This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference.
- Provides new perspectives on established texts.
- Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions.
- Pioneered by leading scholars.
- Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies.
- Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.
List of Illustrations x
Notes on Contributors xii
PART ONE Introduction
1 Introduction 3
Michael Hattaway
PART TWO Contexts and Perspectives, c.1500–1650
2 Early Tudor Humanism 13
Mary Thomas Crane
3 English Reformations 27
Patrick Collinson
4 Platonism, Stoicism, Scepticism and Classical Imitation 44
Sarah Hutton
5 History 58
Patrick Collinson
6 The English Language of the Early Modern Period 71
N. F. Blake
7 Publication: Print and Manuscript 81
Michelle O’Callaghan
8 Literacy and Education 95
Jean R. Brink
9 Court and Coterie Culture 106
Curtis Perry
10 The Literature of the Metropolis 119
John A. Twyning
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