A Reformation rhetoric : Thomas Swynnerton's The tropes and figures of scripture
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A Reformation rhetoric : Thomas Swynnerton's The tropes and figures of scripture
(English Renaissance texts, no. 1)
Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, c1999
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"Previously published by RTM Publications" --T.p. verso
Includes: The tropes and figures of scripture ... / written by Thomas Swynnerton, other wise Robertes
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A multidisciplinary four-volume set, making available to libraries for the first time four texts that are invaluable for understanding early modern Britain. Each text has been edited from manuscript and is supported by extensive, detailed and authoritative scholarly apparatus. Each volume relates to current research concerns e.g. the nature of authorship, the status of women, and the development of higher education.
Table of Contents
- Volume I: A Reformation Rhetoric: Thomas Swynnerton's Tropes and Figures of Scripture (Edited by Richard Rex, Queens' College, Cambridge)
- Acknowledgements
- Lists of abbreviations
- Introduction (Work
- audience
- date
- author
- rhetoic
- theology
- church politics
- Swynnerton's writings
- scripture)
- The text
- Indexes (scriptural citations
- proper names)
- Volume II: Meric Casaubon, Generall Learning: A Seventeenth-Century Treatise on the Formation of the General Scholar (Edited by Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge)
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction (form
- genre
- ideal general scholar
- Casaubob
- books and reading
- sacred history and forgery
- Acts of Sylvester and Donation of Constantine
- impugners of learning
- reformers of learning
- experimental natural philosophy
- nature of learning)
- Textual introduction
- Text
- Appendix
- Checklist of manuscripts
- Bibliographies
- Index
- Volume III: Barthelemy de Montagut, Louange de la Danse: in praise of the dance (Edited by Barbara Ravelhofer, St. John's College, Cambridge)
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction (Piracy affair
- plagiarist
- dance style
- plagiarism and imitation
- the manuscript
- bibliography
- conventions)
- The texts
- Glossary of dance steps
- Volume IV: Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland: Life and Letters (Edited by Heather Wolfe)
- Acknowledgements
- Family tree
- Chronology
- Introduction (religious conversion
- conscience
- widowhood
- conventions
- life-writing
- "hardnesse of times"
- the most penitent daughter)
- Textual introduction to "Life"
- Text of "Life"
- Textual introduction to "Letters"
- Text of "Letters"
- Bibliography
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