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Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy

Bartolomeo Scappi's Paper Kitchens

By: Professor Deborah L Krohn

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Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy

Bartolomeo Scappi's Paper Kitchens

By: Professor Deborah L Krohn

Deborah L. Krohn presents here the first full-length study of Bartolomeo Scappi's Opera (1570), the first illustrated cookbook. She treats the illustrations as visual evidence for a lost material reality; and through the illustrations, connects Scappi's Opera with other types of late Renaissance illustrated books. What emerges from both of these approaches is a new way of thinking about the place of cookbooks in the history of knowledge.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409446719

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9781409446712

Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England

Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture

By: Professor Kate Narveson

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Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England

Gender and Self-Definition in an Emergent Writing Culture

By: Professor Kate Narveson

Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England studies how immersion in the Bible among layfolk gave rise to a non-professional writing culture, one of the first instances of ordinary people taking up the pen as part of their daily lives. Kate Narveson examines the development of the culture, looking at the close connection between reading and writing practices, the influence of gender, and the habit of applying Scripture to personal experience. She explores too the tensions that arose between lay and clergy as layfolk embraced not just the chance to read Scripture but the opportunity to create a written record of their ideas and experiences, acquiring a new control over their spiritual self-definition and a new mode of gaining status in domestic and communal circles. Based on a study of print and manuscript sources from 1580 to 1660, this book begins by analyzing how lay people were taught to read Scripture both through explicit clerical instruction in techniques such as note-taking and collation, and through indirect means such as exposure to sermons, and then how they adapted those techniques to create their own devotional writing. The first part of the book concludes with case studies of three ordinary lay people, Anne Venn, Nehemiah Wallington, and Richard Willis. The second half of the study turns to the question of how gender registers in this lay scripturalist writing, offering extended attention to the little-studied meditations of Grace, Lady Mildmay. Narveson concludes by arguing that by mid-century, despite clerical anxiety, writing was central to lay engagement with Scripture and had moved the center of religious experience beyond the church walls.

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1409483630

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9781409483632

English Renaissance Prose

History, Language, and Politics

By: Neil Rhodes

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English Renaissance Prose

History, Language, and Politics

By: Neil Rhodes

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Andesite Press

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1376157705

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Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy

Food and Knowledge in Renaissance Italy

Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England

Bible Readers and Lay Writers in Early Modern England

English Renaissance Prose

English Renaissance Prose

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