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21	(En)countering Death: Defenses against Mortality in Five Late Medieval/Early Modern Texts Horn, Matthew Clive 19 April 2010 (has links) No description available. English literature Book of the Duchess Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation Pericles Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Chaucer Shakespeare Thomas More Donne Bunyan defenses against mortality
22	"Můj děsivý stín, jenž mne stále provází": Literární a umělecké zobrazení Richarda III před Shakespearem / "My fearefull shadow that still followes me": Literary and Artistic Representations of Richard III before Shakespeare Štollová, Jitka January 2013 (has links) THESIS ABSTRACT This MA thesis examines the portrayal of King Richard III (1452-1485) in texts preceding William Shakespeare's canonical play on this subject. By analyzing a wide range of sources written between the 1480s and the 1590s, it traces how the reputation of Richard III as an epitome of a tyrant, a usurper and a royal murderer was created and consolidated. At the same time, special attention is paid to innovations and deviations from this interpretation that contributed to the diversification of the King's image. The first chapter covers some of the most significant historiographic works of the Tudor era: The Second Continuation of The Crowland Chronicle, chronicles by Polydore Vergil, Edward Hall, and Raphael Holinshed, Thomas More's historical narrative, as well as a less-known manuscript by Dominic Mancini who described the early months of the reign of Richard III. The second chapter examines the transformation of the historical topic into poetry. The image of Richard III is analyzed in as diverse sources as, on the one hand, a popular ballad and, on the other hand, a prominent poetically-didactic work A Mirror for Magistrates. The representation of Richard III on the English stage is discussed in the third chapter in connection with Thomas Legge's university drama Richardus Tertius and the...
23	The Early Modern Space: (Cartographic) Literature and the Author in Place Myers, Michael C. 01 January 2015 (has links) In geography, maps are a tool of placement which locate both the cartographer and the territory made cartographic. In order to place objects in space, the cartographer inserts his own judgment into the scheme of his design. During the Early Modern period, maps were no longer suspicious icons as they were in the Middle Ages and not yet products of science, but subjects of discourse and works of art. The image of a cartographer’s territory depended on his vision—both the nature and placement of his gaze—and the product reflected that author’s judgment. This is not a study of maps as such but of Early Modern literature, cartographic by nature—the observations of the author were the motif of its design. However, rather than concretize observational judgment through art, the Early Modern literature discussed asserts a reverse relation—the generation of the material which may be observed, the reality, by the views of authors. Spatiality is now an emerging philosophical field of study, taking root in the philosophy of Deleuze & Guattari. Using the notion prevalent in both Postmodern and Early Modern spatiality, which makes of perception a collective delusion with its roots in the critique of Kant, this thesis draws a through-line across time, as texts such as Robert Burton’s An Anatomy of Melancholy, Thomas More’s Utopia, and selections from William Shakespeare display a tendency to remove value from the standard of representation, to replace meaning with cognition and prioritize a view of views over an observable world. Only John Milton approaches perception as possibly referential to objective reality, by re-inserting his ability to observe and exist in that reality, in a corpus which becomes less generative simulations of material than concrete signposts to his judgment in the world. Anatomy Cartographic gaze Cartography Deleuze & guattari Early modern Emblem Embodiment Gaze Icarian Identity John milton Kant Lefebvre Map making Objectivity Ocular Renaissance Representation Robert burton Semiotics Shakespeare Simulation Spatiality Symbols Territorialization Thomas more Trajectory Utopia English Language and Literature
24	Religious Toleration in English Literature from Thomas More to John Milton Pepperney, Justin R. 09 September 2009 (has links) No description available. English literature Literature Religion Renaissance John Milton John Foxe Robert Parsons Jesuit Thomas More Utopia Polemic Prose Poetry Persecution Rhetoric Equivocation Religious Toleration Shakespeare Spenser Polemical Paradise lost English Catholic
25	The dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII and its effect on the econmoy sic], political landscape, and social instability in Tudor England that led to the creation of the poor laws Cooper, Casey Jo 01 May 2011 (has links) Before the reformation and the schism of the Catholic Church, it had always been the duty of the Church and not of the state, to undertake the seven corporal works of mercy; feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, visit the sick, visit the prisoner, and bury the dead.¹ By dissolving these institutions, Henry had unwittingly created what would become a social disaster of biblical proportions. In essence, this act was rendering thousands of the poor and elderly without a home or shelter, it denied the country of much of the medical aid that has been offered by the church, it denied future generations of thousands of volumes of books and scriptures from the monastic libraries, as well as denied many an education who would have otherwise never received one without the help of the Church. The ultimate goal of my thesis is to prove my hypothesis that the dissolution of the monasteries by King Henry VIII was not merely a contributory factor in the need for the creation of poor laws, but the deciding factor (in a myriad of societal issues) for their creation. Footnote 1: Matthew 25 vv. 32-46. Political Science

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