Forms of Emplacement

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-64
Author(s):  
Andrew Bozio
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Ambient Environment ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Architectural Model ◽  
The Way

Taking its cue from William Sly’s performance of a disoriented playgoer in the Induction to John Marston’s The Malcontent, this chapter puts theatrical performance in dialogue with two other modes of thinking through place in the early modern period: first, what Mary Carruthers has termed the “architectural” model of the arts of memory, and, second, chorography, or the practice of describing a region in terms of its topographical features and history. It argues that these modes resemble one another in depicting place as a kind of phenomenological assemblage, one that comes into being as the disparate features of an ambient environment are perceived and organized within embodied thought. This resemblance reveals the intimate relationship between environment and embodied thought within the early modern English playhouse, and it thereby suggests that theatrical performance was less a form of spatial abstraction than a means of transforming the way that playgoers perceived, experienced, and navigated their surroundings.

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Bozio
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern Drama ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Critical Tradition ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Theatrical Performance ◽  
Cognitive Work ◽  
English Stage

Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage traces the way that characters think through their surroundings in early modern drama—not only how these characters orient themselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations but also how their locations function as the scaffolding for perception, memory, and other forms of embodied thought. Such moments of thinking through place stage a process that both resembles and parallels the cognitive work that early modern playgoers undertook as they reimagined the stage as the settings of the dramatic fiction. The book traces the vexed relationship between these two registers of thought in works by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Jonson. In doing so, it counters a critical tradition that figures drama as a form of spatial abstraction and demonstrates, instead, that theatrical performance constituted a sophisticated and self-reflexive mode of thinking through place in the early modern period.

The Folly of the Cross

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Viladesau
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Theology Of The Cross ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
Fourth Volume ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Satisfaction Model

This work surveys the ways in which theologians, artists, and composers of the early modern period dealt with the passion and death of Christ. The fourth volume in a series, it locates the theology of the cross in the context of modern thought, beginning with the Enlightenment, which challenged traditional Christian notions of salvation and of Christ himself. It shows how new models of salvation were proposed by liberal theology, replacing the older “satisfaction” model with theories of Christ as bringer of God’s spirit and as social revolutionary. It shows how the arts during this period both preserved the classical tradition and responded to innovations in theology and in style.

Bacon’s Novum organum

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Elodie Cassan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Scientific Reasoning ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
The Way

Dan Garber’s paper provides materials permitting to reply to an objection frequently made to the idea that the Novum Organum is a book of logic, as the allusion to Aristotle’s Organon included in the very title of this book shows it is. How can Bacon actually build a logic, considering his repeated claims that he desires to base natural philosophy directly on observation and experiment? Garber shows that in the Novum Organum access to experience is always mediated by particular questions and settings. If there is no direct access to observation and experience, then there is no point in equating Bacon’s focus on experience in the Novum Organum with a rejection of discursive issues. On the contrary, these are two sides of the same coin. Bacon’s articulation of rules for the building of scientific reasoning in connection with the way the world is, illustrates his massive concern with the relation between reality, thinking and language. This concern is essential in the field of logic as it is constructed in the Early Modern period.

The Early Modern Period, 1530–1650

2021 ◽  
pp. 274-316
Author(s):  
Stephen Mileson ◽  
Stuart Brookes
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Shared Spaces ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Attachment To Place ◽  
Archaeological Analysis ◽  
The Way

The final main chapter looks at the early modern period, assessing how far it saw a ‘Reformation of the landscape’ and a secularization and commodification of the way land was valued as a resource. It is argued that, as earlier, a group sense of attachment to place was strongest in vibrant, socially ‘open’ settlements with considerable shared spaces, the kind of settlements found mainly in the vale part of the hundred. Village social space is examined in detail through an archaeological analysis of standing buildings and their relationship to the wider streetscape. Court depositions supply data about inhabitants’ attitudes to different social spaces and the ways in which they were used.

The Classical Tradition

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Kallendorf
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Reception Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Intellectual Elite ◽  
Past Generation ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Renaissance Studies

Even the word “Renaissance” (“rebirth” in French) points to the effort to revive the learning of antiquity that motivated the intellectual elite of that era—for what sprang forth was an urgent awareness of the ancient past, prompting innovations in both ideas and the arts. The classical tradition, accordingly, has long played a central role in Renaissance studies. With the growing interest in nonelite cultures, the classical tradition in what is now sometimes called the early modern period has had to share the scholarly stage with an ever-increasing number of other areas of inquiry, but the recent burst of activity in reception studies has given the classical heritage a new lease on life along with a way to engage with the more theoretical discourse that has flourished in other areas of Renaissance studies over the past generation.

