Overview

The early modern period inherited a deeply-ingrained culture of Christian remembrance that proved a platform for creativity in a remarkable variety of forms. From the literature of church ritual to the construction of monuments; from portraiture to the arrangement of domestic interiors; from the development of textual rites to drama of the contemporary stage, the early modern world practiced 'arts of remembrance' at every turn. The turmoils of the Reformation and its aftermath transformed the habits of creating through remembrance. Ritually observed and radically reinvented, remembrance was a focal point of the early modern cultural imagination for an age when beliefs both crossed and divided communities of the faithful. The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England maps the new terrain of remembrance in the post-Reformation period, charting its negotiations with the material, the textual and the performative.

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Author:   Andrew Gordon ,  Thomas Rist ,  Professor James Daybell ,  Dr. Adam Smyth
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.612kg
ISBN:  

9781409446576

ISBN 10:   1409446573
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England offers a compelling view of the processes of memorialisation and of remembering, ranging from ecclesiastical practice to literary production, visual culture, and the stage. The collection brings together established scholars and exciting new voices, to consider the wide-ranging effects of the Reformation, and the recurring presence of the dead.'-- Helen Smith, Reader in Renaissance Literature, University of York

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Andrew Gordon and Thomas Rist are colleagues in the Department of English and the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Andrew Gordon, Thomas Rist, Lucy Wooding, Robert Tittler, Tara Hamling, Oliver D. Harris, Tom Healy, Gerard Kilroy, Marie-Louise Coolahan, Philip Schwyzer, Janette Dillon, Rory Loughnane.

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