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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... published six volumes of the first series of his travelogues . From 1593 , de Bry's two sons , Johann Theodor and Johann Israel , took an active part in their father's activi- ties and continued the series beyond his death , starting a ...
... published the first volume of his series in three modern languages as well as in Latin . " Aiming at an international readership , his publication may serve as a reminder that the sixteenth century saw not only the opening up of transat ...
... published Tyndale's New Testament ; and Nicholas Hill ( otherwise known as Nicolaes van den Berghe ) , who was active in the border city of Emden . In 12 9 Mary Ellen Lamb , ' The Cooke Sisters ' , in : Margaret Hannay ( ed . ) , Silent ...
... published twenty - six translations from Spanish ( including Antonio de Guevara ) , and others from French and Italian . Caspar Ens , who was also born in the Dutch Republic , was a Lutheran who lived for twenty - five years in Cologne ...
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 |