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Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast, offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history, demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in defining the discipline of maritime history. The chapters analyse the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which English maritime endeavour existed, as well as discussing representations of the sea. The contributors show how people from across the British Isles increasingly engaged with the maritime world, whether through their own lived experiences or through material culture. The volume also includes essays that investigate encounters between English voyagers and indigenous peoples in Africa, and the intellectual foundations of imperial ambition.

Great Britain --- History, Naval --- Maritime, Britain, Sea, early modern, culture.

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Britain's emergence as one of Europe's major maritime powers has all too frequently been subsumed by nationalistic narratives that focus on operations and technology. This volume, by contrast, offers a daring new take on Britain's maritime past. It brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the manifold ways in which the sea shaped British history, demonstrating the number of approaches that now have a stake in defining the discipline of maritime history. The chapters analyse the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which English maritime endeavour existed, as well as discussing representations of the sea. The contributors show how people from across the British Isles increasingly engaged with the maritime world, whether through their own lived experiences or through material culture. The volume also includes essays that investigate encounters between English voyagers and indigenous peoples in Africa, and the intellectual foundations of imperial ambition.

Great Britain --- History, Naval --- Maritime, Britain, Sea, early modern, culture.

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Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age was influenced and determined by sexuality, which hardly ever surfaces simply characterized by prurient interests. The treatment of sexuality in literature, chronicles, music, art, legal documents, and in scientific texts illuminates central concerns, anxieties, tensions, needs, fears, and problems in human society throughout times.

Sex in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- European literature --- History and criticism. --- Art History. --- Early-Modern Culture and Literature. --- Medieval Culture and Literature. --- Sexuality. --- Social History.

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Is the pícaro, the roguish hero of early modern Spanish adventure fiction, a 'real man'? What position does he hold in the gender hierarchy of his fictional social context? Why is the pícara so 'non-female'? What effect has her gender constitution on her fictional social context? In terms of a gendered subject, the picaresque figure has hardly been analyzed so far. Although scholars have recognized it as a transgressive and subversive model, the 'queer' effect of the figure is yet to be examined. With regard to the categories of class, generation, topography, and gender, the contributions assembled in this volume explore Spanish, French, English, and German novels narratologically from the perspective of culture and gender theories.

Picaresque literature --- Gender identity in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 82-311.4 --- 82-311.4 Schelmenroman. Picareske roman --- Schelmenroman. Picareske roman --- Gender; Picaresque; Early Modern Culture; Masculinity Studies; Modern Novel; Literature; General Literature Studies; German Literature; Gender Studies; Romance Studies; Literary Studies --- Early Modern Culture. --- Gender Studies. --- General Literature Studies. --- German Literature. --- Literary Studies. --- Literature. --- Masculinity Studies. --- Modern Novel. --- Picaresque. --- Romance Studies.

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A close examination of the representation of criminals in the understudied theatrical genres of the jácara and comedias de valentones.

Theatrical science --- drama [literature] --- anno 1600-1699 --- Spain --- Spanish drama --- Theater --- Law enforcement in literature. --- Law enforcement --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Enforcement of law --- Policing --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- drama [discipline] --- Early Modern Spanish theatre. --- Spanish history. --- Spanish literature. --- crime narratives. --- criminal heroes. --- early modern culture. --- law enforcement. --- theatrical analysis.