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Premodern Places: Calais to Surinam, Chaucer to Aphra Behn

Autor D. Wallace
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 aug 2006
This book recovers places in the mental mapping of medieval and Renaissance writers, from Chaucer to Aphra Behn. Beginning with Calais, peopled by the English from 1347 to 1558, and ending with Surinam, traded away for Manhattan in 1667, this well-illustrated book recreates the distinctive cultural life of a range of locations: from Flanders which led the world in technological innovations; to Somerset, which provided a fitting home for Dante; to the Canaries (the Fortunate Islands), which formed the limits of western dreaming.

The book's exploration of premodern places features fascinating vignettes, such as an English merchant learning love songs in Calais, coupled with insights into broader economic narratives of political, technological, religious, and economic change. In particular, it provides long geneaologies of blackness and whiteness, race and slavery, in the premodern world.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781405151528
ISBN-10: 1405151528
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:Revised.
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

upper level students and researchers of medieval and Renaissance literature in English; upper level students and researchers of Italian, African American studies, or postcolonial studies; geographers interested in concepts of place

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Descriere

* A highly and engaging work by one of the world's most renowned medievalists. * Recreates and connects the places that appear in the works of Langland, Chaucer, Dante, Petrarch, Spenser, Shakespeare, Aphra Behn, and many others.