Renaissance Go-Betweens: Cultural Exchange in Early Modern EuropeAndreas Höfele, Werner von Koppenfels The volume analyses some of the travelling and bridge-building activities that went on in Renaissance Europe, mainly but not exclusively across the Channel, true to Montaigne's epoch-making program of describing 'the passage'. Its emphasis on Anglo-Continental relations ensures a firm basis in English literature, but its particular appeal lies in its European point of view, and in the perspectives it opens up into other areas of early modern culture, such as pictorial art, philosophy, and economics. The multiple implications of the go-between concept make for structured diversity. The chapters of this book are arranged in three stages. Part 1 ('Mediators') focuses on influential go-betweens, both as groups, like the translators, and as individual mediators. The second part of this book ('Mediations') is concerned with individual acts of mediation, and with the 'mental topographies' they presuppose, reflect and redraw in their turn. Part 3 ('Representations') looks at the role of exemplary intermediaries and the workings of mediation represented on the early modern English stage. Key features
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... define the Renais- sance go - between . For the traveller's task , as Moryson defines it , consists in a constant mediation between what he carries with him and what he finds , be- tween his own store of knowledge and all that he ...
... defines the terms , and provides the means , of their eventual un - fixing . ' Going between ' thrives on this ambivalence . A major driving force of Renaissance culture , it fuels the unprecedented circula- tion of political , social ...
... defining features and politically most relevant issues of the present moment in history . But these features are no less crucial to the period under discussion here . From around 1980 , what has been variously described as a ...
... defining feature of early modern culture . 36 William Shakespeare , Troilus and Cressida , V.11.31.5 . All Shakespearean quotations are taken from Stephen Greenblatt et al . ( eds . ) , The Norton Shakespeare ( London , New York ...
... Defining boundaries even in the act of transgressing them , the winged messenger personifies the dialectics of transgression and delimitation which makes for much of the creative energy and intellectual excitement of the pe- riod . As ...
Contents
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Giordano Bruno meets Elizabethan England | 55 |
5 De Witt van Buchell the Wooden O and the Yellow M | 78 |
6 John Dee as Cultural Scientific Apocalyptic GoBetween | 88 |
7 John Wolfe and the Impact of Exemplary GoBetweens on Early Modern Print Culture | 104 |
John Spencers Theory of Religious Translation | 163 |
III Representations | 175 |
Marlowe and the GoBetween | 177 |
13 Spirits Ghosts Demons in Shakespeare and Milton | 200 |
Returning from the Dead in The Spanish Tragedy | 214 |
Shakespeares Love Ambassadors | 231 |
the Violence of Cultural Incorporation in The Merchant of Venice | 248 |
Florio between Montaigne and Shakespeare | 262 |
II Mediations | 119 |
Learning from a Gilded Silver Beaker Antwerp c 1530 | 121 |
John Bales Summarium 1548 and Catalogus 155759 | 139 |
The Writings of Roger Ascham and Sir Philip Sidney | 152 |
Index | 279 |
Notes on Contributors | 287 |