Textures of Renaissance Knowledge

Philippa Berry &​ Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, Textures of Renaissance Knowledge

(Manchester University Press, 2004)

 

 

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.

 

Introduction - Philippa Berry and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton.

Part one: Knowledge, Nature, History

1. Rebirthing The Concept of Renaissance: The Cultural Influence of Paganism Reconsidered

 --- Philippa Berry

2. "Wondrous Force and Operation": Magic, Science and Religion In The Renaissance

 --- Stephen Clucas

3. (Un)Natural Loving: Swine, Pets and Flowers In "Venus and Adonis"

 --- Dympna Callaghan.

Part Two: Negotiating Knowledge

4. "Non Canimus Surdis, Respondent Omnia Sylvae": Francis Bacon and the Transmission of Knowledge

 --- David Colclough.

5. "Montaigne's Commerce with Women: 'Jusques Où Va La Possibilite?"

 --- Elizabeth Guild

6. "The Ripping of Auncestors": The Ethnographic Present in Spenser's "A View of the State of Ireland"

 --- Willy Maley.

Part Three: Knowing Otherwise

7. Mobility and the Method : From Shakespeare's Treatise on Mab to Descartes' 'Treatise on Man'

 --- Marie Garnier Giamarchi

8. Covenant, Coven, Charm, "Carmen": Beyond the Word Image Opposition

 --- Ann Lecercle.

Part Four: Locating Self-Knowledge

9. "I Do Not Know My Selfe": The Topography and Politics of Self Knowledge in "Bartholomew Fair"

 --- Margaret Tudeau-Clayton

10. Knowing Her Place: Anne Clifford and the Politics of Retreat

 --- Susan Wiseman.

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