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This book examines the development of the English state during the long seventeenth century, emphasising the impersonal forces which shape the uses of political power, rather than the purposeful actions of individuals or groups. It is a study of state formation rather than of state building. The author's approach does not however rule out the possibility of discerning patterns in the development of the state, and a coherent account emerges which offers some alternative answers to relatively well-established questions. In particular, it is argued that the development of the state in this period was shaped in important ways by social interests - particularly those of class, gender and age. It is also argued that this period saw significant changes in the form and functioning of the state which were, in some sense, modernising. The book therefore offers a narrative of the development of the state in the aftermath of revisionism.

Great Britain --- Politics and government --- -Politics and government --- -Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Politique et gouvernement --- --Politique et gouvernement --- --1558-1714 --- --Great Britain --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Great Britain - Politics and government - 1603-1714 --- Great Britain - Politics and government - 1558-1603

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This title examines the pivotal influence of the succession question on the politics, religion and culture of the post-Armada years of Queen Elizabeth's reign. Although the earlier Elizabethan succession controversy has long captured the interest of historians and literary scholars, the later period has suffered from relative obscurity. This book remedies this situation. Taking a thematic and interdisciplinary approach, individual chapters demonstrate that key late Elizabethan texts - literary, political and polemical - cannot be understood without reference to the succession.

Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Great Britain --- England --- History --- Civilization --- Kings and rulers --- Succession --- 1558 - 1603 --- Elizabeth, Reign of (Great Britain)

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Starting in the nineteenth century the scholarly consensus has been to attribute the decline of the Spanish empire to structural rigidity, corrupt bureaucracy and repressive policies. In The Empire of the Cities , Aurelio Espinosa challenges these theories and offers groundbreaking insight into Spain’s political process and emphasizes early modern state formation. Spain’s empire should no longer be viewed simply as a symbol of royal absolutism and dominance. Rather it functioned as a collection of autonomous municipalities interconnected by a parliament that articulated domestic programs and foreign policy. Professor Espinosa also provides a more nuanced understanding of the monarchical government in revealing new insight into royal institutions and management procedures under Emperor Charles V. The Empire of the Cities offers a fascinating and penetrating look inside Spain’s political system that encouraged both expansionism and domestic stability.

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Hendrick Goltzius, who was active mainly in Haarlem, was not only one of the greatest and most gifted draughtsmen in the history of art, but an engraver whose fame has never dimmed, and an accomplished painter. He was also one of the key figures in the development of the chiaroscuro woodcut. His woodcuts form an indispensable part of any survey of the greatest achievements of graphic art, and are eagerly sought after by collectors and museums. A chiaroscuro woodcut is an. Impression of two or more woodblocks, generally one line block and various tone blocks, which are printed on top of each other. The result is a colour print, usually in various shades of a single colour, which may look like a pen-and-wash drawing or an oil sketch. Some are printed on cloth, or paper textured like cloth, which adds to their painterly effect. As such, and because of their monumental impact, they were ideal for hanging on a wall as substitutes for oil. Paintings. In the catalogue Chiaroscuro Woodcuts. Hendrick Goltzius and his Time, all the woodcuts associated with Goltzius's name are described in detail and reproduced in various colour combinations. Particular attention has been paid to technical data and the description of states, and the discussion also embraces iconography and stylistic evolution. The locations of rare prints are meticulously recorded, as are those of any prints held in a number of key collections. Numerous plates bring out the variety of colour displayed in these woodcuts, and also reproduce related drawings and alternative impressions. In order to highlight Goltzius's role in the development of the technique, the book includes a discussion of prints by German and Italian artists like Hans Baldung Grien and Ugo da Carpi. More immediate precursors from the Southern Netherlands are likewise represented, including Frans Floris with some hitherto unpublished works. There are also prints by contemporaries who chose the medium of the chiaroscuro woodcut under Goltzius's influence. The vogue he initiated even led to two masterly woodcuts by Albrecht Durer, Rhinoceros and the superb Portrait of Ulrich Varnbuler, which were republished in the Netherlands a century after their origin in the chiaroscuro technique using freshly cut tone blocks. This practice is also discussed. The book is being published to coincide with an exhibition in. The Rijksprentenkabinet in Amsterdam, which can be seen from 14 November 1992 to 10 January 1993. This exhibition, for which loans have been obtained from various European and American collections, will contain impressions, in various colour combinations, of all the prints discussed, among them seven impressions of the powerful Hercules and Cacus of 1588. The exhibition has been organized in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio (USA), where it.

Goltzius, Hendrick --- 76 GOLTZIUS, HENDRICK --- 761 <492> --- 76 <492> "15" --- 76 <492> "16" --- 76 <492> "16" Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Nederland--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Nederland--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 --- 76 <492> "15" Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Nederland--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Nederland--16e eeuw. Periode 1500-1599 --- 761 <492> Hoogdruktechnieken in de grafische kunst--Nederland --- Hoogdruktechnieken in de grafische kunst--Nederland --- 76 GOLTZIUS, HENDRICK Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--GOLTZIUS, HENDRICK --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--GOLTZIUS, HENDRICK --- Exhibitions --- CDL --- 76.071 GOLTZIUS --- Wood-engraving, Dutch --- Wood-engraving --- Chiaroscuro --- Clairobscur --- Art --- Color prints --- Light in art --- Painting --- Wood-cut --- Wood-cutting (Engraving) --- Wood-engravings --- Woodcut --- Woodcutting (Engraving) --- Xylography --- Engraving --- Prints --- Block books --- Block printing --- Dutch wood-engraving --- Technique --- Goltzius, Hendrik, --- Golʹt︠s︡ius, Gendrik --- Goltzius, Henricus --- Goltz, Hendrick, --- Goltzino --- Goltzius, Heinrick --- Geschichte --- 1558-1617 --- Clair-obscur --- Goltzius (hendrick), peintre et graveur neerlandais, 1558-1617 --- Gravure sur bois neerlandaise

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In The Age of Elizabeth in the Age of Johnson, Jack Lynch explores eighteenth-century British conceptions of the Renaissance, and the historical, intellectual, and cultural uses to which the past was put during the period. Scholars, editors, historians, religious thinkers, linguists and literary critics of the period all defined themselves in relation to 'the last age' or 'the age of Elizabeth'. Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thinkers reworked older historical schemes to suit their own needs, turning to the ages of Petrarch and Poliziano, Erasmus and Scaliger, Shakespeare, Spenser, and Queen Elizabeth to define their culture in contrast to the preceding age. They derived a powerful sense of modernity from the comparison, which proved essential to the constitution of a national character. This interdisciplinary study will be of interest to cultural as well as literary historians of the eighteenth century.

English literature --- Literature and history --- Historiography --- Renaissance --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature --- Revival of letters --- Civilization --- History, Modern --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Modern --- Humanism --- Middle Ages --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History --- Historiography. --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 --- Early modern, 1500-1700 --- 18th century --- England --- Arts and Humanities --- Elizabeth I [Queen of England] --- anno 1700-1799