The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England: John Wilkins and the Universal Character, Fleming James Dougal
Автор: Fleming Название: The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England ISBN: 3319403001 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319403007 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a 'real' or 'universal' character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a curious episode in the history of language, but as an illuminating avatar of information technology. A non-oral code, supposedly amounting to a script of things, the character was to support scientific discourse through a universal database, in alignment with cosmic truths. In all these ways, J.D. Fleming argues, the world of the character bears phenomenological comparison to the world of modern digital information—what has been called the infosphere.
Автор: H. S. Jones Название: Intellect and Character in Victorian England ISBN: 0521876052 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521876056 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The first full-length study of a distinguished Victorian intellectual who stood at the epicentre of the revolutions that transformed English academic and intellectual life in the nineteenth century: the secularisation of thought, the emergence of the academic profession, and the challenges posed by the German idea of the research university.
Описание: Drawing on a wide range of archives, from Lisbon to Vienna to Berlin, this detailed comparative study shows how recorded political knowledge was understood, organised and managed in chancelleries and repositories across Western Europe from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
Автор: Jennifer C. Vaught Название: Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England ISBN: 1409432084 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409432081 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focuses on the diverse ways in which Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Milton and Herrick incorporated the carnivalesque in their works. This title demonstrates how these texts were used - and misused - by later writers, performers, and inventors of spectacles, notably Mardi Gras krewes organizing parades in the American Deep South.
Описание: The history of newspaper advertising began in the seventeenth-century Low Countries. The newspaper publishers of the Dutch Republic were the first to embrace advertisements, decades before their peers in other news markets in Europe. In this survey, Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree have brought together the first 6,000 advertisements placed in Dutch and Flemish newspapers between 1620 and 1675. Provided here in an English translation, and accompanied by seven indices, this work provides for the first time a complete overview of the development of newspaper advertising and its impact on the Dutch book trade, economy and society. In these evocative announcements, ranging from advertisement for library auctions, the publication of new books, pamphlets and maps to notices of crime, postal schedules or missing pets, the seventeenth century is brought to life. This survey offers a unique perspective on daily life, personal relationships and societal change in the Dutch Golden Age.
Автор: O`Day Rosemary Название: An Elite Family in Early Modern England ISBN: 178327087X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783270873 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 19800.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Provides a full, detailed picture of the life of an aristocratic family in early modern England.
Автор: Richard W. Hoyle Название: The Farmer in England, 1650-1980 ISBN: 1409439615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409439615 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Farmers held a pivotal role in the capitalist agriculture that emerged in England in the eighteenth century, yet they have attracted little attention from rural historians. Farmers made agriculture happen. Our ignorance of the farmer might be justified by the claim that they are ill-documented.
Описание: This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the `ceremony of childbirth`, the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this.
Описание: Focusing on property law as reflected in cases of disputed wills, this book provides a fascinating glimpse into English seventeenth-century society. As well as charting shifting conceptions of property and inheritance law, accounts taken from the numerous cases quoted offer a poignant reminder of how the law had to cope with difficult situations affecting real lives.
