Le Chevalier Deliberé / The Resolute Knight (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies)

Literature & Fiction

Olivier de la Marche

Poetry

Arizona center for medieval and Renaissance studies

In 1593, Elizabeth I became one of several leading figures who translated Boethius Consolation. Its themes, particularly predestination and free will, made it one of the most important and most popular philosophical works in the medieval and early modern periods. This diplomatic edition of the text is accompanied by Quan Manh Has introduction discussing Elizabeths reading and translation of the Consolation, parallels between her life and that of the imprisoned Boethius, and the manuscript itself. No jacket.

Consolation of Queen Elizabeth I: The Queen's Translation of Boethius's - De Consulatione Philosophiae

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles: Hitherto Unnoticed Witnesses to the Work of John of Worcester, Vol. 2 (Volume 373) (English and Latin Edition)

History

John of Worcester

Ancient Civilizations

This critical edition includes fifteen English military news pamphlets illustrating the development of the genre from its birth in 1513 to the outbreak of the British Civil Wars in 1637. They include examples fairly evenly distributed in time: accounts of battles in Scotland and Ireland, the Netherlands and France, Malta and Hungary, Russia and New England; pamphlets drawn from letters written by Englishmen, or pamphlets written by a variety of continental Europeans, both Protestant and Catholic; accounts of battles, sieges, and extended campaigns. They include pamphlets by the four most famous literary contributors to the genre: George Gascoigne, Thomas Churchyard, Anthony Nixon, and Hugh Peters, as well as reports of some notable historical events: the siege of Malta (1566), the sack of Antwerp (1576), the battle of Ivry (1590), and the battle of Kinsale (1602). These news pamphlets provide examples of Renaissance English print culture, and register both the popular English interest in military and foreign news and the ability of the press to satisfy this interest. Moreover, military news pamphlets were a considerable proportion of the entire corpus of news pamphlets in the 16th and 17th centuries, and integral in the evolution of the modern news. The reports, which register the shifting diction of Renaissance English and deploy a variety of novelistic techniques, also illustrate the transformation of early modern English prose and the prehistory of the novel. Highly rhetorical in structure, they demonstrate the link between medieval and Renaissance rhetorical practice and early modern and modern journalistic style. The reports also provide a window into the everyday life of Renaissance soldiery and the world of Renaissance warfare on land. Finally, these pamphlets are fun to read. They are funny, vivid, insightful and appalling; generally marked by a high level of readability and written in a gripping style.

English Military News Pamphlets, 1513–1637 (Volume 379) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies)

David Randall

Americas

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