Rooted Sorrow: Dying in Early Modern EnglandThis book is a literary and cultural study of death and dying through selected images, events, and words that intersect in expressive forms between 1590 and 1631. |
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Page 39
... throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centu- ries . The danse itself was a very old tradition , possibly originating much earlier but appearing as a painting on the wall of the Church- yard of the Innocents in Paris and as an image ...
... throughout the fifteenth and sixteenth centu- ries . The danse itself was a very old tradition , possibly originating much earlier but appearing as a painting on the wall of the Church- yard of the Innocents in Paris and as an image ...
Page 138
... throughout the play , has been allied obviously with the devil ; but here again , Shakespeare's audience would have found commonplace the ars convention that recognized the name of Jesus as the most powerful and present help against ...
... throughout the play , has been allied obviously with the devil ; but here again , Shakespeare's audience would have found commonplace the ars convention that recognized the name of Jesus as the most powerful and present help against ...
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... throughout European countries . Even as late as 1634 , the conventions of the ars moriendi and preparation for death as the culmi- nating experience of life are sounded in the preface of The Carnall Professor A Little Posthumous Volume ...
... throughout European countries . Even as late as 1634 , the conventions of the ars moriendi and preparation for death as the culmi- nating experience of life are sounded in the preface of The Carnall Professor A Little Posthumous Volume ...
Contents
Preface | 11 |
Cultural Poetics and Notes on an Approach | 17 |
Skull Skeleton | 37 |
Copyright | |
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allegory Angel Anglican art of dying attitudes biblical Christ Christian comfort commonplace Communion Communion of Saints context conventions culture damnation Dance of Death demons devil devotional tradition divine Donne's dramatic early seventeenth century elaborate elegy Elizabeth Elizabethan England English Essex evil example experience expression faith fear final friends God's grief heaven human imagery inspiration Jacobean John Donne King King Lear lament Last Judgment Lear literary literature London Macbeth Magdalen major medieval meditation mercy metaphor Milton modern moriendi moriendi tradition moriens mourning moves Othello Oxford paradoxical perhaps period Perkins play poems poetic popular prayer preacher Queen reader reconciliation redemptive religious Renaissance Richard Richard III ritual saints Satan scene scholars sense seventeenth century Shakespeare's audience Sicke sins sixteenth century sorrow soul spiritual structure suggests suicide symbolic temptation to despair theme theological thou tion University Press visual woodcut Zachary Boyd
References to this book
Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England Patricia Phillippy No preview available - 2002 |