Vernacular Literature and Current Affairs in the Early Sixteenth Century: France, England and Scotland

2002 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-274
Author(s):  
J. Powell
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Current Affairs

Vernacular Literature and Current Affairs in the Early Sixteenth Century: France, England and Scotland

2002 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Donald G. Watson ◽  
Jennifer Britnell ◽  
Richard Britnell
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Current Affairs

The Edinburgh Book Trade and Vernacular Literature, 1500–1660

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-96
Author(s):  
Adam Fox
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Extensive Range ◽  
The City ◽  
Shed Light

Chapter 2 surveys the development of the book trade in Edinburgh during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries with a particular emphasis on the production and circulation of more popular works in Scots and English. It traces the development of printing in Edinburgh, looks at the expansion of booksellers in the city, and examines the role of travelling chapmen in disseminating literature across Scotland and into England. The remarkable inventories of Thomas Bassandyne and Robert Gourlaw are examined in some detail in order to shed light on the extensive range of vernacular literature from the London market that was being sold in the Scottish capital in the later sixteenth century.

scholarly journals Sex in the Cloister: Behind the Image of the “Criminal Monk” in Ming Courtroom Tales

T oung Pao ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 545-586
Author(s):  
Junqing Wu
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Literary Convention ◽  
And Behavior

Abstract Buddhist monks were commonly portrayed as seducers and even rapists in late sixteenth-century vernacular literature, including, most commonly, courtroom tales (gong’an 公案). Do these stories reflect a deterioration in clerical morality and behavior, or a decline in Buddhist faith and practice, as is sometimes argued? Neither explanation is credible. I argue that the image of monks in courtroom tales should be understood as a literary convention, growing out the burgeoning market for entertainment literature, rather than a window onto social reality. It also reflects an increasing male anxiety about the control of women.

Petrarch and the Italian Reformation

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail Brundin
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Vernacular Literature ◽  
Vittoria Colonna ◽  
Reformed Spirituality

This chapter examines the discreet Reformation content inside the deeply conformist structure of Petrarch's sonnet. It investigates the manifestation of the link between vernacular literature and reformed spirituality in Italy in the sixteenth century and the potential evangelising role of the former. It analyzes the poetry of Vittoria Colonna whose works can be considered the clearest manifestation of literary evangelism.

THE DEBATE ON SONG IN THE ACCADEMIA FIORENTINA

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 175-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Nosow
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
70Th Birthday ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Vernacular Literature

For James Haar on his 70th BirthdayThe sixteenth century in Italy was a time when academies of all kinds flourished as venues, and often as arbiters, of literature and high culture. A casual look at the academies might give the impression that they were mostly social in nature, that they functioned as a pastime for bored aristocrats and ambitious letterati. As originally constituted, the Accademia degli Umidi, founded 1 November 1540, indeed fitted this description, but with one difference characteristic of Florentine society - it was organised by twelve men of various social classes with a common interest in poetry and language. The academy expanded considerably under the patronage of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici and on 25 March 1541 was reconstituted as the Accademia Fiorentina. Its avowed purpose was to promote the Tuscan language as an instrument of literature and knowledge, in an age when mastery of Latin was required of any educated man. In advancing the cause of vernacular literature, the Accademia Fiorentina, like other academies of the time, greatly extended the programme of Italian humanism, making available the fruits of humanist thought and enquiry to a larger public.

Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
W.J. Boot
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

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