Renaissance Go-Betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern EuropeAndreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels The volume analyses some of the travelling and bridge-building activities that went on in Renaissance Europe, mainly but not exclusively across the Channel, true to Montaigne's epoch-making program of describing 'the passage'. Its emphasis on Anglo-Continental relations ensures a firm basis in English literature, but its particular appeal lies in its European point of view, and in the perspectives it opens up into other areas of early modern culture, such as pictorial art, philosophy, and economics. The multiple implications of the go-between concept make for structured diversity. The chapters of this book are arranged in three stages. Part 1 ('Mediators') focuses on influential go-betweens, both as groups, like the translators, and as individual mediators. The second part of this book ('Mediations') is concerned with individual acts of mediation, and with the 'mental topographies' they presuppose, reflect and redraw in their turn. Part 3 ('Representations') looks at the role of exemplary intermediaries and the workings of mediation represented on the early modern English stage. Key features
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... European . 6. Literature , Comparative - European and English . 7. Great Brit- ain - Relations - Europe . 8. Europe Relations · Great Britain . 9. Renaissance England . I. Höfele , Andreas , 1950- II . Kop- penfels , Werner von . III ...
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels. 15. FRANÇOIS LAROQUE : ' The Words of Mercury ' : Shakespeare's Love Ambassadors ........... ..231 16. PHILIPPA BERRY : Incising Venice : the Violence of ...
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels. ANDREAS HÖFELE WERNER VON KOPPENFELS Introduction I Among the more than three hundred engravings illustrating the ventures of European explorers and the ...
Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe Andreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels. Apollo , his head ablaze with a halo of curling flames , can break the concentra- tion of Magellan's gaze ( fig.2 ) . The close proximity of gods and men ...
... Europe as well . One of the bulkiest documents of this mobility is Fynes Moryson's Itin- erary ( 1617 ) . The author , the younger son of a Lincolnshire squire , spent the greater part of six years wandering about Europe . His ...
Contents
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Giordano Bruno meets Elizabethan England | 55 |
5 De Witt van Buchell the Wooden O and the Yellow M | 78 |
6 John Dee as Cultural Scientific Apocalyptic GoBetween | 88 |
7 John Wolfe and the Impact of Exemplary GoBetweens on Early Modern Print Culture | 104 |
John Spencers Theory of Religious Translation | 163 |
III Representations | 175 |
Marlowe and the GoBetween | 177 |
13 Spirits Ghosts Demons in Shakespeare and Milton | 200 |
Returning from the Dead in The Spanish Tragedy | 214 |
Shakespeares Love Ambassadors | 231 |
the Violence of Cultural Incorporation in The Merchant of Venice | 248 |
Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare | 262 |
II Mediations | 119 |
Learning from a Gilded Silver Beaker Antwerp c 1530 | 121 |
John Bales Summarium 1548 and Catalogus 155759 | 139 |
The Writings of Roger Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney | 152 |
Index | 279 |
Notes on Contributors | 287 |