The Premodern Teenager

The Premodern Teenager
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Publisher : Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Total Pages : 370
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ISBN-10 : 0772720185
ISBN-13 : 9780772720184
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Premodern Teenager by : Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Shakespeare's adolescents

Shakespeare's adolescents
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 164
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ISBN-10 : 9781526168184
ISBN-13 : 1526168189
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's adolescents by : Victoria Sparey

Shakespeare’s adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Using early modern medical knowledge and an understanding of contemporary theatrical practices, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of ‘signs’ associated with an individual’s physical maturation. Each chapter explores the implications of different ‘signs’ of puberty, in verbal cues, facial adornments, vocal traits and body sizes, to illuminate how Shakespeare presents vibrant adolescent selves and stories. By analysing female and male puberty together in its discussion of adolescence, Shakespeare’s adolescents provides fresh insight into the age-based symmetry of early modern adolescent identities. The book uses the adolescent’s state of transformation to illuminate how the unfixed nature of adolescence was valued in early modern culture and through Shakespeare’s celebrated characters and actors.

Chaucer and the Child

Chaucer and the Child
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9781137436375
ISBN-13 : 1137436379
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Chaucer and the Child by : Eve Salisbury

This book addresses portrayals of children in a wide array of Chaucerian works. Situated within a larger discourse on childhood, Ages of Man theories, and debates about the status of the child in the late fourteenth century, Chaucer’s literary children—from infant to adolescent—offer a means by which to hear the voices of youth not prominently treated in social history. The readings in this study urge our attention to literary children, encouraging us to think more thoroughly about the Chaucerian collection from their perspectives. Eve Salisbury argues that the child is neither missing in the late Middle Ages nor in Chaucer’s work, but is,rather, fundamental to the institutions of the time and central to the poet’s concerns.

The Unruly Womb in Early Modern English Drama

The Unruly Womb in Early Modern English Drama
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 288
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ISBN-10 : 9783110660500
ISBN-13 : 3110660504
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis The Unruly Womb in Early Modern English Drama by : Ursula A. Potter

This study provides an accessible, informative and entertaining introduction to women’s sexual health as presented on the early modern stage, and how dramatists coded for it. Beginning with the rise of green sickness (the disease of virgins) from its earliest reference in drama in the 1560s, Ursula Potter traces a continuing fascination with the womb by dramatists through to the oxymoron of the chaste sex debate in the 1640s. She analyzes how playwrights employed visual and verbal clues to identify the sexual status of female characters to engage their audiences with popular concepts of women’s health; and how they satirized the notion of the womb’s insatiable appetite, suggesting that men who fear it have been duped. But the study also recognizes that, as these dramatists were fully aware, merely by bringing such material to the stage so frequently, they were complicit in perpetuating such theories.

Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino

Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino
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Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Total Pages : 626
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ISBN-10 : 9781487532611
ISBN-13 : 148753261X
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino by : Sherry Roush

Jacopo Caviceo’s Peregrino (1508) was a popular Renaissance prose romance in Italy, France, and Spain. Considered the first novel written for women, Peregrino relates the courtship of two young lovers from hostile households who succeed in doing what Romeo and Juliet, among others, could not: reconcile their families and marry without resorting to suicide. Peregrino features cameos of historical celebrities who interact with fictitious characters during their many adventures, which include a Mediterranean pilgrimage, courtly celebrations, funerals, legal trials, and a journey to the Other World. The book presents female agency in psychologically developed characters and contexts and includes allusions to previous literary masterpieces, such as Homer’s epics, Virgil’s Aeneid, and Dante’s Divine Comedy. This edition includes a detailed introduction and a biography of Jacopo Caviceo. Drawing on critical and comparative studies in a broad range of literary interests, the book sheds light on the emergence of the modern novel in the early modern period.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 465
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ISBN-10 : 9780190920753
ISBN-13 : 0190920750
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture by : James Marten

"Youth culture is not an invention of 20th-century movies and television; youth have been forming their own cultures from the moment they were given space to invent their own ways of relating to one another and to their parents and communities. Taking a global approach and beginning in early modern Europe, the essays in the Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture provide broadly contextualized case studies of the ways in which the meanings and expressions of both "youth" and "culture" have evolved through time and space. The authors show that youth culture has been shaped by geography, ethnicity, class, gender, faith, technology, and myriad other factors. Examining subjects ranging from monastic schools to online communities, from enslaved youth in the Caribbean to Indigenous students at government sanctioned boarding schools, from youthful entrepreneurs to youthful activists, from war to sexuality, and from art to literature, the essays show that there have been many youth cultures. Throughout, authors emphasize the ways in which the idea of youth culture could become contested terrain-between youth and their families, their communities, and the culture at large-as well as the importance of youth agency in carving out separate lives. Among the tensions explored are the struggle between control and independence, as well as the explicit and implicit differences between male and female constructions of youth culture"--

Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain

Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 287
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ISBN-10 : 9781137604156
ISBN-13 : 1137604158
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain by : Melanie Tebbutt

This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisation and industrialisation brought challenges that altered how young people were both perceived and understood. As adults found it difficult to comprehend the rapidity of societal change, focus on the young intensified, and they became a symbol of uncertainty about the future. Highlighting both change and striking continuity, Melanie Tebbutt traces the origins and development of key themes and debates in the history of modern British youth. Current issues such as the ageing of western societies, high levels of youth unemployment and the potential for social and political unrest make this a timely study.

Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy

Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9780674261129
ISBN-13 : 0674261127
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy by : Camilla Russell

A new history illuminates the Society of Jesus in its first century from the perspective of those who knew it best: the early Jesuits themselves. The Society of Jesus was established in 1540. In the century that followed, thousands sought to become Jesuits and pursue vocations in religious service, teaching, and missions. Drawing on scores of unpublished biographical documents housed at the Roman Jesuit Archive, Camilla Russell illuminates the lives of those who joined the Society, building together a religious and cultural presence that remains influential the world over. Tracing Jesuit life from the Italian provinces to distant missions, Russell sheds new light on the impact and inner workings of the Society. The documentary record reveals a textual network among individual members, inspired by Ignatius of LoyolaÕs Spiritual Exercises. The early Jesuits took stock of both quotidian and spiritual experiences in their own records, which reflect a community where the worldly and divine overlapped. Echoing the SocietyÕs foundational writings, members believed that each JesuitÕs personal strengths and inclinations offered a unique contribution to the wholeÑan attitude that helps explain the SocietyÕs widespread appeal from its first days. Focusing on the JesuitsÕ own words, Being a Jesuit in Renaissance Italy offers a new lens on the history of spirituality, identity, and global exchange in the Renaissance. What emerges is a kind of genetic codeÑa thread connecting the key Jesuit works to the first generations of Jesuits and the Society of Jesus as it exists today.

A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, Update 2004

A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, Update 2004
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 9789047414889
ISBN-13 : 9047414888
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis A Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology, Update 2004 by : Kelly DeVries

This first update to the Cumulative Bibliography of Medieval Military History and Technology (Brill, 2002) includes additional entries for the period before 2000 and new entries for the period 2000-2002.

Childhood, Youth, and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England

Childhood, Youth, and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 437
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ISBN-10 : 9781137364500
ISBN-13 : 1137364505
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Childhood, Youth, and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England by : L. Underwood

This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's Catholic minority. It examines Catholic attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to these initiatives, and the social, legal and political contexts in which young people formed, maintained and attempted to explain their religious identity.