UID:
edocfu_9960944206502883
Format:
1 online resource (161 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-80010-825-7
Series Statement:
Renaissance Papers ; v.26
Content:
Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings of Sidney, Wroth, Spenser, and Shakespeare; and several topics involving the New World.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 16 Dec 2022).
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Front Cover -- Contents -- "Strange Serious Wantoning": Early Modern Chess Manuals and the Ethics of Virtuous Subterfuge -- "Both Use and Art": Motifs and Method in Astrophil and Stella -- Embodied Love(rs): Injury and Comedy in Mary Wroth's Urania -- Edmund Spenser's Automaton Alchemy: The Case of False Florimell -- Who Edited the 1571 Mirror for Magistrates? -- Statues Living and Conscious: Hermetic Statue-Magic in The Winter's Tale -- Transmutation and Refinement: The Metaphysics of Conversion and Alchemy in Renaissance Spain -- The Twelve Inka and the Twelve Caesars: Reflections on an Early Modern Visual Theme in the Art of Co -- Linguistics and Epistemology in Thomas Harriot's North Atlantic World -- Assembling the King's Body: Examining Holbein's Portrait Techniques and the Fashioning of Henry VII -- Molière's L'École des Femmes between Shame and Guilt.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-64014-143-X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800108257