The Selfe Undone: Individualism and Relationality in John Donne and Aemilia Lanyer

2006 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 469-486
Author(s):  
Constance Furey
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
John Donne ◽  
Aemilia Lanyer ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Way

There is something right about the hoary old claim that Protestantism spawned individualism. It has been challengedfrom all sides: by those who argue the reverse, by historians of religion who point out that introspective piety was not unique to the early modern period, and by scholars who demonstrate that early Protestants were deeply invested in ecclesiology and communal rituals. Yet this claim—even though clunky and inadequate—remains important, not least because it highlights an enduring link between the way we interpret early Protestant texts and the way we understand individualism today. Consider John Donne's famous denial of isolation, written nearly four hundred years ago: “No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe.” This statement compels us because it refutes what often feels irrefutable: that each person is, essentially, a solitary being, and that, while this existential state may be ameliorated, it is an unavoidable fact of life.

scholarly journals Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse

Kalbotyra ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 69 (69) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Richard J. Whitt
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Direct Observation ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Scientific Discourse ◽  
Empirical Models ◽  
Discourse Context ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
Thought Styles

Most research on evidentiality has focused on classifying evidential systems synchronically; meanwhile, diachronic studies on evidentiality seem to have focused on the development of specific items into evidential markers with little regard to discourse context. This paper begins to fill this gap by presenting the results of a corpus-based study of evidential markers in Early Modern scientific discourse in English and German. The Early Modern period witnessed the transition from scholastic-based models of science to more empirical models of enquiry; this study demonstrates a decrease in the use of markers of mediated information and an increase in the use of markers of direct observation and inference accompanying these sociohistorical developments.

Assemblage theory and the uses of classical reception: the case of Aristotle Knowsley’s Oedipus

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-523
Author(s):  
Marchella Ward
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Assemblage Theory ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Classical Reception ◽  
The Way

Abstract The metaphors that we use to describe the relationships between texts often carry within them limitations on the relationships that they figure. Classical reception is perhaps the most dominant of these metaphors, structuring the way readers understand the relationships between texts. This is particularly problematic in the early modern period where it is often difficult to account for the relationships between texts using traditional models of influence (a problem that is further amplified in performance). This article uses the example of an Oedipus play written by Aristotle Knowsley sometime between 1596 and 1603 to ask whether thinking about what we more often call ‘receiving texts’ as ‘assemblages’ could offer the study of classical reception a way to confront the restrictions placed upon it by the linearity of literary history. Knowsley’s text — when it is discussed at all — is usually considered to be an amalgamation of Neville’s translation of Seneca’s Oedipus (1563) and Newton’s Thebais (1581), but this restrictive reading, based on assumptions latent in the metaphor ‘classical reception’, excludes a number of texts that participate in productive relationships with the play.

Descartes and the Dutch: Botanical Experimentation in the Early Modern Period

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 657-683
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Baldassarri
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Empirical Approach ◽  
Experimental Knowledge ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Living Nature ◽  
The Way

Early modern study of plants blossomed in a network of observation, exchanges, collaborations, and epistolary discussions. Following Baconian methodology, Dutch scholars combined the labor of listing and describing plants with botanical experimentation. This empirical approach was a suitable context for Descartes, who exchanged information and performed observations on plants in collaboration with Dutch experimenters. In this article, I focus on (1) the reception of a few botanical experiments of Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum in Huygens and Reneri, with whom Descartes was in contact, and (2) Descartes’ collaboration with Reneri. While performing observations on plants together, Reneri acquired Descartes’ theoretical framework (as it arises in his disputations) and influenced the latter with a Baconian approach to the study of living nature. This combination of experimental knowledge and a theoretical framework shaped a Cartesian study of plants, as it later surfaced in Regius and ultimately paved the way to a modern science of plants.

scholarly journals Exile and Linguistic Encounter: Early Modern English Convents in the Low Countries and France

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie K. M. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Language Barriers ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Early Modern English ◽  
History Of

The history of religious migration and experience of exile in the early modern period has received a great deal of attention in recent years. Neglected within this scholarship, however, is sustained discussion of linguistic encounter within these often fraught transcultural and transnational interactions. This article breaks new ground by exploring the linguistic experiences of religious exiles in English convents founded in the Low Countries. Most women within English communities in exile were linguistically challenged; focusing on the creative ways these women subsequently negotiated language barriers sheds new light on female language acquisition and encounter during this period.

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