Blaine Greteman
Blaine Greteman
This essay argues that John Milton's "A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle" (1634) is influenced by early modern concepts of childhood in a way that critics have not recognized. Childhood was a problematic concept in contemporary religious, pe...
"A pattern, precedent, and lively warrant": emulation, rhetoric, and cruel propriety in "Titus Andronicus." [0.03%]
“有一种模式、先例和生动的依据”:《泰特斯·安德洛尼克斯》中的仿效、修辞与残酷的体面感
Vernon Guy Dickson
Vernon Guy Dickson
Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" critically engages and enacts teachings and patterns of emulation, including those of Quintilian, Roger Ascham, and other contemporary humanists and playwrights, pressing emulation's uses to extremes that su...
Science on the move: recent trends in the history of Early Modern science [0.03%]
移步换形的科学:近代早期科学史研究的新趋势
Pamela H Smith
Pamela H Smith
From emblems to diagrams: Kepler's new pictorial language of scientific representation [0.03%]
从象征到图解:开普勒新的科学表达的图像语言
Raz Chen-Morris
Raz Chen-Morris
Kepler's treatise on optics of 1604 furnished, along with technical solutions to problems in medieval perspective, a mathematically-based visual language for the observation of nature. This language, based on Kepler's theory of retinal pict...
"The Root is Hidden and the Material Uncertain": the challenges of prosecuting witchcraft in early modern Venice [0.03%]
“隐根潜质:论早期现代威尼斯的巫术审判之难”
Jonathan Seitz
Jonathan Seitz
The rich archival records of the Holy Office of the Inquisition in Venice have yielded much information about early modern society and culture. The transcripts of witchcraft trials held before the Inquisition reveal the complexities of earl...
Gender and eloquence in Ercole de' Roberti's "Portia and Brutus" [0.03%]
埃罗莱·罗伯特利的《波提亚和布鲁特斯》中的性别与雄辩力
Virginia Cox
Virginia Cox
A commonplace of modern feminist scholarship holds that fifteenth-century Italian humanists regarded the figure of the articulate women with hostility and suspicion. This position is insufficiently nuanced: while it may have been true to so...
Exercises for mind and body: Giulio Mancini, collecting, and the beholding of landscape painting in the seventeenth century [0.03%]
观乎天地:朱利奥·曼奇尼、收藏与17世纪的风景画观看方式
Frances Gage
Frances Gage
This article explores the intellectual foundations for the development of princely art collections, and of Italian picture galleries in particular, as spaces for combined physical and mental exercise and recreation. This study then establis...
Annibal Caro's after-dinner speech (1536) and the question of Titian as Vesalius's illustrator [0.03%]
论提香是否维萨留斯的插图画家——卡罗用晚餐后的演讲(1536)斠证
Patricia Simons,Monique Kornell
Patricia Simons
Putative textual proof for Titian's central involvement in producing illustrations for Vesalius's anatomy book "De fabrica" (1543) requires reexamination. On the basis of orthographic, literary, and historical evidence, a phrase in Annibal ...
Elizabeth A Lehfeldt
Elizabeth A Lehfeldt
This article examines how the experience and critique of their country's decline led Spaniards to craft a distinct discourse of masculinity in the seventeenth century. As they self-consciously examined Spain's crisis and offered political a...