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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... Giordano Bruno meets Elizabethan England .......... .......... 55 5. PAUL FRANSSEN : De Witt , van Buchell , the Wooden O , and the Yellow M ........ .78 6. GYÖRGY E. SZÖNYI : John Dee as Cultural , Scientific , Apocalyptic Go - Between ...
... Giordano Bruno , who compares himself to Columbus , and of Bacon's voyagers to the New Atlantis of scientific knowledge . 8 Transgression implies translation , literally the ' carrying across ' of goods and ideas . When Bruno taught at ...
... Giordano Bruno , traveller and cultural mediator par excellence , actually was . 39 III The variety of representations reflecting processes of exchange is matched by the variety of objects trafficked and of agents trafficking . The ...
... Giordano Bruno had to learn from bitter experience , cultural mediation can be a daunting task . The obstacles met by a go - between in search of tolerance and appreciation are drastically detailed in some of Bruno's Italian dialogues ...
... Giordano Bruno , Opere Italiane , ed . Giovanni Gentile ( Bari : Lazerta , 1907 ) , 48-50 . This scenario of class conflict is dramatised mock - heroically in Bruno's and Florio's encoun- ter with the rabble on their way to Fulke ...
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 |