Browsing by Subject "Renaissance"
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"Am not I your Rosalind?": Ovidian Identity and Transformation in Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
(2008-12-01)"'Am not I your Rosalind?': Negotiating Ovidian Identity and Transformation in Shakespeare's As You Like It" argues that the theatrical self-masquerade, that rare and uniquely Shakespearean moment in which a character ... -
Seasons and Sovereigns: Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621
(2009)<bold>Seasons and Sovereigns:<br>Succession in the Greenworld, 1579 - 1621<br></bold><p> Current scholarship on months, seasons, and climates in Renaissance aesthetics has developed along the two-dimensional axis of pastoral ... -
The Bourbon Ideology: Civic Eudaemonism in Habsburg and Bourbon Spain, 1600-1800
(2021)The intellectual historian Gabriel Paquette has identified the propaganda language of the eighteenth-century Spanish Bourbon monarchy with a “pliable rhetoric of public happiness” of which the monarchy claimed to be “linchpin.” ... -
The End of the Age of Miracles: Substance and Accident in the English Renaissance
(2009)This dissertation argues that the 'realist' ontology implicit in Renaissance allegory is both Aristotelian and neoplatonic, stemming from the need to talk about transcendence in material terms in order to make it comprehensible ... -
The Statues Speak: Political Rhetoric in the Sculpture of Orsanmichele
(2015-04-28)*Designated as an Exemplary Master's Project for 2014-15*Orsanmichele was an important civic center in Renaissance Florence, dedicated to a series of miracle-producing images of the Virgin Mary. The guilds of Florence were ...
