King Lear and early seventeenth-century print culture

King Lear ◽  
2008 ◽  
pp. 165-193
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
King Lear

scholarly journals The Jesuitesses in the Bookshop: Catholic Lay Sisters’ Participation in the Dutch Book Trade, 1650–1750

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 163-184
Author(s):  
Elise Watson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Book Trade ◽  
Dutch Book ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Institutional Critique ◽  
Public Criticism

The institutional Catholic Church in seventeenth-century Amsterdam relied on the work of inspired women who lived under an informal religious rule and called themselves ‘spiritual daughters’. Once the States of Holland banned all public exercise of Catholicism, spiritual daughters leveraged the ambiguity of their religious status to pursue unique roles in their communities as catechists, booksellers and enthusiastic consumers of print. However, their lack of a formal order caused consternation among their Catholic confessors. It also disturbed Reformed authorities in their communities, who branded them ‘Jesuitesses’. Whilst many scholars have documented this tension between inspired daughter and institutional critique, it has yet to be contextualized fully within the literary culture of the Dutch Republic. This article suggests that due to the de-institutionalized status of the spiritual daughters and the discursive print culture that surrounded them, public criticism replaced direct censure by Catholic and Reformed authorities as the primary impediment to their inspired work.

Printing the Talmud in Poland in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

2002 ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Pilarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Considerable Degree ◽  
Book Market ◽  
Normal Functioning ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Rabbinic Judaism ◽  
Three Generations

This chapter explores Jewish religious print culture in Poland during the second half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. During this period, Jewish printers in Poland established their printing houses in Kraków and Lublin. Jews in the Polish diaspora in the second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth century saw the development of Jewish typography as essential to the normal functioning of Jewish communities everywhere. The members of the communities needed books to study the Torah, and in particular they needed the Talmud — the fundamental work on which rabbinic Judaism is based. The printers in Kraków and Lublin in this period satisfied the needs of the Jewish book market in Poland to a considerable degree while also competing with foreign printers. Jewish typography in Poland, managed by a few families over two or three generations, could not equal that of Venetian printers or later of Dutch printers, who had a much greater influence on culture and economy and served many European communities. Nevertheless, printers in Poland played a significant role in printing the Talmud.

Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture

2001 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 512
Author(s):  
Christopher Highley ◽  
Frances E. Dolan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Print Culture

A LOCALISED BOUNDARY OBJECT: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY WESTERN MUSIC THEORY IN CHINA

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 75-113
Author(s):  
Sheryl Chow
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Music Theory ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Boundary Object ◽  
Western Music ◽  
Coincidence Theory ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Musical Traditions

In 1685, the Portuguese Jesuit Thomas Pereira was ordered by the Qing Kangxi emperor to write books on Western music theory in Chinese. Presented in the books were seventeenth-century practical and speculative music theories, including the coincidence theory of consonance. Invoking the concept of ‘boundary object’, this article shows that the cultural exchange, which gave rise to new knowledge by means of selection, synthesis and reinterpretation, was characterised by a lack of consensus between the transmitter and the receivers over the functions of the imported theories. Although the coincidence theory of consonance could potentially effect the transition from a pure numerical to a physical understanding of pitch, as in the European scientific revolution, it failed to flourish in China not only because of different theoretical concerns between European and Chinese musical traditions, but also because of its limited dissemination caused by Chinese print culture.

Introduction:‘Remember the Good Old Cause’

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Edward Legon
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Oral Culture

This chapter situates the book within existing historical interest in how the wars and revolutions in Britain between 1637 and 1660 were remembered during the remainder of the seventeenth century. It is argued that existing work has largely overlooked the diversity of opinions about the civil wars and, thus, the existence of a wellspring of alternative, pro-parliamentarian and pro-republican ‘seditious’ memories. In order to uncover these seditious memories, the chapter suggests moving away from Restoration print culture to evidence of oral culture, such as is evident in legal records and government papers.

Seeming to See

2018 ◽  
pp. 110-136
Author(s):  
Suparna Roychoudhury
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Faculty Psychology ◽  
Mind's Eye

Faculty psychology was, from its earliest conception, premised on the presumed resemblance between the eye and the mind’s eye; ancient and medieval accounts of vision had taken sight and insight as contiguous or similar processes. However, Johannes Kepler’s mathematical optics revealed at the turn of the seventeenth century that the two are unconnected. Still, as lens technology advanced, an idea developed in Renaissance culture that imagination works rather like a distortive lens. This chapter shows that Shakespeare saw in the new mathematics of vision a framework for representing cataclysm: in Venus and Adonis he explores the traumatic severing of eye and mind’s eye; in King Lear he dismantles the age-old poetic association of blindness and wisdom.

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