Contextualizing the Renaissance : returns to history : selected proceedings from the 28th annual CEMERS Conference / edited by Albert H. Tricomi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Conference (28th : 1994)

Contributor:

Tricomi, Albert H., 1942- editor.

Series:

Binghamton medieval and early modern studies ; 1.

Binghamton medieval and early modern studies ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renaissance--Congresses.

Renaissance.

Renaissance--Historiography--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 230 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Binghamton, New York : Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies : Brepols, [1999]

Summary:

The twenty-eighth annual conference of CEMERS, held on 21-22 October 1994 at Binghamton University, featured thirty-three panel sessions and approximately 150 presentations. The ten essays in this volume consist of the five plenary speakers - leaders in their field - and five panel essays, each of which was reviewed for this volume. The volume comprises a body of work organised around a governing theme - modes of historicisation. Each of the essays demonstrates the practice of, or a commentary upon, a distinctive historicized criticism. By 'historicized' as contrasted with 'historical' criticism, it is meant that these essays problematicize, stretch or reconceive traditional historical practices. Challenging the notion that the production of paintings, dramatic texts or even conduct books can be read against a stable historical ground, they show that paintings, works of literature, and treatises not only participate in history but are exemplars of textual instability. The very content of these texts can be shown, in various editions, to change over time - and yet each bears a single, determinate title. In such ways the contributions gathered here all show that they have been affected by 'the new history'.

Contents:

Writing the history of the present : contextualizing early modern literature / Jean E. Howard

Mapping theory in history : conceptual cites and social sites in the French monarchic state / Sarah Hanley

Dueling and civility in sixteenth-century Italy / David Quint

The place of Vives' Instruction of a Christen [sic] woman in early modern English domestic book literature / Margaret Mikesell

Motivating history / Keith Moxey

Tainted image, sacred image : the wandering Madonna of S. Maria in Vallicella / Laura MacCaskey

Viewing Foucault viewing Velásquez's Las meniñas / James Byrnes

Form and pressure : Shakespearean drama and the Elizabethan state / Louis Montrose

Embodying origins : an anatomy of A yeoman's daughter, Spenser's Argante, and Elizabeth I / David Kinahan

Reading history, reading power, reading plays / Graham Holderness on Shakespeare's history plays / William O. Scott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

2-503-57166-2