Tag: Early

Free Download John S. Garrison, "Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England: Literature and the Erotics of Recollection "
English | ISBN: 1138844381 | 2015 | 282 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic experiences heightened or deflated by the presence of memory? Can a sexual act be commemorative? Can an act of memory be eroticized? How do forms of romantic desire underwrite forms of memory? To answer such questions, these authors examine drama, poetry, and prose from both major authors and lesser-studied figures in the canon of Renaissance literature. Alongside a number of insightful readings, they show that sonnets enact a sexual exchange of memory; that epics of nationhood cannot help but eroticize their subjects; that the act of sex in Renaissance tragedy too often depends upon violence of the past. Memory, these scholars propose, re-shapes the concerns of queer and sexuality studies – including the unhistorical, the experience of desire, and the limits of the body. So too does the erotic revise the dominant trends of memory studies, from the rhetoric of the medieval memory arts to the formation of collective pasts.

Free Download Bernhard Zeller, "Neighbours and strangers: Local societies in early medieval Europe "
English | ISBN: 1526139812 | 2020 | 304 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book explores social cohesion in rural settlements in western Europe from 700-1050, asking to what extent settlements, or districts, constituted units of social organisation. It focuses on the interactions, interconnections and networks of people who lived side by side – neighbours. Drawing evidence from most of the current western European countries, the book Descriptions and interrogates the very different practices of this wide range of regions in a systematically comparative framework. It considers the variety of local responses to the supra-local agents of landlords and rulers and the impact, such as it was, of those agents on the small-scale residential group. It also assesses the impact on local societies of the values, instructions and demands of the wider literate world of Christianity, as delivered by local priests.

Free Download Tim Ailwood, "The Quiet Invasion: A History of Early Sydney"
English | ISBN: 1925984222 | 2020 | 404 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The European settlement of the ‘Great Southern Land’, today’s Australia, is a story of first contact between European and Indigenous peoples, colonization, disease and famine, misunderstandings and arrogant mindedness, tragedy and resilience. What really happened after the First Fleet arrived after sailing across the world to a land Europeans had barely touched upon and knew very little about? The Quiet Invasion is the true history of today’s Sydney’s first four years.

Free Download The Mirror of Art: Painting and Reflection in Early Modern Visual Culture by Genevieve Warwick
English | November 30, 2024 | ISBN: 1009448803 | True PDF | 440 pages | 55.7 MB
One of the key pictorial developments of Renaissance art was a conceptualisation of painting as a mirror reflection of the visible world. The idea of painting as specular was argued in Renaissance art theory, demonstrated in art practice, and represented in painting itself. Both within the artist’s workshop and within pictorial representation, the mirror-image became the instrument, the emblem, and the conceptual definition of what a painting was.

Free Download History of Ancient Georgia: Prehistory and Early History
by Giorgi Melikishvili
English | 2023 | ASIN: B0C7WR4X2N | 396 Pages | PDF | 19 MB

Free Download Ronald A. N. Kydd, "Charismatic Gifts in the Early Church: The Gifts of the Spirit in the First 300 Years"
English | ISBN: 1619705257 | 2014 | 128 pages | EPUB | 220 KB
The emergence and widespread acceptance of the validity of the charismatic experience has generated many questions. One of the foremost is, "What happened to the gifts of the Spirit after the New Testament period?" Dr. Ronald Kydd’s careful probe seeks to answer that question.

Free Download A. Hiscock, L. Hopkins, "Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists"
English | 2007 | pages: 258 | ISBN: 1403994757, 1403994765 | PDF | 0,7 mb
This collection offers practical suggestions for the integration of non-Shakespearean drama into the teaching of Shakespeare. It shows both the ways in which Shakespearean drama is typical of its period and of the ways in which it is distinctive, by looking at Shakespeare and other writers who influenced and developed the genres in which he worked.

Free Download Gabriela Carrión, "Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain: Conjugal Doctrine in Lope, Cervantes, and Calderón"
English | ISBN: 1611480523 | 2011 | 166 pages | EPUB | 410 KB
Staging Marriage in Early Modern Spain examines selected dramatic works where the vicissitudes of matrimony play center stage. Various aspects of conjugal relations including courtship, divorce, and widowhood take on particular relevance in the Spanish comedia in light of the intense debates raging over the "seventh sacrament" in early modern Europe. The institution of matrimony is subject to unprecedented scrutiny during this period and provides a rich source of material for playwrights such as Lope de Vega, Miguel de Cervantes, and Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Taking the decrees on marriage of the Council of Trent (1563) as a point of departure, Carrión examines the conjugal bond within a literary and historical framework, offering close readings of dramatic works, religious decrees, and moral treatises where the conjugal bond plays a central role. She identifies in works such as Lope’s

Free Download Redefining Hacking:
A Comprehensive Guide to Red Teaming and Bug Bounty Hunting in an AI-driven World
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9780138363635 | 277 Pages | EPUB | 27 MB

Free Download Andreea Badea, "Making Truth in Early Modern Catholicism "
English | ISBN: 9463720529 | 2021 | 336 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowledge is now offered as a key element for understanding early modern science as a whole. Yet early modern actors never questioned the possibility of certainty itself and never objected to the notion that truth is out there, universal, and therefore safe from human manipulation. This book investigates how early modern actors managed not to succumb to postmodern relativism, despite the increasing uncertainties and blatant disagreements about the nature of God, Man, and the Universe. An international and interdisciplinary team of experts in fields ranging from the history of science to theology and the history of ideas analyses a number of practices that were central to maintaining and functionalizing the notion of absolute truth. Through such an interdisciplinary research the book shows how certainty about truth could be achieved, and how early modern society recognized the credibility of a wide plethora of actors in differentiating fields of knowledge.