Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England
This series presents original studies on the mentality, beliefs, and culture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England and features works in a variety of disciplines including art history, history, literature, music, and religious studies, as well as interdisciplinary studies.
George Herbert's Country Parson and Early Modern Social Discourse
by Ronald W. Cooley
Price:
$84.00
ISBN: 9780802037237
Pub Date: March 2004
In positioning George Herbert as a spokesman for a legal-rational social order, and in placing The Country Parson in its cultural milieu, Cooley reveals a new dimension to Herbert's work and provides a valuable tool for future study of Herbert and seventeenth-century culture and history.
Political Virtue and the Lipsian Paradigm in England, 1584-1650
by Adriana McCrea
Price:
$107.00
ISBN: 9780802006660
Pub Date: October 1997
Investigates Lipsian ideas in the moral, political, and literary culture of late 16nth- and early 17th-century England through examination of the writings and activities of Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Fulke Greville, Ben Jonson, and Joseph Hall.
Situates the often neglected collection of English Renaissance narrative poems A Mirror for Magistrates in the cultural context of its production, locating it not as a primitive form of tragedy, but as the epitome of the de casibus literary tradition.
