Renaissance Go-Betweens Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe
The volume analyses some of the travelling and bridge-building activities that went on in Renaissance Europe, mainly but not exclusively across the Channel, true to Montaigne's epoch-making program of describing 'the passage'. Its emphasis on Anglo-Continental relations ensures a firm...
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Berlin ; New York, NY
Walter de Gruyter
2011, ©2005
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- ""1. Introduction""; ""I. Mediators""; ""2. The Renaissance Translator as Go-Between""; ""3. Inglese Italianato � Italiano Anglizzato: John Florio""; ""4. Ash Wednesday in Westminster: Giordano Bruno meets Elizabethan England""; ""5. De Witt, van Buchell, the Wooden O, and the Yellow M""; ""6. John Dee as Cultural, Scientific, Apocalyptic Go-Between""; ""7. John Wolfe and the Impact of Exemplary Go-Betweens on Early Modern Print Culture""; ""II. Mediations""; ""8. Hybrids: Learning from a Gilded Silver Beaker (Antwerp, c. 1530)"" ""9. British Cultural History and Church History for the Continent: John Bale�s Summarium (1548) and Catalogus (1557�59)""""10. Machiavellian Dissimulation and Allegory: The Writings of Roger Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney""; ""11. Moses as Go-Between: John Spencer�s Theory of Religious Translation""; ""III. Representations""; ""12. Another Country: Marlowe and the Go-Between""; ""13. Spirits, Ghosts, Demons in Shakespeare and Milton""; ""14. �A membrane has broken�: Returning from the Dead in The Spanish Tragedy""; ""15. �The Words of Mercury�: Shakespeare�s Love Ambassadors"" ""16. Incising Venice: the Violence of Cultural Incorporation in The Merchant of Venice""""17. Iago the Essayist: Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare""; ""Index""; ""Notes on Contributors""