Textures of Renaissance KnowledgePhilippa Berry, Margaret Tudeau-Clayton Manchester University Press, 2003 - 227 pages This volume addresses the multiple, complex and sometimes contradictory forms of knowledge in circulation during a period recognized as a turning point in the intellectual history of Western Europe, and described today alternatively as "early modern" or "Renaissance." The problems of the label "early modern" are discussed, including the implied rupture with earlier periods, and the consequent denial of the difference or "otherness" of the textures of these forms of knowledge. Drawing on a range of critical discourses, the essays collected here engage with these textures in the more nuanced styles of interpretative practice which are emerging in the wake of new historicism and cultural materialism, and which represent a significant shift in critical approach and focus. |
Contents
Introduction PHILIPPA BERRY | 1 |
the cultural influence | 17 |
magic science and religion | 35 |
swine pets and flowers in Venus | 58 |
Francis Bacon | 81 |
Jusques où va | 98 |
the ethnographic present | 117 |
from Shakespeares treatise on | 137 |
beyond the wordimage | 156 |
selfknowledge in Ben Jonsons Bartholomew Fair | 177 |
Anne Clifford and the politics of retreat | 199 |
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