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"Social clubs as they existed in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland were varied: they could be convivial, sporting, or scholarly, or they could be a significant and dynamic social force, committed to improvement and national regeneration as well as to sociability. The essays in this volume--the first full-length study of the subject in fifty years-examine the complex history of clubs and societies in Scotland from 1700 to 1830. Contributors address attitudes toward associations, their meeting-places and rituals, their links with the growth of the professions and with literary culture, and the ways in which they were structured by both class and gender. By widening the context in which societies are set, this volume offers a new framework for understanding them, bringing together the inheritance of the Scottish past, the unique and cohesive polite culture of the Scottish Enlightenment, and the broader context of associational patterns common to Britain, Ireland, and beyond"--

Societies --- Clubs --- History --- Scotland. --- Eighteenth-Century Studies, Scotland, Nineteenth-Century, Clubs, Societies, Class, Culture, Gender, Scottish Enlightenment, Britain, Ireland, History, Literary Culture, Edinburgh.

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The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century. It discusses the writings of individuals including William and Margaret Cavendish, and William's daughters Jane and Elizabeth; family members' work and patronage in other media such as music, architecture, and the visual arts; their participation in contemporary developments in politics, philosophy, and horsemanship; and the networks in which they moved both in England and in continental Europe. It also covers the work of less well-known family members such as the poet and biographer George Cavendish and the composer Michael Cavendish. This volume combines path-breaking scholarship with discussion of existing research, making it an invaluable resource for all those interested in this fascinating and diverse group of men and women.

Art, English --- Cavendish family. --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- History --- aristocratic life. --- closet drama. --- iconography. --- literary culture. --- women's writing. --- English art --- Ancients (Group of artists) --- HobbypopMUSEUM (Group of artists) --- School of London (Group of artists) --- Shoreham Circle (Group of artists)

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The High Middle Ages, and particularly the period from 1180 to 1230, saw the beginnings of a vibrant literary culture in the German vernacular. While significant literary achievements in German had already been made in earlier centuries, they were a somewhat precarious vernacular extension of Christian Latin culture. But the vernacular literary culture of the High Middle Ages was an integral part of broader cultural developments in which the unquestioned validity of traditional authoritative models began to lose its hold. A secular culture began to emerge in which positive value began to be attached to the - however transitory - allegiances, pleasures, and loves of life. In new essays dealing with the most significant literary genres (the heroic epics, the romances, the love lyrics, and political poetry) and with broader political, social, and cultural issues (control of aggression, territorialization), this third volume of the 'Camden House History of German Literature' demonstrates how the emergence of a vernacular literary culture in Germany was an important part of a broader cultural transformation in which medieval people began to redefine themselves, their relationships to one another, and the position of humanity in the scheme of things. Contributors: Albrecht Classen, Nicola McLelland, Rodney Fisher, Neil Thomas, Marion Gibbs and Sidney Johnson, Rüdiger Krohn, Will Hasty, Nigel Harris, Susann Samples, Sara Poor, Michael Resler, Rüdiger Brandt, Elizabeth A. Andersen, Ulrich Müller and Franz Viktor Spechtler, Ruth Weichselbaumer, W. H. Jackson, Charles Bowlus. Will Hasty is Professor of German Studies and co-founder and co-director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Florida.

Civilization, Medieval. --- German literature --- History and criticism. --- Germany --- Civilization --- History. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- History and criticism --- History --- Civilization. --- 1180-1230. --- German literature. --- High Middle Ages. --- control of aggression. --- cultural transformation. --- heroic epics. --- literary culture. --- love lyrics. --- medieval people. --- political poetry. --- romances. --- secular culture. --- territorialization.

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The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century. It discusses the writings of individuals including William and Margaret Cavendish, and William's daughters Jane and Elizabeth; family members' work and patronage in other media such as music, architecture, and the visual arts; their participation in contemporary developments in politics, philosophy, and horsemanship; and the networks in which they moved both in England and in continental Europe. It also covers the work of less well-known family members such as the poet and biographer George Cavendish and the composer Michael Cavendish. This volume combines path-breaking scholarship with discussion of existing research, making it an invaluable resource for all those interested in this fascinating and diverse group of men and women.

Art, English --- Cavendish family. --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- History --- aristocratic life. --- closet drama. --- iconography. --- literary culture. --- women’s writing. --- English art --- Ancients (Group of artists) --- HobbypopMUSEUM (Group of artists) --- School of London (Group of artists) --- Shoreham Circle (Group of artists) --- Cavendish, Michael --- Cavendish, Margaret [Duchess of Newcastle] --- Cavendish, Jane --- Brackley, Elizabeth --- Cavendish, William --- Cavendish, George --- women's writing. --- History of civilization --- United Kingdom

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At once pervasive and marginal, appealing and repellent, exemplary and atypical, the women of the Bible provoke an assortment of readings across early modern literature. Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 draws attention to the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes. Considering a confessionally diverse range of writers, working across a variety of genres, this volume reveals how women from the Old and New Testaments exhibit an ideological power that frequently exceeds, both in scope and s

Women in the Bible. --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History --- 1500 - 1699 --- Literature and literary studies --- Literary studies: general / Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Biography, Literature & Literary studies --- General. --- Literary studies: general. --- Eve. --- Genesis. --- New Testament. --- Old Testament. --- Revelation. --- Whore of Babylon. --- biblical women. --- early modern Bibles. --- early modern exegesis. --- early modern literary culture. --- feminine archetypes. --- religious divisions.