15. A String of Pearls (1657)
II.16. Poems (1669)
II.17. 'An Essay upon Death' (1696)
Part III. Knowing and Understanding Death: III.1. The despising of the World (1532)
III.2. A Preservative against Death (1545)
III.3. A Godly Meditation (1548)
III.4. A Mirror for Magistrates (1587)
III.5. The Haven of Health (1588)
III.6. Protection for Woman (1589)
III.7. Montaigne's Essays (1603)
III.8. The Works of Seneca (1614)
III.9. Navmachia (1622)
III.10. 'Of Death' (1625)
III.11. Mikrokosmographia (1631)
III.12. 'A View of the present State of Ireland' (1633)
III.13. A View of all Religions in the World (1653)
III.14. Natural and Political Observations (1662)
III.15. Philosophical Letters (1664)
III.16. Lucretius's Six Books (1683)
III.17. Principles of the most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1692)
Part IV. Death Arts in Literature: IV.1. The Ship of Fools (1509)
IV.2. The Summoning of Everyman (1528)
IV.3. The Dance of Death (1554)
IV.4. 'Complaint of a Dying Lover' (1557)
IV.5. 'A Strange Punishment' (1566)
IV.6. 'Gascoigne's Goodnight' (1573)
IV.7. 'The Manner of her Will' (1573)
IV.8. The Mirror of Princely deeds and Knighthood (1578)
IV.9. Selected Works (1594, 1604)
IV.10. Selected Works (1606, 1614)
IV.11. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611)
IV.12. Selected Works (1611, 1613)
IV.13. The Tragedy of Mariam (1613)
IV.14. Urania (1621)
IV.15. 'The last Will and Testament of Philip Herbert' (1650)
IV.16. 'The Nymph complaining for the death of her Fawn' (1681)
IV.17. Oroonoko (1688).