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This book advances five original readings of Shakespeare's King Lear, influenced by Giorgio Agamben, but tempered by primary research into Jacobean literature, law, religion, and philosophy. To grasp Lear’s encounter between politics and identity, the play demands a wider understanding of the religious influence on political thought. As Lear himself realises, sovereignty is an extreme, glamorous example of a deeper category: sacred office. Lear also shows duty intersecting with a hierarchy of bastards, outlaws, women, waifs, and monks. This book introduces concepts like petit treason, civil death, and waivery into political theological studies, complicating Agamben’s models. Goneril’s treason shows the sovereign’s consort and children are consecrated lives too. Lear’s crisis of "self-knowing" stages a landmark critique of office. The promise of his poignant speech before the prison is foreclosed by Shakespeare's invention: an officer dutifully murdering Cordelia. This book’s conclusion, through Hannah Arendt, reconsiders Lear’s persistent association with the Holocaust. Dr Alexander Thom is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the School of English, University of Leeds, UK. His postdoctoral research focuses on the displaced in English Renaissance drama. This book is based on his Midlands3Cities AHRC doctorate, which was awarded in 2020 by the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK.

European literature --- Drama. --- Literature --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- Literary History. --- Renaissance, 1450-1600. --- History and criticism.

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Commonly used as a rallying cry for general approaches to literary studies, the imagination has until recently been overwritten with romantic and modernist inflections that impede our understanding of literature’s intimate involvement in early modern cognition. To recover the pre-Cartesian imagination, this collection of essays takes a historicist approach by situating literary texts within the embodied and ensouled faculty system. Image-making and fantasizing were not autonomous activities but belonged to a greater cognitive ecosystem, which the volume’s four sections reflect: “The Visual Imagination,” “Sensory and Affective Imaginings,” “Artifice and the Mnemonic Imagination,” and “Higher Imaginings.” Together they accentuate the imagination’s interdependency and friction with other faculties. Ultimately, the volume’s attention to the embodied imagination gives scholars new perspectives on literary and image production in the writings of Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and their contemporaries. Mark Kaethler is Academic Chair of Arts at Medicine Hat College in Medicine Hat, Canada. They work on research teams with the Map of Early Modern London and Linked Early Modern Drama Online at the University of Victoria, both of which have been funded by SSHRC grants. They are Book Reviews Editor for Early Theatre, and they are the author of Thomas Middleton and the Plural Politics of Jacobean Drama as well as a co-editor of Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools. Their work has appeared in Shakespeare, The London Journal, Early Theatre, Literature Compass, and several other journals and edited collections. Grant Williams is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. With William E. Engel, he has co-edited the essay collection The Shakespearean Death Arts (Palgrave, 2022), and, with Engel and Rory Loughnane, co-edited the collection Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 2022). With Donald Beecher, he is co-editor of Henry Chettle’s Kind-Heart’s Dream and Piers Plainness: Two Pamphlets from the Elizabethan Book Trade (CRRS, 2022). He has co-authored two critical anthologies with Engel and Loughnane: The Death Arts in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 2022) and The Memory Arts in Renaissance England (Cambridge, 2016).

European literature --- Drama. --- Literature --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- Literary History. --- Literary Theory. --- Renaissance, 1450-1600. --- History and criticism. --- Philosophy.

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This work, based on archival research, combines a collective portrait of aristocratic women with an analysis of the particular, class-specific form of patriarchy and gender relations that flourished among the upper classes in Yorkist and early Tudor England.

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“An extraordinary journey in Dante’s Florence: the city, the arts, the music all come to life in Julia Bolton Holloway's elegant account of her research. But there is more: Dante and His Circle has much to offer the philologist and historian alike, bringing together the finest tradition of Dante scholarship and a fresh reader’s approach to Italy’s most famous poet.” —Francesco Ciabattoni, Professor in Italian Literature in Georgetown College, Director of Global Medieval Studies, Italian Department, Georgetown University, USA “This fascinating and innovative work offers a fresh look inside Dante's masterpiece, his native city, and medieval life, culture and society. It is not only solidly based on new archival findings, but also highly innovative and a true pleasure to read.” --Nicolino Applauso, Director of the Foreign Language Laboratory, Morgan State University, USA In this book, Julia Bolton Holloway makes use of primary materials in documents, manuscripts and stone monuments in Florence, to place Dante's literary career in its rich context. Dante and His Circle discusses the encyclopaedic multicultural education in classical literature, law, ethics, rhetoric, diplomacy, poetry, music and cosmology Brunetto Latino gave to Guido Cavalcante, Dante Alighieri and Francesco da Barberino. Bolton Holloway traces Latino’s use of Arabic methods he had learned at the Court of Alfonso X el Sabio in Spain in 1260. Next Latino dictates his 'Rettorica', 'Tesoretto' and 'Tesoro' in Italian to his students, following the Sicilian Vespers, the manuscripts of their circle later coming to be re-edited, illustrated and published by Dante's fellow student, Francesco da Barberino, who survived them all and who likewise copied Alfonsine methods for producing the 'Danti del Cento' manuscripts of the 'Commedia'. The book ends by discussing Dante's Decolonialism. Each chapter provides Study Questions for further research. Julia Bolton Holloway is Professor Emerita, Medieval Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Literature, Medieval. --- Europe --- European literature --- Medieval Literature. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- History --- 476-1492. --- Renaissance, 1450-1600.