Oxford Books: Oxford literature, 1651-1680. 1931
Author | : Falconer Madan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Falconer Madan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Falconer Madan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Falconer Madan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Early printed books |
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Author | : G. J. Toomer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780198202912 |
This book narrates the extraordinary growth in the study of Arabic in England from the late sixteenth century, when it was almost non-existent, to the end of the seventeenth. By its high point around 1666, England was preeminent among European countries in the study of Arabic. Permanent chairs of Arabic had been established at Oxford and Cambridge, and specialized presses in Oxford and London had produced important Arabic works. In this masterly and original study, Professor Toomer gives the first detailed account of this process, set against the religious and political background in England and in Europe. He shows how trade with the Ottoman Empire and mistrust of Islam influenced the study of Arabic. Finally, he traces the course and causes of the drastic decline in Arabic studies towards the end of the century.
Author | : Alastair Hamilton |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2021-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004498206 |
Arabs and Arabists contains nineteen selected articles by Alastair Hamilton on the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period. The first essays are on Arabs who visited Europe and gave instruction to Western Arabists, and on Europeans who either visited the Arab (or the Ottoman) world in search of manuscripts and information or who, like Franciscus Raphelengius, Isaac Casaubon and Adriaen Reland, studied it at a distance and remained in the West. These are followed by a section on the actual study of the Arabic language in Europe, and above all the creation of the first Arabic-Latin dictionaries, and another on the European study of Islam and Western translations of the Qur’an.
Author | : Markman Ellis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351568620 |
Helps scholars and students form an understanding of the contribution made by the coffee-house to British and even American history and culture. This book attempts to make an intervention in debates about the nature of the public sphere and the culture of politeness. It is intended for historians and scholars of literature, science, and medicine.
Author | : Holbrook Jackson |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780252070402 |
Examines the violence, destruction, and suppression that have hounded books throughout their history and the fears that lead to such treachery. This book identifies three deeply seated fears: fear of insurrection, fear of blasphemy, and fear of pornography.
Author | : Randy Robertson |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2015-10-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0271075287 |
Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, Britain witnessed a civil war, the judicial execution of a king, the restoration of his son, and an unremitting struggle among crown, parliament, and people for sovereignty and the right to define “liberty and property.” This battle, sometimes subtle, sometimes bloody, entailed a struggle for the control of language and representation. Robertson offers a richly detailed study of this “censorship contest” and of the craft that writers employed to outflank the licensers. He argues that for most parties, victory, not diplomacy or consensus, was the ultimate goal. This book differs from most recent works in analyzing both the mechanics of early modern censorship and the poetics that the licensing system produced—the forms and pressures of self-censorship. Among the issues that Robertson addresses in this book are the workings of the licensing machinery, the designs of art and obliquity under a regime of censorship, and the involutions of authorship attendant on anonymity.
Author | : Oxford University Press |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Publishers' catalogs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Colin Gray Matthew |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1034 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : |
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.