Recognizing such literary and artistic "entanglement" facilitates a more profound understanding of the multifaceted relationship between women and the natural world in eighteenth-century England.
The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that ...oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, and locations for monuments, commissioning repairs and additions to many parish churches, chantry chapels, and almshouses characteristic of the English countryside. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals their responses to the religious revolution and signifies their preferred identities.
Edited and with commentary by Joan Greatrex, this book makes available for the first time in printed form the sermon manuscript, MS Q. 18, which survives in its original home in the medieval ...cathedral library at Worcester. At first glance this small, untidy quarto-size manuscript appears to be merely an unremarkable collection of early fourteenth-century Latin sermons. However, their importance lies in the fact that they appear to be a rare, if not unique, example of working copies of sermons, providing us with a glimpse into daily life in a medieval monastic community.
This book situates and critically assesses the substantial body of work created by Gee Vaucher within a lineage of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history, including radical art production of ...the 1970s, political protest and street art and punk design, as well as cultural, socio-economic, political and historic contexts.
Shakespeare, Lee Oser argues, is a Christian literary artist who
criticizes and challenges Christians, but who does so on Christian
grounds. Stressing Shakespeare's theological sensitivity, Oser
...places Shakespeare's work in the "radical middle," the dialectical
opening between the sacred and the secular where great writing can
flourish. According to Oser, the radical middle was and remains a
site of cultural originality, as expressed through mimetic works of
art intended for a catholic (small "c") audience. It describes the
conceptual space where Shakespeare was free to engage theological
questions, and where his Christian skepticism could serve his
literary purposes. Oser reviews the rival cases for a Protestant
Shakespeare and for a Catholic Shakespeare, but leaves the issue
open, focusing, instead, on how Shakespeare exploits artistic
resources that are specific to Christianity, including the
classical-Christian rhetorical tradition. The scope of the book
ranges from an introductory survey of the critical field as it now
stands, to individual chapters on A Midsummer Night's Dream,
The Merchant of Venice, the Henriad, Hamlet , and King
Lear . Writing with a deep sense of literary history, Oser
holds that mainstream literary criticism has created a false
picture of Shakespeare by secularizing him and misconstruing the
nature of his art. Through careful study of the plays, Oser
recovers a Shakespeare who is less vulnerable to the winds of
academic and political fashion, and who is a friend to the enduring
project of humanistic education. Christian Humanism in Shakespeare:
A Study in Religion and Literature is both eminently readable and a
work of consequence.
Comprehensive guidance to support those involved in primary education in developing the curriculum to meet the requirements of the new Ofsted (2019) framework.
This collection of original essays introduces readers to the work of Henry Daniel, exploring his many contributions from medical, historical, and literary perspectives.
Leading Local Government: The Role of Directly Elected Mayors provides a critical assessment of the role occupied by directly elected mayors in the leadership of English local government. Built on ...original research and historical analysis, the book examines the impact of elected mayors upon public engagement, devolution and local leadership.
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