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Dynastic marriages mattered in early modern Europe: the creation of alliances and the outbreak of wars were tied to continental dynastic politics.

Marriages of royalty and nobility --- Morganatic marriages --- Royal marriages --- Kings and rulers --- Nobility --- History --- Great Britain --- Foreign relations --- 1600-1714 --- 1604-1630. --- Alliances. --- Continental Dynastic Politics. --- Cultural Politics. --- Dynastic Marriages. --- Dynastic Politics. --- European Context. --- European Identity. --- Stuart Marriage Diplomacy. --- Wars.

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This volume of sharply focused essays by an international team of scholars deals not only with the most significant literary, philosophical, and cultural aspects of German Romanticism - one of the most influential, albeit highly controversial movements in the history of German literature - but also with the history and status of scholarship on the literature of the period. The introduction and first section establish an overall framework by placing German Romanticism within a European context that includes its English counterpart. Goethe and Schiller are considered, as are the Jena Romantics. The second section is organized according to the traditional distinctions between epic, dramatic, and lyric modes of writing, while realizing that particularly in the Romantic novel, there was an attempt to blend these three. A final group of essays focuses on German literary Romanticism's relation to other aspects of German culture: folklore studies, politics, psychology, natural science, gender presentation and representation, music, and visual art. Contributors: Gerhard Schulz, Arnd Bohm, Richard Littlejohns, Gerhart Hoffmeister, Ulrich Scheck, Claudia Stockinger, Bernadette Malinowski, Fabian Lampart, Klaus Peter, Gabriele Rommel, Martha B. Helfer, Kristina Muxfeldt, Beate Allert, Paul Bishop and R. H. Stephenson, Nicholas Saul. Dennis F. Mahoney is Professor of German and Director of the European Studies Program at the University of Vermont.

German literature --- Romanticism --- History and criticism. --- Young Germany --- History and criticism --- Arnd Bohm. --- Dennis F. Mahoney. --- European context. --- Gerhard Schulz. --- German Romanticism. --- Goethe. --- Jena Romantics. --- Richard Littlejohns. --- Schiller. --- University of Vermont. --- cultural aspects. --- dramatic. --- epic. --- folklore studies. --- gender. --- literary. --- lyric modes. --- music. --- natural science. --- philosophical. --- politics. --- psychology. --- visual art.

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The twelfth century saw a wide-ranging transformation of the Irish church, a regional manifestation of a wider pan-European reform movement. This book, the first to offer a full account of this change, moves away from the previous concentration on the restructuring of Irish dioceses and episcopal authority, and the introduction of Continental monastic observances, to widen the discussion. It charts changes in the religious culture experienced by the laity as well as the clergy and takes account of the particular Irish experience within the wider European context. The universal ideals that were defined with increasing clarity by Continental advocates of reform generated a series of initiatives from Irish churchmen aimed at disseminating reform ideology within clerical circles and transmitting it also to lay society, even if, as elsewhere, it often proved difficult to implement in practice. Whatever the obstacles faced by reformist clergy, their genuine concern to transform the Irish church and society cannot be doubted, and is attested in a range of hitherto unexploited sources this volume draws upon. Marie Therese Flanagan is Professor of Medieval History at the Queen's University of Belfast.

Church renewal --- History --- Ireland --- Church history --- Church renewal - Ireland - History - To 1500 --- Irlande --- Eglise --- 12e siècle --- Ireland - Church history - 600-1500 --- Christianity --- Church --- Church reform --- Reform of the church --- Renewal of the church --- Religious awakening --- Renewal --- Reform --- European context. --- Irish church and society. --- Irish church. --- clergy. --- laity. --- lay society. --- obstacles. --- reform ideology. --- reform movements. --- reformist clergy. --- religious culture. --- transformation. --- twelfth century. --- unexploited sources.

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Generic experimentation is at the heart of the major poetic innovations of the Spanish Golden Age. The passage from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century marked a dynamic moment of transition in the evolution of aesthetic forms. This volume of essays, which unites contributions from a cross-section of specialists in the field of Hispanic poetry, presents a comprehensive exploration of the unprecedented flowering of Hispanic culture associated with this period. It not only places aesthetic questions in their broader European context, but looks beyond the confines of Europe to interrogate the key terms of its title, balancing panoramic approaches to questions of genre with the insights afforded by detailed readings of individual texts. The publication examines the aesthetic and ideological criteria on which assessments of artistic importance have been based, considering the relationship between genre and 'major' and 'minor' authors, and exploring the factors which precipitated a text's passage from the periphery to the centre of the canon. English translation for marketing purposes Generic experimentation is at the heart of the major poetic innovations of the Spanish Golden Age. The passage from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century marked a dynamic moment of transition in the evolution of aesthetic forms. This volume of essays, which unites contributions from a cross-section of specialists in the field of Hispanic poetry, presents a comprehensive exploration of the unprecedented flowering of Hispanic culture associated with this period. It not only places aesthetic questions in their broader European context, but looks beyond the confines of Europe to interrogate the key terms of its title, balancing panoramic approaches to questions of genre with the insights afforded by detailed readings of individual texts. The publication examines the aesthetic and ideological criteria on which assessments of artistic importance have been based, considering the relationship between genre and 'major' and 'minor' authors, and exploring the factors which precipitated a text's passage from the periphery to the centre of the canon. Rodrigo Cacho is currently a University Senior lecturer in Spanish Golden Age Culture in the University of Cambridge. Anne Holloway is currently a Lecturer in the University of Glasgow.

Spanish poetry --- Literary form. --- History and criticism. --- Form, Literary --- Forms, Literary --- Forms of literature --- Genre (Literature) --- Genre, Literary --- Genres, Literary --- Genres of literature --- Literary forms --- Literary genetics --- Literary genres --- Literary types (Genres) --- Literature --- 1500-1700 --- Classical Period --- Early Modern Period --- Aesthetic Forms. --- European Context. --- Generic Experimentation. --- Hispanic Culture. --- Literary Genres. --- Poetic Forms. --- Siglo de Oro. --- Spanish Golden Age.

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The rehearsal processes of theatre companies are an oft-neglected area of research in Drama and Performance Studies. This work on the Catalan devising collective Els Joglars and the Madrid producing venue Teatro de la Abadía seeks to redress the balance with a close analysis of methodologies employed in rehearsal. In effect, both companies have created distinctive rehearsal processes by applying ideas and techniques from a wider European context to a Spanish theatre scene which had been seen to follow rather than develop trends and techniques visible in theatre across France, Italy and Germany. Critically, their hybrid rehearsal processes generate heightened theatrical results for the audience. Thus the book shifts the focus of academic study away from product and towards process, demonstrating how an understanding of process assists in the reading of the theatrical product. Simon David Breden obtained a PhD in Drama & Hispanic Studies from Queen Mary, University of London. He has worked as a professional director and expert in Spanish theatre in London and Madrid.

Experimental theater --- Theater --- Dramatics --- Histrionics --- Professional theater --- Stage --- Theatre --- Performing arts --- Acting --- Actors --- Alternative theater --- Avant-garde theater --- History --- Joglars (Theatrical company) --- Joglars --- Theater rehearsals --- Teatro de La Abadía. --- Rehearsals, Theater --- Teatro La Abadía --- Academic Study. --- Catalan Devising Collective. --- Drama. --- Els Joglars. --- European Context. --- Hispanic Studies. --- Madrid Producing Venue. --- Rehearsal Processes. --- Simon David Breden. --- Spanish Theatre. --- Teatro de la Abadía. --- Theatre Companies. --- Theatrical Product. --- Theatrical Results.