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Additional authors

1. Kenny, Neil

Description

1. xi, 291 pages : illustrations, color portrait, facsimiles; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "The literature and literate knowledge that were produced in Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries emanated from societies that were rigidly hierarchical. What difference did that fact make to the literature and literate knowledge? How did social hierarchy shape the production of literature and literate knowledge (by writers, patrons, printers) and their reception (by readers and audiences)? Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe is the first book to ask these question of Western Europe, in relation to a wide range of genres, disciplines, practices, and writers. The picture that emerges is of literature and literate knowledge largely bolstering social hierarchies while also questioning at times the very basis on which societies measured the status and worth of their members."--Back cover.

Series statement

1. Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 246

Uniform title

1. Proceedings of the British Academy ; 246.

Subject

1. 1492-1648
2. Literature and society > Europe > History
3. European literature > History and criticism
4. Books and reading > Social aspects > History. > Europe
5. Books and reading > Social aspects
6. European literature
7. Intellectual life
8. Literature and society
9. Books and reading
10. Europe > Intellectual life
11. Europe > History > 1492-1648
12. Europe

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. History.

Contents

1. Part 1. Language, social literacy, and social status -- 'Noble ambition': New Social Literacies and Traditional Hierarchies in Early Modern European Literature and History / WARREN BOUTCHER -- Women's Social Status and their Access to Learning in Multilingual Early Modern Italy / HELENA SANSON -- English Builders in Translation / CHRISTINE STEVENSON -- Part 2. Roles of cultural production in social status -- The Social Status of Publishers of Learned Texts in Europe 1560-1630 / IAN MACLEAN -- Literary Collaboration and Social Legitimacy in an Actor's Oeuvre: The Peculiar Case of Francesco Andreini (d.1624) / SARAH GWYNETH ROSS -- Marta Marchina, Poetry and Social Mobility in Baroque Rome / JANE STEVENSON -- Part 3. Representing social status: genres and discourses -- The Idiota's Authority: Fifteenth-Century Hierarchies in Dialogue / RICHARD OOSTERHOFF -- Making 'Gypsies' in the English Reformation? Laws, Words and Texts (1530-1621) / SUSAN WISEMAN -- 'Greatness going off' in Renaissance Antony and Cleopatra Tragedies / JONATHAN PATTERSON -- Tragedy, or the Fall of Middle-Class Men / RICHARD MCCABE -- Part 4. A two-way relation -- The Scribes of the Old Pillory: Hired Hands and their Customers in Sixteenth-Century Lisbon / SIMON PARK -- Authorship and Social Status in Early Modern England / COLIN BURROW.

Call number

1. JFE 23-824

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Terms of use (note)

1. Current Copyright Fee: GBP5.00

Title

1. Literature, learning, and social hierarchy in early modern Europe / edited by Neil Kenny.

Publisher

1. Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 246
2. Proceedings of the British Academy ; 246.

Terms of use

1. Current Copyright Fee: GBP5.00 0. Uk

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 1492-1648

Added author

1. Kenny, Neil, editor. Editor

ISBN

1. 9780197267332 (hardcover)
2. 0197267335 (hardcover)

Research call number

1. JFE 23-824