Textures of Renaissance knowledge / edited by Philippa Berry & Margaret Tudeau-Clayton.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Berry, Philippa, 1955-, Tudeau-Clayton, Margaret, 1952-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester ; New York : New York : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the U.S.A. by Palgrave, 2003.
Subjects:	European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Online Access:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Renewing the concept of Renaissance: the cultural influence of paganism reconsidered / Philippa Berry
'Wondrous force and operation': magic, science, and religion in the Renaissance / Stephen Clucas
(Un)natural loving: swine, pets and flowers in Venus and Adonis / Dympna Callaghan
'Non canimus surdis, respondent omnia sylvae': Francis Bacon and the transmission of knowledge / David Colclough
Montaigne's commerce with women: 'Jusques où va la possibilité?' / Elizabeth Guild
'This ripping of auncestors': the ethnographic present in Spenser's A view of the state of Ireland / Willy Maley
Mobility and the method: from Shakespeare's treatise on Mab to Descartes' Treatise on man / Marie Garnier-Giamarchi
Covenant, coven, charm, carmen: beyond word-image opposition / Ann Lecercle
'I do not know my selfe': the topography and politics of self-knowledge in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew fair / Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
Knowing her place: Anne Clifford and the politics of retreat / Susan Wiseman.

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