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Catherine Richardson. Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England

by Catherine Richardson.

$ 37.00

Catherine Richardson. Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England : The material life of the household. Manchester University Press 2006 Hardcover in DJ Like New /Like New Unused. Octavo 235 pp

“This book reconstructs one aspect of that imaginative process. It considers a range of printed and documentary evidence – the majority previously unpublished – for the way ordinary individuals thought about their houses and households. It then explores how writers of domestic tragedies engaged those attitudes to shape their representations of domesticity. It therefore offers a new method for understanding theatrical representations, based around a truly interdisciplinary study of the interaction between literary and historical methods”

by Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler.

$ 22.00

Laurel Amtower and Dorothea Kehler. The Single Woman in Medieval and Early Modern England : Her Life and Representation. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 2003 Hardcover in DJ Like New/Like New Unused Octavo 242 pp

“The eleven essays are arranged under four sub-headings, designed to examine by turn the celebration of celibacy, the deferral of marriage, the liminality of widowhood, and finally the significance of virginity (this last sub-section would likely make more sense if placed at the beginning rather than at the end of the volume).

Part I: Celebrating Celibacy focusses on the medieval period, with essays on Anglo-Norman single woman saints (Jane Zatta), variations on the fifteenth-century legends of St. Katherine of Alexandria (Paul Price), and Malory’s use of the single woman as a determining signifier of the masculine (single man) virtue of chivalry (Dorsey Armstrong).

Part II: Repudiating Marriage considers the versatility of money-lending as an occupation that allowed late Tudor and Stuart Englishwomen to remain single by choice (Judith M. Spicksley), and John Lyly’s alternatives to marriage as a generic conclusion for comedy in the Elizabethan court (Jacqueline Vanhoutte). Women

Part III: Imaginary Widowhood includes Amtower’s and Jeanie Grant Moore’s re-assessments of Chaucer’s widows, and Allison Levy’s examination of widow portraiture as an expression of masculine anxiety in the Restoration period. Amtower’s consideration of Chaucer’s Dido and Cleopatra (from Legend of Good Women), Criseyde, and the Wife of Bath as widows, presents a wide-ranging set of characteristics for this sub-category of the single woman. From pathetic to noble, from self-silenced iconic figures to more or less successful speakers, the widow for individually determined status.

Part IV: Sexuality and Revirgination traces the connections between female desire and its representations in virginal women. Perhaps the most compellingly nuanced essay in the collection, by Tracey Sedinger, considers how “[w]omen were usually represented as strangely ‘class-less’…even though their virtue implicitly signified an elevated social status” in versions of maidservant-lady relationships in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (Book 4), Spenser’s Faerie Queene (Book 2), and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing . Sedinger, unlike some of the other authors in this collection, notes explicitly the anachronism of some feminist approaches to the medieval and early modern female subject, which places priority on agency as a contingency of subjectivity.” Seventeenth Century News

by .N. Dore

$ 35.00

.N. Dore. Haltonchesters – Excavations Directed by J.P. Gillam at the Roman Fort, 1960-1961. Oxbow Books. 2010. Hard cover. Like new with green cover with white lettering. Quarto. 179pp.

by M. Redknap, N Edwards, S Youngs, A Lane and J Knight.

$ 45.00

M. Redknap, N Edwards, S Youngs, A Lane and J Knight. Pattern and Purpose in Insular Art. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Insular Art held at the National Museum & Gallery Cardiff 3-6 September 1998. Oxbow books 2001 Hardcover. Very Good Unused Quarto 284 pp, 20 color examples, black and white examples scattered throughout text.

by A.J. Legge.

$ 17.00

A.J. Legge. Excavations at Grimes Graves Norfolk, 1972-1976. British Museum Press. 1992. Soft cover/like new. Quarto. 87pp.

by Bernd Kluge

$ 45.00

Bernd Kluge. Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles : Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Hiberno-Norse Coins. Oxford University Press. 1987. Hard cover Like new. Navy cover with gold lettering. Quarto 180pp.

by Richard Chiverrell and Geoffrey Thomas, editors.

$ 15.00

Richard Chiverrell and Geoffrey Thomas, editors. A New History of the Isle of Man – Volume I -The Evolution of the Natural Landscape. 2006. Liverpool University Press. Soft cover/like new. Octavo. 474pp.

by Colin A. Ireland.

$ 20.00

Colin A. Ireland. Old Irish Wisdom Attributed to Aldfrith of Northumbria. An edition of Briatha Flainn Fhina maic Ossu. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 1999. Hard cover in dj. Red cloth with gold lettering with dust jacket. DJ/very good. Octavo. 244pp.

by Xanthe Brooke and David Crombie

$ 20.00

Xanthe Brooke and David Crombie. Henry VIII Revealed – Holbein’s Portrait and It’s Legacy. Paul Holberton Publishing. 2003. Soft cover/like new. Octavo. 119pp.

by Tait, James.

$ 20.00

Tait, James. The Medieval English Borough. Studies on its origins and Constitutional history. Manchester University Press 1999 Hardcover in DJ Good Good Octavo 371 pp

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