Author: Christine Jackson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192847228
Category : Courts and courtiers
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe, enjoyed the patronage of princely rulers and their consorts, acquired celebrity as the embodiment of chivalric values, and defended European Protestantism on the battlefield and in diplomatic exchanges. As a scholar and author of De veritate and The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth, he commanded respect in the European Republic of Letters and accumulated a much-admired library. As a courtier, he penned poetry and exchanged verses with John Donne and Ben Jonson, compiled a famous lute-book, wrote a widely-read autobiography, commissioned exquisite portraits by leading court artists, and built an impressive country house. Herbert was an enigmatic Janus figure who cherished the masculine values and martial lifestyle of his ancestors but embraced the Renaissance scholarship and civility of the early modern court and anticipated the intellectual and theological liberalism of the Enlightenment. His life and writings provide a unique window into the aristocratic world and cultural mindset of the early seventeenth century and the outbreak and impact of the Thirty Years War and British Civil Wars. This volume examines his career, life-style, political allegiances, religious beliefs, and scholarship within their British and European contexts, challenges the reputation he has acquired as a dilettante scholar, boastful auto-biographer, royalist turncoat and early deist, and offers a new assessment of his life and achievement.
Courtier, Scholar, and Man of the Sword
Author: Christine Jackson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192847228
Category : Courts and courtiers
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe, enjoyed the patronage of princely rulers and their consorts, acquired celebrity as the embodiment of chivalric values, and defended European Protestantism on the battlefield and in diplomatic exchanges. As a scholar and author of De veritate and The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth, he commanded respect in the European Republic of Letters and accumulated a much-admired library. As a courtier, he penned poetry and exchanged verses with John Donne and Ben Jonson, compiled a famous lute-book, wrote a widely-read autobiography, commissioned exquisite portraits by leading court artists, and built an impressive country house. Herbert was an enigmatic Janus figure who cherished the masculine values and martial lifestyle of his ancestors but embraced the Renaissance scholarship and civility of the early modern court and anticipated the intellectual and theological liberalism of the Enlightenment. His life and writings provide a unique window into the aristocratic world and cultural mindset of the early seventeenth century and the outbreak and impact of the Thirty Years War and British Civil Wars. This volume examines his career, life-style, political allegiances, religious beliefs, and scholarship within their British and European contexts, challenges the reputation he has acquired as a dilettante scholar, boastful auto-biographer, royalist turncoat and early deist, and offers a new assessment of his life and achievement.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192847228
Category : Courts and courtiers
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat who acquired a reputation for duelling and extravagance but also numbered among the leading intellectuals of his generation. He travelled widely in Britain and Europe, enjoyed the patronage of princely rulers and their consorts, acquired celebrity as the embodiment of chivalric values, and defended European Protestantism on the battlefield and in diplomatic exchanges. As a scholar and author of De veritate and The Life and Raigne of King Henry the Eighth, he commanded respect in the European Republic of Letters and accumulated a much-admired library. As a courtier, he penned poetry and exchanged verses with John Donne and Ben Jonson, compiled a famous lute-book, wrote a widely-read autobiography, commissioned exquisite portraits by leading court artists, and built an impressive country house. Herbert was an enigmatic Janus figure who cherished the masculine values and martial lifestyle of his ancestors but embraced the Renaissance scholarship and civility of the early modern court and anticipated the intellectual and theological liberalism of the Enlightenment. His life and writings provide a unique window into the aristocratic world and cultural mindset of the early seventeenth century and the outbreak and impact of the Thirty Years War and British Civil Wars. This volume examines his career, life-style, political allegiances, religious beliefs, and scholarship within their British and European contexts, challenges the reputation he has acquired as a dilettante scholar, boastful auto-biographer, royalist turncoat and early deist, and offers a new assessment of his life and achievement.
Courtier, Scholar, and Man of the Sword
Author: Christine Ann Jackson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192662965
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat, known for his duelling and extravagance but also for his great intellect. His life and writings offer a unique window into the aristocratic world and culture of the early seventeenth century and the outbreak and impact of the Thirty Years War and British Civil Wars.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192662965
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Lord Herbert of Cherbury was a flamboyant Stuart courtier, soldier, and diplomat, known for his duelling and extravagance but also for his great intellect. His life and writings offer a unique window into the aristocratic world and culture of the early seventeenth century and the outbreak and impact of the Thirty Years War and British Civil Wars.
Shakespeare's Hamlet
Author: Wilbraham Fitzjohn Trench
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Amours of great men
Author: Albert Dresden Vandam
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Shakespeare and Spenser
Author: Walter Barker Critz Watkins
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400878942
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In eight closely interwoven essays, the author explores the techniques and themes which themes masters had in common. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400878942
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
In eight closely interwoven essays, the author explores the techniques and themes which themes masters had in common. Originally published in 1950. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Tait's Edinburgh magazine
Tait's Edinburgh Magazine
Author: William Tait
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
The Atlantic Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Shakespeare Survey
Author: Kenneth Muir
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523646
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521523646
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
The Drama, Painting, Poetry, and Song
Author: Albert Ellery Berg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description