{"title":"History - Europe - Renaissance","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"english-travellers-of-the-renaissance-gb-13403","title":"English Travellers of the Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEnglish Travellers of the Renaissance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the many didactic books which flooded England in the sixteenth and\r\nseventeenth centuries were certain essays on travel. Some of these have\r\nnever been brought to light since their publication more than three hundred\r\nyears ago, or been mentioned by the few writers who have interested\r\nthemselves in the literature of this subject. In the collections of voyages\r\nand explorations, so often garnered, these have found no place. Most of\r\nthem are very rare, and have never been reprinted. Yet they do not deserve\r\nto be thus overlooked, and in several ways this survey of them will, I\r\nthink, be useful for students of literature.\nThey reveal a widespread custom among Elizabethan and Jacobean\r\ngentlemen, of completing their education by travel. There are scattered\r\nallusions to this practice, in contemporary social documents: Anthony\r\n Wood frequently explains how such an Oxonian \"travelled beyond\r\nseas and returned a compleat Person,\"--but nowhere is this ideal of a\r\ncosmopolitan education so explicitly set forth as it is in these essays.\r\nAddressed to the intending tourist, they are in no sense to be confused\r\nwith guide-books or itineraries. They are\r\ndiscussions of the benefits of travel, admonitions and warnings, arranged\r\nto put the traveller in the proper attitude of mind towards his great task\r\nof self-development. Taken in chronological order they outline for us the\r\nlife of the travelling student.\nBeginning with the end of the sixteenth century when travel became the\r\nfashion, as the only means of acquiring modern languages and modern\r\nhistory, as well as those physical accomplishments and social graces by\r\nwhich a young man won his way at Court, they trace his evolution up to the\r\ntime when it had no longer any serious motive; that is, when the chairs of\r\nmodern history and modern languages were founded at the English\r\nuniversities, and when, with the fall of the Stuarts, the Court ceased to\r\nbe the arbiter of men's fortunes. In the course of this evolution they show\r\nus many phases of continental influence in England; how Italian immorality\r\ninfected young imaginations, how the Jesuits won travellers to their\r\nreligion, how France became the model of deportment, what were the origins\r\nof the Grand Tour, and so forth.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 13403 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Howard, Clare \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Sep 9, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Howard, Clare,1881-1967 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43216398712989,"sku":"gb-13403-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/13403.jpg?v=1671350503"},{"product_id":"christian-schools-and-scholars-gb-63929","title":"Christian Schools and Scholars","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristian Schools and Scholars\r - or, Sketches of Education from the Christian Era to the Council of Trent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe following pages have been written with the view\nof presenting a general and connected sketch of the\nhistory of Christian Education down to the period\nof the Council of Trent, illustrated from the lives of\nthose who have, in successive ages, taken part in that\ngreat work. A subject extending over so wide a field\ncould of necessity be only partially treated, and it\nseems desirable, therefore, to explain certain omissions\nwhich might otherwise cause disappointment. It was\nbelieved that the object aimed at would, in most cases,\nbe better accomplished by introducing the reader to\nthe teachers themselves, than by undertaking to give\na complete account and critical examination of their\nwritings. Such an examination would properly enter\ninto a history of Christian Literature, a grand desideratum\nindeed, but one which the present volumes\nmakes no pretensions to supply. Again, for obvious\nreasons, the philosophical and theological controversies\nconnected with the lives of the great men\nwho form the subjects of the following studies, have[Pg vi]\nbeen designedly touched on with the greatest possible\nbrevity: the history of such controversies seeming to\nbelong to Ecclesiastical History, and to be unsuitable\nin a work like the present.\nIt has been the wish of the writer to treat the\nsubject from a purely historical point of view, and\nto increase the value of the narrative by, as far as\npossible, preserving the colouring, and sometimes\neven the very language, of the original historians.\nThe notes appended to the text will give a general\nidea of the authorities whence the matter has been\nderived. The Ecclesiastical Histories of Fleury and\nRohrbacher have furnished the groundwork of the\ngeneral narrative. In the account of the Irish schools,\nthe chronology and the main facts have been drawn\nfrom Lanigans Ecclesiastical History of Ireland.\nThe sketch of the restoration of letters under\nCharlemagne has been chiefly taken from Creviers\nHistoire de lUniversit de Paris, Launoys Treatise\nDe Scholis Celebrioribus, and the various lives, both\nancient and modern, of Charlemagne. In the chapters\nreferring to the subsequent history of the Dark Ages,\nconstant use has been made of the Acta Sanctorum\nOrd. S. Benedicti, by DAchery and Mabillon, and of\nthe collections of the Lives of the Saints by Surius\nand the Bollandists; also of the Vetera Analecta of\nMabillon, the Spicilegium of DAchery, the Amplissima\nCollectio of Martene, and the Histoire Litteraire de la\nFrance, by the Benedictines of St. Maur. Much[vii]\nvaluable matter has also been derived from the Monumenta\nGermani Historica of Pertz, and the collection\nof ancient German Chronicles by Meibomius; the\naccount of the school and scholars of St. Galls being\ntaken from Ekkehards History De Casibus S. Galli,\nprinted in the first volume of Goldastis collection, and\nfrom the Benedictine Life of B. Notker. The notices\nof the foreign universities are chiefly drawn from\nCrevier, and from Tiraboschis Storia della Letteratura\nItaliana, which latter work has been almost\nexclusively used in the chapters on the Renaissance\nin Italy. The chapter on the Dominicans and the\nUniversities is compiled from a considerable number\nof authorities; chiefly, Tourons Vies des Hommes\nIllustres, the Scriptores Ordinis Prdicatorum by\nEchard and Quetil, the French translation of Dr.\nSigharts Life of Albert the Great, and the Constitutions\nof the Order.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 63929 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Drane, Augusta Theodosia \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Dec 1, 2020 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Drane, Augusta Theodosia,1823-1894 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43249991123101,"sku":"gb-63929-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/63929.webp?v=1672913986"},{"product_id":"dark-renaissance-the-dangerous-times-and-fatal-genius-of-shakespeares-greatest-rival-9780393882278","title":"Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. 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He has written extensively on English Renaissance literature and acts as general editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Norton Anthology of English Literature\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Norton Shakespeare\u003c\/em\u003e. He is the author of fourteen books, including \u003cem\u003eThe Swerve\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and \u003cem\u003eWill in the World\u003c\/em\u003e, a Pulitzer Prize finalist.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Stephen Greenblatt \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47281325768861,"sku":"9780393343403","price":37.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_7b2f5ca2-6f4d-4891-95b7-3148e7c1650f.jpg?v=1759929444"},{"product_id":"the-world-at-first-light-a-new-history-of-the-renaissance-9780691183831","title":"The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA magisterial history of the Renaissance and the birth of the modern world\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. 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