Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance: French Love Lyric and by Kathryn Banks

Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558–1660

The Catholic contribution to English literary tradition has been generally missed or misunderstood. This booklet units out to rehabilitate quite a lot of Catholic resourceful writing, whereas exposing the function of anti-Catholicism as an ingenious stimulus to mainstream writers in Tudor and Stuart England.

The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy: Jewish and Christian Physicians in Search of Truth

The Bible and common Philosophy in Renaissance Italy explores the reciprocal dating among biblical interpretation and average philosophy in sixteenth-century Italy. The e-book augments our wisdom of the manifold functions of clinical services within the Renaissance and of the a number of ways that the Bible was once learn by way of trained those who lacked theological education.

Memory and Community in Sixteenth-Century France

Reminiscence and neighborhood in Sixteenth-Century France engages the query of remembering from a couple of varied views. It examines the formation of groups inside different cultural, non secular, and geographical contexts, specially relating to the cloth stipulations for generating texts and discourses that have been the rules for collective practices of reminiscence.

Byron, Shelley and Goethe's Faust: An Epic Connection (Studies in Comparative Literature)

The 1st a part of Goethe's dramatic poem Faust (1808), one of many nice works of German literature, grabbed the eye of Byron and Percy Shelley within the 1810s, enticing them in a shared fascination that used to be to exert an incredible impact over their writings. during this comparative examine, Ben Hewitt explores the hyperlinks among Faust and Byron's and Shelley's works, connecting Goethe and the 2 English Romantic poets by way of their differing, intricately similar experiments with epic.