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Being Elizabethan


Being Elizabethan

Understanding Shakespeare's Neighbors
1. Aufl.

von: Norman Jones

23,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.03.2019
ISBN/EAN: 9781119168256
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 368

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<p><b>Captures the worldviews, concerns, joys, and experiences of people living through the cultural changes in the second half of the sixteenth century and the early seventeenth century, Shakespeare’s age.</b></p> <p>Elizabethans lived through a time of cultural collapse and rejuvenation as the impacts of globalization, the religious Reformation, economic and scientific revolutions, wars, and religious dissent forced them to reformulate their ideas of God, nation, society and self. This well-written, accessible book depicting how Elizabethans perceived reality and acted on their perceptions illustrates Elizabethan life, offering readers well-told stories about the Elizabethan people and the world around them. It defines the older ideas of pre-Elizabethan culture and shows how they were shattered and replaced by a new culture based on the emergence of individual conscience. The book posits that post-Reformation English culture, emphasizing the internalization of religious certainties, embraced skepticism in ways that valued individualism over older communal values. </p> <p><i>Being Elizabethan</i> portrays how people’s lives were shaped and changed by the tension between a received belief in divine stability and new, destabilizing, ideas about physical and metaphysical truth. It begins with a chapter that examines how idealized virtues in a divinely governed universe were encapsulated in funeral sermons and epitaphs, exploring how they perceived the Divine Order. Other chapters discuss Elizabethan social stations, community, economics, self-expression, and more. </p> <ul> <li>Illustrates how early modern culture was born by exposing readers to events, artistic expressions, and personal experiences</li> <li>Provides an understanding of Elizabethan people by summarizing momentous events with which they grew up</li> <li>Appeals to students, scholars, and laymen interested in history and literature of the Elizabethan era</li> <li>Shows how a new cultural era, the age of Shakespeare, grew from collapsing late Medieval worldviews.</li> </ul> <p><i>Being Elizabethan</i> is a captivating read for anyone interested in early modern English culture and society. It is an excellent source of information for those studying Tudor and early Stuart history and/or literature.</p>
<p>List of Abbreviations vii</p> <p>List of Figures ix</p> <p>Acknowledgments xiii</p> <p>Introduction 1</p> <p>1 Idealized Lives: Speak Nothing but Good of the Dead 11</p> <p>2 Divine Social and Political Orders 31</p> <p>3 Roles 59</p> <p>4 Taming the Natural Child: Preparations for Living 81</p> <p>5 Seeing the World Anew 97</p> <p>6 Reimagining England’s Past 125</p> <p>7 Living Under Divine Providence 149</p> <p>8 Personal Virtue 171</p> <p>9 Moral Economies 201</p> <p>10 Creating the Godly State 235</p> <p>11 A Generation of Hearers 253</p> <p>12 Elizabethan Lives Lived 281</p> <p>Primary Bibliography 305</p> <p>Secondary Bibliography 325</p> <p>Index 335</p>
<p><b>NORMAN JONES, P<small>H</small>D,</b> is Professor of History and Religious Studies at Utah State University. His monographs include <i>Governing by Virtue: Lord Burghley</i> <i>and the Management of Elizabethan England; The English Reformation: Religion and Cultural Adaptation; The Birth of the Elizabethan Age: England in the 1560s</i>; and more. He has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University, the Folger Library, and the Huntington Library, and was a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford. Professor Jones is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.</p>

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