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Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings of Sidney, Wroth, Spenser, and Shakespeare; and several topics involving the New World. Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The present volume opens with an essay on early modern chess, arguing that it covertly upheld an Aristotelian concept of virtue against the destabilizing ethical views of writers such as Machiavelli. This provocative opening is followed by iconoclastic discussions of Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, Wroth's Urania, and Spenser's Fairie Queen. The next essay investigates the mystery surrounding editorship of the 1571 printing of The Mirror for Magistrates. The essays then pivot into the exotic world of Hermetic ""statue magic"" in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale and the even more exotic worlds of alchemy, Aztec war gods, and conversion in sixteenth-century Mexico. Two further essays remain in the New World, the first examining the representational connections between the twelve Caesars and the twelve Inca kings, the second taking stock of Thomas Harriot's contribution to the understanding of Amerindian languages. The penultimate essay looks at Holbein's depiction of Henry VIII's ailing body, and the volume concludes with a complex analysis of guilt and shame in Moliere's L'Ecole des Femmes. Contributors: Jean Marie Christensen, William Coulter, Christopher Crosbie, Shepherd Aaron Ellis, Scott Lucas, Fernando Martinez-Periset, Timothy Pyles, Rachel Roberts, Jesse Russell, Janet Stephens, Weiao Xing. The journal is edited by Jim Pearce of North Carolina Central University and Ward Risvold of Georgia College and State University.

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Author:   James M Pearce (Contributor) ,  Professor Ward J. Risvold ,  Professor William Given ,  Professor Christopher J. Crosbie (Contributor)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Camden House Inc
ISBN:  

9781640141438

ISBN 10:   164014143
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   29 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"""Strange Serious Wantoning:"": Early Modern Chess Manuals and the Ethics of Virtuous Subterfuge Christopher Crosbie ""Both Use and Art:"" Motifs and Method in Astrophil and Stella William A. Coulter Embodied Love(rs): Injury and Comedy in Mary Wroth's Urania Rachel M. De Smith Roberts Edmund Spenser's Automaton Alchemy: The Case of False Florimell Jesse Russell Who Edited the 1571 Mirror for Magistrates? Scott C. Lucas Statues Living and Conscious: Hermetic Statue-Magic in The Winter's Tale Timothy Pyles Transmutation and Refinement: The Metaphysics of Conversion and Alchemy in Renaissance Spain Shepherd Aaron Ellis The Twelve Inka and the Twelve Caesars: Reflections on an Early Modern Visual Theme in the Art of Colonial Peru Janet G. Stephens Linguistics and Epistemology in Thomas Harriot's North Atlantic World Weiao Xing Assembling the King's Body: Examining Holbein's Portrait Techniques and the Fashioning of Henry VIII's Image in the English Renaissance Jean Marie Christensen Molière's L'École des Femmes between Shame and Guilt Fernando Martinez-Periset"

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JAMES PEARCE is Director of Graduate Studies in English at North Carolina Central University. WARD J. RISVOLD teaches writing in the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business at Georgia College and State University. WILLIAM GIVEN is a professor at the University of California at San Diego.

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