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The Damned Art (RLE Witchcraft)
This book approaches witchcraft and demonology through literary records. The works discussed deal with the contemporary theories propounded by those who sought either to justify, or to refute persecution. Eight contributors of differing interests,a nd with different approaches to their subject, examine a selection of important, representative witchcraft texts – published in England, France, Germany, Italy and America – setting them within their intellectual context and analysing both their style and argument.
Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy
This standard work, long out of print, discusses every English royal entry, festival, disguising, masque, and tournament, from the accession of Henry VII to the coronation celebrations of Elizabeth I. The study of court festivals, spectacle, and civic pageantry in Renaissance Europe has now developed into a major academic industry, so that the market for authoritative works on these themes extends far beyond the boundaries of conventional scholarly disciplines. Spectacle, Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy was a pioneering work and remains the only comprehensive and analytical treatment of its subject.
Machiavelli: a Dissection
Traditional interpretations of Machiavelli at times have regarded him as an insidious misanthrope, a cruel pessimist who allows ends to justify means and assigns the state supremacy over the individual. At other times, he is seen as a brilliant theorist whose rational and pragmatic approach allows the most efficient and healthy functioning of the state, the greatest degree of welfare for the people. In this examination, Sydney Anglo, a scholar in the history of ideas, forgoes these traditional assumptions. He starts afresh on an objective review of Machiavelli's thought and writings in the context of his life and times, considering such important works as The Prince and Discourses as well as the early writings and letters. The book breaks free both from uncritical admiration and from moral indignation to present a balanced treatment of this seminal Western thinker.--From publisher description.
The Complete Soldier
The period 1603-1645 witnessed the publication of more than ninety books, manuals, and broadsheets dedicated to educating Englishmen in the military arts. Written with the intention of creating the a oecomplete soldiera, this didactic literature provided gentlemen with the requisite knowledge to engage in infantry, cavalry, and siege warfare. Drawing on military history and book history, this is the first detailed study of the impact of military books on military practice in Jacobean and Caroline England. Putting military books firmly in the hands of soldiers, this work examines the circles that purchased and debated new titles, the veterans who authored them, and their influence on military thought and training in the years leading up to the English Civil War.
The Literature of Witchcraft
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Adventures of Sydney and Marvin
Seagulls are much-maligned creatures. The general public regard them as a nuisance, feral delinquents and low-life scavengers, prone to being aggressive for no apparent reason. Only vultures, it seems, compete at the same social level. Yet the truth is that if you take the time to observe them, they have remarkable qualities for small birds. They are monogamous and rarely separate from their mate. They’re great swimmers with the rare ability to drink seawater. They’re also highly intelligent, communicative, and can continue to learn new skills, retain it, and also pass them on to others. Just watch them break open a mussel, or collectively stamp their feet in a farmer’s field to attrac...
Spectacle & Image in Renaissance Europe
This collection of nineteen essays focuses on the ways in which, in England, France and Spain, the Renaissance made propagandistic, or aesthetic, use of the image in various spectacles. Under surface differences between genres, what emerges is a surprising similarity in tactics and response, which invites further questioning about image elaboration and its reception.
Images of Tudor Kingship
An examination of the political imagery of a Renaissance dynasty. Tudor dynastic images were extremely simple, but their simplicity is not self-evident - a paradox which provides the theme and structure of this book. There have been many books on Tudor imagery but most assume what they should be proving - that is that there was a systematic use of learned symbolism for propaganda purposes. This book makes no such assumption and arrives, after an examination of the evidence, at the conclusion that the systematic propaganda machine did not exist.
Australianama
Charts the history of South Asian diaspora, weaving together stories of various peoples colonized by the British Empire.
Francis I and Sixteenth-Century France
The reputation of Francis I, king of France (1515-47 ) has fluctuated over the centuries. Acclaimed as ’noble’ and ’great’ in the sixteenth century, he came to be unfairly denigrated under the Bourbon kings and the republic. But, in the twentieth century, research based on archival material has restored his standing as one of the most important rulers of his age. The present volume brings together seventeen articles by Robert Knecht published over several decades on particular aspects of the reign, with three specially translated from French into English. They examine the period in more depth than was possible in the author's 1994 biography of Francis I, and include studies of the Co...
