A mirrour of mutabilitie
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A mirrour of mutabilitie
（Bibliotheca humanistica, Bd. 3）
P. Lang, c1990
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xx-xxv)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Written in 1579 as an imitation of the Mirror for Magistrates, Munday's Mirrour of Mutabilitie is a collection of complaints by biblical characters whose unfortunate downfalls illustrate the vanity and mutability of human affairs. This work echoes the profound scepticism of its age, a legacy of the medieval contemptus mundi tradition. It underpins the view that Time is a destroyer, that human actions cannot be calculated positively, because life is temporal and full of accidents.This edition, the first one after the editio princeps of 1579, offers a text with the original spelling based on critical study of the 1579-edition, together with an introduction, textual notes, commentary and bibliography, designed to give scholars and students as much editorial assistance as they are likely to require.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Introduction (date and circumstances of composition
- sources and models
- bibliography), The Mirrour of Mutabilitie (critical, old-spelling text, notes and commentary).
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